GOOD NEWS The Caprera Sailing Center has resumed activities (safely)

Italy’s most famous sailing school, Centro Velico Caprera, has finally opened its doors!

A protocol, put in place thanks to a team of school physician-instructors, to ensure a safe restart: this is the premise for the relaunch of the sailing season at Caprera, which restarted on June 27.

A team of professionals who know the Caprera Sailing Center very well, because it is made up of
people who have served for years as volunteer instructors at the leading sailing school in the Mediterranean. They are the ones who have declined health safety guidance on all aspects that make up the life and teaching of the CVC.

“We strongly believe in the validity of our protocol,” comments Enrico Bertacchi, secretary general of the Caprera Sailing Center. “The added value is precisely that it was formulated with the help of medical personnel who know every detail of life, on land and in the water, at our school to perfection. So we are talking about a taylor made project and not standardized.”

From social distancing by reducing the capacity of facilities, to measures taken to avoid gatherings in common areas, to providing students with sufficient protective equipment for the duration of the course, every moment of the typical day was sifted through to find the best compromise between safety and the quality of teaching and life on the Island.

“Ours is a complex business that has both hospitality and sports components,” Bertacchi continued. Preserving the indispensable aspects of life on Caprera without derogating on safety required very thorough work, involving a team of 7 people for a total of more than 100 hours-work, and in addition to doctors, it also involved an expert in occupational safety.”

Everything is ready, then, to kick off a season on which the CVC has never stopped betting and which already sees some novelties. “We have confirmed all the dinghy and cabin cruiser courses and confirmed the purchase of the fifth Beneteau First 27,” Bertacchi concludes. Also, again for cabin cruisers, we have extended the season until Christmas. A novelty that actually winks at tradition since in the early years of CVC’s existence the end of courses was marked precisely by the Christmas holidays.”

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