The Flip is the greatest thing since engines in boats!!! You can plop your butt on the top of the seat or stand behind the wheel. I can tell you I would have never been able to recreate this thing without an example to follow. Having all my notes, pictures and video I jumped into the front seat base with the flip section. He described it as being ‘designed with love, born pure and strong like a pedigree horse, Alongside the Aquarama, the Ariston is perhaps Rivas best known model, considered to be the purest classical Riva shape, and certainly one of its most popular. I phoned up Steve Heitman and sure enough he said while attending the March Tavares show I could come over, peel off the old skin and do all the measuring and documentation I could stand. The Ariston was the boat that Carlo Riva was most fond of. The only Ariston and I mean the only one in the US that is under a restoration and has the seats out is in Tavares, FL. Well, 1959 was the year they started doing it so I was missing that important DNA to replicate and so was Dan.
Many people unfamiliar with Riva's might not know the great flip up seat feature that Riva put in their boats. The boat information and images presented are part of Boatshed’s back catalogue of the 25,000+ boats we have listed in the last 20 years and appear here for general information and guidance purposes about Boatshed and our boat selling. At this point it's around Feb 2010 and I discover that Dan's boat was not quite complete in that the front seat base did not have the flip seat. Riva Ariston Final Bid The auction has ended × The boat featured is not currently for sale by Boatshed.
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