Soldini and Maserati chase at Cape to Rio. VIDEO
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Another challenge for Maserati Multi 70 and Giovanni Soldini. This time the Italian trimaran returns to racing in the Cape to Rio, a race dear to Maserati’s heart because of its several participations when the boat was still the monohull VOR 70. A challenge against the bad luck that has often befallen the Italian trimaran’s challenge with foils often falling victim to collisions with unidentified objects.
Giovanni Soldini and the Maserati Multi 70 team crossed the starting line of the 16th Cape2Rio, the historic trans-ocean race of 3,600 miles from Cape Town to Rio de Janeiro. In the waters of Table Bay, in front of the South African city, Maserati Multi 70 and its competitor LoveWater started in 10 to 12 knots of westerly wind.
After a few minutes, Maserati Multi 70, in the wake of its opponent, reached the second disengagement buoy, located further north, where the wind dropped sharply to 3 knots making the maneuver slow and difficult. Once past the obstacle, the Italian trimaran was forced to sail using only the mainsail in order to solve a technical problem: after about 20 minutes, Soldini’s team reopened the headsail and set off again at full speed in pursuit of its rival a few miles ahead.
The expected weather conditions are typical for this area, with an area of high pressure positioned in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean: for the first 36 hours there will be between 15 and 20 knots of wind from the south, which will then tend to drop and turn first to the southeast, then to the east. The Italian team will have to find the ideal course to be able to cross the high pressure without crossing it but without stretching too far. Skipper Giovanni Soldini sails aboard Maserati Multi 70 with a crew of seven sailors: Italians Guido Broggi (mainsman), John Elkann (coxswain and tailer), Nico Malingri and Matteo Soldini (both grinder and tailer), Spaniards Carlos Hernandez Robayna (tailer) and Oliver Herrera Perez (bowman), and French guest Pierre-Laurent Boullais. Just before giving up the moorings, Giovanni Soldini commented, “I am very pleased with the great work we have done in the last month and a half in Cape Town, the boat is ready and the crew is super broken in. We are calm and confident to have a good race, it will be a great challenge to keep up with such a big boat like LoveWater but we will try our best!” LoveWater, a direct competitor to Maserati Multi 70, is an 80-foot ULTIM trimaran with a very experienced crew, including skipper Craig Sutherland and Englishman Brian Thompson. That of the two trimarans is the last staging of starts in the regatta: thirteen smaller boats started on Jan. 4, the large monohulls today at 2 p.m. local time. The Cape2Rio began in 1971, organized by the Royal Cape Yacht Club, and is held every two or three years. It is the longest intercontinental regatta in the Southern Hemisphere and has always been a mythical fixture for every experienced sailor.
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