photo: thanks to Marcello Baldrati |
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Baldo as built in 1900 calls at Salo (date unknown) |
below left - shortly after conversion to a
motor vessel in 1925
note the retention of her old paddleboxes converted to small saloons |
below right - as operating in the summer of 2004
(virtually unaltered from her complete rebuild in 1959) |
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Baldo has the oldest hull still sailing on the Italian lakes |