The Mega-Aphrodite, the Bianca 414, was introduced in 1979. The legend goes that the boat was originally conceived by Jan & Svend Carlsen under the code name "Anholt-Expressen". It was produced and sold as an Elvstrom 42. The Bianca Boatyard saw the opportunity to build a mega-101 designed specifically for the US market, and so the Bianca 414 was born. The 414 looks very similar to the Aphrodite, and some people regard this construction as the true Bianca 10 meter, because she is ten meters in the waterline, whereas the Aphrodite 101 is (close) to ten meters overall.

No matter what the target market was, the story goes that the very first Bianca 414 was baptised in Skovshoved just north of Copenhagen by His Royal Highness Prince Henrik. 

James Blume, owner of the Aphrodite hull no 105, reports that there is at least 5 or 6 414s in the USA. Currently (2002) the price of a well kept boat from 1980 is around 65k US$. Rumours has it that the Bianca 414 ia also known as Elvstrom 45. If you can read Danish, the boat was described in the Danish sailing magazine Bådnyt on the 30th of September in 1979. The legend says that the Bianca boatyard originally produced twentyfive boats. 

I will maintain a boatlist on the 414... Nothing much is there right now, but this is it.. Under the boat list you will find more photos.

Morten