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Okay. We knew we could count on you, community of sea lovers who follow us every day. But you have outdone yourselves. Two days ago we asked you to send us your sailing photos: well, you have sent us more than 200 and you are continuing (bravo!).
Your sailing photos, your stories
All pictures are featured immediately on our website , and the best ones will be hosted in the special 50th anniversary issue of the Journal of Sailing in the “Us & You” section. We remind you that any shot is fine: wishes, dreams, fears, reflections, sailing, bathing, anything. Even, simply, what you see from the boat or the couch at home. Even photos you have taken in the past that you jealously keep on your smartphone or in your archive.
A sail (at the stadium) for Emergency
As we hoped, you indulged and left room for memories, creativity, beautiful stories. Because a picture is even more beautiful if there is a story behind it.
Take, for example, those sent to us by sailor Pippo Bangert, experienced navigator and owner of the Allures 51.9 Rossa! Pippo tells us:
“Saturday, September 3, 2011, Crotone.
As soon as we stepped ashore after docking, Angelone and I overheard a group of Emergency volunteers discussing. They were wondering how to create a moment of visibility for the NGO: some time earlier, Francesco Azzarà , an Emergency staffer, had been kidnapped in Darfur, and just that weekend the campaign in support of Francesco’s release was starting. We approached the volunteers, “We have a gennaker …”
Within hours they find an agreement with the commentator of the Crotone – Juve Stabia game being played the next day to pass messages of solidarity with Francesco and Emergency. At the same time, they also get permission for Angelone and me to access the hospital roof with our sail.
The game ended 0-0. Francis was released a few weeks later. Emergency continues to treat victims of war and poverty – 13 million people, 1994 to present – March 2025. Angelone has left us. Our gennaker still sails.”
Those who quote Deaf, those who marry…
Then there are those who take the opportunity to treat themselves (and us) to a moment of hilarity. Like Carlo, who in the caption of his photo quotes and paraphrases the Nando Mericoni played by Alberto Sordi in “An American in Rome.”
The “maccarone” of Sordi’s memory (“maccarone, you provoked me and I will destroy you“) becomes the Code Zero…
Then there are those who share intimate and important moments, such as Marcella Siri, who recalls her wedding “yes” with her husband on a boat.
… who takes a dip in the past.
Many, many pictures are there to testify to your historical passion for sailing. Bernardo Boccini recounts,“Half ton cup Trieste 1976, we are sailing to the tower of Malamocco Venice with the Tuscany Bisturi: from Castiglione della Pescaia to the half ton cup, what an adventure!”
The photo you see above? It depicts an interior detail of Miss Lancia’s sail. The Italian boat, a cat, that competed in the Little America’s Cup in 1978 , a challenge led by Cesare Biagi, promoted by the Agnelli family that was a dress rehearsal for the “big Cup.” An innovative boat because of its sail, a kind of semi-rigid wing, a distant but clear relative of the double mainsail seen on AC75 flying monsters today! Thanks to Alberto Gualandi for sharing it!
Andrea Zorloni posts his vintage shot with a nostalgic Flying Dutchmann glide, while Peppe Caiazzo below shares with us a wonderful image with the caption “Class 420, outbound with 18-knot libeccio. Under the Vesuvius. 1980”.
We close this “amarcord” series with one of the most classic images. Gabriele Tievoli shows us how sailing was done “...in the days of yellow oilskins … Gulf of Trieste to Yugoslavia ..1978.”
You also contribute to the great Sea Lovers mural!
These are just a few of the countless testimonies you have sent us and are sending us. Lots of photos of young people and their adventures on dinghies, animals on board, cruises, sunsets, views. We recommend that you take a look now at how the Sailing Newspaper’s large Sea Lovers Mural is taking shape. A work of communal ingenuity in the name of sailing and the 50th birthday of this newspaper. All you have to do is send us your contribution!
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