Bertram 28 Moppie

BERTRAM MOPPIE 28 “AL MANSUR”

ON-BOARD EQUIPMENT

N. 1 Fuel tank in resin of 900 Liters

N. 2 Levers located in the cockpit for the suspension of fuel delivery to the engines (N.1 for right engine and N.1 for left engine) (2025)

N. 1 Water tank in steel of 100 Liters

N. 1 New wastewater tank (2025)

N. 2 A4 fenders in black and white with black protective sock (2024)

N. 6 White fenders (2025)

N. 5 Fire extinguishers (2024)

N. 1 Complete safety equipment kit for navigation 3/12 miles (2024) including N. 9 life jackets

N. 2 Spare propellers (2023)

N. 2 New oversized rudders with new steel supports (2023)

N. 1 Refrigerator

N. 1 Barometer (2024)

N. 1 Clock (2024)

N. 1 Anchor Trefoil Inox Kg.11 with early lock, anchor straightening joint and 50 m. of inox chain

N. 1 Grounding cable with n. 2 multiple sockets and adapters

N. 2 Sailor tools

N. 1 Italian flag with teak pole (stern)

N. 1 Bertram logo flag with steel pole (bow)

N. 1 Folding carbon gangway Polibridge II + EVA hinges in anodized aluminum, wheels with inox casing, rings for lifting the gangway, double pivot pin, resting support made in the left wall of the cockpit with inox housing and locking straps (2024)

N. 1 Stainless steel ladder 316L for platform with 5 steps 116 cm (2023)

N. 4 Mooring lines

N. 1 Summertex awning for total closure of the excavation for wintering

N. 1 White ABS table 81 x 51 cm (2025)

N. 1 Aluminum column Thread Lock 500 x 700 mm (2025)

N. 1 New embellishment line and stern writing (2025)

ELECTRONICS

N. 1 GPS/ECO Chartplotter RAYMARINE Element 9” (2023);

N. 1 Navionics + Small cartography (North Sardinia and Corsica) (2023);

N. 1 RAYMARINE EV-200 autopilot with p70Rs control unit EV-1 ACU-200 (2024);

N. 1 Wireless RAYMARINE S100 autopilot remote control (2024);

N. 1 Victron Phoenix Smart charger (2024).

N. 4 Underwater lights at the stern (2023).

N. 1 New original dashboard panel “Bertram 28 Instrument Panel With

Gauges” including new gauges and switches (2023).

EXTERNAL AND INTERNAL UPHOLSTERY (2023-2024)

Ref. Cockpit: External upholstery for driver's seat and left side Smooth Skay Art. Light House Sand 118 – Soft Back;

Ref. Sunbed cushions and backrests: External upholstery for sunbed cushions on the right and left side, including backrests on the back Internal in closed cell Sp.4+expanded top in Ds.40 Sp.3 Smooth Skay Art. Light House Sand 118 – Soft Back;

Ref. Stern sunbed cushions: N. 3 Sunbed mattresses with closed cell interior Sp.5+expanded top in Ds.40 Sp.10 Smooth Skay Art. Light House Sand 118 – Soft Back;

Ref. Perimeter strips for stern cockpit: N. 3 Strips with closed cell interior Ds.40

Smooth Skay Art. Light House Sand 118 – Soft Back;

Ref. Bow cabin: Bow bed mattresses, divided into n. 3 parts Interior in Expanded Ds.30 with a thickness of 12 cm. Courtesy undercovers 100% cotton in neutral color External cover with stain-resistant fabric Fibreguard Art. Smart 2222

Complete lining of the cabin ceiling (2024)

AWNING (2024)

Stainless Steel structure with n.4 telescopic tensioners;

Awning complete with side and stern closures in Oyster material code SUNB5030152; Stern freshener cover, Summertex White fabric, YKK 8 zipper on awning, stern side inox buckle mm.25 with support rods;

N. 2 inox support rods for stern freshener.

LEFT ENGINE “Mercruiser 5.7 L”

Extraordinary maintenance and general overhaul (2024):

N. 1 New original Q-JET carburetor

N. 2 New Exhaust Manifolds Art. 860246A15

N. 2 New Risers Art. 807988A03

N. 1 New Sea Water Pump Art. 72774A32

N. 1 New Recirculation Water Pump Art. 8M0113734

N. 1 New Nickel-plated bronze water filter 1” ¼ compliant with RINA including water filter baskets with fittings and new spiraled tubes

N. 1 New Alarm Kit Art. 816492A14

Ordinary maintenance 2025:

Filters, belts, spark plugs, clamps, pipes, manifolds, anti-fouling, zincs, polishing etc. etc. replacements carried out periodically.

RIGHT ENGINE “Mercruiser 5.7 L”

Extraordinary maintenance and general overhaul with replacement of new engine block (2024) and replacement of gearbox block (2025):

N. 1 New original Q-JET carburetor

N. 1 New Monoblock engine block pn: 8M0187365 LB 5.7 96-04

N. 1 New gearbox block;

N. 2 New Exhaust Manifolds Art. 860246A15

N. 2 New Risers Art. 807988A03

N. 1 New Sea Water Pump Art. 72774A32

N. 1 New Recirculation Water Pump Art. 8M0113734

N. 1 New Nickel-plated bronze water filter 1” ¼ compliant with RINA including water filter baskets with fittings and new spiraled tubes

N. 1 New Alarm Kit Art. 816492A14

Ordinary maintenance (2025):

Filters, belts, spark plugs, clamps, pipes, manifolds, anti-fouling, zincs, polishing etc. etc. replacements carried out periodically

All the listed works in addition to a series of operations carried out for the total refitting are better specified in the accounting documentation provided by the “Lomar Marine International s.r.l. of Olbia” shipyard which carried out all the work with qualified personnel.

Works carried out in the first half of 2025:

Supply and replacement of engine exhaust pipes, checking the tightness of the steel Y exhaust manifolds, supply and replacement of fuel line pipes from tank to engines, treatment cleaning of the fuel tank, supply and replacement of throttle and gear cables, supply and application of new stern writing + upper embellishment line in gold/black, painting of cockpit handrails, sanding and application of "Propspeed" shafts/stands/propellers/rudders/flaps, supply and installation of pre-decanting filters - new wastewater system that includes the disinstallation and removal of the old black water tank, realization of electrical wiring for the installation of the solenoid valve, installation of activation buttons, feeding of the macerator, preparation of the black water tank for the installation of the float, discharge pipes, installation and fixing of the new black water tank (80L with integrated 12V macerator), connection of hydraulic piping, installation of discharge cap to allow the possible emptying of the black water tank once moored by self-suction, installation and fixing of a 3-way solenoid valve, panel kit consisting of a panel with 4 Led indicator + probe with international flange with 5 holes in addition to DEODORSAN filter with activated carbon for black water venting to eliminate bad odors.

Works currently in progress: replacement of the gearbox block of the right engine

THE VESSEL IS TO BE CONSIDERED COMPARABLE TO NEW, CURRENTLY STORED UNDER COVER AT THE “LOMAR MARINE INTERNATIONAL S.R.L.” SHIPYARD IN OLBIA.

Attachments:

- Photographic report

- Technical specifications of the vessel's equipment

“BERTRAM Story”

History of the Bertram brand

In the history of sports, it is difficult to find characters who have achieved success in different and distant sectors of the same discipline as motorboating and sailing. In water sports, it is practically impossible, except for one individual who has been a champion multiple times in sailing disciplines, including the America's Cup, and has been on the podium of motorboating three times: Richard "Dick" Bertram.

The Sailor

A personality that is defined as eclectic is reductive since, in addition to being a great athlete, he had the merit of knowing how to combine his unbridled passion for the sea and for competitions with a great business acumen, creating two of the most important economic realities in the history of American boating: Richard Bertram & Company, one of the most prestigious brokerage firms of the time, and later the construction yard that still today, despite numerous ownership changes, bears his name and is synonymous in the world with deep V hull fishermen.

In 1964, Time compared Bertram to Enzo Ferrari because he managed to create the winning combination of luxury and performance thanks to his successes on the race fields, just as Drake had done in the Formula One circuits. Dick Bertram's passion for the sea and competition is innate and expresses itself, as is almost always the case with great personalities like him, from childhood when at just eight years old he began sailing and then, two years later, brilliantly competed in his first regatta. During his university studies, he founded an internal association at his college with which he participated in student sailing championships, winning them for two consecutive years in 1936 and 1937. His successes continued even when, having moved to Miami from New Jersey, he won the Lightning class championship in 1948 and 1949 (the one-design of international tonnage designed by Olin Stephens) and also competed in what was then considered one of the toughest offshore sailing competitions: the Newport to Bermuda Ocean Race, a 635-mile race in the open ocean, winning it in three editions and achieving high placements in another seven editions, as well as six times in the Lipton Cup, four times in the Trans Atlantic Race, and twice in the Buenos Aires-Rio de Janeiro, establishing himself as one of the best offshore racers of the time.

Dick Bertram was not only a great seaman but also a person with a constantly active and brilliant mind who leveraged his reputation as an excellent seaman and his deep knowledge of boats acquired on the race fields to set up his brokerage company with which over the years he established himself worldwide as a businessman even before being a great yacht builder.

It was during his intense activity as a sailor that, in 1958 while aboard Vim, a 12-meter international tonnage engaged in training for the America’s Cup, he noticed a small boat just over seven meters long with a strange hull with large "whiskers" that faced waves of almost two meters and a wind of over twenty knots with an ease that was almost science fiction for the time.

As soon as the training was over, Dick immediately wanted to know what that mysterious vessel was that had caught his interest; he was told that it was the tender of another of the 12-meter S.I. present in the bay designed by a designer named Charles Raymond Hunt.

The turning point meeting

Dick immediately wanted to meet Hunt to understand how that boat with that strange but highly efficient hull could achieve such results in that sea! It was the meeting that forever changed the lives of both, giving rise to one of the most solid and fruitful partnerships in the history of modern motorboating.

Bertram had already participated in motorboating competitions with his friend Sam Griffith, considered one of the fathers of modern offshore, winning the first two editions of the Miami-Nassau (1956 with a 34' Chris Craft and 1957 with a 35' Enterprise both in wood) which is still considered one of the most difficult motorboating races in the world for boats and crews. Bertram commissioned Hunt to build a 30' wooden boat with the same monohull geometry with a 24° V used for the one he had seen facing the waves in the bay of Rhode Island, and named it “Moppie" (after his wife's childhood nickname).

On the day of Moppie's launch, he wanted to test it immediately with his friend and racing partner Sam who certainly would not spare the vessel and would surely know how to give it an expert opinion. The account of that test by Bertram himself is one of the most beautiful pieces that the chronicles of the history of motorboating could ever narrate. Bertram recounts that that day the sea conditions (ocean) were truly difficult: strong wind with gusts over 30 knots and very formed waves of over two meters; he entrusted the boat to Griffith's experience who had never driven a boat with a deep V hull and could therefore not know its potential.

In facing the first waves, Griffith instinctively reduced the throttle, noticing that the boat had no difficulty in overcoming them despite their size. “After the third wave, Bertram recounts, Sam began to smile, pushing the throttles down while Moppie gained speed behaving incredibly smoothly compared to a conventional hull." It was the beginning of the deep V era!

Moppie participated that same year in the Miami-Nassau winning overwhelmingly against all and inflicting abyssal gaps to all other competitors (two hours ahead of the second who was racing with another smaller boat also designed by Hunt and with outboard propulsion, unprecedented for those times). From that moment on, requests for boats with the same hull began to arrive at Bertram in large numbers, and despite his initial reluctance, they pushed him to found his own production yard. Bertram immediately realized that for the huge requests for specimens to be produced, he would have to think of a different production process compared to conventional wooden construction and decided to embark on the path of composite construction already well underway in the USA since the 40s, which would guarantee him lower production times and costs and greater precision in the repeatability of the products.

Bertram yachts and the epic of offshore

He used Moppie as a model to create a mold and produce the prototype of the same boat but in composite which he called Glass Moppie and with which, needless to say, he participated in the next edition of the Miami-Nassau achieving an even more resounding success on calm seas, shattering the race's travel record set by him in tandem with Griffith and halving it from eight to four hours!

From 1961 onwards, Bertram hulls became the absolute dominators of motorboating competitions across the ocean, and as a good entrepreneur, Dick Bertram seized the opportunity to ride the wave of success, agreeing to the requests of brands like Rolex and the Camel cigarette brand that even featured him in advertisements in the heart of America's and the world's economic power: Times Square in New York. The first model of recreational boat from Bertram's production was obviously based on the 31' hull of Moppie from which a boat particularly suited for deep-sea fishing was derived precisely for its outstanding marine qualities and which featured a fully glazed cabin positioned very far forward, not beautiful to look at but which guaranteed absolute protection in any sea condition and 360° visibility. To make the lines of this boat with exceptional performance more graceful and to present it with greater appeal to the clientele of recreational boaters, a small flying bridge was created on the wide cabin giving rise to one of the absolute icons of nautical design: the famous Bertram 31, the progenitor of the great family of Bertram fishermen, presented for the first time during the 1961 New York Boat Show.

The success of the Bertram 31' is legendary: in sixteen years of production, the mold produced 1860 specimens, of which 23 as special editions, becoming a benchmark in terms of seaworthiness and construction solidity so much so that some are still sailing today. In 1962, the production range of the yard was enriched with a 25' also derived from a prototype developed and tested in race powered by Mercruiser outdrives, a 38' in 1963, and a small 20' with dual possibilities for outboard or inboard motors; in 1971, just ten years after the start of production, Bertram Yachts built its 1000th specimen! Legend has it that Bertram boats sold themselves because once tried, every boater was so fascinated by their behavior, especially in rough seas, that they could not go back empty-handed.

For the time, it was an astonishing result! Over the years, the Bertram brand has become synonymous with luxury, sportiness, speed, and safety but above all, thanks to the great skill in communication and commerce of its founder, it has gained popularity counting among its clients personalities of the caliber of Aristotle Onassis, King Hussein of Jordan, and Prince Bertil of Sweden. In 1963, Griffith passed away due to cancer, but Dick Bertram did not stop competing in offshore competitions; indeed, always on Ray Hunt's design, he built a new boat called Lucky Moppie with which he decided to compete in Europe in the Viareggio-Bastia-Viareggio in 1964, facing “A Speranzella,” designed by Levi and helmed by Vincenzo Balestrieri, and in the even more challenging Cowes-Torquay where he finished second (after having sailed hundreds of miles side by side) behind a twin hull of his, the “Surfrider” helmed by the Gardner brothers. In 1965, Bertram won the Sam Griffith Trophy, a race named after his friend and racing partner Dick, which he participated in with a new 36' called Brave Moppie with which he reappeared at the Viareggio-Bastia-Viareggio, at Cowes-Torquay finishing second, and at Miami-Key West winning it. In 1966, while racing with "Brave Moppie” in the commemorative competition in memory of his friend Griffith, Bertram encountered the sinking of the boat, which represented a severe blow to the image of his production and consequently to his finances and probably dampened his enthusiasm for offshore racing, so much so that his presence in competitions became less frequent if not episodic.

The retirement

In 1969, Bertram sold the yard to Peter Rittmeister who resumed competing in offshore competitions from 1967 to 1969, always using the historic name "Moppie" but with results not up to par with his predecessor; later, ownership passed to the Whittaker Corporation under whose management the brand ceased participation in motorboating races and handed over the baton of motorboating hegemony to Cigarette, Donzi, and Magnum of Don Aronow. In 1998, the Bertram brand was acquired by the Ferretti Group which has maintained the style and construction and design philosophy of the yard while renewing its design and the entire range, producing fishermen up to 80'. On April 28, 2000, Dick Bertram passed away at the age of 84, leaving us with the legacy of an eclectic personality who lived his life as a continuous race with himself, constantly seeking his limit to know and surpass it. An enlightened mind that was able to distinguish innovation at first glance despite being invisible to everyone, who knew how to enhance and spread it by betting on it and winning this bet hands down. A dreamer with an indomitable, unique, and probably unrepeatable temperament, a visionary who set the standard in the construction of his boats as well as in business, whose insights are still pursued in the field of brokerage for over half a century.

An entrepreneur whose gaze went far beyond his achievements.