Onitron I Autoprestige is the same boat Piero Fresi used in the double crossing of the Atlantic Ocean in 2003.
The hull is steel made and for this new adventure the boat has been fully restuctured in the metalworking center “Co.Mi” in Porto Torres.The hull was partially rusted and those parts have been cut and changed. The interior has been fully emptied and only the essential parts have been placed. Useless weight has been avoided, like the doors of the three cabins.
The instrumentation Piero and Vittorio decided to bring along is not much: three portable and one fixed GPS, a radar, a radio direction finder to detect radio beacons, a sextant and the epirb.
Their food supply is made of canned food, freeze-dried and dehydrated food, rice and pasta put in plastic bottles sealed with scotch tape to prevent humidity, and energy bars. They have on board 3 gas cylinders of 10 kgs each.
The drinking water supply consists in 800 liters in 1,5 bottles loaded in the bilge. They also have a both manually and electrically working desalinator which turns seawater into drinking water.
To charge the batteries (3 Optima Blu 55AH) they use an aeolian generator, a solar panel, and almost every day they turn on the engine.
They have two cameras, one of which has an underwater box, a camcorder, a personal computer designed for those conditions, and a the Iridium satellite phone. They also have on board one oxygen cylinder, and full equipment to work underwater.

Specifications

A: 40 hp

B: Cabin used as cylinder storage

C: Tools, PC

D: Kitchen and little work counter

E: Dissalator

F: Food lockers

G: Cabin

H: Map table

I: Food lockers

L: Toilet

M: Tools and sails hold

N: Wardrobe

O: Batteries and electric panel

P: Bilge and drinkable water hold

Hull length: 34.28 feet

Water line length: 26.74 feet

Max width: 12.14 feet

Draught: 5.25 feet

Weight: 10 tons

Fuel tank: 66 gallons

Spanker surface: 75.45 square feet

Genoa sail surface: 147.63 square feet