Alassio International Offshore Sailing Week: the return of the champions to the Riviera
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In the 1980s-90s, and until part of the 2000s, the International Offshore Sailing Week in Alassio was the event with which the new year’s racing season opened, and where new boats just launched from shipyards were often shown, with a parade of sailors of the highest caliber. Today many things have changed, the Week has also experienced some major crisis periods, but the Alassio Regattas are making a comeback and this 2024 edition showed a turnaround.
International Offshore Sailing Week, many champions
There were 30 boats on the water, not a huge number but an increase from the last post-Covid editions, but above all, a very good quality of the fleet returned to the water, certified also by some important names of Italian sailing who are returning to race in Alassio. A few examples: the coach of the Nacra 17 national team Gabriele “Ganga” Bruni (tactician of the IY 11.98 ToBe winner of the event), Pietro D’Alì (tactician M34 Big Wool), Michele Regolo (tactician aboard the new Ecoracer OD 30 Adriatica), to name a few. It all turned into tight racing on the water, with the top 7-8 boats in the ORC rankings racing meter by meter with only a few tens of seconds separating them in real time.
Three races were completed on the three-day regatta: two on Friday with a west-southwest wind around 10 knots, one on Saturday with a medium-light grecale, no races on Sunday where the wind did not come in.
Alassio International Week, the winners
By a single point, winning the 2024 edition of the Alassio International Offshore Sailing Week isStefano Rusconi’s Italia Yacht 11.98 To Be, ahead of Gianluigi Dubbini’s 998 Sarchiapone Fuoriserie, third place for Luigi Buzzi’s Ridas 37 Velasquez.
After the initial two races Sarchiapone Fuoriserie was in the lead, but in the third race a relentless To Be, combined with a lackluster race by rivals, determined the outcome of the ORC ranking.
In the Free class victory for Christian Nadile’s Peggy, second place for Fabio Samaia’s Scardina, third for Alessandro Agosta’s Ophelè.
Mauro Giuffrè
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