Regattas, regattas, regattas: what an appetite for sailing in Italy and the Ocean

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USA SailGP Team, Great Britain SailGP Team, Japan SailGP Team, New Zealand SailGP Team and Australia SailGP Team in action on Race Day 2 at the Italy SailGP, Event 2, Season 2 in Taranto, Italy. June 06, 2021. Photo: Bob Martin for SailGP. Handout image supplied by SailGP

After a year of great uncertainty, with many international and national events cancelled due to Covid, racing in Italy and around the world has resumed in a big way with even more desire to sail and have fun. From the ocean to major events to national regattas, much has happened on the race courses in recent weeks. Let’s look at what the main events and their protagonists were, starting with the SailGp that just concluded in Taranto.

SailGp: Taranto is there

Perhaps from an audience perspective, it was one of the most well-attended stages since SailGp has existed. In fact, Italy, and Taranto, responded in a big way with a massive onshore presence at sea. All eyes were on Francesco Bruni, foil controller of Team Japan, and with each passage of the Japanese boat near the grandstands the cheering was torcida-like. And it was the team with Bruni aboard, and Nathan Outteridge at the helm, that ultimately won the Italian leg. The racing program in the waters of Taranto took place in a mostly breezy wind, which did not penalize the performance of the fast F50s too much.

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The Ocean Race Europe: heading for the Mediterranean

The European version of The Ocean Race has entered the Mediterranean, after the first leg from Lorient to Cascais, and is headed now to Alicante, then on to Genoa for the final finish. There are 11 teams in the race divided between 6 VO65 and 5 Imoca 60. The first tow among VO65 was won by The Austrian oCEAN race Project, while among the Imoca it was Corum who excelled. Note how in this second leg the VO65s are proving, at least upwind, to be better performers than the Imoca 60 foils.

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The 500: Gecko takes it all

Great success for the return of the legendary 500, the queen offshore regatta in the Adriatic whose history began back in 1974. Dominating the ORC X2 ranking was Massimo Juris’s X-37 Gecko, who was back racing with Pietro Luciani for the occasion; the two had done a Transat Jacques Vabre together in Class 40 doing an excellent performance. Behind them came Antonio Di Chiara’s First 40.7 Tasmania, third was Massimo Minozzi’s J-99 Tokio. In the ORC XTutti category, Muzyka 2, Simone Taiuti’s X442 also won the B class and the Super Atax Challenge Trophy reserved for the best plywood result for crews.

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Loro Piana Super Yacht Regatta: gathering of queens in Porto Cervo

In the Superyacht division, the 33-meter Missy, built by Vitters to a design by Malcolm Mckeon YD, ends the event with a perfect performance of four first places. Second place on the leaderboard for the Swan 115 Shamanna, and third place on the podium for Claus-Peter Offen’s Wally Y3K with Karol Jablonski as tactician. Among the Multihulls the winner of the day and first on the podium is Gunboat 68 Highland Fling XVII, tactician Cameron Appleton, second step of the podium for HH66 R-Six just one point behind third, Allegra which did not need only second place on the final day to move up the overall ranking.
Vasco never retires
At the Italian Match Race Championship the surprise you don’t expect. After three days of racing, held in the stretch of lagoon in front of the island of San Servolo and the island of San Giorgio Maggiore (home of the Compagnia della Vela), Vasco Vascotto finished first (CDV Muggia – Alberto Barovier, Maciel Cicchetti). The Italian Match Race Championship – Boat Show Cup has decreed its winner who will remain in office for one year. Aboard the fleet of Sb20s provided by the Venetian sailing club, eleven crews competed in three beautiful, sunny days with sufficient wind on an excellent race course.
Vintage Sails in the Gulf: some loves are forever
Alcyone among Vintage Yachts, launched in 1952 based on a 1948 design, andOnfale among Classic Yachts, launched in 1962. These are the sailboats, both built by the Ligurian shipyard Sangermani, that last June 6 in Le Grazie, in the Gulf of La Spezia, won their category at the third edition of “Le Vele d’Epoca nel Golfo.”

RS21, good first

With well wishes and compliments, collected quite casually, from the Technical Director of the Olympic national team Michele Marchesini: “beautiful boat, can mark a new step in the world of monotypes, Bravo!”, began in Rimini, for the organization of the Yacht Club Rimini, the Rs21 Cup. The trophy, made by Persico Marine, will be awarded at the end of a season that includes four events between the Adriatic, Tyrrhenian and Lake Garda. Eleven boats gathered at the Rimini Marina, gathering some of Italy’s best sailors such as Jacopo Plazzi, Niccolo Bianchi, Daniele De Luca, Alberto Bolzan, Giulio Desiderato, Federica Salvà, and Carlo Fracassoli. The stage classification victory went to Caipirinha with Caipirinha at the helm. Martin Reientjes, second Gioia by Carlo Brenco, third Beyond Freedom by Gianluca Grisoli.

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Silver Buoy waiting for the Italian ORC

Five races were completed (three on Saturday and two on Sunday) all characterized by overcast skies and weak winds coming mainly from 160 with maximum intensity of 10/12 knots, which saw the participating boats give life to beautiful races all resolved on the line. The committee chaired by John Capitani and his historic Punta Ala group showed great skill in handling the situation and always worked for the best with every change in the weather. Many of the participants in the upcoming Italian Absolute Championship to be held June 22-26, also in the waters of Punta Ala, were also here to test the boats and the race course. In ORC1 third place for Massimo Borselli’s Bolt 37 Victory, second place for Stefano Canova’s Grand Soleil Vag 2, and victory for Claudio Terrieri’s Grand Soleil 43 Blue Sky. In Group B, Gianluidi Dubbini’s L’Italia 998 Sarchiapone Fuoriserie won, ahead of Enzo De Blasio’s 11.98 Scugnizza and Bisti-Lallai-Giuseppini’s X-35 Dolcenera. www.ycpa.it


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