RAN 630 kicks off, there is also the super cat foil designed by Shannon Falcone
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One of the longest and toughest offshore regattas raced in the Mediterranean, the RAN 630, Naval Academy Regatta organized by the Yacht Club Livorno, has started from Livorno, valid for the UVAI (Italian Offshore Sailing Union) Italian Offshore Championship with grade 3, the highest. A challenging regatta, which is being run in a season with still very variable weather conditions that could be very harsh at times.
RAN 630 – Also in the running is the super cat foil
There are 17 boats on the starting line, which will compete in the regatta with IRC and ORC classifications. There will also be a lone sailor, Frenchman Michel Cohen on the Figaro 2 Tintorel, a recent star in the Rome for One. For a possible course record, there will be close monitoring of the performance of Matteo Uliassi’s foiling catamaran F4 Falcon, with a crew that will include Sahannon Falcone, a longtime Luna Rossa team member and the boat’s designer and developer. The F4 is a full foiling catamaran, also designed for offshore racing, built by the Dutch shipyard DNA Performance Sailing, already featured in the documentary, produced by Red Bull, “Flying on water,” in which James Spithill sails the F4 from New York to Bermuda.
RAN 630 – The other competitors
Returning to defend the title of the last two editions is the Sunfast 3600 Lunatika, led in doubles by Guido Baroni and Alessandro Miglietti, who from this year will race under the YCL pennant, just as the overall and Double Handed winners of 2021, Antonio Maglione and Lorenzo Villi on the GS 40 Blues, and those of 2020, YCL member Francesco Conforto with Ruggero Bellucci on the 9.50 Class Pegasus, will be at the start of the eighth edition.
Returning to the RAN 630 is the First 47.7 Audace, this time helmed by owner Celia Oliverio with an all-female crew, while her co-owner Beppe Agliardi will be aboard the new entry Zeroincondotta, an X 412 owned by Damiano Zilio. Change of boat also for Francesco Giordano, at the helm of the new Adrigole, an X-41. Also returning are Gherardo Maviglia’s Amapola II, Luigi Paoletti’s Tattoo and Ralph Lualdi’s Shark. Instead, Franco Di Paco’s Impala 36 Mizar Crocodile will be on her first RAN 630.
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