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BRIEF HISTORY
"Rolls-Royce of
the Sea', "Stradivarius of Boating" are just some of the
phrases that have been used to describe the Riva Aquarama.
The Riva Aquarama will forever be worshiped.
In 1962, Carlo Riva introduced the Aquarama series of new
fast runabouts. This fast bi-motor has so much charm and
elegance that she is compared with Rolls-Royce and Ferrari.
Riva redesigned his top-selling Tritone into the Lipicar, a
boat perfectly adapted for family water sports. Riva's RR
and export manager Gerard Kouwenhoven suggested the name
Aquarama instead. The Jet-Set quickly made the boat Europe's
status symbol.
Power options were a pair of 185-hp Chris-Craft engines or
220-hp Riva V8s.
Later the boat size increased as 8.25 meters and was powered
by 2 -220 horse power engines. The boat could sit eight
persons at speed of 75km/h. In 1966, The firm presented the
Super version that is 8.45 m long because of the bigger gas
tanks necessary for the new 320 horse power engines.
Its performance became exceptional, the Super Aquarama speed
is close to 90km/h. |
