Old boat makes good board! The legendary Fraglia schooner has been “re-launched” after 50 years.
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Desenzano, Lake Garda, home of the FVD, Fraglia Vela Desenzano. A Lake classic replicates its launch 50 years after the first time. It is the Fraglia schooner, a light alloy school schooner, the first in Italy to ever be built for this purpose. But this is not a salvage, but rather a celebratory launch for the 50th anniversary of her birth. The schooner, in fact, except for necessary maintenance, has never stopped sailing and serving the club and will continue to do so for a long time to come.
Fraglia schooner celebrates 50 years: new launch for Lake Classic
Designed in 1974 by Sergio Abrami-and then also evolved into a second version, with a moving drift, With Fire,-the schooner thus returns to the water, renewed, in the presence of both the FVD presidency-past and present-and Abrami himself, witnessing how his creature of youth is still able to continue its activities, now evolved to do training in an even more inclusive manner.
The schooner
Designed in 1974 and launched in 1975, the Fraglia’s Goletta began as a light alloy schooner to do sailing school and carry on club activities. Originally equipped with a Bermudian mainsail (or marconi), an auric mainsail, a foresail, and a bird, today the schooner has also been revised in sail plan so that she can also be used with a reduced active crew. In fact, the new sail plan sees two single battened marconi mainsails, with lazy bags, and a single headsail on garrocci.
The slight reduction of the sail plan emerges in view of new needs, as the schooner’s intended use has also changed over time. Today, in fact, in addition to outings with elementary and middle schools, the schooner is used for inclusive outings with people with disabilities, making the new sail plan a shrewdness apt to improve the manageability of the canvas ashore and ensuring more pleasant outings guaranteeing better and uncomplicated experiences. For a, to quote the designer, more ‘therapeutic’ sail.
Also attending the launch, among many familiar faces at FVD, was the boat’s original godmother, who returns to celebrate the Fraglia schooner 50 years after that first moment
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