An informed sailor is a better sailor. Here’s why to attend the Sail Summit
THE PERFECT GIFT!
Give or treat yourself to a subscription to the print + digital Journal of Sailing and for only 69 euros a year you get the magazine at home plus read it on your PC, smartphone and tablet. With a sea of advantages.
What are the best techniques for safe surfing? With what tools? How to handle an accident at sea? How best to choose, adjust, maintain sails, even asymmetric sails? How is a boat built? What are the things to know about masts and rigging? And more: board shifts and sleep, how to manage them? All these questions-and many others-will be answered in Milan (March 14-15): the second edition of Sail Summit, the intensive course where you will learn, thanks to exceptional “lecturers,” all the secrets of your sailboat, is scheduled.
The “deus ex machina” of this edition, which is divided into seminars and has many new features, is skipper Sergio Frattaruolo: so many miles behind him, including solo, he has a sailing school based in Portugal where he runs safety and sailing courses between Lisbon and Portugal on a Class 40.
“The motto of the course,” Frattaruolo tells us, “is the same as last year: Knowledge = Safety. The feedback from the last edition – 160 registrants – was fantastic, we received so many messages of congratulations and appreciation. This feedback prompted me to do even better and seek new and increasingly important speakers. This year we have a dream team, which is likely to be enriched again.” Here are who the teachers will be.
SAIL SUMMIT 2020 LECTURERS
The safety and on-board electronics part will be taken care of by Frattaruolo, whose resume is worth mentioning: in 2011 he participated in the MiniTransat, and in 2012 he participated in the Global Ocean Race, the round-the-world double race on Class 40s. In 2013 he founded Extreme Sailing Academy, an ocean sailing school; in 2015 he won the world record on the Discovery Route. Ha He has been involved in new technologies for more than 20 years, and for the past 10 in particular in technologies in the nautical and security fields. He sailed 70,000 miles, a good portion of which he sailed solo.
Let’s come to sails, foils and spinnakers. The expert in the chair will be Paolo Semeraro, CEO and Founder of Banks Sail Europe and Neo Yachts. Strong sailor who has two Olympics, an America’s Cup and dozens of national and international titles to his credit.
Boat-building techniques will be covered by Pierpaolo Ballerini, engineer and founder of Azuree Shipyard: a leading expert in technology and processes for the marine industry. He has collaborated with major yacht shipyards, both motor and sailing. He is currently working in collaboration with Nautor’s Swan. He is also a sailor, passionate about long solo or double-handed racing
You’ll learn all the secrets of your mast from Iacopo Savi, director of OSN Yacht Rigging-Jacopo has rigged thousands of boats.
Plus, a true international “star” when it comes to sleep management on board: Dr. Claudio Stampi. Bolognese physician known worldwide as “Doctor Sleep,” a worldwide guru of sleep cycle optimization, specializing in biomedical engineering, neurology and founder of the Chronobiology Research Institute in Boston. Stampi has taught generations of sailors, athletes, astronauts, and top managers around the world how to best manage sleep to maximize their performance.
And the list, between now and March, may lengthen with other important names.
WHO THE SAIL SUMMIT IS AIMED AT AND HOW MUCH IT COSTS
“All seminars,” Frattaruolo continued, “are aimed at the owner and the ‘average sailor’ who is hungry for real knowledge and not dockside legends. In addition, in this edition we will devote more time to “socializing”: for example, on Saturday the 14th, after the seminars, there will be “Four chats on the dock,” a time to get to know the speakers better and exchange views, questions, opinions from sailor to sailor.”
For all registrants, there will be a welcome kit and a bag with gadgets, as well as course handouts. “Tickets are on promo until Dec. 5 at 187 euros,” Frattaruolo concludes, “and seats are limited to 200. If a registrant reconsiders, they can get a refund up to 30 days before the Sail Summit begins.”
(opening photo by Paolo Carioti)
HERE ALL THE INFO TO PARTICIPATE
HERE ARE THE TICKETS
NAVIGATE INFORMED!
To stay up-to-date on all the news from the world of sailing, selected by our editorial staff, sign up for the Sailing Newspaper newsletter! It is semplicissimo, just enter your email below, accept the Privacy Policy and click the “Sign me up” button. You will then receive on your email, twice a week, the best sailing news! It’s free and you can unsubscribe at any time, no obligation!
Share:
Are you already a subscriber?
Ultimi annunci
Our social
Sign up for our Newsletter
We give you a gift
Sailing, its stories, all boats, accessories. Sign up now for our free newsletter and receive the best news selected by the Sailing Newspaper editorial staff each week. Plus we give you one month of GdV digitally on PC, Tablet, Smartphone. Enter your email below, agree to the Privacy Policy and click the “sign me up” button. You will receive a code to activate your month of GdV for free!
You may also be interested in.
Gybing gennaker in light wind, “late main”: when the mainsail comes in late
In an era when, even in the world of offshore comp racing, symmetrical spinnakers and tangons are gradually disappearing in favor of bowsprits and asymmetrics, knowing how to maneuver the gennaker with good technique will also be useful when participating
How AI will make boats go faster (in defiance of cavitation)
How a Swiss team is using artificial intelligence to combine ventilation and cavitation and break the sailing speed record Cavitation, a solvable problem? During the America’s Cup, we have spoken several times about the physical limitations that the designers of
What is cavitation and why it limits the speed of flying boats
Our America’s Cup analyst Federico Albano explains why foil cavitation poses a limit to the development of Cup flying boats Cavitation, the limit to the speed of flying boats An increasingly significant problem in AC75 design that has emerged in
With B&G’s new display you view many instruments in one screen
B&G, a Navico Group (Brunswick Corporation) brand of sailing electronics, recently unveiled its latest Zeus S Ultrawide display, designed to deliver an unprecedented experience. With a sleek and intuitive design, this chartplotter represents a significant step forward in nautical