Tough Quebec-Saint Malo: Beccaria withdraws , Allagrande Pirelli has a crack in his hull
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Less than 24 hours after the wreck of Acrobatica, a fact for which further information is still awaited from Alberto Riva‘s team, comes another hefty bill for Italian sailing from Quebec – Saint Malo: Ambrogio Beccaria on Allagrande Pirelli also withdraws. The Italian Class 40 suffered a failure in the forward area of the hull, where a crack with a major waterway was found.
Allagrande Pirelli was sailing in the same depression that Acrobatica also faced farther south, with northerly winds in excess of 30 knots and a very formed sea, with a very hard and stressful close-hauled gait for boats and crew. Beccaria’s boat is a Musa 40, built by Sangiorgio Marine of Genoa, the first in the series; the second was just Acrobatica, a design by Gianluca Guelfi and Fabio D’Angeli, a boat that until now had amazed in performance and tightness having won Beccaria the Transat Jacques Vabre, the Transat CIC, the Ostar, and numerous other regattas, not to mention second place in the Route du Rum.
Beccaria and his crew are studying the best strategy to secure the boat and bring it to a safe harbor as best they can. The closest option might be the Azores, currently the Italian Class 40 is heading south for 180 degrees.
Racing for Italy remain Alberto Bona’s IBSA, currently in seventh position, while Pietro Luciani aboard Dekuple is in 16th.
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