Postscript to Red Tornado
There are several reports that state Red Tornado was a new boat for the 1969 Wills Trophy.At the moment I tend to go with this ,and that because it was Balestrieri it is assumed it must have been the old Yellow Tornado.I think even our Italian detective has a furrowed brow over this!
The Sternwinder and the Red-White Tornado
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FLYING FISH
There are several reports that state Red Tornado was a new boat for the 1969 Wills Trophy.At the moment I tend to go with this ,and that because it was Balestrieri it is assumed it must have been the old Yellow Tornado.I think even our Italian detective has a furrowed brow over this!
In the article in PDF that olli posted is said that in the yards Tornado born near Rome in 1968 the first built boat was a Bertram 31' shortened to 30' for Balestrieri. The photo attached to this show however the Yellow Tornado that we know how to surely be the old Sternwinder.
In the darkened room a first comparative test has induced me to think that the Red and the White Tornado were not the Sternwinder-Yellow Tornado.
My conclusion for the time being it is that the Red and the White Tornado were built in Italy and that the Yellow Tornado stayed in USA after the rental of Balestrieri in the last US races in 1968.