The Duecento 2023, all the winners of the Adriatic offshore classic

There is a really fun regatta that, in the Adriatic, you must have participated in at least once. It is The Duecento, which has been contested since 1994 on the course – 2oo miles long, hence the name of the event – that runs from Caorle, passing through the offshore buoy of Grado, then heading for the island of Sansego. One of the most unpredictable and “technical” scenarios in the Upper Adriatic, where a tactical choice makes you win or lose the race. You can participate in full crew, in the “XTutti” classification, or in doubles, if you like challenges, in the “X2” class.

The charge of 55 to the Duecento 2023

This year in Caorle (home of the Circolo Nautico Santa Margherita, the event’s organizer), the following people met 55 boats, with over 300 sailors from 5 nations, in the X2 and XTutti categories competing under the ORC, IRC and Mocra compensated systems. We tell you about all the winners of this edition.

The fastest in the Duecento comes at night (gliding)

The “line honors,” or those that go to the first boat to cross the finish line, were the prerogative of Frers 64 Anywave Safilens, skippered by Alberto Leghissa. The boat came gliding in at 1:26 a.m. on May 1, at a speed of twenty knots, winning the Castle Line Honour XTutti Trophy.

What boat is Anywave? At 19.21 meters long and 4.52 meters wide, it is ultralight: only 8,500 kg. Designed by German Frers in 2000, Anywave is made entirely of carbon fiber. It is equipped with canting keel, two hydrodynamic appendages (canards), double wheelhouse, and modern electronic instrumentation and steering systems. Her hull lines, advanced technological systems and very low displacement make her extremely competitive in both coastal and offshore trials, particularly in IRC or ORC composite racing.

The bora, which entered a few hours later than the models predicted, aided the boats’ ascent along Kvarner and Istria and also accompanied the fleet on the last leg to the finish, with increasing intensity up to twenty knots. The arrivals followed each other at a fast pace both in the leading group, where there was no shortage of surprises and continuous overtaking, and in the group that had waited the longest for the wind in Sansego.

At the finish line in Caorle after Anywave Safilens at 01:46 was the Farr 400 Mecube Gruppo Hera EE of Stefano Novello, then the Farr 53 QQ7 of Salvatore Costanzo from Ravenna and Athyris, GS 48 of Sergio Taccheo.

“XTutti” plywood winners

The ORC Overall XTutti handicap win goes to Alessandro Fiori’s Farr 40 Farraway, which crossed the finish line in sixth overall.

A great crew on a great boat. In production from 1997 to 2010, the Farr 40 (12.41 x 4.03 m) was designed with the intention of entertaining owners (the class rule provided for owner-driver, owner-helmsman).

Characterized by high construction and design technology, it runs very fast-you will be able to take great satisfaction in regattas if you have one! There are many great Italian sailors who have tried their hand at the Farr 40: Vasco Vascotto, Lorenzo Bressani, Vincenzo Onorato just to name a few.

Second place ORC Overall XTutti for Marino Schiavato’s First 42 S7 Princesse, which also won the Grand Cruiser category, and third for Sporting Club Duevele’s Millenium 40 Luna per Te, with weatherman Andrea Boscolo as tactician.

The winners of the Duecento x2

The first arrival of the X2 category, after an exciting match-race lasting two hundred miles between two high-powered hulls, was resolved at 02:39 with the arrival of the Millennium 40 R Hauraki by Mauro and Giovanni Trevisan, who overcame Karnak, Stefano Raspadori-Michele Mazzotti’s Class 40, in the last few miles aft.

Hauraki won the Castle Line Honour X2 Trophy and second place at the ORC Overall X2 compensated times, much to the satisfaction of Mauro and John.

The overall win at ORC Overall X2 compensated times goes to the small, fast and high-performance proto Hyde 27 Mr Hyde of Marco Rusticali and Riccardo Rossi from Forlì.

“Riccardo and I are very happy with this result, it is our first Overall victory in La Duecento, a regatta we are very fond of,” said Marco Rusticali. “The first part of the race was congenial and favorable to our boat and we were able to keep the fleet under control, then we were able to catch a lucky hand in the ascent, where conditions became crisper, especially in the stretch from the Gulf of Trieste to the finish, where fatigue was making itself felt and pushed us to be more conservative and try not to lose positions.”

The ORC X2 Overall podium sees Hauraki second and Nicola Borgatello-Silvio Sambo’s X-35 Demon-X in third.

The other winners

Victory in the Multihull category went to Germany’s Martin Trenkle on his Dragonfly 28 Mare, ahead of Hikari and Lightness.

Among the Open650s engaged on a shortened course to the Porer Lighthouse, Alessandro Ciscato’s Playtime 2 with Davide Vicentini came out on top.

The regatta closed at 10:21 a.m. with the arrival of Tatana, Show 42 of German Valentin Bettrich, which won the Soligo Never Give Up Trophy destined for the last boat at the finish line.

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