Mini Transat: all crazy for Luca Rosetti

He started offshore racing “only” in 2016, and just 7 years later he is already completing his second Mini Transat: Luca Rosetti is the sailor Italy perhaps didn’t know it had at such a high level and is keeping the cheers glued to the tracker in this leg 2 of the legendary solo transatlantic.

The finish line in Sant François in the Caribbean is 200 miles away and Rosetti with his Race=Care is firmly in the lead, with a good margin over his pursuers and in full battle for the overall victory, which is awarded on the sum of the times of the two stages.

Luca Rosetti – Who is the sailor who is wowing everyone

Born in 1995, a native of Bologna, Romagna, he has been sailing since childhood and discovered racing around age 10. As a teenager he moved between Optimist and Laser, where he tasted the first race courses, but it was not until 2016 that his love for offshore racing was sparked. A meeting with the owner of a Mini 650, Lorenzo Gervaso, is the spring that sparks his curiosity.

It was with Gervaso’s Mini that Rosetti began to grind out miles until he participated in the 2019 Mini Transat, which he finished in 18th place after a good performance. From then on he decided to shift gears and put on a more ambitious project. It would take a few years, but eventually Rosetti bought a new generation boat, the Maxus, and decided to set up his training directly in France, in Lorient. Thus began the preparation for the Mini Transat 2023, showing some very good things already in the approaching regattas that confirm how much the sailor Rosetti, despite not being a veteran, has the makings of something important.

The ultimate exploit happens during this Mini Transat: already in the first leg he manages to take the lead several times but then a less fortunate second part of the race relegates him to eighth position. He reacts in Leg 2, where he has been leading for many days now demonstrating speed and surgical tactical choices.

The finish line in Saint François is 200 miles away, and that may be as far as it goes from history.

Mauro Giuffrè