Maybe inconvenience Christopher Columbus e Amerigo Vespucci it’s too much, but the fact is that in this period the attention is focused on Italian oceanic sailors who perhaps never before have had their eyes on us in terms of critical mass and results, especially transalpine navigators, who have always been almost monopolists of this type of sailing .
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The curtain fell on the beautiful victory of the Minitransat in the Serie class by the rider from Romagna Luca Rossetti on his Mino 6.50 Race= Care, the second time by an Italian after Ambrogio Beccaria which imposed itself in 2019, now the focus is entirely on the Transat Jacques Vabre where at the latest survey Ambrogio Beccaria, again with Alla Grande Pirelli, Class 40 designed and built in Genoa at the Sangiorgio Marine shipyard in Edo Bianchicontinues to maintain the lead of the fleet of 44 entries (37 still competing) with about three days left until arriving in Martinique.
The young, determined, trained Milanese engineer runs this transatlantic on the coffee route together with Nicolas Andrieu and among his biggest opponents, even if he is a friend, there is the Turin man Albert Bona with IBSA alternating between 2nd and 4th place behind him, while the standard-bearer of the Circolo Canottieri Aniene Andrea Fornaro with Influence 2, Alla Grande Pirelli’s sister hull, launched about a year later at the beginning of last summer, she is fighting around 6th place. An excellent overall result, and considering the performance of the two hulls from the Sangiorgio shipyard, a great shame Alberto Riva with his brand new Acrobatica he had to retire due to an injury while he was on the bow on the stormy first leg from Le Havre to Lorient where the competitors had to wait for a dangerous disturbance to pass.
Global Solo Challenge: Andrea Mura started
The Global Solo Challenge is a solo trip around the world without stopovers and without assistance with staggered departures. In the sense that the 18 competing competitors started, depending on their size and characteristics, starting in August. The slowest ones first, and the others gradually. For Andrea Mura, 59 years old, from Cagliari, the time came in Galicia on Saturday 18 November. His challenge will last approximately 120 days, 4 months, the estimated time required to circumnavigate the globe with his 50-foot Vento di Sardegna purchased in 2007 by Pasquale De Gregoriothe solitary Roman navigator who at a certain point chose ocean navigation as a career in the Bank of Italy.
In fact, for Andrea there are no major sponsors or support teams.
His is a one man challenge. In some ways a revenge for the failed Vendée Globe, when in 2015 it started with the construction of an IMOCA 60 at Persico Marine, the Luna Rossa shipyard, but then due to lack of funds the project was aborted and the boat was sold to a Dutch navigator. End of a game. However, to prevent the world tour from becoming a failed dream with advancing age, despite the two young children born in the meantime, Andrea prepared his trusty 50-footer Vento di Sardegna, with which he won between the other, a Route du Rhum, first Italian, a Middle Sea Race, two Ostars and five Roma x 2, and deciding to set sail.
If not now when for this sailing sailor who started a successful dinghy (420, 470, Tornado, FD) took part in the America’s Cup campaign of the Moro di Venezia and then moved on to top offshore boats from America to Europe, including the Bribon of Juan Carlos when he was the King of Spain. An undertaking that certainly feels more his and more manageable than sailing in Parliament where he entered in 2018 as a 5 Star MP with the aim of raising awareness on issues relating to the sea, but then after less than 6 months, he left and resigned.
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