Azzurra crew meets again 40 years after Cup
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.
Forty years ago, on June 18, 1983, an Italian boat for the first time participated in the America’s Cup. The boat was called Azzurra and in the waters of Newport in the U.S. won the first race immediately, beating the French France III.
It was the first victory in a long series that took Azzurra all the way to the challengers’ semifinals. The four boats were Australia II, Azzurra, Victory 83 (UK) and Canada I.
Azzurra and Canada I exited the scene, and from there Australia II built victory in the 25th America’s Cup. Historic victory because it was the first time since 1851 that the U.S. lost the America’s Cup, which, indeed, was won in 1983 by Australia II.
The protagonists of Azure meet for dinner.
To celebrate that legendary Azzurra’s first victorious race, a reenactment dinner was held on June 18 at the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda attended by many of the key players who were on board and who contributed ashore to the Italian boat’s success.
Who was there
Among others, for crew: Mauro Pelaschier, Tiziano Nava, Nicolò Reggio, Enrico Isenburg. For the designers: Nicola Sironi, Patrizia Ferri, Andrea Vallicelli. For executives: Luca Cordero di Montezemolo and Riccardo Bonadeo. The official photographer could not miss: Carlo Borlenghi.
VIDEO – The protagonists of Azzurra recount their adventure forty years ago
Celebrating them were the daughter of the then president of the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda, Princess Zahra Aga Khan, and Italian Sailing Federation President Francesco Ettorre.
XR-41 Gate, ORC reasons about it: there is an error in the VPP that needs to be corrected
- Read also: Mauro Pelaschier and Azzurra
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.
ARC Rally: Remax One wins the Racing category overall in plywood. What a hat-trick for Italy!
The Atlantic Rally for Cruisers (ARC) 2025, the transatlantic race from the Canary Islands to the Caribbean for “normal” boats, will be an edition to be remembered for a long time for Italian sailing, which dominated the rankings with three
XR-41 Gate, ORC reasons about it: there is an error in the VPP that needs to be corrected
We could call it the “XR-41 Gate,” the case that has enlivened this end of the year of the ORC world, but which was actually brooding since the Tallinn ORC World Championship in August. For as is well known, the
Francesca of the Oceans: never an Italian woman so good
A sometimes in Italy we suffer from a bit of foreignophilia, even in sailing. “Everything is different in France,” ” Eh but the French oceanic,” “But if you don’t move to France….” True, for decades we have been light years
ARC Rally 2025 speaks Italian: here are all the winners
We are in the final throes, at least for the first half of the fleet, of this ARC Rally 2025, a fairly historic edition for the Italian boats that dominated in several of the categories competing along the 2700 miles
