What will our Sailor of the Year Luca Rosetti do? He is going to conquer the Ocean in Class 40 with Maccaferri!

Big news for Italian sailing, on the Class 40 front, with Luca Rosetti (winner of the last Mini Transat and reigning Sail Journal 2024 Sailor of the Year) set to launch his new boat, the Class 40 Musa Maccaferri Futura. A project-supported by Officine Maccaferri, a global leader in civil and environmental engineering-with the scent of Ocean, Rosetti will race the boat in major regattas on the Class 40 circuit, including the Rolex Fastnet Race, the Route du Rhum, the Transat Café L’Or Le Havre Normandie and the RORC Caribbean 600. Maccaferri Futura will also be a scientific platform for monitoring ocean health through citizen science projects and collaboration with leading academic institutions, including the University of Milan-Bicocca.

Luca Rosetti – a new Class 40 arrives

The boat is being painted at Sangiorgio Marine in Genoa, where it was built; there will be a technical launch shortly while the official presentation is scheduled for early May.

“Iamlooking forward to setting sail with Maccaferri Futura,” said Luca Rosetti. “Together with Officine Maccaferri we will have the opportunity to compete and test technologies and strategies in the most challenging ocean races. I am proud to be able to spread the values and vision that the project represents and to offer my contribution to the collection of valuable data for the protection of the sea, my great ally “.

Thanks to a scientific collaboration with theUniversity of Milano-Bicocca, Rosetti will test innovative tools and citizen science models for sampling air and seawater on board the vessel while underway. The goal is to develop standardized protocols aimed at measuring the presence of anthropogenic contaminants and identifying molecules emitted from the marine environment, thus defining the health of the oceans by characterizing “their breath.”

Rosetti is a candidate to be one of the spearheads of Italian ocean sailing in the next two years, and he will compete in the super-competitive Class 40 category where Italy in the last two years has collected great results especially with Ambrogio Beccaria and Alberto Bona.

Who is Luca Rosetti

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.