Vittorio Malingri sets off again, ready to brave the ocean on a 20-foot catamaran
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.
“In my life I was looking for contact with the planet and with people. In the middle of the sea I find it, I would never stop“. When Vittorio Malingri uttered these words, during the “Madmen or Heroes” event at our VELAFestival, there was a moment of silence then, naturally, applause from everyone, including great sailors such as Giancarlo Pedote and Gaetano Mura and young hopefuls such as Ambrogio Beccaria and Edoardo Raimondo.
A YEAR OF GREAT CHALLENGES
That Vittorio was not speaking out of turn is confirmed not only by his history but also by the near future. Not content with having traveled hundreds of thousands of miles in every ocean, he has now joined , along with his son Nico, the Citroen Unconventional Team, which also includes world-class others such as surfer Alessandro Marciano, windsurfer Matteo Iachino, and kitesurfer Toni Cili.
Vittorio and Nico, aboard the Feel Good catamaran (a six-meter F20 with no fixed shelters) are preparing for a busy schedule of events. The month of June will be devoted to training, off the Ionian coast in Greece, and further tuning the boat with the help of Cesare Grassotti (Shore Team).
Father and son will thus prepare to set a benchmark time next July on the Marseille-Tunis route and at the end of September on the Portofino-Giraglia route, a route never before beaten by F20-class boats. Instead, in early 2017 the goal will be to break the record in doubles on the Dakar-Guadalupa, the classic F20 ocean record route. The official time to beat is 11gg 11h 25m, held by Frenchmen Pierre-Yves Moreau and Benoît Lequin. To top it off, in August 2017 Feel Good will participate, with no podium ambitions, in the Centomiglia del Garda, a fleet race that is the exact opposite of what the boat and crew were designed and trained for.
Share:
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!
You may also be interested in.
Farewell to Mauro Morandi, the hermit “guardian” of the island of Budelli
Mauro Morandi, a former physical education teacher originally from Modena who lived on the island of Budelli, Sardinia, for 32 years in complete solitude like a modern-day Robinson Crusoe, has passed away at the age of 85. Mauro Morandi, the
Mystery of Pogo 50 “ghost” stranded in Cefalù solved
Last Dec. 7, a 15-meter sailboat in good condition but without a crew ran aground on the beach in Cefalù, Sicily. After an on-board inspection and a series of investigations, the Coast Guard identified the boat involved in an accident
How to go on a sailing cruise on Lake Maggiore
It often happens to tell of adventures, regattas and crossings bordering on the verisimilar, “salty” experiences, so to speak. Fewer, however, happen to talk about lakes. Yet sailing is certainly no stranger to the lake tradition, and we are not
Replica Viking ship sinks: archaeologist on board dies
Twenty-nine-year-old archaeologist Karla Dana died during the “Legendary Viking Voyage” expedition from the Faroe Islands to Norway aboard a replica Viking ship that capsized due to bad weather. It was supposed to be a voyage back in time when the
