JUST IMAGINE …..</h1> <article> <h1>JUST IMAGINE …..</h1> <p>James Ferris — Sun, 13 May 2012 18:44:17 +0000</p> PERLITA TOO, the “Barn Find Riva” Italian speedboat is headed to Italy where she was born in 1953. She will make her grand entrance at Riva Days 170 • 90 • 50, a once-in-a-lifetime Riva celebration, never to be repeated. PERLITA TOO is the first Tritone, a triple cockpit runabout which was the predecessor to [...] </article> <article> <h1>The Barn Find Riva</h1> <p>James Ferris — Tue, 01 May 2012 15:26:45 +0000</p> PERLITA TOO was found late in 1989 in the Sacramento Delta in northern California, where she had been stored in the darkness of a makeshift container since the mid 1970′s. The discovery was made while James was cataloging the inventory of a well-known California classic boat collector, Alan Furth. Struck by the classic lines of [...] </article> <article> <h1>QUALITY THAT SHOWS</h1> <p>James Ferris — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 03:04:39 +0000</p> When your focus is on trying to achieve a ‘perfect’ restoration, as ours has been with Perlita Too, you quickly realize that real perfection is more than skin deep, and even the things that don’t show must be as perfectly executed as what can be seen. If you have been following our journey you will [...] </article> <article> <h1>THE FIRST TRITONE</h1> <p>James Ferris — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 20:43:34 +0000</p> Our Italian speedboat, PERLITA TOO, built in 1953, was the very first Riva Tritone in the series, the first Riva delivered to the USA (1953), and as Mr. Riva says, the very first Riva sold outside Italy. We have now added another ‘first’ to that list. She slipped into the water for the first time [...] </article> <article> <h1>MAKING MR.RIVA PROUD</h1> <p>James Ferris — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 18:43:33 +0000</p> Little did we know, when we discovered a derelict Riva speedboat in a barn in California, that we would embark on a journey of discovery, research, and restoration, spanning more than 20 years. The actual restoration of PERLITA TOO only started in September 2007, but I think we had been mentally gearing up for it [...] </article> <article> <h1>GOD IS IN THE DETAILS</h1> <p>James Ferris — Sat, 29 May 2010 00:30:13 +0000</p> Paraphrasing Mies; it’s the attention to the details that give a project, whether architecture, or a classic boat restoration, that special sense of perfection. You don’t need to analyze each detail in itself, but instinctively you know it is there, when something looks so completely and perfectly beautiful, accomplished and together; that sense of “just [...] </article> <article> <h1>THE ECLECTIC COLLECTOR</h1> <p>James Ferris — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 18:36:18 +0000</p> In her long life, Perlita Too has been very fortunate to pass through the hands of people who valued her status as a rare and unique boat, worth preserving. Nearing the end of a good run, Perlita found Alan Furth, the Eclectic Collector. Lucky boat yet again, she became a part of Alan Furth’s expansive [...] </article> <article> <h1>When LOUD is not enough</h1> <p>James Ferris — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:39:28 +0000</p> A couple of weeks ago we went back to Jim McNeilly’s waterfront shop on Lake Union in downtown Seattle; tucked downstairs right at the waters- edge; an appropriately old-world atmosphere for the initial run-up of our fresh 900 cubic inch Scripps V12 engine, vintage 1953. It was also the first time the newly restored [...] </article> <article> <h1>WHEN PERFECTION IS NOT ENOUGH</h1> <p>James Ferris — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 05:13:11 +0000</p> Loosely quoting Carroll here; The time has come, the Walrus said, to speak of many things; such as the boatbuilder….Chris Casparis, of Sea Sonic Boats in Canada. Chris is taking out all the stops in restoring Perlita; as far as he is concerned, mere perfection is not enough. I met Chris about 14 years ago [...] </article> <article> <h1>SPEED COSTS MONEY; how fast do you want to go?</h1> <p>James Ferris — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 19:28:41 +0000</p> Does PERLITA have a “supercharged soul”, and did she set a world speed record? stay tuned…….. In the late 1960’s, George Newton, owner of Aircraft Xray Co. in Huntington Beach, CA, purchased Perlita Too from Hollywood producer Roland Reed, who had ordered this very special Riva speedboat directly from Carlo Riva in Italy. George Newton’s [...] </article> </main></body></html>