From the board of Roberto Starkel, AURORA III, following the success of the Starkel 60’s semi-custom series (Birillo IV, Ikarus II, Marie Claire and Grande Orazio) was launched as a custom project for her owner. Built in cold-moulded Mahogany with carbon structures and stainless steel structures to an extremely high specification by the Artisans at Cantiere DOD.

Featuring a keel stepped MaxSpar carbon fibre rig with carbon fibre Park Avenue boom. Internally, AURORA III is a beautifully executed teak interior featuring a luxurious interiors with one aft owner cabin with ensuite heads, two forward bunks beds cabins and a further crew cabin in the forepeak.

AURORA III specification highlights include:-

• Carbon-reinforced mahogany cold-moulded construction with stainless steel structures
• 3-guest cabins, further crew cabin.
• Two heads plus crew head.
• Teak deck
• Teak interior construction
• Twin cockpit deck configuration with centre guests cockpit
• Open aft transom.
• Draft 2,90m keel version
• MaxSpar carbon fibre mast with Park Avenue boom
• Hydraulic operated winches.
• Magic trim main sail.
• All winches in the aft cockpit.
• Fully-battened mainsail system with low-friction battencars, stackpack and lazyjacks
• All sail controls led aft to cockpit with sub-deck halyards
• Yanmar 75hp diesel engine
• Whisper Power 3.5kw generator
• Solimar flush deck hatches.
• LED lighting
• Electro hydraulic winches
• Raymarine Axiom recently replaced chartplotters – 2023
• Airconditioning with inverter.
• Recently replaced main sail and genoa sails wardrobe.