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Does anyone have any information on the Italian Stain cats?

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It's a story born in 1983.
Cats in aluminum on design and Cougar licence. Nooxy of Spelta was the first one in 1983.
Then they followed Cougar Italia of Bottanelli in 1984,Jacob & Cohen of Bardelle next Topolino-Baby Cresci of Ballabio-Curtis in 1987,Sun International of Casiraghi in 1988.
These are the most famous.
Pictures coming soon.

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Photos would be cool.

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Stain(StudioArchitettureIndustriali) it's a brand of industrial metal technology started in the sixties near Turin. With the chairman Fausto Atzori the racing section started in 1973 with the building of a tin version of the Class 2 trimaran Arcidiavolo called Shotts.

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In 1984 was builded the first catamaran 38' based on the 38' of Cougar. Nooxy of Angelo Spelta was powered with the new V6 Turbo Diesel engines of Isotta Fraschini and equipped with the Arneson Surface stern drives, but it sank the same year.
Then for the World Championships in Viareggio in october 1984 was ready the second cat, for Bottanelli. Cougar Italia was identical to the Nooxy, powered with I.F. and with Arneson Drives units.

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Cougar Italia was an Italian partnership of the British Cougar founded by the offshore drivers Giampiero Lazzarone,Fulvio Monteverdi e Adolfo Bardelle that it leaned to Stain to build the boats.
In 1985 with Bardelle the former Cougar Italia became Americanino Jeans that compete in the World Championships in Key West 1985 and then Jacob Cohen & Co.in the WC in Auckland 1986 where it was near to win the Title.

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In 1987 the cat was sold to the former Indy driver Fulvio Maria Ballabio that choose like throttleman the World Champion Steve Curtis. The boat was renamed Topolino/Baby Cresci and was the protagonist of the European season that year,before Ballabio quarreled with Curtis.The cat sank in Oregrund and recovered just in time for the World Championships in Key West but without success.

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In the meantime was designed and developped a new system of surface stern drives called Victory.
A new cat 38' was builded for Bardelle in 1987. The green/yellow Jacob Cohen & Co.

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Bardelle sold this second cat to Stefano Casiraghi before the World Championships in Key West 1987. Casiraghi renamed it with the sponsor Sun International.
In 1987 started to builded the new generation of Stain cats with an original design.
The first one was Achilli Motors for Domenico Achilli here in Key West WC.

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In 1988 Achilli Motors became Schlax Group always for Domenico Achilli and was builded the Atma for Bruno Carotenuto then modified on the deck and coloured with the sponsor of Honeywell.