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All about Magnum: A few thoughts…
This is the story of the great passion my father has for the sea and boats; a passion that started in the 1960s, the early days of the sport of boating, and continues today with the same intensity, thirty years later, with Magnum Marine. My father passed on this passion to all of us, having always taken us boating since we were kids. This was a happy time, where boats in our splendid area, the Gulf of Naples, were few and could be counted on the fingers of one hand. It was a time when you waved to the boat you passed not only because of maritime tradition, but because those you passed were friends. It was still a sea for the special few; not necessarily the wealthy, but those few who had a passion for the beauties of the sea.
When I think of our boat, old memories return, many beautiful, some funny and others veiled with melancholy…
Each year, we went to the Genoa Boat Show in October. At the show in 1977 we were all struck. There, in the main center of the exhibition, was a majestic and totally different boat, the first ever “open,” the mythical Magnum 53′. We had already met Filippo in the past; he had shown us the Cary 49′, but the new Magnum was something else. His passion and enthusiasm were contagious. Without even realizing it at the time, we already had “Magnumania,” and we signed the first contract to purchase a Magnum. Thus started this long story with Magnum, a story that has lasted over thirty years and which has intertwined with our family, giving us so many wonderful moments together, adventures and emotions. Already after the first sea trial on the Magnum 53′, we felt wonderfully seduced by the sensation of safety, reliability, and comfort, a sensation we became used to each time we purchased another Magnum model: the Magnum 63′, the Magnum 70′ and then the Magnum 80′. These qualities convinced us to bring aboard our children, even when they were just born… and this led my brother, much later, to buy his own high-performance Magnum 27′ and later still the aggressive Magnum 44. They were both as safe, comfortable and elegant as my father’s larger boats… They all had the wonderful characteristics of the Magnums.
—Carmen Cacace