Italy’s ICE YACHTS is known for its luxurious, speedy and beautiful monohulls, and now it too has turned its attention to multihulls. The ICE CAT 61, designed by Enrico Contreas, is a speedy bluewater boat that embraces some fashionable design concepts but rejects others—for instance, Contreas believes that bows on a cruising boat should also be working platforms and that’s why the boat does not have the trendy reverse bows seen on many performance cats. It does however have daggerboards and a generous sail plan.

In addition to the solid standard equipment, STELLA ROSSA benefits from the following upgrades:

•                     Carbon Epoxy infused hull

•                     Carbon daggerboards with 1.10m – 2.50m draft range

•                     Carbon fibre mast and boom

•                     Composite standing rigging

•                     Spectra running rigging

•                     Antal electric winches

•                     Side Power 10kw bow thruster

•                     Lithium battery bank for services

•                     DC digital switching and monitoring system for systems

•                     Solar panels

•                     Schenker Watermaker

•                     Air conditioning and heating

•                     Fridge freezer

•                     Microwave oven

•                     Electric fresh water flush heads

•                     Washer/dryer

•                     Raymarine Instruments

•                     Fusion stereo system

•                     Carbon davits

•                     Tender and outboard