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Riva shipyard, Giorgio Schön and Enrico Guggiari seated in the Riva Lounge. On the right: Riva shipyard,
In the background, Ferrari 308 GT4 Ferrari 308 GT4 detail

just trails and barely perceptible roads, so you navigate with GPS part, because the most important thing is to finish the trip. All repairs
points that are provided, let’s say, every 10 kilometers. There are sit- are done along the way, and we do the work ourselves. Though I must
uations in which you are looking at five or six roads that all go more admit, in the end there is also a big desire to win. In an interview the
or less in the same direction, and you have to choose the best one, other day, when they asked us “Do you want to win?” I replied “Don’t
to find one without bumps, without streams to ford . . . otherwise tell anyone, but yes.”
you have to go back and change course. All at top speed, though in
the end what counts is not winning, but something else. ED: From Ferrari to Riva, which accompanies you on this
adventure, in a way. How did this collaboration get started? Do
ED: The value lies in the experience, then, the movement. Is you have a special relationship with the sea and with yachting?
that what you mean when you say winning is not so important? EG: Forty years ago I bought a Super Aquarama, and I kept it
GS: We are crossing half the globe, a sizeable number of coun- until last year. I could say it is an inseparable companion (smiles).
tries, passing through places tourists would never visit, so this is a GS: Where I’m concerned, I have always bought cars and Riva
commitment to avid curiosity that must be sated. Not worrying boats. From the Aquarama to the Tritone, the Florida, the Ariston,
about being the first to arrive means that what is interesting is to take and I still own one. In my career the relationship with Riva has been

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