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	<title> &#187; QUALITY THAT SHOWS</title>
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		<title>QUALITY THAT SHOWS</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 03:04:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Ferris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barn Find Riva]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Speedboat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Butch Denison]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CASUDI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Italian speedboats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jim McNeilly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[RIVA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Riva Days 2012]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When your focus is on trying to achieve a ‘perfect’ restoration, as ours has been with Perlita Too, you quickly realize that real perfection is more than skin deep, and even the things that don’t show must be as perfectly executed as what can be seen. If you have been following our journey you will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE FIRST TRITONE</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2011 20:43:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Ferris</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Carlo Riva]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our Italian speedboat, PERLITA TOO, built in 1953, was the very first Riva Tritone in the series, the first Riva delivered to the USA (1953), and as Mr. Riva says, the very first Riva sold outside Italy. We have now added another ‘first’ to that list. She slipped into the water for the first time [...]]]></description>
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		<title>JUST IMAGINE &#8230;..</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 18:44:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Ferris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barn Find Riva]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Carlo Riva]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CASUDI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[classic boats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[handcrafted boats.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Italian speedboats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Riva speedboat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sea Sonic Boats]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Follow the story of PERLITA TOO, a RIVA speedboat as we rescue her from a leaky shed, research her history and embark on an extensive restoration. THE FIRST TRITONE - June 2011 On June 22nd, we have now added another ‘first’ to the list; PERLITA TOO slipped into the water for the first time in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MAKING MR.RIVA PROUD</title>
		<link>http://www.esse-group.com/LTCB/barn-find-riva/making-mr-riva-proud/</link>
		<comments>http://www.esse-group.com/LTCB/barn-find-riva/making-mr-riva-proud/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 18:43:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Ferris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barn Find Riva]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Carlo Riva]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[handcrafted boats.]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.esse-group.com/LTCB/?p=583</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Little did we know, when we discovered a derelict Riva speedboat in a barn in California, that we would embark on a journey of discovery, research, and restoration, spanning more than 20 years. The actual restoration of PERLITA TOO only started in September 2007, but I think we had been mentally gearing up for it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GOD IS IN THE DETAILS</title>
		<link>http://www.esse-group.com/LTCB/barn-find-riva/god-is-in-the-details/</link>
		<comments>http://www.esse-group.com/LTCB/barn-find-riva/god-is-in-the-details/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 May 2010 00:30:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Ferris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barn Find Riva]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alan Weinstein]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barn Find]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[boat restoration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carlo Riva]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CASUDI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Italian speedboats]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.esse-group.com/LTCB/?p=555</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Paraphrasing Mies; it’s the attention to the details that give a project, whether architecture, or a classic boat restoration, that special sense of perfection. You don’t need to analyze each detail in itself, but instinctively you know it is there, when something looks so completely and perfectly beautiful, accomplished and together; that sense of “just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE ECLECTIC COLLECTOR</title>
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		<comments>http://www.esse-group.com/LTCB/barn-find-riva/the-eclectic-collector/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 18:36:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Ferris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barn Find Riva]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alan Furth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barn Find]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carlo Riva]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CASUDI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[classic boats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[handcrafted boats.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peter Graves]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Riva speedboat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sierra Boat Company]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In her long life, Perlita Too has been very fortunate to pass through the hands of people who valued her status as a rare and unique boat, worth preserving. Nearing the end of a good run, Perlita found Alan Furth, the Eclectic Collector. Lucky boat yet again, she became a part of Alan Furth’s expansive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When LOUD is not enough</title>
		<link>http://www.esse-group.com/LTCB/barn-find-riva/when-loud-is-not-enough-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.esse-group.com/LTCB/barn-find-riva/when-loud-is-not-enough-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:39:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Ferris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barn Find Riva]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[All Original]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carlo Riva]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[hot rod]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pete Henkel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[prototype]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Research]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Riva Guru]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scripps expert]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scripps V12]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Swiss gauges]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; A couple of weeks ago we went back to Jim McNeilly’s waterfront shop on Lake Union in downtown Seattle; tucked downstairs right at the waters- edge; an appropriately old-world atmosphere for the initial run-up of our fresh 900 cubic inch Scripps V12 engine, vintage 1953. It was also the first time the newly restored [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WHEN PERFECTION IS NOT ENOUGH</title>
		<link>http://www.esse-group.com/LTCB/barn-find-riva/when-perfection-is-not-enough/</link>
		<comments>http://www.esse-group.com/LTCB/barn-find-riva/when-perfection-is-not-enough/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 05:13:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Ferris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barn Find Riva]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Carlo Riva]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[classic boats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[handcrafted boats.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MerCruiser]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Riva speedboat]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.esse-group.com/LTCB/?p=273</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Loosely quoting Carroll here; The time has come, the Walrus said, to speak of many things; such as the boatbuilder&#8230;.Chris Casparis, of Sea Sonic Boats in Canada. Chris is taking out all the stops in restoring Perlita; as far as he is concerned, mere perfection is not enough. I met Chris about 14 years ago [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SPEED COSTS MONEY; how fast do you want to go?</title>
		<link>http://www.esse-group.com/LTCB/barn-find-riva/speed-costs-money-how-fast-do-you-want-to-go/</link>
		<comments>http://www.esse-group.com/LTCB/barn-find-riva/speed-costs-money-how-fast-do-you-want-to-go/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Dec 2009 19:28:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Ferris</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Carlo Riva]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[mahogany]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[McCulloch superchargers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Motor Trend]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Riva Boats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roland Reed]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[World speed record]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Does PERLITA have a “supercharged soul&#8221;, and did she set a world speed record? stay tuned&#8230;&#8230;.. In the late 1960’s, George Newton, owner of Aircraft Xray Co. in Huntington Beach, CA, purchased Perlita Too from Hollywood producer Roland Reed, who had ordered this very special Riva speedboat directly from Carlo Riva in Italy. George Newton’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In Good Company</title>
		<link>http://www.esse-group.com/LTCB/barn-find-riva/in-good-company/</link>
		<comments>http://www.esse-group.com/LTCB/barn-find-riva/in-good-company/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:19:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Ferris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barn Find Riva]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Classic Speedboat]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[designer boats]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the mid 1970’s the classic boat hobby was not as “mature”, as it is today. There was little emphasis on “all original”; it was enough to have a cool (and fast) speedboat. Many wooden boats were being stripped of usable hardware and then burned. Fiberglass was the future! Some guys still did appreciate wood [...]]]></description>
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