Farewell Aimaro Malingri, the sailor who flew on water
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Tragedy in the sailing world. Aimaro Malingri passed away suddenly: a sailor, entrepreneur, skipper and hang glider enthusiast but above all a member of that “dynasty” of sailors who gave so much to Italian sailing. He was 58 years old.
Probably due to a terrible and unfortunate accident, thought to be a short circuit or a cigarette butt, Aimaro Malingri of Bagnolo, Doi’s son, was found dead Friday morning in his home in Valdichiascio, in the province of Gubbio. Firefighters were on the scene, alerted by neighbors to smoke coming from the window, but there was nothing for Malingri to do. An autopsy will determine the cause of death.
Who was Aimaro Malingri, the flying sailor
Raise your hand if you are a sailor who has never heard the surname Malingri, a family whose name is carved in the history of sailing, Italian and otherwise(read their story here). Aimaro, was the son of Doi Malingri, the first sailor to cross the Atlantic on a cruise boat, and Carla Notarbartolo di Sciara, the one who converted the Malingrians to sailing, who were born freshwater sailors (descending the Po River by canoe, from Ticino to Venice, and ascending the Nile aboard two Pirelli “Greyhound” speedboats).
Carla’s father, Marco Notarbartolo di Sciara, a multi-decorated Captain of the Italian Navy, was the founder, together with Vittorio di Sambuy, of the Caprera Sailing Center in 1967.
Aimaro, at the age of 7, Together with his sister Micaela, follows his father and uncle Franco Malingri in the various stages of their world tour at the first Whitbread Round the World Race., which they accomplished aboard the legendary CS & RB II Busnelli, 18.30-meter schooner, prototype of the Koala 50.
Two years later, when he was only 9 years old, he made his first Atlantic crossing aboard an 18-meter schooner which will take him and his whole family together from Lavagna (GE) to the Caribbean, and from there, first going north up to Newport on the northern coast of the United States, they will make their way to Portsmouth, England.
In the late 1970s, he embarked with his father Doi on a new challenge. The two installed a motorized hang glider on a small 3.5-meter dinghy: flying dinghies were born.
Polaris Motor
Aimaro was dedicated for years, even after the death of his father Doi in 2004, to Polaris Motor, an aviation company based in Gubbio that specialized in the design and production of hang glider inflatables. One of the company’s earliest products, introduced in the early 1980s, was the Polaris FIB (“Flying Inflatable Boat”), a 3.5-meter inflatable boat carrying a propeller and a Dacron hang glider, with a wingspan of 11.15 meters.
The company closed in 2014, but Aimaro continued to pursue this passion by being a hang gliding instructor as well as a skipper. Until the tragic accident that cost him his life.
- Read also Malingri “Dynasty”: 700,000 miles to sea
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