All the winners (and their stories) of Millevele 2024. CLASSIFICATIONS

It was a day to remember off the coast of Genoa for the 204 participants in the IREN Millevele, the sailing race organized by the Yacht Club Italiano now in its 36th year.

IREN Millevele, the winners

The wind blew over the entire course with an intensity between 6 and 10 knots, initially from the north and then turning to the east during the second half of the course.
We tell you the stories of the category and overall winners.

Millevele, red group – The secrets of Atalanta II, the “Frankestein boat”

On the water, in the Red group, reserved for boats over 18 meters, won Atalanta II of Carlo Puri Negri from Genoa, who for the occasion also hosted on board the Mayor of Genoa Marco Bucci, a passionate sailor and owner of a Grand Soleil 52. Perfect regatta, crowned also by the victory in real time: the crew managed to lead the boat at its best, even in its “weakest” gait, the stern.

Atalanta II, the 21.52 m that Carlo Puri Negri had built by Bruce Farr in 2004, is like the creature of Dr. Frankenstein, the protagonist of Mary Shelley’s novel. Because it has been remade piece by piece using the best technology. And so it is a monster, but a beautiful monster. (In the original Latin meaning, monstrum in fact stood for miracle, prodigy). Umberto Felci oversaw its refitting, carried out at Maurizio Testuzza’s Adriasail shipyards in Fano, Ancona. Quite a challenge the one taken up by the Milanese designer and adopted Garda native: to make a 12-year-old maxi modern and competitive. A difficult feat, but not an impossible one: the example is that of the 100-foot Australian Wild Oats by the late Bob Oatley, launched in 2003 and continuously modified over time so that it is unbeatable even by the youngest hi-tech behemoths. Mission accomplished.

• Here we have told you all the details and secrets of the boat
• Here are all the rankings of the red group of the Millevele

Millevele, green group – What a race the Stream 40 is!

In the green grouping (11 to 18 meters), first category position for the Stream 40 (11.99 x 4.00 m)
Jack Sparrow by
Fabio Caroli (YC Savona), which triumphed hands down in group 4, the group of the smallest boats in the green group (11.01 to 13.00 m) and the most numerous.

This is a boat for true connoisseurs, which we had also tried some time ago. The racer-cruiser churned out by the Alto Adriatico shipyards to a design by Gianluca Adragna in 2016 features a truly revolutionary fin-hull combination, a significant sail area, and a hull designed to the millimeter that has in its palmares the victory of the Barcolana in its Cruiser category. Yes, cruise, because as Adragna had told us, “with this boat you can easily go on a cruise.”
In fact, the minimal but functional interior can accommodate up to 8 people: two double cabins in the stern, two sofa beds in the saloon, and a technical area in the bow that actually converts into a double cabin with the only bathroom covered by the bed.

• Here is our test of the Stream 40

These are the winners in the other categories of the green group. TheICE Yacht 52 Edison of the Parma Yacht Club won in category 2 (15.01 to 17.99 m), the 1990 prototype Elo II (13.47 m), a YCI school boat, triumphed in category 3 (13.01 to 15.00 m).

• All green group rankings

Yellow group – Good boat doesn’t lie

In the yellow group, reserved for the smaller boats, Fabio Iorio ‘sArchambault M34 Big Wool (Yacht Club Parma) was the fastest overall, dominating the ranking in category 5 (9.51 to 11.00 m).

A boat devoted to racing, the M34 (10.32 x 2.98 m) was born from the pen of the Joubert/Nivelt/Mercier trio for the 2010 Tour de France sailing race: you only need to see the ratio of sail area (59.64 m²) to displacement, 2,700 kilos of which more than 1,000 are concentrated in the ballast.
The boat is constructed mostly of fiberglass with a sandwich core.
She has a split sloop rig at 7/8.
Well done in running her by Fabio Iorio and his crew. The other winners in the yellow group: in category 6 (7.51 to 9.50 m) victory went to Luca Dotto‘s J/92s J Blu.
In category 7 (boats up to 7.50 m) won the Melges 24 Melgina of Paolo Brescia, the architect-sailor already the protagonist of many editions of the Millevele.

• All yellow group rankings