On January 24th 2008 the fist photo was shot on the plan of the lateen gozzo "Santa Maria del Lauro", just "tracked", and Mast'Antonio and Michele Cafiero's adventure began.It sounds absurd, but only a few really believed that a boatwright and is son, also a boatwright, could really build an out of time boat.
366 days later, the boat, worked on in free time, is not finished yet, but Michele has won his first challenge: with Mast'Antonio's invaluable help and guidance he has prolonged for one year more the centuries long tradition of Marina di Alimuri's boat builders, turning it into a chance for revival.
Angelo Esposito, the young and passionate naval engineer that
encouraged them, shot the photo on the right, where father and son are with the model of the boat, made by a friend of theirs along the original blue print. The boat did not exist yet, but she did in their eyes, as an indifferent promise.
Now the very same model is on the bow of the boat, the boat that one year ago was still enclosed in the wood.The wish, after one hard working year, is that the lateen gozzo "Santa Maria del Lauro" has a future as a living boat in a living Marina di Alimuri.
