AC 75 won’t fly without Cariboni

“In the project phase, always be proactive, learn to listen to everyone. Someone might give you the cue you hadn’t thought of.”
Or, “Things in the boat work best when they are about to break but don’t break.”
And again, “Sailing should be a pleasure, not a slavery.”
These are the three maxims that have always guided Gianni Cariboni in his work.
A work that began in the cellar of his home and that today has established him as the world’s greatest expert in hydraulics and hydraulics applied to sailboats.
For exactly forty years Cariboni srl, founded in 1984, has been conceiving, designing and implementing technological solutions that, at the end of the fair, have only one purpose.
To make sailing easier: to the point that Cariboni, together with his great friend Luca Bassani, is considered the father of easy sailing.
He first applied the canting keel on “normal” boats, invented the double-speed cylinder for adjusting the mainsail (the famous Magic Trim), made Europe’s first carbon-laminated mast, the first mast-jack integrated into a mast… and the list could go on, very long.

Italian excellence in the Cup

But Cariboni’s name is intrinsically linked to the America’s Cup.
While few know that the company’s first foray into the America’s Cup dates back to 1987 (the second Azzurra had a special boom inspired by the leaf spring suspension of trains, which followed the distribution of load points, according to the philosophy – ahead of its time – of composite), it is known to most that any team chasing the “Old Pitcher” cannot do without Cariboni for all the handling aboard the flying AC 75s: the systems for managing the foil booms, Pidraulica, the hydraulics.
Not bad in a world historically dominated by Anglo-Saxons.

Cariboni & Luna Rossa

Among the teams using Cariboni’s collaboration, of course, is the “national team of Italian sailing,” Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli.
A collaboration, the one between Patrizio Bartelli’s syndicate and the Ronco Briantino (MB) company that has lasted since Luna Rossa’s first Cup campaign.
In 1998, in fact, it was designer Gérman Frers – who was working, with Cariboni, on the Wally 88 Tiketitan – who submitted to him a technical problem of cylinders that would act on Luna Rossa’s high spreaders.
They came up with special cylinders that were later adopted on all the Cup boats.
For the AC 75 with which Luna Rossa comes to Barcelona, Cariboni in addition to the parts “common” to all the teams made the sail function movements, cylinders, manifolds and mechanical systems.

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*Editorial in collaboration with Cariboni