PHOTOSEQUENCE In Antibes… it’s raining trees.

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.

4

“The broken tree, a black fin…” sang Lou Colombo in the hit Maracaibo. Sharks aside (thankfully), the verse of the song seems to fit perfectly in this photosequence. We are on the French Riviera, where the 21st edition of Les Voiles d’Antibes, the first stage in the Mediterranean of the 2016 Panerai Classic Yachts Challenge, was staged. The boat protagonist of the dismasting (whose photosequence we show you exclusively) is the only 12-meter International Tonnage perfectly sailing in the Benelux, Zinita (20.04 meters long and 3.63 meters wide).

SEE GUIDO CANTINI’S PHOTOSEQUENCE

HOW WAS THIS POSSIBLE?
Analyzing the photos, it appears that the heath of the windward rigging has given way. Without the support of the rigging, the 25.5-meter-long wooden mast snapped just above the first order of spreaders. Fortunately, no one was hurt, not even the sailor who found himself, in spite of himself, leaving the role of bowman to don the role of acrobatic diver. Zinita was built in Fairlie, Scotland, designed by William Fife III for shipowner Arthur Connel in 1927. The boat underwent restoration by former owner Leo Arens in 2009.

Share:

Facebook
Twitter
WhatsApp

Leave a Comment

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Check out the latest issue

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!

Once you click on the button below check your mailbox

Privacy*


Highlights

You may also be interested in.

Around the world with a splendid Sparkman & Stephens

“Guys, these are the owners of the Magic, my former boat. They are great people, you definitely need to contact them.” Speaking is Umberto Marzotto, the ‘globetrotting count’ whose story we told you HERE and HERE. Magic, on the other

PHOTO Heart-pounding rescue off the coast of Bonifacio

Even great navigators with many ocean adventures behind them say it: when the Mediterranean gets angry, it is one of the most hostile seas. This was experienced by Pierre Ortolan and Bernard Couston who found themselves yesterday with their X-412

Register

Chiudi

Registrati




Accedi

Sign in