I have a soft spot for CRN Ancona. They produced some truly awful yachts in some respects in the old days. One of these was how in the crew bathrooms, when you used the shower, the water would go everywhere, drenching the toilet paper, pouring into the cupboards (kept everyone's soap soft I guess) etcetera, just no practical way to incorporate a shower curtain...that's OK on a 40ft sailboat, less so (even for the crew quarters) on a 130 footer. And when the plumbing went wrong anywhere, you had to literally destroy the walls in order to access the pipework...?!
On the other hand, they tended to be very seaworthy, taking everything the Med. could throw at them. A great plus was that they tended to be "under-designed", so owners, skippers and crew could always improve their yachts afterwards in various ways. Adding a bit of superstructure forward for more storage space and a more stream-lined silhouette in wintertime for example. Compare that to today's custom-built "production yachts" (any builder) where it would take a very courageous man indeed that attempted anything similar...
If there's no place for CRN in this world anymore, then there's no place for airship anymore either!
