Giancarlo Pedote comes clean: “I continue to dream of the Vendée Globe.”
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Giancarlo Pedote, 2016 Sailor of the Year and multi-titled ocean sailor, stopped by to visit us at our booth at the Genoa Boat Show. We took the opportunity to chat with him at length … here’s the “Pedote-thought,” between Vendée Globe, Olympics and history’s greatest sailors.
SEND GIANCARLO TO THE VENDEE GLOBE
Speaking of the World Tour: the Florentine sailor has it as his fixation, sponsor wanted … We remember the phrase that engineer Valerio Battista, CEO of Prysmian Group had said at the coronation ceremony of Giancarlo Pedote as Sailor of the Year 2016: “We have been accompanying Giancarlo as a sponsor for almost 10 years. We invite other companies to join Prysmian Group to help it reach the Vendée Globe, because we have already proven that Italian ocean sailing can be at the highest level”
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