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text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-OJo8uRWqa7s/TyZD7mv3JNI/AAAAAAAAJBg/zABWPfEzwNM/s1600/419320_284711514926707_167323483332178_804829_1739281501_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" gda="true" height="266px" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-OJo8uRWqa7s/TyZD7mv3JNI/AAAAAAAAJBg/zABWPfEzwNM/s400/419320_284711514926707_167323483332178_804829_1739281501_n.jpg" width="400px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Il secondo appuntamento del 2012 con il 23° Campionato Invernale 2011/2012 - Trofeo Paolo Venanzangeli, organizzato dal Circolo Nautico Riva di Traiano va in scena con delle previsioni meteo discrete, rispetto al resto d'Italia è primavera! Vento da sud ovest fino a 16 nodi ed una temperatura di otto gradi, qualche goccia d'acqua che non scoraggia il Comitato di Regate. Terminato il briefing delle 9,30 la "barca giuria" prende il largo con l'intenzione di far disputare due prove. Sono da poco passate le undici e come da programma iniziano le procedure di partenza, la boa di bolina è posizionata a 105 gradi ed il percorso prevede una distanza di circa 8 miglia da percorrere. Dopo le raccomandazioni del Presidente del Comitato di Regata, Fabio Barasso, di non partire tutti in barca comitato, il traffico si distribuisce sulla linea. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;a name='more'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Il Tp52 Aniene 1ª Classe parte con il freno tirato al centro dell'allineamento senza rischiar nulla. Il tempo di vedere le prime virate e il Tp52, che al timone ripresenta Alessandro Maria Rinaldi, prende il comando seguito dai soliti swan 45, intenti a battagliare in prossimità della prima boa di bolina. Girata la boa, inizia la cavalcata in solitario, una lotta contro il tempo come al solito, i tempi compensati vanno "battuti" portando al massimo delle prestazioni l'imbarcazione, l'aria in calo non rende il Tp52 "così potente" come in altre occasioni. La seconda manche va in scena alle 14.05, come una fotocopia della prima, buona partenza per il Tp52 Aniene 1ª Classe che fa la sua corsa solitaria, buona conduzione di regata da parte del team, forse manca solo un po' di velocità, il range di vento forse non è dei migliore per il potente Transpac. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;A conti fatti la classifica generale in Orc vede ancora in testa il Tp52 Aniene 1ª Classe davanti Rosamarine 2 e Zigo Zago. Nella classifica Irc si registra una giornata no, che fa scendere l'Imbarcazione giallo celeste in ottava posizione. A condurre la generale in questa categoria c'è Talj, davanti a Ulika e Vahine'. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;"Abbiamo espresso delle buone conduzioni di regata, anche se la velocità non è stata sempre al massimo del target - sono le parole di Alessandro Maria Rinaldi, timoniere del Tp52 Aniene 1ª Classe - nella prima siamo partiti conservativi andando subito a chiudere i diretti avversari, nella seconda ci è mancata quella potenza nei lati di poppa che ci per mette di allungare per acquisire il vantaggio in compensato. In Orc siamo ancora in testa nella generale, è la categoria dove dobbiamo allenarci per il Campionato Italiano di fine Agosto". &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;"Mi sono divertito molto, è stata una bella esperienza a bordo di questa imbarcazione velocissima - sono le parole di Federico Leproux, tailer del Tp52 Aniene 1ª Classe - regatare con gli amici e soci del circolo che rappresentiamo è una bella avventura, non vedo l'ora di risalire a bordo. "&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Prossimo appuntamento con il Campionato Invernale di Riva di Traiano, fra quindici giorni, il 12 febbraio 2012. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2979183053996288408-418173581250297367?l=navigamus.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/feeds/418173581250297367/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2979183053996288408&amp;postID=418173581250297367&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/418173581250297367'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/418173581250297367'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/2012/01/tp52-aniene-1a-classe-riva-di-traiano-e.html' title='Tp52 Aniene 1a Classe: a Riva di Traiano e&apos; sempre battaglia'/><author><name>Andrea Messersì</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12782675519045603248</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kgrhzLNmoOg/TyQewRyaLGI/AAAAAAAAI_8/4lf9QPXsEd0/s220/andreamessers%25C3%25AC.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-OJo8uRWqa7s/TyZD7mv3JNI/AAAAAAAAJBg/zABWPfEzwNM/s72-c/419320_284711514926707_167323483332178_804829_1739281501_n.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2979183053996288408.post-6770342942045196533</id><published>2012-01-30T08:15:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-30T08:15:26.936+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Vasco Vascotto'/><title type='text'>Vasco Vascotto su Lancer Evo vince la Regata VTR Chiloe' 2012</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ySV6dK11E20/TyZDLxsAs5I/AAAAAAAAJBY/PbMFcALMvOs/s1600/377.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" gda="true" height="265px" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ySV6dK11E20/TyZDLxsAs5I/AAAAAAAAJBY/PbMFcALMvOs/s400/377.jpg" width="400px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Puerto Montt, 27 gennaio - Il Brasiliano Soto 40 "Lancer Evo", de Eduardo de Souza (Vasco Vascotto alla tattica) si aggiudica la regata Regata VTR Chiloé 2012, evento principe della stagione riunendo 61 imbarcazioni e oltre 500 velisti. Nell'ultima giornata, la flotta dei Soto 40 ha disputato due bastoni nella baia di Puerto Montt. E' subito una battaglia tra il Pisco Sour di Bernardo Matte (già armatore storico di Vasco) e Lancer Evo, condotto alla tattica dal talentuoso velista italiano. Il vantaggio del team brasiliano accumulato in questa settimana di regate è sufficientemente per controllare, ma non troppo, gli avversari. Pisco Sour vince la prima prova e si avvicina pericolosamente all'imbarcazione brasiliana. I&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;a name='more'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;l tempo di rimettere le idee in ordine e si va in scena per l'ultima prova, traffico in boa e partenza concitata, Vasco protesta per le manovre "dure" di alcune imbarcazioni ravvicinate. E' un march race, il controllo dell'avversario prima di tutto, ed è così fino alla fine, nono e undicesimo (rispettivamente Pisco Sour e Lancer Evo) la dice tutta sulla tattica di regata. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Vittoria per Lancer Evo dunque, con un Vascotto raggiante a festeggiare con i ragazzi del team che in questa settimana hanno dato il massimo con continuità nelle acque insidiose di questo fazzoletto di terra dalla "Natura incredibile" e dalla tradizioni importanti per la pratica della vela. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;"Sono molto felice, il risultato di oggi è il risultato di una settimana intera dove abbiamo navigato bene e con molta voglia di vincere - sono le parole di Vasco Vascotto, tattico di Lancer Evo - è una competizione molto dura, ci sono situazioni molto rare in navigazione con condizioni meteo difficili. Non avevo mai visto tante alghe come qui. Una regata che mi ha colpito, per il calore della gente, per la cultura marinara che qui si vive con molta passione."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2979183053996288408-6770342942045196533?l=navigamus.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/feeds/6770342942045196533/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2979183053996288408&amp;postID=6770342942045196533&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/6770342942045196533'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/6770342942045196533'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/2012/01/vasco-vascotto-su-lancer-evo-vince-la.html' title='Vasco Vascotto su Lancer Evo vince la Regata VTR Chiloe&apos; 2012'/><author><name>Andrea Messersì</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12782675519045603248</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kgrhzLNmoOg/TyQewRyaLGI/AAAAAAAAI_8/4lf9QPXsEd0/s220/andreamessers%25C3%25AC.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ySV6dK11E20/TyZDLxsAs5I/AAAAAAAAJBY/PbMFcALMvOs/s72-c/377.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2979183053996288408.post-4964982325809264698</id><published>2012-01-30T08:12:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-30T08:12:33.892+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='MELGES 32'/><title type='text'>Bribon Movistar vince la terza tappa delle Merchbanc Barcelona Melges 32 Winter Series</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-dQeekau_ZFU/TyZCRtHZs4I/AAAAAAAAJBQ/kdmChfkXmLY/s1600/IMG_7465.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" gda="true" height="291px" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-dQeekau_ZFU/TyZCRtHZs4I/AAAAAAAAJBQ/kdmChfkXmLY/s400/IMG_7465.jpg" width="400px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Definirlo emozionante è dir poco! Così si può riassumere il secondo giorno della terza fase delle Merchbanc Barcelona Melges 32 Winter Series, organizzate dal Real Club Nautico de Barcelona, il cui ultimo atto è andato in scena oggi a partire dalle ore 12. Dopo le tre prove svolte ieri, che hanno visto il dominio di Bribon Movistar di Marc de Antonio con un impeccabile Hugo Rocha alla tattica, oggi si esce con circa 10 nodi per la prima delle tre manche in programma. Poteva essere un copione già scritto con Bribon Movistar a fare un po’ da spettatore e cullarsi sugli allori di ieri; il tedesco IMMAC FRAM di Christian Soyka a tentare l’assalto ai piani alti della classifica e ai giapponesi di Team Bros con Manu Weiller a bordo a riscattare la giornata incolore di ieri. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;a name='more'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;In parte il primo bastone è andato proprio così, ma i sussulti non sono mancati con una lotta intensissima tra i Melges in gara. Team Bros vince lasciandosi alle spalle IMMAC FRAM e Bribon Movistar.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Nella seconda prova, questa volta caratterizzata da una brezza che da 8 nodi è scesa a 3, Team Bros bissa il successo, seguito da Bribon Movistar: un duello tra due cavalli di razza. Il terzo posto è di IMMAC FRAM, che ha raggiunto il traguardo con il vento quasi assente; quarti arrivano i baschi di Gabinete Gestor, che dimostrano di trovarsi sempre più a loro agio nell’ambiente agonistico del Melges 32.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Conclusa la seconda prova il Comitato di regata ha deciso di terminare le regate a causa della quasi completa assenza di vento. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;La classifica della terza fase delle Merchbanc Barcelona Melges 32 Winter Series vede al comando i padroni di casa di Bribon Movistar appaiati a 10 punti con i tedeschi di IMMAC FRAM dell’armatore Christian Soyka. Gradino più basso del podio (ma a solo 1 punto di distacco dalla vetta) per i giapponesi di Team Bros capitanati da Naofumi Kamei, che – anche grazie all’ingresso del terzo scarto dopo lo svolgimento della dodicesima prova – mantengono la leadership nella classifica di circuito in attesa della sfida definitiva.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;La quarta e ultima fase delle Merchbanc Barcelona Melges 32 Winter Series andrà in scena dal 24 al 26 febbraio sempre per la perfetta organizzazione del Real Club Nautico de Barcelona. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;In banchina – Marc de Antonio, timoniere di Bribon Movistar&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;«Ancora una volta siamo molto soddisfatti del fine settimana, nonostante le condizioni variabili che ci hanno comunque fatto disputare cinque belle regate. Per noi ieri è stata una giornata splendida con due primi posti e una terza vittoria sfumata per un nostro errore. Oggi è stato molto difficile. Nella prima prova siamo partiti male, ma siamo stati in grado di risalire fino al terzo posto. Nella seconda ci siamo incollati a Team Bros, che ha vinto grazie a una migliore interpretazione degli ultimi soffi di vento.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Siamo molto soddisfatti di come sta andando l’evento: l’atmosfera internazionale che si respira è magica e nonostante le condizioni in mare non siano così perfette come d’estate, siamo stati comunque in grado di portare a termine 13 prove»&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2979183053996288408-4964982325809264698?l=navigamus.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/feeds/4964982325809264698/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2979183053996288408&amp;postID=4964982325809264698&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/4964982325809264698'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/4964982325809264698'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/2012/01/bribon-movistar-vince-la-terza-tappa.html' title='Bribon Movistar vince la terza tappa delle Merchbanc Barcelona Melges 32 Winter Series'/><author><name>Andrea Messersì</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12782675519045603248</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kgrhzLNmoOg/TyQewRyaLGI/AAAAAAAAI_8/4lf9QPXsEd0/s220/andreamessers%25C3%25AC.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-dQeekau_ZFU/TyZCRtHZs4I/AAAAAAAAJBQ/kdmChfkXmLY/s72-c/IMG_7465.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2979183053996288408.post-8261051755878273201</id><published>2012-01-30T08:08:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-30T08:08:00.416+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Canottieri Garda Salò'/><title type='text'>VELA - SABATO NOTTE SI CORRE SUL GARDA LA 22° TRANS LAC EN DU  2012</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-iQnyXmcqDKk/TyZBhnzD4QI/AAAAAAAAJBI/iMJOgMxaYBs/s1600/DSC_2070.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" gda="true" height="265px" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-iQnyXmcqDKk/TyZBhnzD4QI/AAAAAAAAJBI/iMJOgMxaYBs/s400/DSC_2070.jpg" width="400px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Il Garda illuminato dalla luna piena è quel che sperano gli "argonauti" d'acqua dolce, i partecipanti alla “Trans Lac en du ”, in programma sabato prossimo sulla rotta Salò-Portese-Maderno-Salò, più qualche giro supplementare per le imbarcazioni più lunghe e veloci. La regata aprirà, come sempre, la nuova annata della Canottieri Garda, la polisportiva degli sport acquatici che arriva così ai suoi 121 anni di attività. Il “Meteo” annuncia clima polare, ma questo non scoraggerà gli skipper che, oramai da 22 anni, si ritrovano a Salò per dare vita a questo “rito”, una sfida con due sole persone in equipaggio, un rito scaramantico, prima della lunga stagione che, sul Garda, proporrà qualcosa come oltre 200 appuntamenti tra campionati Mondiali, Europei e Tricolori. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;a name='more'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;L’appuntamento è sabato prossimo, a Salò, quando alle 17 e 30 scatterà la gara che per buona parte sarà in notturna. Il via viene ospitato, come da tradizione, sul lungolago della cittadina salodiana, il pubblico a seguire le prime manovre, una corsa con le vele in spalla. Poi via nell’oscurità, gli scafi come ombre, gli equipaggi a fare rotta sul percorso Portese-Salò-Maderno, lo “stop and go” nel golfo madernese, il ritorno, l’ arrivo finale illuminato dai bengala all’interno della marina della Canottieri. La barca da battere sarà il piccolo “Meteor” dei velisti non vedenti di Homerus che si imposero nel 2011 con l’equipaggio formato dalla famiglia Valle, istruttori del nobile progetto gardesano. La "Trans Lac en du" è organizzata dalla Canottieri Garda grazie al supporto del progetto Hyak Onlus, la collaborazione del Circolo Vela Toscolano-Maderno e il Circolo Nautico di Portese.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2979183053996288408-8261051755878273201?l=navigamus.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/feeds/8261051755878273201/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2979183053996288408&amp;postID=8261051755878273201&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/8261051755878273201'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/8261051755878273201'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/2012/01/vela-sabato-notte-si-corre-sul-garda-la.html' title='VELA - SABATO NOTTE SI CORRE SUL GARDA LA 22° TRANS LAC EN DU  2012'/><author><name>Andrea Messersì</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12782675519045603248</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kgrhzLNmoOg/TyQewRyaLGI/AAAAAAAAI_8/4lf9QPXsEd0/s220/andreamessers%25C3%25AC.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-iQnyXmcqDKk/TyZBhnzD4QI/AAAAAAAAJBI/iMJOgMxaYBs/s72-c/DSC_2070.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2979183053996288408.post-5842950198860389260</id><published>2012-01-30T08:03:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-30T08:03:05.874+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='marco nannini'/><title type='text'>Global Ocean Race - Marco Nannini and Financial Crisis on a flyer to the south</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-6Ickdd6-Z4A/TyZAJOcaMAI/AAAAAAAAJBA/XPABeATD9ts/s1600/943616829.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" gda="true" height="265px" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-6Ickdd6-Z4A/TyZAJOcaMAI/AAAAAAAAJBA/XPABeATD9ts/s400/943616829.jpg" width="400px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;The first night at sea for the double-handed, Global Ocean Race (GOR) Class40s in Leg 3 was an upwind battle in around 20 knots as the fleet left the shelter of Wellington Harbour following a one-month stopover and hammered out into Cook Strait led by Leg 2 winners, Conrad Colman, and South African skipper, Adrian Kuttel, on their Akilaria RC2, Cessna Citation. As night fell, the main pack turned east close to the Great Circle route with Marco Nannini and Hugo Ramon on Financial Crisis splitting south, making solitary progress parallel to the coast of South Island as the separation built the Distance To Leader figures for the Italian-Spanish duo. Shortly before daybreak in the Pacific Ocean, Nannini and Ramon finally broke south-east as the leadership battle in the northern group continued with Halvard Mabire and Miranda Merron taking pole position with Campagne de France.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;a name='more'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;However, shortly before midnight GMT on Sunday, fresh north-easterly breeze arrived for the fleet from a low pressure system centred over the Chatham Islands directly in the path of the Class40s with Financial Crisis in the strongest wind as the speed averages began to climb for Nannini and Ramon.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;In the 04:00 GMT position poll on Monday, Financial Crisis was making the best speed in the fleet at just over nine knots, but remains isolated in fifth place, trailing the leaders, Mabire and Merron at the head of the pack with Campagne de France by 46 miles. Meanwhile, Ross and Campbell Field on Buckley Systems are just over one mile off Mabire and Merron’s starboard quarter with Conrad Colman and Adrian Kuttel on Cessna Citation just three miles off the Franco-British duo’s port quarter. The South African duo of Nick Leggatt and Phillippa Hutton-Squire on their four year-old Akilaria, Phesheya-Racing, were averaging just over eight knots and holding fourth place just over 12 miles behind the fleet leader.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;GOR leaderboard 04:00 GMT 30/01/12:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;1. Campagne de France DTF 5,914nm 8.1kts&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;2. Buckley Systems DTL 1.3nm 8.2kts&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;3. Cessna Citation DTL 3.3nm 7.9kts&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;4. Phesheya-Racing DTL 12.6nm 8.3kts&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;5. Financial Crisis DTL 46.6kts 9.2kts&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2979183053996288408-5842950198860389260?l=navigamus.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/feeds/5842950198860389260/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2979183053996288408&amp;postID=5842950198860389260&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/5842950198860389260'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/5842950198860389260'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/2012/01/global-ocean-race-marco-nannini-and.html' title='Global Ocean Race - Marco Nannini and Financial Crisis on a flyer to the south'/><author><name>Andrea Messersì</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12782675519045603248</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kgrhzLNmoOg/TyQewRyaLGI/AAAAAAAAI_8/4lf9QPXsEd0/s220/andreamessers%25C3%25AC.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-6Ickdd6-Z4A/TyZAJOcaMAI/AAAAAAAAJBA/XPABeATD9ts/s72-c/943616829.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2979183053996288408.post-4039442491978248196</id><published>2012-01-29T10:13:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-29T12:25:36.169+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='marco nannini'/><title type='text'>Partita la terza tappa della Global Ocean Race: Marco Nannini fa rotta su Capo Horn</title><content type='html'>&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-uWLbNR8SR2Q/TyUChH_yxaI/AAAAAAAAJA4/gRVjnJYsKMw/s1600/gor.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="227" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-uWLbNR8SR2Q/TyUChH_yxaI/AAAAAAAAJA4/gRVjnJYsKMw/s400/gor.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;cliccare per ingrandire&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue; text-align: justify;"&gt;Alle 03:00 ora italiana di oggi è partita la terza e più impegnativa tappa della Global Ocean Race che porterà la flotta dei Class 40 da Wellinghton in Nuova Zelanda a Punta Dell'Este in Argentina passando per Capo Horn. La partenza è avvenuta con circa dieci nodi vento e &lt;span class="" id="result_box" lang="it"&gt;&lt;span title="In around ten knots of breeze, Conrad Colman and Adrian Kuttel were first across the line with Cessna Citation, followed by the South African duo of Nick Leggatt and Phillippa Hutton-Squire with Phesheya-Racing."&gt;Conrad  Colman e Adrian Küttel sono stati i ​​primi a tagliare la linea di partenza a bordo di  Cessna Citation, seguiti dal duo sudafricano Nick Leggatt e Phillippa  Hutton-Squire su Phesheya-Racing.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="" id="result_box" lang="it"&gt;&lt;span title="In around ten knots of breeze, Conrad Colman and Adrian Kuttel were first across the line with Cessna Citation, followed by the South African duo of Nick Leggatt and Phillippa Hutton-Squire with Phesheya-Racing."&gt;Prima che le imbarcazioni uscissero dallo Stretto di Cook c'è stato un breve buco totale di vento che le ha lasciate galleggiare goffamente ma poi, una volta ripreso a soffiare, la flotta è uscita in aperto oceano dove il vento spirava a circa venti nodi. Dal tracking della regata di un paio di ore fa circa si vede Financial Crisis con a bordo Marco Nannini e Hugo Ramon procedere a otto nodi abbondanti al seguito del gruppo ancora compatto. Davanti ai navigatori si estende ora una sconfinata distesa di vento ed onde e nelle prossime ore la terra scomparirà alle loro spalle per riapparire solo tra circa tre settimane e quattromila miglia sotto forma della scura sagoma del mitico e temuto Capo Horn.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="" id="result_box" lang="it"&gt;&lt;span title="In around ten knots of breeze, Conrad Colman and Adrian Kuttel were first across the line with Cessna Citation, followed by the South African duo of Nick Leggatt and Phillippa Hutton-Squire with Phesheya-Racing."&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="" id="result_box" lang="it"&gt;&lt;span title="In around ten knots of breeze, Conrad Colman and Adrian Kuttel were first across the line with Cessna Citation, followed by the South African duo of Nick Leggatt and Phillippa Hutton-Squire with Phesheya-Racing."&gt;Non so dire cosa passi nei cuori e nelle menti di Marco ed Hugo ma so che entambi hanno voluto fortissimamente essere li dove si sono scritte le pagine più importanti della vela oceanica di tutti i tempi; li dove, come scriveva l'indimenticato Simone Bianchetti, ""il cielo è grigio è soffia forte"". Questa volta si fa sul serio, questa volta non ci sono appelli, questa volta non sono ammessi errori.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="" id="result_box" lang="it"&gt;&lt;span title="In around ten knots of breeze, Conrad Colman and Adrian Kuttel were first across the line with Cessna Citation, followed by the South African duo of Nick Leggatt and Phillippa Hutton-Squire with Phesheya-Racing."&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="" id="result_box" lang="it"&gt;&lt;span title="In around ten knots of breeze, Conrad Colman and Adrian Kuttel were first across the line with Cessna Citation, followed by the South African duo of Nick Leggatt and Phillippa Hutton-Squire with Phesheya-Racing."&gt;Sappiamo che lungo questa rotta tutti gli skipper dovranno prendere delle decisioni sia tattiche che strategiche in funzione delle varie opzioni alternative con cui possono essere affrontate le pericolose perturbazioni che verranno a trovarsi lungo il percorso ed è proprio qui che si giocherà il risultato della regata, silenziosamente davanti ai computer, al tavolo di carteggio, studiando la meteo ed incrociando le informazioni con le proiezioni dei programmi che predicono la velocità della barca alle varie andature. Il resto è solo fatica, freddo, mare e sale.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="" id="result_box" lang="it"&gt;&lt;span title="In around ten knots of breeze, Conrad Colman and Adrian Kuttel were first across the line with Cessna Citation, followed by the South African duo of Nick Leggatt and Phillippa Hutton-Squire with Phesheya-Racing."&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="" id="result_box" lang="it"&gt;&lt;span title="In around ten knots of breeze, Conrad Colman and Adrian Kuttel were first across the line with Cessna Citation, followed by the South African duo of Nick Leggatt and Phillippa Hutton-Squire with Phesheya-Racing."&gt;Buon vento a tutti i marinai !&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="" id="result_box" lang="it"&gt;&lt;span title="In around ten knots of breeze, Conrad Colman and Adrian Kuttel were first across the line with Cessna Citation, followed by the South African duo of Nick Leggatt and Phillippa Hutton-Squire with Phesheya-Racing."&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2979183053996288408-4039442491978248196?l=navigamus.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/feeds/4039442491978248196/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2979183053996288408&amp;postID=4039442491978248196&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/4039442491978248196'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/4039442491978248196'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/2012/01/partita-la-terza-tappa-della-global.html' title='Partita la terza tappa della Global Ocean Race: Marco Nannini fa rotta su Capo Horn'/><author><name>Andrea Messersì</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12782675519045603248</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kgrhzLNmoOg/TyQewRyaLGI/AAAAAAAAI_8/4lf9QPXsEd0/s220/andreamessers%25C3%25AC.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-uWLbNR8SR2Q/TyUChH_yxaI/AAAAAAAAJA4/gRVjnJYsKMw/s72-c/gor.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2979183053996288408.post-6851076704412563583</id><published>2012-01-29T09:09:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-29T09:09:53.774+01:00</updated><title type='text'>The Global Ocean Race Class40s are off into the Southern Ocean again</title><content type='html'>&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-1lrHjmPZWYU/TyT-EWCfPFI/AAAAAAAAJAw/-7bQI5C1snY/s1600/305165_10150378960168162_595593161_9685318_1529059856_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="298" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-1lrHjmPZWYU/TyT-EWCfPFI/AAAAAAAAJAw/-7bQI5C1snY/s400/305165_10150378960168162_595593161_9685318_1529059856_n.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Marco Nannini&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div class="article-copy" style="color: blue; text-align: justify;"&gt;At 15:00 local time (02:00 GMT) on Sunday,  the double-handed Global Ocean Race (GOR) fleet started Leg 3 from  Wellington, New Zealand, to Punta del Este, Uruguay, with a 6,200-mile  course through the Pacific Ocean, around Cape Horn and through the South  Atlantic ahead of the five Class40s. Shortly after 13:00 local time, the Class40s motored out of  Queens Wharf – the fleet’s base for almost one month – and into Lambton  Harbour followed by a spectator armada of motorboats, sailing yachts and  dinghies. While the fleet milled in Lambton Harbour around the start  line under the watchful eyes of the Royal Port Nicholson Yacht Club team  on the Committee boat, the five teams self-sealed their engines with  instructions to email a time-stamped image of the yellow, plastic  tie-wrap in place to Co-Race Director, Sylvie Viant within five hours of  the start gun.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name='more'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In around ten knots of breeze, Conrad Colman and Adrian Kuttel were first across the line with &lt;i&gt;Cessna Citation&lt;/i&gt;, followed by the South African duo of Nick Leggatt and Phillippa Hutton-Squire with &lt;i&gt;Phesheya-Racing&lt;/i&gt;.  Colman and Kuttel led the fleet east across the mouth of Evans Bay as  the breeze built fractionally and around Point Halswell, hoisting  spinnakers and leaving Ward Island and Hope Shoal to port. For a brief  period the breeze died completely before switching through 180 degrees,  forcing a beat and short tacking through the gap between the eastern  shoreline of Wellington Harbour and the jagged, exposed rocks of Barrett  Reef before rounding Pencarrow Head and exiting the 2km-wide harbour  entrance.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Cessna Citation&lt;/i&gt; led the fleet out into Cook Strait with Ross and Campbell Field on &lt;i&gt;Buckley Systems&lt;/i&gt;  in hot pursuit and as the Class40s dropped south into the Pacific, the  wind built quickly to 20 knots with a long rolling swell for the first  night at sea, forcing the teams to reef as the sun began to dip (see  aerial images from Cook Strait &lt;a href="http://globaloceanrace.com/?page=photos&amp;amp;lang="&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;). In the 06:00 GMT position poll, the Fields on &lt;i&gt;Buckley Systems&lt;/i&gt; were furthest east in the fleet, closest to the Great Circle route and led the fleet with &lt;i&gt;Cessna Citation&lt;/i&gt; furthest west dropping back to fourth and Halvard Mabire and Miranda Merron moving up to second on &lt;i&gt;Campagne de France&lt;/i&gt;. The South Africans on &lt;i&gt;Phesheya-Racing&lt;/i&gt; held third place with Marco Nannini and Hugo Ramon in fifth with &lt;i&gt;Financial Crisis &lt;/i&gt;with just five miles separating the Class40s.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The GOR’s Race Ambassador, Dee Caffari, explains what is ahead  for the teams over the next month: “This is the big one, but it is also  rewarded with the infamous landmark of Cape Horn,” she explains. “The  main difference with this ocean leg is that there are very few options  along the way,” Caffari continues. “The previous leg had the teams cross  the Indian Ocean which is littered with islands along the way which can  give options. Now, they will have none,” she adds. “Once they leave the  relative safety of the Cook Strait, they enter the Pacific with nothing  between them and Cape Horn.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Compared with the Indian Ocean, the Pacific is potentially a  smoother ride for the five Class40s: “It is a long way, but the good  news is the weather can be more enjoyable,” says Dee, who has raced  around the world through the Southern Ocean four times; single-handed,  double-handed and fully-crewed. “The waves will seem slightly longer and  wider spaced allowing the boats to have more comfortable surfing  conditions,” Caffari predicts. “The bad weather doesn’t seem as frequent  as it is in the Indian Ocean, but it is almost guaranteed that there  will be a big blow before you leave the deep South and head back into  the relative safety of the Atlantic Ocean,” she warns. “It is almost as  if the Southern Ocean wants to say goodbye and leave you with a lasting  reminder of how hostile it can be. The sailors will finish this leg  exhausted, but also exhilarated and possibly even a little bit sad, as  saying goodbye to the South is difficult as it is such a magical place  to experience.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;GOR Leg 3 positions at 06:00 GMT 29/01/12&lt;br /&gt;1.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;i&gt;Buckley Systems&lt;/i&gt; DTF 6,040nm 7.4kts&lt;br /&gt;2.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;i&gt;Campagne de France&lt;/i&gt; DTL 2.6nm 8.1kts&lt;br /&gt;3.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;i&gt;Phesheya-Racing&lt;/i&gt; DTL 3.2nm 8kts&lt;br /&gt;4.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;i&gt;Cessna Citation&lt;/i&gt; DTL 4nm 8.6kts&lt;br /&gt;5.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;i&gt;Financial Crisis&lt;/i&gt; DTL 5.2nm 7.4kts&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;GOR points table and crew list for Leg 3:&lt;br /&gt;1.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;i&gt;Buckley Systems&lt;/i&gt;: 64 points. Ross and Campbell Field (NZL/NZL)&lt;br /&gt;2.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;i&gt;Campagne de France&lt;/i&gt;: 56 points. Halvard Mabire and Miranda Merron (FRA/GBR)&lt;br /&gt;3.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;i&gt;Cessna Citation&lt;/i&gt;: 54 points. Conrad Colman and Adrian Kuttel (NZL/RSA)&lt;br /&gt;4.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp; Financial Crisis&lt;/i&gt;: 42 points. Marco Nannini and Hugo Ramon (ITA/ESP)&lt;br /&gt;5.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;i&gt;Phesheya-Racing&lt;/i&gt;: 24 points. Nick Leggatt and Phillippa Hutton-Squire (RSA/RSA)&lt;br /&gt;6.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;i&gt;Sec. Hayai&lt;/i&gt;: 6 points. Nico Budel and Frans Budel (NDL/NDL) RTD Leg 2, DNS Leg 3. Will re-join GOR for Legs 4 and 5&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2979183053996288408-6851076704412563583?l=navigamus.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/feeds/6851076704412563583/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2979183053996288408&amp;postID=6851076704412563583&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/6851076704412563583'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/6851076704412563583'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/2012/01/gor-class40s-are-off-into-southern.html' title='The Global Ocean Race Class40s are off into the Southern Ocean again'/><author><name>Andrea Messersì</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12782675519045603248</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kgrhzLNmoOg/TyQewRyaLGI/AAAAAAAAI_8/4lf9QPXsEd0/s220/andreamessers%25C3%25AC.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-1lrHjmPZWYU/TyT-EWCfPFI/AAAAAAAAJAw/-7bQI5C1snY/s72-c/305165_10150378960168162_595593161_9685318_1529059856_n.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2979183053996288408.post-8675139067944246391</id><published>2012-01-29T09:02:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-29T09:02:10.955+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term=')'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='FINN'/><title type='text'>Zach Railey dominates Finns to win 2012 Rolex Miami OCR</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-OontX9dHcTA/TyT8TnrK5hI/AAAAAAAAJAo/qoO40oCHB-w/s1600/jonas+hogh+christensen20107_0_1_photo_RMOCRdf_2624.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="273" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-OontX9dHcTA/TyT8TnrK5hI/AAAAAAAAJAo/qoO40oCHB-w/s400/jonas+hogh+christensen20107_0_1_photo_RMOCRdf_2624.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;The 2008 Olympic Silver medalist Zach  Railey (USA) has started 2012 in the best possible way by dominating and winning the Rolex Miami OCR, the second event in the 2012  ISAF Sailing World Cup series. Though numbers were down following the  recent Perth 2011 ISAF World Sailing Championships, the front of the fleet was  still very competitive with an Olympic medalist and a double world  champion slugging it out for most of the week. At 26 boats it was also the same  size fleet that will be at the Olympics this coming August, so it was  good small fleet practice for many.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue; text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a name='more'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;With a week of near perfect sailing  conditions, Railey opened his series with three race wins. Afer that he never slipped below third in any of the next seven races and  went into the medal race with a commanding 12 point lead. He won that as  well to take the tally to seven and become the clear winner with a 18 point  margin over the runner up.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue; text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;Double world champion Jonas  Hogh-Christensen (DEN) only managed to win one race all week, but a long string of second and third place finishes ensured he took home the  silver medal, while third placed Greg Douglas (CAN) started the week  badly with a black flag but was soon moving up the rankings with some good results,  including a win in race eight.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue; text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;Fourth placed Brendan Casey (AUS) – who had  filled third place for most of the week – also won two races, but five races outside the top three, as well as a poor  medal race cost him dearly. He only lost the bronze on countback to Douglas.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue; text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;Douglas said, “I am very happy with my  event, having started with a black flag to end up third overall. It is only my second medal race - my first was at Delta Lloyd  last year. The medal race is very tough because people are always  changing positions in the race which effects their overall score.”&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue; text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;“The main thing I took away from this event is that every place counts. No matter what happens you have to push hard in every race to gain places because the points at the end will be close.”&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue; text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;Railey summed up his week. “The regatta was  great for training and racing with good wind and long courses. We sailed mostly in 8 to 16 knots so it was very hard work  physically with free pumping and up to 1.5 mile legs. The top boats were  always close so it was great racing and very hard physically pushing against  each other.”&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue; text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;And going forward, “We will just keep  working on our goals and taking steps forward toward Weymouth. This event was a good measure for us in a number of areas we  wanted to focus on and it gives me a lot of confidence we are moving in  the correct direction.”&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue; text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;The Finn class has a very busy early part  of the season. The European season will start early with the Semaine Internationale de Cannes from the 14-17 February, followed by  the Athens Eurolymp from 4-8 March and then the increasingly popular  Split Olympic Week  from 7-11 March. The fleet then moves to Scarlino in Italy  for the Senior and Junior European Championships from 19-24 March. Then  it is off to Palma and Hyeres, before the Finn Gold Cup in Falmouth, UK, the  second and final country qualification regatta for Olympics.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue; text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;As usual the Finn class will be bringing up to the minute coverage of all its major events as the year builds up to the Olympic Games in August.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue; text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Results&lt;/strong&gt; (medal race in brackets)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue; text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;1  USA 4  Zach Railey 15 (1)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue; text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;2  DEN 2  Jonas Hogh Christensen 33 (4)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue; text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;3  CAN 5  Greg Douglas 45 (3)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue; text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;4  AUS 1  Brendan Casey 45 (8)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue; text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;5  USA 11  Caleb Paine 48 (5)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue; text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;6  CAN 902  Brendan Wilton 58 (2)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue; text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;7  CAN 110  Martin Robitaille 71 (9)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue; text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;8  EST 11  Lauri Vainsalu 92 (DNF)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue; text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;9  NOR 1  Anders Pedersen 100 (7)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue; text-align: justify;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;10  USA 21  Gordon Lamphere 101 (6)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2979183053996288408-8675139067944246391?l=navigamus.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/feeds/8675139067944246391/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2979183053996288408&amp;postID=8675139067944246391&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/8675139067944246391'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/8675139067944246391'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/2012/01/zach-railey-dominates-finns-to-win-2012.html' title='Zach Railey dominates Finns to win 2012 Rolex Miami OCR'/><author><name>Andrea Messersì</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12782675519045603248</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kgrhzLNmoOg/TyQewRyaLGI/AAAAAAAAI_8/4lf9QPXsEd0/s220/andreamessers%25C3%25AC.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-OontX9dHcTA/TyT8TnrK5hI/AAAAAAAAJAo/qoO40oCHB-w/s72-c/jonas+hogh+christensen20107_0_1_photo_RMOCRdf_2624.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2979183053996288408.post-6437336559976874562</id><published>2012-01-28T10:46:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-28T10:46:05.570+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='MELGES 32'/><title type='text'>Bribon-Movistar e INMAC vincono le due regate di prova delle Merchbanc Barcelona Melges 32 Winter Series</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-5GgUHfsEf0c/TyPDehNr4-I/AAAAAAAAI_w/IlqY17IlxCo/s1600/PAso+de+boya.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="291" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-5GgUHfsEf0c/TyPDehNr4-I/AAAAAAAAI_w/IlqY17IlxCo/s400/PAso+de+boya.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;"&gt;Barcellona, 27 gennaio – Con puntualità britannica alle 14 ora locale, il comitato di regata del Real Club Nautico de Barcelona, guidato da Vincent Cespedes, ha dato il segnale di avviso della prima di una serie di partenze di “riscaldamento” della terza fase delle Merchbanc Barcellona Melges 32 Winter Series, in corso di svolgimento nelle acque catalane. Il meteo perfetto ha poi permesso di correre due practice race, una in più di quanto inizialmente previsto. La prima regata di allenamento si è corsa con una bella brezza da ovest sui 10-12 nodi, che ha messo alla prova tutti i team scesi in acqua. Dopo una buona partenza Bribon Movistar di Marco de Antonio con Hugo Rocha alla tattica si è guadagnato la testa della flotta, seguito dall’altro spagnolo Gunter di Javier Sherk e dai giapponesi di Team Bros, guidati anche questa volta da Manu Weiller. Ottimo il risultato di Bribon, che è servito a rodare sempre più il gruppo e a migliorare il feeling con la competizione agonistica.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a name='more'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;"&gt;Dopo altre due partenze per scaldare i muscoli è partita la seconda manche, con identiche condizioni meteo rispetto alla prima. Questa volta la musica è cambiata con i tedeschi di INAMC a guidare le danze, ma non senza dover lottare per la prima piazza contro Bribon Movistar e l’inossidabile e sempre temibile Team Bros,&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;dal tedesco INMAC ha preso il comando in una lotta con la Movistar Rogue, Team Bros. INMAC ritorna finalmente alla vittoria nella practice race, bissando il successo già ottenuto nella prima fase della Merchbanc Barcelona Melges 32 Winter Series in quello che appare ormai un lontanissimo novembre.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;"&gt;Da domani si fa sul serio. Partenza della prima di tre prove a bastone in programma alle ore 11. Lo spettacolo è assicurato, visto che i giapponesi di Team Bros vogliono difendere con le unghie e con i denti il loro primo posto nella classifica di questa prima edizione delle Merchbanc Barcelona Melges 32 Winter Series. Una leadership minacciata da vicino Bribon Movistar, che siamo certi tenterà il tutto per tutto.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;Barcelona Merchbanc Melges 32 Winter Series&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;Le Barcelona Merchbanc Melges 32 Winter Series consistono in una serie di quattro regate che si correranno una al mese da novembre 2011 a febbraio 2012. Ogni evento si articola su un giorno di allenamento ufficiale (il venerdì) e un weekend di regate, con un massimo di 3 regate al giorno per un totale di 24 prove a bastone. Le Barcelona Merchbanc Melges 32 Winter Series sono la naturale continuazione della stagione 2011 cominciata con la Copa del Rey e il Campionato Mondiale. Le Barcelona Merchbanc Melges 32 Winter Series sono la dimostrazione di come la Spagna è attualmente uno dei paesi più importanti per la classe Melges 32.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;About Merchbanc&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;Merchbanc è un gruppo finanziario indipendente che, fin dalla sua costituzione, si è specializzato in wealth managment e personal finance advice dedicato sia ai privati che alle aziende con l’obiettivo di semplificare e facilitare l’orientamento all’investimento dei propri clienti. Dedicarsi a queste attività in assenza di conflitto di interessi e con l’unico scopo di proteggere costantemente gli interessi dei clienti sono le norme fondamentali condivise dai professionisti che fatto parte di Merchbanc. Nel 2011 Merchbanc festeggia i suoi 30 anni di attività, durante i quali ha ricevuto molteplici premi per il managment.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2979183053996288408-6437336559976874562?l=navigamus.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/feeds/6437336559976874562/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2979183053996288408&amp;postID=6437336559976874562&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/6437336559976874562'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/6437336559976874562'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/2012/01/bribon-movistar-e-inmac-vincono-le-due.html' title='Bribon-Movistar e INMAC vincono le due regate di prova delle Merchbanc Barcelona Melges 32 Winter Series'/><author><name>Andrea Messersì</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12782675519045603248</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kgrhzLNmoOg/TyQewRyaLGI/AAAAAAAAI_8/4lf9QPXsEd0/s220/andreamessers%25C3%25AC.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-5GgUHfsEf0c/TyPDehNr4-I/AAAAAAAAI_w/IlqY17IlxCo/s72-c/PAso+de+boya.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2979183053996288408.post-1721629899072394550</id><published>2012-01-28T10:42:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-28T12:44:52.590+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='marco nannini'/><title type='text'>Marco Nannini eletto Velista Italiano dell'Anno 2012</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-4n6jXo3UqPk/TyPCsWf4hEI/AAAAAAAAI_o/2VmkLZyWVZQ/s1600/SANY0097-small_0.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="295" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-4n6jXo3UqPk/TyPCsWf4hEI/AAAAAAAAI_o/2VmkLZyWVZQ/s400/SANY0097-small_0.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue; text-align: justify;"&gt;Marco Nannini, il trentatrenne velista torinese impegnato nella Global   Ocean Race (GOR) 2011/2012, e' stato eletto Velista dell'anno dal Giornale   della Vela. Il prestigioso trofeo viene assegnato annualmente dal 1991 e   nelle scorse edizioni ha coronato velisti quali Alessandra Sensini, Giovanni   Soldini e Francesco Deangelis. &amp;nbsp;Marco Nannini ha mosso i suoi primi   passi nelle regate d'altura solo nel 2006 ma in pochi anni ha preso parte ad   importanti regate con una vittoria nella propria categoria nella OSTAR 2009,   un secondo posto assoluto alla Shetland Round Britain ed Ireland 2010, una   partecipazione alla Route du Rhum ed infine l'iscrizione al giro del mondo a   tappe in doppio.&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name='more'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Marco condivide la sua passione per il mare tramite il suo blog dedicato a   velisti esperti e semplici appassionati che lo hanno seguito attraverso gli   oceani. "E' davvero un onore vincere questo trofeo, non sarei qui senza   il supporto della mia famiglia, la mia ragazza Ella, i miei amici, i miei   sponsor e fornitori e tutti quanti mi hanno seguito e supportato fino ad   oggi, vorrei ringraziare tutti per l'incoraggiamento ed appoggio" ha   commentato Marco che in occasione di questa regata ha scherzosamente   rinominato la sua barca "Financial Crisis" non essendo riuscito ad   trovare un title sponsor per la sua iscrizione nel difficile contesto   economico mondiale.&amp;nbsp; La terza tappa della Global Ocean Race ripartira' da Wellington domenica   29 Gennaio diretta a Punta del Este in Uruguay doppiando il temutissimo Capo   Horn.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2979183053996288408-1721629899072394550?l=navigamus.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/feeds/1721629899072394550/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2979183053996288408&amp;postID=1721629899072394550&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/1721629899072394550'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/1721629899072394550'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/2012/01/marco-nannini-eletto-velista-italiano.html' title='Marco Nannini eletto Velista Italiano dell&apos;Anno 2012'/><author><name>Andrea Messersì</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12782675519045603248</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kgrhzLNmoOg/TyQewRyaLGI/AAAAAAAAI_8/4lf9QPXsEd0/s220/andreamessers%25C3%25AC.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-4n6jXo3UqPk/TyPCsWf4hEI/AAAAAAAAI_o/2VmkLZyWVZQ/s72-c/SANY0097-small_0.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2979183053996288408.post-9180919233761424331</id><published>2012-01-27T08:51:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-27T11:11:06.577+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='MELGES 32'/><title type='text'>Si entra nel vivo con la terza prova delle Merchbanc Barcelona Melges 32 Winter Series</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IMObNcVB8HU/TyJW4MkKwiI/AAAAAAAAI_U/d7x3oo0bmF0/s1600/BWS_INMAC_FRM.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" gda="true" height="291px" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IMObNcVB8HU/TyJW4MkKwiI/AAAAAAAAI_U/d7x3oo0bmF0/s400/BWS_INMAC_FRM.jpg" width="400px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;E’ tutto pronto al Real Club Nautico de Barcelona per celebrare il nuovo anno con la terza fase delle Merchbanc Barcellona Melges 32 Winter Series, un evento che dimostra la sempre maggior diffusione di questo monotipo in Spagna. Attualmente l'attività in banchina e sui pontili del Real Club Nautico de Barcelona è frenetica e tutte le squadre stanno mettendo a punto le barche per giungere in piena forma all’appuntamento di sabato. Tra i protagonisti di questa penultimo evento delle Merchbanc Barcelona Melges 32 Winter Series per parte spagnola c’è Bribon-Movistar di Marc de Antonio con a bordo Hugo Rocha, ma anche Gunter dell’armatore Javier Sherk e Cabinet Manager di Paul Tuduri. Dalla Germania arriva IMMAC-FRAM. Tutti puntano a scalzare i giapponesi di Team Bros – che conterà Manu Weiller tra i suoi – dal gradino più alto del podio.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;a name='more'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Domani si cominciano a riscaldare i motori grazie ad uno schema ormai ben collaudato: tre partenze con inizio alle ore 14.00 e quindi la vera e propria regata di prova alle 14.30.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Barcelona Merchbanc Melges 32 Winter Series&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Le Barcelona Merchbanc Melges 32 Winter Series consistono in una serie di quattro regate che si correranno una al mese da novembre 2011 a febbraio 2012. Ogni evento si articola su un giorno di allenamento ufficiale (il venerdì) e un weekend di regate, con un massimo di 3 regate al giorno per un totale di 24 prove a bastone. Le Barcelona Merchbanc Melges 32 Winter Series sono la naturale continuazione della stagione 2011 cominciata con la Copa del Rey e il Campionato Mondiale. Le Barcelona Merchbanc Melges 32 Winter Series sono la dimostrazione di come la Spagna è attualmente uno dei paesi più importanti per la classe Melges 32.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;About Merchbanc&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Merchbanc è un gruppo finanziario indipendente che, fin dalla sua costituzione, si è specializzato in wealth managment e personal finance advice dedicato sia ai privati che alle aziende con l’obiettivo di semplificare e facilitare l’orientamento all’investimento dei propri clienti. Dedicarsi a queste attività in assenza di conflitto di interessi e con l’unico scopo di proteggere costantemente gli interessi dei clienti sono le norme fondamentali condivise dai professionisti che fatto parte di Merchbanc. Nel 2011 Merchbanc festeggia i suoi 30 anni di attività, durante i quali ha ricevuto molteplici premi per il managment.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2979183053996288408-9180919233761424331?l=navigamus.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/feeds/9180919233761424331/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2979183053996288408&amp;postID=9180919233761424331&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/9180919233761424331'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/9180919233761424331'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/2012/01/si-entra-nel-vivo-con-la-terza-prova.html' title='Si entra nel vivo con la terza prova delle Merchbanc Barcelona Melges 32 Winter Series'/><author><name>Andrea Messersì</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12782675519045603248</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kgrhzLNmoOg/TyQewRyaLGI/AAAAAAAAI_8/4lf9QPXsEd0/s220/andreamessers%25C3%25AC.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IMObNcVB8HU/TyJW4MkKwiI/AAAAAAAAI_U/d7x3oo0bmF0/s72-c/BWS_INMAC_FRM.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2979183053996288408.post-105387577113979320</id><published>2012-01-27T08:38:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-27T08:38:20.856+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='J24'/><title type='text'>Vela – I principali appuntamenti 2012 della Classe Italiana J24</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-kPUFK2eAaDw/TyJTqMrg2kI/AAAAAAAAI_M/cQdVHlw0n7s/s1600/ap-primo-cup-2012-230x300-fr.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" gda="true" height="400px" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-kPUFK2eAaDw/TyJTqMrg2kI/AAAAAAAAI_M/cQdVHlw0n7s/s400/ap-primo-cup-2012-230x300-fr.jpg" width="307px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Anche quest’anno saranno le acque monegasche e la XXVIII Primo Cup Trophée Credit Suisse ad inaugurare il Circuito Nazionale della Classe Italiana J24. L’imperdibile e tradizionale evento organizzato da venerdì 3 a domenica 5 febbraio dallo Yacht Club Montecarlo (http://www.yacht-club-monaco.mc), infatti, aprirà ufficialmente la stagione agonistica 2012 di un monotipo versatile ed intramontabile come il J24. La scorsa edizione della Primo Cup era stata caratterizzata da clima primaverile e vento debolissimo che, purtroppo, avevano impedito il regolare svolgimento delle regate in programma: i ventiquattro J24 portacolori di Brasile, Gran Bretagna, Italia, Montecarlo, Svezia e Ungheria (una delle Classi più numerose in gara) avevano potuto disputare una sola prova vinta dal padrone di casa Alessandro Cominelli con il suo Mon 4 Dangerous davanti al brasiliano tre volte campione del mondo Mauricio Santa Cruz con Bra 3 Bruschetta (confermatosi protagonista di tutto il 2011) e al lariano Marco Stefanoni con la sua Ita 50 Kong Grifone.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;a name='more'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Archiviata la tappa monegasca e i numerosi Campionati Invernali che in questi mesi stanno impegnando le Flotte J24 su tutta la Penisola, il Circuito 2012 proseguirà con un altro classico evento della Classe J24: Pasquavela, giunta alla venticinquesima edizione e organizzata da giovedì 5 a lunedì 9 aprile dallo Yacht Club Santo Stefano (www.ycss.it).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Il programma prevede per la prima giornata (dalle ore 9,30 alle 18,30) la registrazione e la pesa degli equipaggi, in quella seguente (alle ore 9) il briefing e (alle ore 12) la partenza della prima regata al termine della quale si svolgerà il primo dei numerosi eventi sociali previsti per i concorrenti e i loro accompagnatori. Il programma proseguirà invariato anche sabato 7, domenica 8 e lunedì 9 aprile. Potranno essere corse un massimo di tre prove al giorno e per le classifiche verrà adottato il "punteggio minimo”. L’ormeggio delle barche è gratuito dal 31 marzo al 14 aprile e gli alaggi e i vari saranno effettuati sulla banchina Toscana.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Terza tappa del Circuito Nazionale della Classe Italiana J24 sarà come sempre il Trofeo Accademia Navale &amp;amp; Città di Livorno (www.trofeoaccademianavale.eu) in programma nella cittadina labronica da sabato 28 aprile a martedì 1 maggio e, dopo il doppio appuntamento toscano, la Flotta J24 si sposterà nell’incantevole Sardegna per due eventi di grande richiamo: il Campionato Nazionale che si svolgerà da sabato 26 a martedì 29 maggio a Cannigione sotto l’attenta regia del Club Nautico Arzachena (http://www.clubnauticoarzachena.it/) e l’European Championship in programma, a seguire, da mercoledì 30 a domenica 3 giugno, sempre a Cannigione.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Settembre, invece, sarà sinonimo di Coppa Italia che nel week end dal 21 al 23, grazie alla Se.Ve.Ta. e a Ondabuena (http://www.ondabuena.it/home_iniziale.asp) farà scendere nelle splendide acque di Taranto gli agguerriti equipaggi che nel mese seguente (sabato 20 e domenica 21 ottobre) si sposteranno a Cervia per il Trofeo J24 proposto dal Circolo Nautico Amici della Vela (www.circolonauticocervia.it).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Il Circuito si concluderà anche quest’anno con l’Interlaghi di Lecco organizzato come sempre dalla Società Canottieri Lecco (www.canottieri.lecco.it) da venerdì 2 a domenica 4 novembre.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Per quanto riguarda gli appuntamenti internazionali da segnalare il World Championship 2012 che sarà ospitato da giovedì 13 a venerdì 21 settembre a Rochester, NY, (United States) e sarà organizzato dal Rochester Yacht Club (http://www.rochesteryc.com/).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Il 2012, quindi, si preannuncia ricco di importanti appuntamenti che sapranno divertire, entusiasmare e coinvolgere gli equipaggi, mettendo in luce le caratteristiche di un monotipo che continua a scrivere importanti pagine nella storia dello Yachting Internazionale in quanto, pur restando legato ad una stretta monotipia, il J24 è in continua evoluzione, alla ricerca di una costante competitività e di una particolare attenzione all'estetica.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2979183053996288408-105387577113979320?l=navigamus.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/feeds/105387577113979320/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2979183053996288408&amp;postID=105387577113979320&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/105387577113979320'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' 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width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2979183053996288408.post-2775211791232988288</id><published>2012-01-27T08:31:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-27T08:31:39.902+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='GREEN COMM'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='CIRCOLO VELA GARGNANO'/><title type='text'>A DAVOS la presentazione di "Green Comm Academy"</title><content type='html'>&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nICGY5GymEg/TyJSZ4W_5_I/AAAAAAAAI_E/smNOp1qzcqo/s1600/fdl.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" gda="true" height="320px" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nICGY5GymEg/TyJSZ4W_5_I/AAAAAAAAI_E/smNOp1qzcqo/s320/fdl.jpg" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Francesco De Leo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Domani, sarà presentata la “Green Comm Academy”. Diventerà il punto di incontro tra i massimi esperti della sostenibilità ambientale, grazie al progetto nato in occasione della presenza in Coppa America di "Green Comm Racing". L'iniziativa sarà illustrata a Davos, in occasione del Forum mondiale dell'economia. Nel gruppo di “Green Comm” è attivo, in ambito sportivo, il Circolo Vela Gargnano che affianca il Club sfidante del Real Club Nautico de Valencia. In queste settimane si stanno poi coinvolgendo con il coordinamento e il supporto di Regione Lombardia la più significative realtà imprenditoriali e tecnologiche lombarde, dell’area del lago di Garda, della regione valenciana, in quello che vuole essere il primo gruppo Europeo per le regate della America’s Cup.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;a name='more'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;“Green Comm Academy” avrà sede a Santa Monica (California), Zurigo (Svizzera), Valencia (Spagna), dove si trova attualmente la barca per i test invernali, Gargnano sul lago di Garda (che ospiterà gli allenamenti degli skipper e una sorta di laboratorio per lo sviluppo tecnico dello scafo ed in particolare della vela alare), oltre a Brescia, dove ci sarà la sede operativa centrale. A presentare l’iniziativa in Svizzera saranno il professor Francesco De Leo, ideatore e Ceo di “Green Comm Racing”, e il dottor Roland Schatz, direttore di “Media Tenor", il più prestigioso istituto internazionale di analisi dei media. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Il primo appuntamento di “Green Academy” in Italia sarà a Venezia, all'isola di Certosa, dal 18 al 20 maggio in occasione della tappa del circuito di Coppa America. Le problematiche della sostenibilità ambientale saranno discusse tra gli altri Richard Rumelt, docente dell’Ucla di Los Angeles-Anderson School; Robert Eccles, della Harvard University Business School; Joan Ricart, dello Iese di Navarra; Peter Smith-Ring, della Loyola Marymount University; Mario Gerla, l’italo americano, tra gli ideatori della rete di Arpanet, la prima versione del prototipo di Internet, oggi direttore del laboratorio di informatica presso la Ucla di Los Angeles.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2979183053996288408-2775211791232988288?l=navigamus.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/feeds/2775211791232988288/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2979183053996288408&amp;postID=2775211791232988288&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/2775211791232988288'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/2775211791232988288'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/2012/01/davos-la-presentazione-di-green-comm.html' title='A DAVOS la presentazione di &quot;Green Comm Academy&quot;'/><author><name>Andrea Messersì</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12782675519045603248</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kgrhzLNmoOg/TyQewRyaLGI/AAAAAAAAI_8/4lf9QPXsEd0/s220/andreamessers%25C3%25AC.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nICGY5GymEg/TyJSZ4W_5_I/AAAAAAAAI_E/smNOp1qzcqo/s72-c/fdl.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2979183053996288408.post-6180446671949290617</id><published>2012-01-27T08:26:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-27T08:26:54.643+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Global Ocean Race Leg 2 prize giving at the Royal Port Nicholson Yacht Club</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_hhl84l0wXA/TyJRERne8aI/AAAAAAAAI-8/amLrzlqydp0/s1600/2051320058.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" gda="true" height="265px" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_hhl84l0wXA/TyJRERne8aI/AAAAAAAAI-8/amLrzlqydp0/s400/2051320058.jpg" width="400px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;On Thursday evening local time, the double-handed, Class40 Global Ocean Race (GOR) Leg 2 Prize Giving was held at the Royal Port Nicholson Yacht Club (RPNYC) on Oriental Parade on the western shore of Wellington Harbour. The prize giving’s guest of honour, the Mayor of Wellington, Celia Wade-Brown, was joined by friends and family of the teams, team sponsors, club members and the media at the RPNYC’s waterside clubhouse and presented all the GOR teams with a Koru, unfurling fern frond, glass blown sculpture representing new life, growth, strength and peace, awarded by Wellington City Council.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;a name='more'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;In addition to the leg prizes, Conrad Colman, skipper of Leg 2 winner, Akilaria RC2 Cessna Citation, collected two Luminox Steel Colormark watches for his unbroken, GOR bluQube 24-hour run record of 359.1 nautical miles in Leg 2, accepting the rugged, high night-vision watches from the GOR’s Official Timekeeper. Mark Blomfield from Cessna collected a Luminox watch on behalf of Colman's Leg 2 co-skipper, Sam Goodchild, who has returned to the UK.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;For Marco Nannini and Hugo Ramon of Akilaria Class40 Financial Crisis, the prize giving was a hectic evening. The Italian-Spanish duo was awarded the GOR Leg 2 Media Award for the quality of video footage, images and blog content, winning a year’s subscription to Seahorse Magazine and www.thedailysail.com. Nannini and Ramon also bagged the Leg 2 Navigation Prize for handling their Class40 impeccably through gales reaching 60 knots in the Roaring Forties as they raced south of Australia, each winning a handheld, Garmin eTrex20 GPS including a worldwide basemap. In addition to the GOR Leg 2 prizes, Nannini was also celebrating victory in the Italian Yachtsman of the Year Award as online voting closed at midday local time on Thursday.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Conrad Colman – a member of the RPNYC - was recalled to the prize podium by the RPNYC’s Commodore, Andrew Morrison, to receive a special award from the club for his overall Leg 2 performance winning a handheld Garmin eTrex 30 GPS. GOR Race Director, Josh Hall, also awarded a number of prizes to local sailors and officials who have provided the event with expertise and assistance in New Zealand, including the RPNYC’s Vice Commodore, Geoff Herd, whose team manned the GOR Leg 2 finish line in Wellington Harbour in very challenging conditions. Herd was presented with a pair of GOR-branded, Bollé sunglasses.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;GOR points table and crew list for Leg 3:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;1. BSL: 64 points. Ross and Campbell Field (NZL/NZL)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;2. Campagne de France: 56 points. Halvard Mabire and Miranda Merron (FRA/GBR)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;3. Cessna Citation: 54 points. Conrad Colman and Adrian Kuttel (NZL/RSA)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;4. Financial Crisis: 42 points. Marco Nannini and Hugo Ramon (ITA/ESP)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;5. Phesheya-Racing: 24 points. Nick Leggatt and Phillippa Hutton-Squire (RSA/RSA)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;6. Sec. Hayai: 6 points. Nico Budel and Frans Budel (NDL/NDL) RTD Leg 2, DNS Leg 3. Will rejoin GOR for Legs 4 and 5&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2979183053996288408-6180446671949290617?l=navigamus.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/feeds/6180446671949290617/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2979183053996288408&amp;postID=6180446671949290617&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/6180446671949290617'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/6180446671949290617'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/2012/01/global-ocean-race-leg-2-prize-giving-at.html' title='Global Ocean Race Leg 2 prize giving at the Royal Port Nicholson Yacht Club'/><author><name>Andrea Messersì</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12782675519045603248</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kgrhzLNmoOg/TyQewRyaLGI/AAAAAAAAI_8/4lf9QPXsEd0/s220/andreamessers%25C3%25AC.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_hhl84l0wXA/TyJRERne8aI/AAAAAAAAI-8/amLrzlqydp0/s72-c/2051320058.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2979183053996288408.post-2505963661829495624</id><published>2012-01-26T08:31:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-26T08:31:29.049+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='CIRCOLO VELA GARGNANO'/><title type='text'>VELA DEL GARDA - LA CENTOMIGLIA SBARCA IN BAVIERA</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GTgpBKSWo9Q/TyEAyzpVStI/AAAAAAAAI-0/MfRMV324WOc/s1600/DSC_4444.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" gda="true" height="400px" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GTgpBKSWo9Q/TyEAyzpVStI/AAAAAAAAI-0/MfRMV324WOc/s400/DSC_4444.jpg" width="265px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;GARGNANO (Brescia) - Dopo la presentazione del nuovo logo e della “62° Centomiglia Velica” del lago di Garda a “Palazzo Italia” di Berlino, il Circolo Vela Gargnano continua il suo tour europeo al fianco del consorzio degli operatori turistici e della amministrazioni pubbliche che danno vita alla Riviera dei Limoni e dei Castelli. La prossima tappa sarà la fiera “Fre”, la “Freizeit –Reisen –Erholen” in programma a Monaco di Baviera dal 22 al 26 febbraio prossimi. La Baviera è una regione che vanta un legame strettissimo con la regata del Benaco, tanto che la sua seconda edizione, quella del 1952, venne vinta dal “Manjana”, scafo che rappresentava il Bayerischer Yacht Club del lago di Starnberg, località a circa 30 chilometri dalla capitale bavarese. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;a name='more'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;In occasione della Rassegna turistica le immagini della vela offriranno l’occasione per presentare alla stampa tedesca la 62° edizione della gara a tutto lago che si correrà nel week end dell’8 e il 9 settembre in contemporanea alla “MultiCento-Trofeo Giorgio Zuccoli” e alla “Cento People”, mentre domenica 2 settembre si disputerà la 46° edizione del Trofeo Riccardo Gorla-Grand Prix della Marina Militare Italiana e la 50Miglia del Garda. Ad inizio luglio (5-8) la struttura accessibile del nuovo porto di Bogliaco di Gargnano ospiterà le flotte delle Paralimpiadi in occasione della prima "storica" edizione del Campionato Italiano degli Access Dinghy le barche per velisti con ogni tipo disabilità motorie, già presenti sul Garda nel 2011 con il Campionato d’Europa. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;“Tra le altre iniziative – sottolineano al Circolo Vela del lago di Garda – continueranno i gemellaggi con altre realtà sportive come quella con Green Comm Racing, il consorzio che è iscritto alla 34° Coppa America di vela con il Real Club Nautico de Valencia, con la squadra ciclistica internazionale di Katusha, che ha la sua base sempre sul Garda, con il Filmfestival del Garda. A questi si affiancheranno altre Partnership con squadre di varie discipline come il Basket, il Volley, ed importanti competizioni internazionali sia in ambito sportivo sia in ambito culturale del territorio”. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Ad affiancare l’attività promozionale del Circolo Vela Gargnano sono già confermati il villaggio di Campione del Garda, la griffe Marina Yachting, NextEvo Brescia, Media Entertainment, Isomet, la Riviera dei Limoni e dei Castelli; importanti partners sociali come Abe, l’ Associazione Bambino Emopatico, Hyak Onlus, Eos la vela per tutti, Croce Rossa Italiana, Enti di patrocinio come la Presidenza della Provincia di Brescia. Tutti uniti per promovere l’immagine sportiva del più grande e navigato lago d’Europa.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2979183053996288408-2505963661829495624?l=navigamus.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/feeds/2505963661829495624/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2979183053996288408&amp;postID=2505963661829495624&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/2505963661829495624'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/2505963661829495624'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/2012/01/vela-del-garda-la-centomiglia-sbarca-in.html' title='VELA DEL GARDA - LA CENTOMIGLIA SBARCA IN BAVIERA'/><author><name>Andrea Messersì</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12782675519045603248</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kgrhzLNmoOg/TyQewRyaLGI/AAAAAAAAI_8/4lf9QPXsEd0/s220/andreamessers%25C3%25AC.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GTgpBKSWo9Q/TyEAyzpVStI/AAAAAAAAI-0/MfRMV324WOc/s72-c/DSC_4444.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2979183053996288408.post-581402373381785002</id><published>2012-01-26T08:26:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-26T08:26:31.830+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='YACHT CLUB BERGAMO'/><title type='text'>Il J24 dello Yacht Club Bergamo alla Copa Mexico 2012 Edicion Olimpica</title><content type='html'>&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tAqXMl-js-4/TyD-vNBKrRI/AAAAAAAAI-s/xM4jAskOunk/s1600/Yacht+Club+Bergamo+Sailing+Team+%25E2%2580%2593+ITA+47+foto+037+-+Giovanni+Campi.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" gda="true" height="400px" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tAqXMl-js-4/TyD-vNBKrRI/AAAAAAAAI-s/xM4jAskOunk/s400/Yacht+Club+Bergamo+Sailing+Team+%25E2%2580%2593+ITA+47+foto+037+-+Giovanni+Campi.jpg" width="278px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Giovanni Campi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Puerto Vallarta (Messico) - Anche quest’anno, come nel 2010, Giovanni Campi, presidente dello Yacht Club Bergamo Città dei Mille, con l’equipaggio dello YCBG Sailing Team – ITA 479 rappresenterà l’Italia alla Regata Copa Mexico, il prestigioso evento nato due anni fa in occasione del centenario della Repubblica Messicana. Tra gli appuntamenti di interesse internazionale, la Regata Copa Mexico che si svolgerà nelle acque antistanti Puerto Vallarta, nella costa Occidentale del Messico, è considerata il Campionato Mondiale Sud Americano della Classe J24 ed inoltre, l’edizione che si svolgerà dal 2 al 12 marzo sarà considerata Ediciòn Olimpica. Alla manifestazione risultano ad oggi iscritti ben 64 equipaggi professionisti di venti nazioni diverse.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;a name='more'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;L’Italia sarà rappresentatata, appunto, da ITA 479 che vedrà impegnato a bordo lo YCBG Sailing Team formato dal timoniere Marzio Parimbelli (C.V. Gargnano), dai tailer Fabrizio Eusebio (Associazione Velica Monvalle S.C.S.D.) e da Fausto Gandolfi (Yacht Club Bergamo A.S.D.), Paolo Luisetti (Centrovela Sailing Team A.S.D.) alle drizze e dal prodiere Giovanni Campi (Yacht Club Bergamo A.S.D.). Il J24 bergamasco potrà contare sul supporto di Filtes International - Technical Yarns, Osmi Sro - Oil &amp;amp; Gas Industrial Valves e di Melavì Le mele della Valtellina mentre Essenza - Yes Zee e Custom6 Carbon Philosophy saranno partner tecnici (ulteriori informazioni su http://www.ycbg.it).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;L’organizzazione della Copa Mexico 2012 Edicion Olimpica è affidata alla classe J24 Mexico con il supporto della Marina Militare Messicana. Il programma prevede un Practice Race e dieci Champioship Races. Alle cerimonie di apertura e di chiusura sarà presente il Presidente del governo messicano Felipe Calderòn. Tra gli sponsor di Copa Mexico 2012 Banamex, Coca Cola, Tag Heuer, Comex, Dell, Microsoft Office, XX Cerveza, Nyssen, Grey Goose Vodka.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2979183053996288408-581402373381785002?l=navigamus.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/feeds/581402373381785002/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2979183053996288408&amp;postID=581402373381785002&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/581402373381785002'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/581402373381785002'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/2012/01/il-j24-dello-yacht-club-bergamo-alla.html' title='Il J24 dello Yacht Club Bergamo alla Copa Mexico 2012 Edicion Olimpica'/><author><name>Andrea Messersì</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12782675519045603248</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kgrhzLNmoOg/TyQewRyaLGI/AAAAAAAAI_8/4lf9QPXsEd0/s220/andreamessers%25C3%25AC.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tAqXMl-js-4/TyD-vNBKrRI/AAAAAAAAI-s/xM4jAskOunk/s72-c/Yacht+Club+Bergamo+Sailing+Team+%25E2%2580%2593+ITA+47+foto+037+-+Giovanni+Campi.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2979183053996288408.post-7497180562675616941</id><published>2012-01-25T09:56:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-28T12:45:45.860+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='marco nannini'/><title type='text'>LAST HOURS FOR VOTE MARCO NANNINI ITALIAN SAILOR OF THE YEAR</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Uw4JWv5wmzw/Tx-6xY_jI7I/AAAAAAAAI-k/JpwZN7GXIoQ/s1600/marconannini.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" gda="true" height="300px" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Uw4JWv5wmzw/Tx-6xY_jI7I/AAAAAAAAI-k/JpwZN7GXIoQ/s400/marconannini.jpg" width="400px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Su Financial Crisis proseguono senza sosta i preparativi e le messe a punto in vista della partenza della terza tappa della Global Ocean Race quella che vedrà impegnato Marco Nannini ed il suo coskipper Hugo Ramon sulla rotta per Capo Horn. Dalla notizie dirette che ci giungono da Marco la messa a punto delle vele è quasi terminata: Il Solent è stato riparato e issato a riva per controllo mentre la randa danneggiata per&amp;nbsp;una strambata involontaria che aveva causato la rottura di 3 stecche e la scucitura di alcune tasche verrà riconsegnata dalla veleria oggi ed a seguire anche i gennaker.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name='more'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Per quanto riguarda le attrezzature di bordo è stato riparato l'idrogeneratore per&amp;nbsp;cui i fornitori molto professionali della Watt&amp;amp;Sea hanno dato i ricambi in garanzia mentre invece un piccolo colpo di fortuna ha aiutato Nannini con l'ennesima stazione del vento da sostituire: ad Aukland c'è il vecchio trimarano Geant di Michel Desjoyeaux, ora rinominato Vodaphone, che ha appena rinnovato l'elettronica e così è stato possibile ottenere un buon risparmio. Anche la cambusa è pronta ed è costituita da sei&amp;nbsp;sacche settimanali ognuna contenente&amp;nbsp;sette buste giornaliere: il menù prevede una colazione di cereali e latte in polvere, pranzo con un pasto liofilizzato e cena di noodles cinesi con scatoletta di tonno, a questo si aggiungono altri piccoli snack. Le previsioni indicano venti molto forti per giovedì e venerdì ma se&amp;nbsp;sono esatte dovrebbero esserci 15-20 nodi da nord per la partenza prevista per il 29 quindi con andatura portante.&amp;nbsp;Complessivamente considerata la preparazione della barca è&amp;nbsp;buon punto ed anche il morale di Marco è buono dato che&amp;nbsp;giovedì presenzierà la premiazione della seconda tappa al Royal Port Nicholson Yacht Club alla quale&amp;nbsp;sarà presente&amp;nbsp;anche l'Ambasciatore per l'Italia Alessandro Levi Sandri. ULTIME ORE PER VOTARE MARCO NANNINI VELISTA DELL'ANNO &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.giornaledellavela.com/content/html/index.php?page=nodeDetail&amp;amp;idRecord=15185" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;QUI&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2979183053996288408-7497180562675616941?l=navigamus.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/feeds/7497180562675616941/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2979183053996288408&amp;postID=7497180562675616941&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/7497180562675616941'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/7497180562675616941'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/2012/01/last-hours-for-vote-marco-nannini.html' title='LAST HOURS FOR VOTE MARCO NANNINI ITALIAN SAILOR OF THE YEAR'/><author><name>Andrea Messersì</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12782675519045603248</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kgrhzLNmoOg/TyQewRyaLGI/AAAAAAAAI_8/4lf9QPXsEd0/s220/andreamessers%25C3%25AC.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Uw4JWv5wmzw/Tx-6xY_jI7I/AAAAAAAAI-k/JpwZN7GXIoQ/s72-c/marconannini.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2979183053996288408.post-2485200250985547921</id><published>2012-01-25T09:03:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-25T17:40:01.155+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='MINI 6.50'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Giancarlo Pedote'/><title type='text'>Giancarlo Pedote rientra alla grande nei Mini 650 con l'ex barca di Raison</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nwjhdMzx-W0/Tx-0nvSuXaI/AAAAAAAAI-U/5drjVP7bMKk/s1600/311302_250262075015676_105456076162944_687631_753989787_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" gda="true" height="266px" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nwjhdMzx-W0/Tx-0nvSuXaI/AAAAAAAAI-U/5drjVP7bMKk/s400/311302_250262075015676_105456076162944_687631_753989787_n.jpg" width="400px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Il nuovo anno porta un nuovo progetto per Giancarlo. Dopo la stagione in Figaro del 2010-2011, finalizzata a incrementare il suo bagaglio di esperienze e conoscenze, Giancarlo torna nella classe Mini per affrontare una nuova campagna che lo condurrà, nel 2013, a partecipare alla Transat 6.50 nella categoria prototipi. Pochi giorni fa Giancarlo ha firmato il contratto d'acquisto della sua nuova imbarcazione. In una campagna come quella dei proto, la scelta del mezzo è fondamentale: materiali e tecnologia impiegati, tecnica di realizzazione, design progettuale. Ogni dettaglio può fare la differenza. Per questo Giancarlo ha scelto il 747, l'imbarcazione vincitrice della Transat 2011 famosa anche per la concezione innovativa e la linea rivoluzionaria con cui è stata progettata e realizzata, tra il 2009 e il 2010, dall'ingegnere e navigatore David Raison, premiato a dicembre con il Prix de la haute technologie rilasciato dalla Fédération des Industries Nautiques.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name='more'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;"La scelta dell'imbarcazione non è stata affatto semplice. E' stato molto difficile scegliere tra l'ultimo progetto di Lombard e quello di Raison. Ho scelto Raison. Credo fermamente che in questo progetto ci sia ancora tanto potenziale da tirare fuori e che la barca possa esprimere una buona velocità, anche in poppa VMG. Sicuramente ci sarà da lavorare duro per tenere il passo con le barche già in acqua e le nuove che usciranno, ma questo fa parte della nostra sfida".&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Adesso è il momento per Giancarlo e Prysmian ITA 747 di prepararsi al meglio, iniziando con un periodo in cantiere durante il quale l'imbarcazione verrà rimessa a nuovo e perfezionata grazie anche alla collaborazione di chi l'ha creata.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;"In questi giorni con David stiamo ottimizzando l'imbarcazione per prepararla alla nuova stagione. Poter lavorare vicino al progettista e costruttore mi permetterà di conoscere a fondo questa imbarcazione, così innovativa rispetto alle altre. Sono molto contento di avere tutto l'appoggio di Raison, che si è dichiarato pronto ad affiancarmi al fine di perfezionare il mezzo fino alla partenza della Transat 2013".&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-TKX114WsMeQ/Tx-1azNsITI/AAAAAAAAI-c/aeF8MR_e1fY/s1600/ProgettoDisegno.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" gda="true" height="640" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-TKX114WsMeQ/Tx-1azNsITI/AAAAAAAAI-c/aeF8MR_e1fY/s640/ProgettoDisegno.jpg" width="290" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2979183053996288408-2485200250985547921?l=navigamus.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/feeds/2485200250985547921/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2979183053996288408&amp;postID=2485200250985547921&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/2485200250985547921'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/2485200250985547921'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/2012/01/giancarlo-pedote-rientra-alla-grande.html' title='Giancarlo Pedote rientra alla grande nei Mini 650 con l&apos;ex barca di Raison'/><author><name>Andrea Messersì</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12782675519045603248</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kgrhzLNmoOg/TyQewRyaLGI/AAAAAAAAI_8/4lf9QPXsEd0/s220/andreamessers%25C3%25AC.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nwjhdMzx-W0/Tx-0nvSuXaI/AAAAAAAAI-U/5drjVP7bMKk/s72-c/311302_250262075015676_105456076162944_687631_753989787_n.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2979183053996288408.post-6420089038673117792</id><published>2012-01-25T08:34:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-25T08:34:47.860+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Lega Navale Italiana Sulcis - Raduno Under 16 FIV</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-BOPBGxq4Cyk/Tx-v02S04_I/AAAAAAAAI-M/3OVwsYLlTyk/s1600/raduno6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" gda="true" height="308px" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-BOPBGxq4Cyk/Tx-v02S04_I/AAAAAAAAI-M/3OVwsYLlTyk/s400/raduno6.jpg" width="400px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Si è svolto presso il Windsurfing Club Cagliari il primo Raduno Under 16 organizzato dalla III Zona FIV per il 2012. Nell'ottica dell'avvicinamento al Campionato Nazionale Under 16, che si terrà sempre a Cagliari questo settembre, il Presidente Pietro Sanna e i tecnici della III Zona hanno pensato una serie di appuntamenti per avvicinare i ragazzi alle barche collettive. In particolar modo, si è deciso di focalizzare l'attenzione sui 555FIV, sui Tridente 16, sul cabinato J24 e sul multiscafo Tyka. Presenti al Raduno 44 ragazzi provenienti da 6 circoli sparsi in tutta l'isola (Windsurfing Club Cagliari, YC Cagliari, LNI Sulcis, YC Porto Rotondo, CN Arzachena, LNI La Maddalena) coordinati dai tecnici federali Mauro Covre (WC Cagliari), Camillo Zucconi (YC Porto Rotondo), Sandro Piredda (CN Arzachena), Francesca Melis (LNI Sulcis) e Mirko Todesco (YC Cagliari). Vincente la formula del raduno giornaliero comprensivo di lezione in aula, messa a punto delle barche a terra e uscita in mare: un maestrale fresco e divertente ha permesso a tutti i ragazzi - per la maggior parte provenienti dall'Optimist e dall'O'Pen BIC - di apprezzare il concetto di equipaggio. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;a name='more'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;La LNI Sulcis ha partecipato con 8 ragazzi tra i 13 e i 16 anni, tutti cresciuti sul Tridente 16 e attualmente imbarcati tra O'Pen BIC, Optimist, Tridente 14, Techno 293 ed RS:X. In quest'occasione hanno potuto provare una nuova barca collettiva, il 555, sulla quale si sono alternati nei vari ruoli. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Ai partecipanti è stato chiesto massimo impegno e tutti hanno dato risposte positive che fanno ben sperare per la costruttività di questi raduni. La scoperta di nuovi mezzi e nuove vele (in molti sperimentavano per la prima volta l'uso delle vele di prua, senza contare la presenza dei windsurfisti alla prima esperienza assoluta con le derive) si è tradotta in un entusiasmo generale che denota il successo della “multilateralità” codificata dalla FIV all'interno del progetto Under 16. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Un investimento sul prossimo futuro per i Circoli e per la Zona, considerando l'importanza della formazione giovanile, con un occhio rivolto al Campionato Nazionale U16 che si svolgerà proprio in queste acque a Cagliari nel settembre 2012. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Prossimo appuntamento per il weekend del 4 e 5 febbraio sempre al Windsurfing Club Cagliari. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;(da &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.leganavalesulcis.it/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;www.leganavalesulcis.it&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt; di F. Melis)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2979183053996288408-6420089038673117792?l=navigamus.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/feeds/6420089038673117792/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2979183053996288408&amp;postID=6420089038673117792&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/6420089038673117792'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/6420089038673117792'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/2012/01/lega-navale-italiana-sulcis-raduno.html' title='Lega Navale Italiana Sulcis - Raduno Under 16 FIV'/><author><name>Andrea Messersì</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12782675519045603248</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kgrhzLNmoOg/TyQewRyaLGI/AAAAAAAAI_8/4lf9QPXsEd0/s220/andreamessers%25C3%25AC.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-BOPBGxq4Cyk/Tx-v02S04_I/AAAAAAAAI-M/3OVwsYLlTyk/s72-c/raduno6.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2979183053996288408.post-5932771730455976327</id><published>2012-01-25T08:27:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-25T08:27:58.149+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='J24'/><title type='text'>Vela – Riprendono i Campionati Invernali per le Flotte J24 da Taranto a Cagliari</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eBENPUH8L0U/Tx-uGnLm4ZI/AAAAAAAAI-E/r5nhMgQEnno/s1600/Flotta_Sarda_J24_%2528Kimbe%252C_Aria%252C_Boomerang_e_Botta_Dritta%2529.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" gda="true" height="300px" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eBENPUH8L0U/Tx-uGnLm4ZI/AAAAAAAAI-E/r5nhMgQEnno/s400/Flotta_Sarda_J24_%2528Kimbe%252C_Aria%252C_Boomerang_e_Botta_Dritta%2529.png" width="400px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Taranto -&amp;nbsp;Il Campionato Invernale Città di Taranto valevole anche come Campionato zonale J24 per l'VIII Zona FIV e perfettamente organizzato dal Circolo Velico Ondabuena ha messo a segno l’ennesima magnifica giornata di sole e di brezza. A parlare della ripresa del Campionato che, iniziato lo scorso novembre, si concluderà il 18 marzo, è come sempre il Capoflotta Puglia Nino Soriano, anche se assente giustificato in questa quarta giornata: “Anche questa volta la splendida rada di Mar Grande di Taranto ha regalato un'ottima giornata di mare per i velisti impegnati nella lunga kermesse del campionato invernale. Eolo si è fatto attendere sino alle 13.30 e ha trovato pronti i pazienti giudici capitanati dall'esperto Ernesto sion e da Giuseppe Tortorella. In pochi minuti è stato posizionato il campo di regata e poi...Via! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;a name='more'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Ben sedici J24, quattro Laser Sb3 3 e le barche d'altura hanno "ricamato" le loro rotte sulle acque antistanti le Isole Cheradi. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Tra i J24 bottino pieno per l'equipaggio barese di Ita 427 Jebedee (timonato da Tony Macina, C.N. Maestrale) che con due primi si posiziona saldamente in testa alla classifica, seguito dal leccese ITA 406 Doctor J (armato e timonato da Sandro Negro, CN L'Approdo) e dal barese Ita 450 Marbea (armato e timonato da Marcello Bellacicca, C.V. Giovinazzo). &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Buoni spunti per ITA 490 Ma.T.I. Srl Ex Jdf (armato da Angelo Lombardo e timonato dall’ottimo Giovanni Cavallo, LNI Brindisi) e Ita 172 Lumachia (di Cosimo De Padova, C.V. Ondabuena, e timonato da Carlo D'errico, Lni Taranto), ma anche ITA 328 Paperinik (di Gianluca Fischetto, LNI Brindisi) che ha saputo attaccare ed essere incisivo in diverse fasi delle due prove.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Sono sette, quindi, le prove diputate fino a questo momento che mettono in evidenza la garanzia dello specchio acqueo tarantino che il 21 settembre ospiterà, tra l'altro, la COPPA ITALIA J24.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;“La flotta J24 in Puglia è nata negli anni 90 quando il nostro monotipo ha conosciuto la massima diffusione in Italia e nel mondo, con circa 5400 barche prodotte alle soglie del XXI secolo, mentre a livello nazionale si siglava ITA 450. Le regate erano frequenti ed i professionisti della vela si avvicendavano nel ruolo di leader per guidare le circa settanta barche che ogni volta calcavano i campi di regata. Poi la nascita di altri e più nuovi monotipi ha portato una flessione nel numero delle barche, ma l'intramontabile J24, barca solida e performante in ogni condizione, pian piano ha riportato a se nuovi armatori ed equipaggi, tanto che ora si torna a contare oltre cinquanta J24 negli impegni nazionali. La Flotta Pugliese segue il trend con un crescendo di adepti dal 2008 ad oggi, per ora con manifestazioni concentrate nell'area tarantina ma pronte a solcare nuovi mari alla prossima occasione.” ha proseguito il Capo Flotta J24 Nino Soriano (armatore di Ita 427 Jebedee insieme ad Antonio Macina) che ha, inoltre, ricordato la pubblicazione del sito web della flotta pugliese (http://flottadipuglia.altervista.org/) nel quale sono consultabili classifiche, informazioni, filmati, foto, calendari delle regate, modulistica, regolamenti e tutto quello che può essere di utilità agli armatori del J24 pugliesi ma non solo.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Cagliari&amp;nbsp;- Antonello Ciabatti ci segnala la tappa cagliaritana e la conclusione del Circuito Zonale J24 della Flotta Sarda caratterizzato da regate tirate, divertimento per tutti, e dall’affermazione di Botta Dritta che ha centrato anche quest'appuntamento.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;“Concluso il Circuito Zonale J24 2011 che vede come vincitore Paco Jadine. Una classe che da noi in Sardegna continua a tenere bene e questa tappa cagliaritana ne è un'ulteriore conferma. Sedici barche in mare regate super combattute e massimo divertimento per tutti. Anche questo weekend non si è smentito e, nonostante i venti leggeri, in mare si è visto un gran bello spettacolo. Protagonisti per la vittoria di tappa sono stati Botta Dritta e Lybissonis che sino all'ultimo si sono dati battaglia per la vittoria finale. Ovviamente Botta Dritta ha fatto valere la sua esperienza e alla fine un punticino è bastato per salire su il gradino più alto del podio. J Pandolfa con una zampata finale nell'ultima prova agguanta il terzo posto lasciandosi dietro un bel gruppo di "avvoltoi" pronti ad approfittare del primo errore dell'avversario. L'Armadillo, Paco Jadine e Nordest sono stati sino all'ultimo in lotta per il terzo posto e le regate di oggi sono state determinanti ai fini della classifica finale. Nelle quattro prove disputate tra oggi e ieri è stata quindi pesante la vittoria dell'ultima prova di J Pandolfa. Discorso a parte per Kimbe. La nuovissima barca di Alberto Gai è stata quella ad aver avuto i parziali migliori. Solo le disastrose prove iniziali non hanno permesso a Kimbe di essere in lotta per la vittoria finale. L'apporto di Giovanni Meloni ancora una volta si è dimostrato fondamentale. Nota dolente l'assenza di Vigne Surrau, imbarcazione che avrebbe sicuramente dato filo da torcere ai bigs di Botta Dritta. Infine un plauso al Comitato di regata che oggi aveva nomi proprio pesanti: dal Presidente della III Zona fino al Consigliere FIV Sandro Ricetto. A loro il merito di aver ben gestito delle condizioni meteo non facilissime.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2979183053996288408-5932771730455976327?l=navigamus.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/feeds/5932771730455976327/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2979183053996288408&amp;postID=5932771730455976327&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/5932771730455976327'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/5932771730455976327'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/2012/01/vela-riprendono-i-campionati-invernali.html' title='Vela – Riprendono i Campionati Invernali per le Flotte J24 da Taranto a Cagliari'/><author><name>Andrea Messersì</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12782675519045603248</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kgrhzLNmoOg/TyQewRyaLGI/AAAAAAAAI_8/4lf9QPXsEd0/s220/andreamessers%25C3%25AC.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eBENPUH8L0U/Tx-uGnLm4ZI/AAAAAAAAI-E/r5nhMgQEnno/s72-c/Flotta_Sarda_J24_%2528Kimbe%252C_Aria%252C_Boomerang_e_Botta_Dritta%2529.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2979183053996288408.post-9221148653517873726</id><published>2012-01-25T08:21:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-25T08:21:11.556+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ravenna Yacht Club'/><title type='text'>Marina di Ravenna: gelo e nebbia per la 5 giornata dell’invernale</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-SmMqoUMyZQ0/Tx-tHYh1uFI/AAAAAAAAI98/ebA-IVfgc-s/s1600/5_T_0029.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" gda="true" height="266px" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-SmMqoUMyZQ0/Tx-tHYh1uFI/AAAAAAAAI98/ebA-IVfgc-s/s400/5_T_0029.JPG" width="400px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Anche per questa domenica il meteo è inclemente con il campionato d’inverno di marina di Ravenna. Fin dalla prime ore del mattino sembra molto difficile riuscire a far scendere in acqua le 140 barche per via della fitta nebbia che fin dal sabato pomeriggio è scesa su Marina di Ravenna. Verso le 11.00 sale leggermente la visibilità, ma non abbastanza per permettere di disputare in serenità la regata e così si sceglie di non fare nemmeno scendere in acqua gli equipaggi. La prossima giornata, la sesta delle sette in programma è prevista per domenica 5 febbraio quando oltre alla prova del giorno si cercherà di recuperare anche questa regata. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2979183053996288408-9221148653517873726?l=navigamus.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/feeds/9221148653517873726/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2979183053996288408&amp;postID=9221148653517873726&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/9221148653517873726'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/9221148653517873726'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/2012/01/marina-di-ravenna-gelo-e-nebbia-per-la.html' title='Marina di Ravenna: gelo e nebbia per la 5 giornata dell’invernale'/><author><name>Andrea Messersì</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12782675519045603248</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kgrhzLNmoOg/TyQewRyaLGI/AAAAAAAAI_8/4lf9QPXsEd0/s220/andreamessers%25C3%25AC.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-SmMqoUMyZQ0/Tx-tHYh1uFI/AAAAAAAAI98/ebA-IVfgc-s/s72-c/5_T_0029.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2979183053996288408.post-6710254484829802178</id><published>2012-01-25T08:17:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-25T08:17:53.299+01:00</updated><title type='text'>South African skipper Adrian Kuttel arrives in New Zealand ready for GOR Leg 3</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-bGQyDQoCwng/Tx-sD5ewe2I/AAAAAAAAI90/QoAqNSV5QzI/s1600/2140902967.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" gda="true" height="265px" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-bGQyDQoCwng/Tx-sD5ewe2I/AAAAAAAAI90/QoAqNSV5QzI/s400/2140902967.jpg" width="400px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;With four days remaining to the start of double-handed, Class40 Global Ocean Race (GOR) Leg 3 in Wellington on Sunday 29 January, South African sailor, Adrian Kuttel, has arrived in New Zealand to join Kiwi skipper, Conrad Colman, for the 6,300-mile course through the Pacific Ocean, around Cape Horn and through the South Atlantic to Punta del Este, Uruguay, on the Akilaria RC2 Class40, Cessna Citation. Both Kuttel and Colman are fully absorbed with pre-start preparation at Queens Wharf in Wellington Harbour. “There are a lot of boat details to complete before we start,” confirms the 40 year-old South African. “We’re checking the sails, provisioning the boat and we’ve put together a programme of three days of training.” &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;a name='more'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;While the duo cram in as much sailing as possible in Wellington Harbour and Cook Strait, Kuttel is looking forward to the challenge ahead and with Colman’s Akilaria RC2 taking first place in Leg 2 from Cape Town to New Zealand and holding the GOR’s 24-hour run record of 359 miles, the duo will be pushing hard: “We’d be disappointed if we didn’t match the last leg’s performance,” confirms Kuttel. “But this is ocean racing and anything can happen, but we’ll do the best we can.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;In Leg 2, the GOR fleet encountered a series of brutal, fast moving fronts that combined with cross-seas and mid-ocean currents to deliver harsh conditions and Kuttel and Colman have already been studying the weather for the early stages of Leg 3 across the Pacific. “I’m very excited about it,” says Kuttel. “I think the weather patterns between New Zealand and Cape Horn will be a bit more stable than they were in the Indian Ocean with a bit more heavy-air, downwind sailing, which we’re really looking forward to.” There is also the issue of known ice fields in the high latitudes of the Pacific and the GOR Race Committee have installed a waypoint at 127.30W and 47S, 2,000 miles WNW of Cape Horn at the southern limit of the bluQube Scoring Gate. “Ice is always a concern,” Kuttel admits. “But the waypoint has been put there by the GOR for everyone to go round which confronts this issue and allows us to focus on sailing.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;While Adrian Kuttel races through the Southern Ocean, his wife, Chiara, and two daughters, 11 year-old Isabella and Sienna who will be one year-old while her father is racing in the GOR, will be following progress from Cape Town. “They have given me a St. Christopher which I’ll be wearing round my neck when we’re racing and Isabella is logged on and will be following me on the race tracker and keeping an eye on me!” His father, Padda Kuttel who campaigned Xargo 3 in the 1981-82 Whitbread Round-the-World Race and Atlantic Privateer in the 1985-86 Whitbread will also be watching closely.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;With a background in shipbuilding, mast and rope making, 40 year-old South African yachtsman, Adrian Kuttel’s input to the Cessna Citation campaign has been invaluable. The former charter skipper, racing skipper and watch captain helped Colman with preparation during the Cape Town stop over prior to Leg 2 and completed his GOR qualifier, but he has had to wait until the Leg 3 start in Wellington for a taste of offshore Class40 racing.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Kuttel’s offshore experience on Sir Irving Laidlaw’s Corby 49, Cape Fling, and breaking the Cape Town – Salvador race record on Mike Slade’s 30-metre super maxi ICAP Leopard in 2009 has been part of a process leading towards a short-handed circumnavigation: “My intention was to do the complete race this time round,” explains Kuttel. “But like many of the teams here have found, it was really difficult to get the programme together, but I’m now in the game and keeping keen.” The South African sailor’s ultimate sailing goal is the 2013-14 Global Ocean Race: “Hopefully, this experience will give me the jump on the other teams for 2013 and enable us to do the event very competitively,” he reveals.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2979183053996288408-6710254484829802178?l=navigamus.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/feeds/6710254484829802178/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2979183053996288408&amp;postID=6710254484829802178&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/6710254484829802178'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/6710254484829802178'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/2012/01/south-african-skipper-adrian-kuttel.html' title='South African skipper Adrian Kuttel arrives in New Zealand ready for GOR Leg 3'/><author><name>Andrea Messersì</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12782675519045603248</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kgrhzLNmoOg/TyQewRyaLGI/AAAAAAAAI_8/4lf9QPXsEd0/s220/andreamessers%25C3%25AC.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-bGQyDQoCwng/Tx-sD5ewe2I/AAAAAAAAI90/QoAqNSV5QzI/s72-c/2140902967.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2979183053996288408.post-780547967927211301</id><published>2012-01-24T09:16:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-24T09:16:24.320+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='marco nannini'/><title type='text'>PLEASE VOTE FOR MARCO NANNINI ITALIAN SAILOR OF THE YEAR</title><content type='html'>&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zylYgs6YvUw/Tx5i0XFDmGI/AAAAAAAAI9s/zv6nfLT3dvo/s1600/403043_10150550390323421_514948420_8912984_185500038_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" gda="true" height="300px" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zylYgs6YvUw/Tx5i0XFDmGI/AAAAAAAAI9s/zv6nfLT3dvo/s400/403043_10150550390323421_514948420_8912984_185500038_n.jpg" width="400px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Marco e la sua fidanzata che è anche la sua P.R.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Durante tutta l'ultima settimana ho avuto&amp;nbsp;vari scambi di mail con Marco che attualmente è ospite di una famiglia a Wellinghton (NZ) e, addirittura, l'altro ieri mi ha videochiamato via skype ed ho potuto chicchierare con lui per cinque minuti ..... piccole grandi soddisfazioni per un artigiano del web come me ....... Purtroppo non ho buone notizie da riferire dato che, anche se tutti i preparativi per Capo Horn stanno procedendo, a bordo di Financial Crisis la mancanza cronica di sponsor sta rendendo tutto difficilissimo e di fronte alla mia incredulità Marco mi ha puntato alla tempia il suo estratto conto bancario: da paura !!&amp;nbsp; E poi c'è il premio Velista dell'Anno in cui potete votarlo &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.giornaledellavela.com/content/html/index.php?page=nodeDetail&amp;amp;idRecord=15185" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;QUI&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;.... che Marco merita ampiamente dato il suo curriculum:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;- nel 2004 Marco si trasferisce&amp;nbsp;a Londra per lavoro e coltiva la sua passione per la vela iniziando a muovere i primi passi in Oceano con le&amp;nbsp;regate in equipaggio ridotto organizzate dal RORC, RSYC e SORC. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;- &lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;NEL 2009 PARTECIPA E VINCE NELLA SUA CLASSE LA "OSTAR",&lt;/span&gt; LA MITICA E LEGGENDARIA REGATA IN SOLITARIO da Plymouth (UK) a Newport Rhode Island (USA). &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;- nel 2010 Marco compra Mowgli, un Class40 e con questa barca partecipa alla Shetland Round Britain and Ireland con il&amp;nbsp;coskipper Paul Peggs finendo in seconda posizione&amp;nbsp;dopo aver condotto per 3 delle 5 tappe. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;- nel Novembre 2010 Marco partecipa alla Route du Rhum, 3500 miglia in solitaria dalla Francia alla Guadalupa e suo debutto ufficiale nella grande vela d'altura professionistica classificandosi 27°.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Marco Nannini ha bisogno di tutto l'aiuto ed il sostegno che saremo capaci di esprimergli perchè:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;1) è l'unico italiano che sta partecipando al giro del mondo a vela a tappe con coskipper su Class 40;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;2) pur non avendo trovato il main sponsor è partito lo stesso spendendo di tasca sua una marea di soldi;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;3) a causa delle ulteriori spese per le continue riparazioni delle attrezzature e delle vele causate dalle tempestose condizioni meteo ha già dovuto mettere in vendita la sua barca per finanziare le ultime tappe della Global Ocean Race.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;CHIUNQUE VOGLIA DONARGLI QUALCHE EURO PUO' FARLO &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.marconannini.com/help" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;QUI&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;in alternativa votatelo per il velista dell'anno &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.giornaledellavela.com/content/html/index.php?page=nodeDetail&amp;amp;idRecord=15185" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;qui&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2979183053996288408-780547967927211301?l=navigamus.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/feeds/780547967927211301/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2979183053996288408&amp;postID=780547967927211301&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/780547967927211301'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/780547967927211301'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/2012/01/please-vote-for-marco-nannini-italian.html' title='PLEASE VOTE FOR MARCO NANNINI ITALIAN SAILOR OF THE YEAR'/><author><name>Andrea Messersì</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12782675519045603248</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kgrhzLNmoOg/TyQewRyaLGI/AAAAAAAAI_8/4lf9QPXsEd0/s220/andreamessers%25C3%25AC.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zylYgs6YvUw/Tx5i0XFDmGI/AAAAAAAAI9s/zv6nfLT3dvo/s72-c/403043_10150550390323421_514948420_8912984_185500038_n.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2979183053996288408.post-8152040737444669976</id><published>2012-01-24T08:23:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-24T08:23:37.001+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Canottieri Garda Salò'/><title type='text'>WINTER CUP NEL GOLFO DI SALO’</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dGUxVZiXtbs/Tx5cMC_N5cI/AAAAAAAAI9c/B5E0x-zgw-4/s1600/DSC_0175.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" gda="true" height="265px" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dGUxVZiXtbs/Tx5cMC_N5cI/AAAAAAAAI9c/B5E0x-zgw-4/s400/DSC_0175.jpg" width="400px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Arie “bizzose” nel golfo del lago di Garda di Salò per le due giornate di regate della “Winter Cup 2011-2012”, la tappa di casa ed il recupero della gara del mese di dicembre non disputata a Toscolano-Maderno. E’ andata molto bene alla classe Fun che ora ha una classifica fatta su 4 manche. Primo è “Wanderfun” di Alberto Azzi del Vela Cub di Campione che precede “Funny Frog” di Tagliani-Turolla (CVT Maderno), terza “Funatica” di Capello- Quecchia (CVT Maderno), quarto “Dumbo” Morani-Benedetti (CVT Maderno) e quinto il team tutto al femminile di “Fun Follie” comandate da Annalisa Moniga (West Garda). Nei Protagonist, 4 regate disputate, guida “Mister Max” di Alberto Bonatti, secondo “El Moro” di Luca Pavoni, terzo “Geronimo) Giovanni Panzera, tutti skipper della Canottieri Garda. Nelle flotte dell’Orc si sono distinti “Elisr” di Massimo Goffi (Canottieri Garda) e “Mi Vida” di Donnino Sperzagni (Cn Portese). In acqua nelle stesse giornate c’erano anche gli atleti della nazionale dei velisti paralimpici di Londra 2012. L’ultima tappa della “Winter Cup” è in programma al largo di Gargnano il 12 febbraio prossimo, mentre sabato 4 febbraio si correrà in nottura la tradizionale “Trans Lac en Du”, sulla rotta Salò-Portese-Maderno-Salò.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2979183053996288408-8152040737444669976?l=navigamus.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/feeds/8152040737444669976/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2979183053996288408&amp;postID=8152040737444669976&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/8152040737444669976'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/8152040737444669976'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/2012/01/winter-cup-nel-golfo-di-salo.html' title='WINTER CUP NEL GOLFO DI SALO’'/><author><name>Andrea Messersì</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12782675519045603248</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kgrhzLNmoOg/TyQewRyaLGI/AAAAAAAAI_8/4lf9QPXsEd0/s220/andreamessers%25C3%25AC.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dGUxVZiXtbs/Tx5cMC_N5cI/AAAAAAAAI9c/B5E0x-zgw-4/s72-c/DSC_0175.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2979183053996288408.post-2435168966334107207</id><published>2012-01-24T08:20:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-24T08:20:17.551+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Yacht Club Padova'/><title type='text'>Serata a tema allo Yacht Club Padova: le impiombature</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-xMoNovO_eTw/Tx5bSJLxpFI/AAAAAAAAI9U/sB-uLBdbNOk/s1600/impiombature.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" gda="true" height="240px" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-xMoNovO_eTw/Tx5bSJLxpFI/AAAAAAAAI9U/sB-uLBdbNOk/s400/impiombature.jpg" width="400px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Mercoledì 11 Gennaio 2012 si è tenuta la prima delle serate a tema programmate dallo Yacht Club Padova per il 2012. Argomento della serata: le impiombature, materia indispensabile per una navigazione in sicurezza, quanto ai più poco conosciuta. Certo, quando si impara ad andar per mare, ci si preoccupa di acquisire destrezza nella realizzazione dei principali nodi utilizzati in barca, ma poco si sa di come impiombare una cima e dei materiali da utilizzare. Ancora più difficile capire e conoscere le tecniche per una corretta distribuzione dei carichi e delle forze che sollecitano le cime in fase di sforzo, in modo da renderle sicure e difficilmente lesionabili. Tutto questo e molto altro ci è stato illustrato con spiegazioni e immagini da Alfredo Mosso, autore de "Il libro delle impiombature", il quale si è soffermato anche su piccoli segreti e trucchi indispensabili per facilitare il lavoro non facile e che richiede grande manualità ed anche parecchia forza. Alfredo Mosso si è reso disponibile, per chi fosse interessato, ad effettuare anche dei fine settimana di lezioni pratiche, proprio per applicare in concreto le tecniche di impiombatura in modo da poterle poi applicare sulla propria imbarcazione. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2979183053996288408-2435168966334107207?l=navigamus.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/feeds/2435168966334107207/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2979183053996288408&amp;postID=2435168966334107207&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/2435168966334107207'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/2435168966334107207'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/2012/01/serata-tema-allo-yacht-club-padova-le.html' title='Serata a tema allo Yacht Club Padova: le impiombature'/><author><name>Andrea Messersì</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12782675519045603248</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kgrhzLNmoOg/TyQewRyaLGI/AAAAAAAAI_8/4lf9QPXsEd0/s220/andreamessers%25C3%25AC.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-xMoNovO_eTw/Tx5bSJLxpFI/AAAAAAAAI9U/sB-uLBdbNOk/s72-c/impiombature.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2979183053996288408.post-8975901648691186678</id><published>2012-01-23T09:48:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-23T09:48:42.027+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='marco nannini'/><title type='text'>ATTENTI A QUEI DUE! - Nannini e Ramon verso Capo Horn</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-MhDShvVkP7M/Tx0PnrOlysI/AAAAAAAAI9M/aobdAzt5g0I/s1600/hugoramon%2526marconannini.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300px" nfa="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-MhDShvVkP7M/Tx0PnrOlysI/AAAAAAAAI9M/aobdAzt5g0I/s400/hugoramon%2526marconannini.jpg" width="400px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Mentre a Wellinghton (NZ) procedono i preparativi di tutti gli equipaggi della Global Ocean Race in vista della partenza della terza tappa&amp;nbsp;stabilita per&amp;nbsp;il 29 gennaio e che porterà la flotta a raggiungere il Brasile passando per le "forche caudine" del temuto Capo Horn, oggi vogliamo approfondire la conoscenza del&amp;nbsp;ventiseienne coskipper di Marco: lo spagnolo Hugo Ramon. Come ci ha raccontato il navigatore italiano già nella seconda tappa la navigazione da Città del Capo (Capo di Buona Speranza) alla Nuova Zelanda si è svolta prevalentemente alla latitudine dei cosiddetti 40° ruggenti dovele perturbazioni che si incontrano sono sospinte da venti&amp;nbsp;che nel suo caso hanno toccato anche i 60 nodi (110 km/h)&amp;nbsp;e pertanto è facile immaginare che le condizioni meteo marine nei 50° urlanti saranno ancora più&amp;nbsp;impegnative. Ecco perchè per Marco la scelta di avere come "secondo" Hugo Ramon potrebbe rivelarsi un punto di forza dato il suo curriculum:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;- nasce il 15/09/85 ed inizia ad andare a vela da ragazzino prima sugli Optimist e poi sui Laser;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;- a soli diciotto anni&amp;nbsp;si specializza nella navigazione a vela in solitario selezionandosi e vincendo la regata per solitari di&amp;nbsp;500 miglia&amp;nbsp;Mare Nostrum Race&amp;nbsp;nel Mediterraneaneo;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;- all'età di venti anni diventa il più giovane velista ad aver mai partecipato alla Transat 650;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;- nel 2006 è eletto come VELISTA DELL'ANNO spagnolo;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;- nel 2007 partecipa di nuovo alla Transat 650;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;- nel 2008 vince la Mini Barcellona;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;- nel 2009 è di nuovo alla Transat 650 e questo lo porta a diventare il solo navigatore solitario spagnolo ad aver mai partecipato a tre regate transatlantiche;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;- nel 2011 ha vinto alcune importanti regate sui J80 in equipaggio&amp;nbsp;con la medaglia d'oro olimpica J. María V. Ploeg (Finn 1992).&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Come chiunque avrà facilmente capito Hugo Ramon è un velista di rango ed un puro talento e siamo sicuri che Marco Nannini abbia trovato in lui un validissimo coskipper le cui capacità professionali saranno certamente di grande utilità nella prossima e decisiva tappa via&amp;nbsp;Capo Horn.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;E PER&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;RENDRE PIU' "SIMMETRICO" QUESTO EQUIPAGGIO VI INVITO TUTTI A VOTARE MARCO NANNINI VELISTA DELL'ANNO&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.giornaledellavela.com/content/html/index.php?page=nodeDetail&amp;amp;idRecord=15185" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;QUI&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2979183053996288408-8975901648691186678?l=navigamus.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/feeds/8975901648691186678/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2979183053996288408&amp;postID=8975901648691186678&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/8975901648691186678'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/8975901648691186678'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/2012/01/attenti-quei-due-nannini-e-ramon-verso.html' title='ATTENTI A QUEI DUE! - Nannini e Ramon verso Capo Horn'/><author><name>Andrea Messersì</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12782675519045603248</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kgrhzLNmoOg/TyQewRyaLGI/AAAAAAAAI_8/4lf9QPXsEd0/s220/andreamessers%25C3%25AC.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-MhDShvVkP7M/Tx0PnrOlysI/AAAAAAAAI9M/aobdAzt5g0I/s72-c/hugoramon%2526marconannini.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2979183053996288408.post-5102905227091456911</id><published>2012-01-23T08:37:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-23T08:37:12.002+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='GAETAVELA'/><title type='text'>VELA A GAETA: ANNULLATE LE REGATE</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-SOx-jVRs5BY/Tx0Nx01lCFI/AAAAAAAAI9E/ICW16rlFKGo/s1600/foto-yacht-club-gaeta.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="281px" nfa="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-SOx-jVRs5BY/Tx0Nx01lCFI/AAAAAAAAI9E/ICW16rlFKGo/s400/foto-yacht-club-gaeta.jpg" width="400px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;22/01/2012 - "No wind, no race". Con questa espressione, il popolo dei velisti è solito descrivere quanto accaduto oggi al Campionato Invernale "Golfo di Gaeta", organizzato da Yacht Club Gaeta E.V.S. e Circolo Nautico Caposele, con il supporto della Base Nautica Flavio Gioia e di Easy Yachting A.S.D. Le due prove in programma, che avrebbero simbolicamente inaugurato la seconda manche del campionato, non si sono disputate per mancanza di vento. Invariate le classifiche rispetto all'ultima tappa del 18 dicembre scorso: "Ramses" (Nando Colaninno-Raffaele Ammutinato) guida i raggruppamenti Overall, IRC e Match 25. "Eta Beta” (Umberto Trezza) e "Giorgia" (Michele Migliozzi) primeggiano tra le imbarcazioni "Crociera" e "Gran Crociera". La Giuria sta valutando un'eventuale giornata di recupero a fine campionato. Le regate riprenderanno domenica 5 febbraio, anticipando alle 10:00 la partenza della prima prova.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2979183053996288408-5102905227091456911?l=navigamus.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/feeds/5102905227091456911/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2979183053996288408&amp;postID=5102905227091456911&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/5102905227091456911'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/5102905227091456911'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/2012/01/vela-gaeta-annullate-le-regate.html' title='VELA A GAETA: ANNULLATE LE REGATE'/><author><name>Andrea Messersì</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12782675519045603248</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kgrhzLNmoOg/TyQewRyaLGI/AAAAAAAAI_8/4lf9QPXsEd0/s220/andreamessers%25C3%25AC.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-SOx-jVRs5BY/Tx0Nx01lCFI/AAAAAAAAI9E/ICW16rlFKGo/s72-c/foto-yacht-club-gaeta.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2979183053996288408.post-1181244360985837336</id><published>2012-01-23T08:30:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-23T08:30:35.517+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Global Ocean Race Leg 3 bluQube Southern Ocean Scoring Gate confirmed</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-IKwpfjNFYz4/Tx0L4UH1gwI/AAAAAAAAI88/Xms17_XsvIw/s1600/1661480786.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="227px" nfa="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-IKwpfjNFYz4/Tx0L4UH1gwI/AAAAAAAAI88/Xms17_XsvIw/s400/1661480786.jpg" width="400px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;At 02:00 GMT (15:00 local) on Sunday 29 January, the five double-handed, Global Ocean Race (GOR) Class40s will cross the Leg 3 start line in Lambton Harbour off the city of Wellington, New Zealand, for the 6,200-mile course through the Pacific Ocean, around Cape Horn and through the South Atlantic to the finish line in Punta del Este, Uruguay. Leg 3 will take the GOR Class40s through the Pacific’s high-latitudes on the classic round-the-world race route and in addition to intense low pressure systems spinning off Antarctica and sweeping east across the fleet, there is the increasing frequency of icebergs drifting north from Antarctica’s ice shelves. Consequently, over the past few months, the GOR Race Committee has been monitoring the presence of ice in the Pacific Ocean.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;a name='more'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;In addition to the non-scoring, Felipe Cubillos Cape Horn Gate stretching north-south through Drake Passage between Horn Island and the Antarctic Peninsula, the bluQube Scoring Gate running north-south and located at 127.30W with a southern limit at 47S will double as a safety limit, bringing the fleet north from the threat of known and extensive ice fields.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;For Josh Hall, Race Director of the GOR, the safety of the Class40 fleet is of paramount importance, but imposing safety measures without devaluing the unique excitement of high latitude racing is a delicate issue: “Finding the right balance between setting some responsible limits that allow a fleet to navigate through potentially severe weather conditions in an unrestricted way and keeping the spirit of high adventure alive is not an easy one for any race organisers,” Hall confirms. “We believe we have chosen the right path by requiring the fleet to pass above 47S at 127.30W and allowing them freedom of navigation either side of this,” he adds.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;The risk of ice and the positioning of safety limits is a priority for round-the-world events, whether races or record attempts and advances in satellite imagery have been crucial in analysing and evaluating the threat of collision in the remote ocean encircling Antarctica. In the double-handed, IMOCA Open 60, 2010-11 Barcelona World Race (BWR), a South Atlantic ice limit was imposed while the fleet was racing towards the Cape of Good Hope; in the Indian Ocean, the BWR shifted the ice limits north mid-race and increased the number.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;The most recent single-handed Vendée Globe also shifted their eastern Pacific safety gate as the IMOCA fleet spilled into the Pacific Ocean, leaving a fairly narrow and very steep, 1,400-mile descent to Cape Horn. Just over a year ago, the Velux 5 Oceans installed a safety limit in the Pacific and, most recently, in mid-December last year during their Jules Verne record attempt, Loïck Peyron and his crew on Banque Populaire V were routed through an ice field by Marcel van Triest using satellite imagery and nerves of steel, bringing the 40 metre maxi trimaran north from 56S to 50S.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;The iceberg information collected by the GOR has been analysed and shared with the teams in Wellington: “We have shown our skippers the ice data we have but there are no guarantees,” warns Hall. “They must be extremely vigilant on this tough next leg.” There has been some resistance to the Southern Ocean waypoint. “We know that one or two of our sailors would prefer a ‘no-limits’ leg, but we would be irresponsible to agree to this,” he states. “If one boat dives very South there will be enormous pressure on the others to do the same, putting them a long way outside their comfort zones,” Hall explains. “Circumnavigations without any sort of restrictions are the sole domain of sailors on a private sojourn around the planet,” he adds. “Race organisers have to adopt a somewhat more prudent position.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Icebergs around the fringes of the Antarctic continent are well documented and monitored via National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and NASA using Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) satellites. A cluster of icebergs in the Amundsen Sea, 1,400 miles SSW of Cape Horn, including the 44x24-mile B22A, pose no threat to the GOR fleet and nor do the 11 icebergs currently occupying the Weddell Sea, although the 21x12-mile slab of ice tagged C19C is currently 600 miles SSE of Cape Horn and 100 miles east of the tip of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;One of the main causes of concern further away from the coast of Antarctica in the southern Pacific Ocean are the remnants of the colossal iceberg B-I5; a mammoth berg originally estimated at three billion tons with a surface area of 4,200 square miles. B-15 calved from Antarctica’s Ross Ice Shelf in 2000, fragmenting into large sections, many of which drifted north, notably B-15A which fragmented further into B-15K and B-15J and continued to drift through the Southern Ocean, fragmenting and sub-dividing with the ancient ice currently spread across the Pacific at the bottom of the planet. Although crew-vigilance during daylight and on board radar at night can offset some of the risks, sending a racing fleet into B-15’s remnants is unacceptable: “Most would say that racing a Class40 hard across the Southern Ocean and round Cape Horn was adventure enough, without traversing known ice fields,” Hall believes.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Simon Kearsley, head of the browser-based financial and management accounting software company and GOR sponsor, has supported offshore racing for many years: “At bluQube we’re all about challenging ourselves and others in our industry, so to work alongside GOR and the inspirational skippers who are out there battling the elements is hugely exciting.,” he comments. “In business the big payoffs come by taking a chance and not always going for the easy option without being reckless,” he adds. “For us, that might mean approaching a financial process from a different angle, or just challenging business as usual. But the skippers will be pushed to their limits during the next leg, navigating weather systems and avoiding icebergs to score points as they pass through the Leg 3 bluQube Scoring Gate. We’ll be right behind the teams as they set off and will be there to meet them in Punta del Este.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;BluQube’s involvement with the GOR includes the company’s own virtual race around the planet. “If you’re up for a challenge, join our Virtual Race and we’ll give you the chance to see what it’s really like to sail a Class40,” says Kearsley.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2979183053996288408-1181244360985837336?l=navigamus.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/feeds/1181244360985837336/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2979183053996288408&amp;postID=1181244360985837336&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/1181244360985837336'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/1181244360985837336'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/2012/01/global-ocean-race-leg-3-bluqube.html' title='Global Ocean Race Leg 3 bluQube Southern Ocean Scoring Gate confirmed'/><author><name>Andrea Messersì</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12782675519045603248</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kgrhzLNmoOg/TyQewRyaLGI/AAAAAAAAI_8/4lf9QPXsEd0/s220/andreamessers%25C3%25AC.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-IKwpfjNFYz4/Tx0L4UH1gwI/AAAAAAAAI88/Xms17_XsvIw/s72-c/1661480786.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2979183053996288408.post-1564406305912804534</id><published>2012-01-22T09:53:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-22T09:53:36.178+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='marco nannini'/><title type='text'>TUTTO QUELLO CHE AVRESTE VOLUTO SAPERE SU MARCO NANNINI E CHE NESSUNO VI HA MAI DETTO</title><content type='html'>&lt;iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/wyWvPdXe27c" width="560"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;cliccate due volte e guardate a schermo intero... e non dimenticate di leggere le balle qui sotto!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue; text-align: justify;"&gt;Se vi state chiedendo qual'è il livello di sanità mentale di Marco Nannini sappiate allora che dai miei ultimi scambi epistolari via mail mi è sembrato in ottima forma e di ottimo umore ed anche durante una breve telefonata via skype l'ho trovato tranquillo e rilassato. Mi ha spiegato che l'inquietante risatina di sottofondo è dovuta all'eccesso di generosità dei suoi sostenitori che continuano incessantemente ad offrirgli un giro di birre dietro l'altro &lt;a href="http://marconannini.com/it/aiutaci" style="color: red;" target="_blank"&gt;QUI&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;.&amp;nbsp; Nella remota eventualità che io non vi abbia convinto ed anche voi vogliate sincerarvi della reale determinazione di Marco a doppiare Copo Horn durante la prossima tappa della Global Ocean Race che partirà da Wellinghton (NZ) il prossimo 29 gennaio potete sempre mandargli un sms via computer &lt;a href="http://marconannini.com/it/sms" style="color: red;" target="_blank"&gt;QUI&lt;/a&gt; .&amp;nbsp; Per i sostenitori più testardi, fan esaltati e maniaci ad oltranza fino al limite dello stalking perverso ho un consiglio da amicone: mai e poi mai dovrete molestarlo telefonicamente sia sul suo cellulare che sul satellitare i cui numeri sono &lt;a href="http://marconannini.com/it/contatti" style="color: red;" target="_blank"&gt;QUI&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp; altrimenti saranno guai grossi per voi!&amp;nbsp; UN GRANDISSIMO GRAZIE DA PARTE DI MARCO (e mia) A TUTTI QUELLI CHE LO STANNO CONTINUANDO A VOTARE COME VELISTA DELL'ANNO&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.giornaledellavela.com/content/html/index.php?page=nodeDetail&amp;amp;idRecord=15185" style="color: red;" target="_blank"&gt;QUI&lt;/a&gt; .&amp;nbsp; Continuate così siete impagabili!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2979183053996288408-1564406305912804534?l=navigamus.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/feeds/1564406305912804534/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2979183053996288408&amp;postID=1564406305912804534&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/1564406305912804534'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/1564406305912804534'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/2012/01/tutto-quello-che-avreste-voluto-sapere.html' title='TUTTO QUELLO CHE AVRESTE VOLUTO SAPERE SU MARCO NANNINI E CHE NESSUNO VI HA MAI DETTO'/><author><name>Andrea Messersì</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12782675519045603248</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kgrhzLNmoOg/TyQewRyaLGI/AAAAAAAAI_8/4lf9QPXsEd0/s220/andreamessers%25C3%25AC.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://img.youtube.com/vi/wyWvPdXe27c/default.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2979183053996288408.post-3713086558468754228</id><published>2012-01-22T09:01:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-22T09:01:03.794+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='LEGA NAVALE MILANO'/><title type='text'>La Lega Navale di Milano incontra Giuseppe Carnevali</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-5Z0axMtTG9Y/TxvBHhB2VnI/AAAAAAAAI80/R_qVik1ewWo/s1600/183797_166023756780568_166023110113966_296768_222469_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-5Z0axMtTG9Y/TxvBHhB2VnI/AAAAAAAAI80/R_qVik1ewWo/s400/183797_166023756780568_166023110113966_296768_222469_n.jpg" width="231" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue; text-align: justify;"&gt;A partire dal nuovo anno vogliamo offrire ai nostri Soci la  possibilità di incontro e confronto con uomini che operano nel mondo  della Nautica. Unitamente ad Associazione Allievi di Caprera, Centro Velico Caprera,  il primo incontro si terrà presso la sede della Lega Navale Italiana  sez. di Milano in viale Cassala, 34 alle ore 2100 di Giovedì 2 Febbraio. La socia Laura Morandotti introdurrà il nostro ospite l'Ing. Giuseppe Carnevali, titolare e fondatore di NAVIONICS che a buon diritto possiamo considerare il pioniere ed inventore della moderna cartografia elettronica. Avremo modo di ripercorrere con lui le strade che hanno permesso ad  un prodotto del genio italico di creare una struttura leader mondiale  nella cartografia elettronica. Il suo intervento fornirà preziosi suggerimenti per la conoscenza e  il miglior utilizzodi questi formidabili strumenti di orientamento.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a name='more'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue; text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Chi è Giuseppe Carnevali : &lt;/em&gt;Ingegnere navale, figlio d'arte  (nonno armatore, padre ingegnere navale)., due volte campione italiano  di vela (Fireball), pilota di aereo, sommozzatore (&amp;gt; m. 60). Servizio militare in Marina, opera  nel centro ricerche e team velico dell'Accademia, poi entra nel Cantiere  Benetti dove, dopo alcuni anni, diventa direttore di produzione. Fonda Navionics che ha creato il primo prodotto di carte elettroniche nel mondo.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2979183053996288408-3713086558468754228?l=navigamus.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/feeds/3713086558468754228/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2979183053996288408&amp;postID=3713086558468754228&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/3713086558468754228'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/3713086558468754228'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/2012/01/la-lega-navale-di-milano-incontra.html' title='La Lega Navale di Milano incontra Giuseppe Carnevali'/><author><name>Andrea Messersì</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12782675519045603248</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kgrhzLNmoOg/TyQewRyaLGI/AAAAAAAAI_8/4lf9QPXsEd0/s220/andreamessers%25C3%25AC.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-5Z0axMtTG9Y/TxvBHhB2VnI/AAAAAAAAI80/R_qVik1ewWo/s72-c/183797_166023756780568_166023110113966_296768_222469_n.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2979183053996288408.post-6446575930585834242</id><published>2012-01-21T12:05:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-21T12:50:01.780+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='marco nannini'/><title type='text'>VOTATE MARCO NANNINI VELISTA DELL'ANNO PERCHE' DEVE DOPPIARE CAPO HORN</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vOiilaV_MEU/TxqVOcxPIxI/AAAAAAAAI8s/VLhRhj3sBdI/s1600/MarcoNannini.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vOiilaV_MEU/TxqVOcxPIxI/AAAAAAAAI8s/VLhRhj3sBdI/s400/MarcoNannini.jpg" width="306" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue; text-align: justify;"&gt;In questi giorni Marco Nannini è a Wellington dove sta preparandosi per la terza e più temuta delle  tappe della Global Ocean Race che lo vedrà affrontare l' indiscusso Everest della vela d'altura: il passaggio del mitico Capo Horn. Ecco perchè è necessario il sostegno di tutti i lettori del blog sia votandolo cone Velista dell'Anno al link&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.giornaledellavela.com/content/html/index.php?page=nodeDetail&amp;amp;idRecord=15185%20" target="_blank"&gt;http://www.giornaledellavela.com/content/html/index.php?page=nodeDetail&amp;amp;idRecord=15185 &lt;/a&gt; che, anche, regalandogli un "giro di birre" al link&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.marconannini.com/help" target="_blank"&gt;http://www.marconannini.com/help&lt;/a&gt; .Questa sarà la tappa più dura, massacrante e rischiosa dell'intera Global Ocean Race e sappiamo che anche se Marco è uno dei pochissimi italiani ad aver mai vinto la mitica OSTAR dovrà proprio mettercela tutta ed anche il suo validissimo coskipper Hugo Ramon dovrà dare fondo alle sue energie. Ma sono certo che Marco e Hugo non saranno soli laggiù "dove il cielo è grigio e soffia forte" (S. Bianchetti cit.) perchè tutti noi potremo fargli sapere che siamo con loro semplicemente inviandogli un sms da questo link&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://marconannini.com/it/sms" style="color: blue;" target="_blank"&gt;http://marconannini.com/it/sms&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt; . Buon Vento a Maco ed a Hugo !! e votate per lui al Velista dell'Anno !!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue; text-align: justify;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2979183053996288408-6446575930585834242?l=navigamus.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/feeds/6446575930585834242/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2979183053996288408&amp;postID=6446575930585834242&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/6446575930585834242'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/6446575930585834242'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/2012/01/votate-marco-nannini-velista-dellanno.html' title='VOTATE MARCO NANNINI VELISTA DELL&apos;ANNO PERCHE&apos; DEVE DOPPIARE CAPO HORN'/><author><name>Andrea Messersì</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12782675519045603248</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kgrhzLNmoOg/TyQewRyaLGI/AAAAAAAAI_8/4lf9QPXsEd0/s220/andreamessers%25C3%25AC.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vOiilaV_MEU/TxqVOcxPIxI/AAAAAAAAI8s/VLhRhj3sBdI/s72-c/MarcoNannini.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2979183053996288408.post-8188073414584534930</id><published>2012-01-21T11:35:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-21T11:35:39.416+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='MELGES 32'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='MASCALZONE LATINO'/><title type='text'>Ottimo terzo posto per Mascalzone Latino alla Quantum Key West 2012 - classifica</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rc_pjwlo7wk/TxqUOrQfuUI/AAAAAAAAI8k/ZUXZT418HVA/s1600/efhb.emailsp.net" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="265" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rc_pjwlo7wk/TxqUOrQfuUI/AAAAAAAAI8k/ZUXZT418HVA/s400/efhb.emailsp.net" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Obiettivo centrato. &lt;i&gt;Mascalzone Latino&lt;/i&gt;,  il team di Vincenzo Onorato, impegnato in questi giorni con il Melges  32 alla Quantum Key West Race Week, nell’ultima giornata dell’evento è  riuscito a raggiungere quello si era prefissato: il terzo posto della  classifica generale. Un finale spettacolare quello  di ieri: sole, vento di una quindicina di nodi, direzione 80°, che hanno  permesso al Comitato di Regata di far svolgere le due prove mancanti  per portare a termine il programma. Due buone  partenze ed ottime scelte tattiche da parte di Gabriele Benussi, per la  prima volta con i Mascalzoni, hanno consentito di chiudere entrambe le  prove al secondo posto e recuperare così tre posizioni, da sesti a  terzi. I primissimi due, quando all’appello mancavano solo due regate,  avevano un vantaggio tale che poterli raggiungere era pressoché  impossibile.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a name='more'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Samba Pa Tì, &lt;/i&gt;dell’americano John  Kilroy con alla tattica Lorenzo Bressani, è il vincitore della 25ma  edizione della Key West Race Week. Alle sue spalle, dopo un avvincente  duello, si è piazzato un altro americano,&lt;i&gt; Pisces &lt;/i&gt;di Benjamin Schwartz con Ed Baird alla tattica.&lt;br /&gt;Le due prove di venerdì, la nona e la decima, sono state vinte rispettivamente da &lt;i&gt;Intac&lt;/i&gt; di Mark Plaxton e dalla new entry nel circuito, &lt;i&gt;Hedgehog&lt;/i&gt; del bermudiano Alec Cutler che bene aveva figurato nelle passate stagioni nella classe Melges 24.&lt;br /&gt;Per &lt;i&gt;Mascalzone Latino &lt;/i&gt;si  tratta di un risultato importante, considerando che qui a Key West era  la prima volta che navigava sulla nuova imbarcazione (ex &lt;i&gt;Full Throttle&lt;/i&gt;,  USA-49) e che dal campionato del mondo di Palma di Maiorca di fine  settembre scorso non aveva più avuto modo di navigare in questa  agguerrita e competitiva flotta.&lt;br /&gt;Giunto in banchina Vincenzo Onorato ha così commentato:&lt;br /&gt;“&lt;i&gt;Key  West è il campo di regata che amo di più al mondo. Sono felice del  terzo posto. Erano cinque mesi che non salivo in barca. I ragazzi sono  stati fantastici e, con un timoniere più allenato, avrebbero certamente  vinto l'evento. Ottima intesa con il tattico Gabriele Benussi, veramente  bravo, peccato che sia già impegnato per questa stagione; spero di  coinvolgerlo in futuro per un programma del team&lt;/i&gt;”.&lt;br /&gt;Su &lt;i&gt;Mascalzone Latino&lt;/i&gt;,  che difende i colori del New York Yacht Club, al fianco di Vincenzo  Onorato e Gabriele Benussi hanno regatato Andrea Ballico e Stefano  Ciampalini alle scotte, Alberto Bolzan alla randa, Matteo Savelli alle  drizze, Iztok Knafelc all'albero e Daniele Fiaschi a prua.&lt;br /&gt;Il prossimo appuntamento per i Mascalzoni è a Miami dal 2 al 4 marzo per un’altra classica del circuito americano.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Classifica generale dopo 10 regate con 1 scarto&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1) &lt;i&gt;Samba Pa Ti&lt;/i&gt;, John Kilroy/Lorenzo Bressani, 1-1-5-3-4-2-4-3-[9]-3 = 26 pti&lt;br /&gt;2) &lt;i&gt;Pisces&lt;/i&gt;, Benjamin Schwartz/Ed Baird, 3-3-1-1-6-6-[8]-2-8-[11] = 38 pti&lt;br /&gt;3) &lt;i&gt;Mascalzone Latino, &lt;/i&gt;Vincenzo Onorato/Gabriele Benussi, 2-4-2-[11]-9-11-2-9-2-2 = 43 pti&lt;br /&gt;4) &lt;i&gt;Hedgehog, &lt;/i&gt;Alec Cutler/Richard Clarke, 4-2-8-4-7-[13]-1-13-12-1 = 52 pti&lt;br /&gt;5) &lt;i&gt;Warpath&lt;/i&gt;, Steve Howe/Morgan Larson, 12-5-[15]-5-3-4-6-1-5-14 = 55 pti&lt;br /&gt;Seguono 14 concorrenti&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2979183053996288408-8188073414584534930?l=navigamus.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/feeds/8188073414584534930/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2979183053996288408&amp;postID=8188073414584534930&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/8188073414584534930'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/8188073414584534930'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/2012/01/ottimo-terzo-posto-per-mascalzone.html' title='Ottimo terzo posto per Mascalzone Latino alla Quantum Key West 2012 - classifica'/><author><name>Andrea Messersì</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12782675519045603248</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kgrhzLNmoOg/TyQewRyaLGI/AAAAAAAAI_8/4lf9QPXsEd0/s220/andreamessers%25C3%25AC.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rc_pjwlo7wk/TxqUOrQfuUI/AAAAAAAAI8k/ZUXZT418HVA/s72-c/efhb.emailsp.net' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2979183053996288408.post-7161806599070717024</id><published>2012-01-21T11:30:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-21T11:30:02.135+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Challenge Italia'/><title type='text'>Challenge Italia verso la Piccola Coppa America al Boot di Duesseldorf</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-zA489Tqr3Ag/TxqS6mqw5eI/AAAAAAAAI8c/QlM4m-_Jbm0/s1600/challengeitalia.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="266" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-zA489Tqr3Ag/TxqS6mqw5eI/AAAAAAAAI8c/QlM4m-_Jbm0/s400/challengeitalia.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue; text-align: justify;"&gt;Dopo 31 anni un Team italiano gareggerà in questa prestigiosa competizione: la Piccola Coppa America. Challenge Italia conferma la propria partecipazione al Campionato Mondiale della Classe C, noto pure come Piccola Coppa America, che si terrà nel 2013 in Inghilterra. Challenge Italia gareggerà per i colori del Circolo Canottieri Roggero di Lauria, il prestigioso circolo palermitano che con i suoi atleti eccelle a livello internazionale.&lt;b&gt;Challenge Italia&lt;/b&gt; sarà presente al Boot, il &lt;b&gt;Salone Nautico di Duesseldorf&lt;/b&gt;, in Germania,&amp;nbsp;che apre stamani e terminerà il 29 gennaio. La  sfida italiana alla Little America's Cup, che dal 1961 si regata con  gli innovativi catamarani C Class, sarà ospitata nell'ambito del &lt;b&gt;Multihull Forum, al padiglione 15&lt;/b&gt;, con una conferenza di circa due ore in programma alle &lt;b&gt;15,30 di sabato 28 gennaio&lt;/b&gt;. A fare gli onori di casa sarà &lt;b&gt;Davide Tagliapietra&lt;/b&gt;,  ingegnere del team progettuale, che illustrerà alcuni dettagli  progettuali e introdurrà gli altri membri del team presenti in  videoconferenza: &lt;b&gt;Francesco Bruni&lt;/b&gt;, skipper, parlerà della conduzione dei multiscafi dalla Nuova Zelanda dove è impegnato con Luna Rossa; &lt;b&gt;Richard Korpus&lt;/b&gt; e &lt;b&gt;Claudio Cairoli&lt;/b&gt;, responsabili del progetto della vela alare, saranno in collegamento dagli USA, mentre il Team Principal, &lt;b&gt;Roberto Grippi&lt;/b&gt;, interverrà da Palermo.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2979183053996288408-7161806599070717024?l=navigamus.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/feeds/7161806599070717024/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2979183053996288408&amp;postID=7161806599070717024&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/7161806599070717024'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/7161806599070717024'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/2012/01/challenge-italia-verso-la-piccola-coppa.html' title='Challenge Italia verso la Piccola Coppa America al Boot di Duesseldorf'/><author><name>Andrea Messersì</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12782675519045603248</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kgrhzLNmoOg/TyQewRyaLGI/AAAAAAAAI_8/4lf9QPXsEd0/s220/andreamessers%25C3%25AC.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-zA489Tqr3Ag/TxqS6mqw5eI/AAAAAAAAI8c/QlM4m-_Jbm0/s72-c/challengeitalia.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2979183053996288408.post-6932769484852274365</id><published>2012-01-21T11:19:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-21T11:19:45.311+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='marco nannini'/><title type='text'>Marco Nannini links his GOR campaign to Multiple Sclerosis</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-koG3EUPlDQ8/TxqQ48rGbsI/AAAAAAAAI8U/dn8Ahpp7Br8/s1600/1077470603.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="265" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-koG3EUPlDQ8/TxqQ48rGbsI/AAAAAAAAI8U/dn8Ahpp7Br8/s400/1077470603.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="article-copy"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue; text-align: justify;"&gt;Despite the lack of a title sponsor, Marco Nannini’s Akilaria Class40, &lt;em&gt;Financial Crisis&lt;/em&gt;,  is the most heavily-branded entry in the double-handed,  round-the-world, Global Ocean Race (GOR). The Italian sailor and his  Spanish co-skipper, Hugo Ramon, have completed two legs of the GOR and  reached the halfway point in Wellington, New Zealand, running the racing  campaign on personal funding and donations collected while the duo are  at sea and in-port.During the GOR’s Leg 2 from Cape Town, South Africa, to  Wellington an online donation received by Nannini and Ramon has led  directly to some extra branding on their Class40’s hull and a strong  link to the &lt;a href="http://mswellington.org.nz/"&gt;Wellington Multiple Sclerosis Society&lt;/a&gt;;  one of 18 regional societies throughout New Zealand which endeavours to  look after the needs of people with multiple sclerosis and other allied  neurological diseases. Marco Nannini explains the story: “As many of  the people who follow my blog already know, during Leg 2 of the Global  Ocean Race I received a kind donation to my racing budget from someone  whose wife suffers from Multiple Sclerosis,” explains the 33 year-old  skipper. “In return for the contribution, they asked if we could do some  work to raise awareness of Multiple Sclerosis and the work done by  volunteers in this field,” he continues. “So we’re here in Wellington  and I’ve learnt a lot about MS and I hope other people will find out  more.”&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a name='more'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue; text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue; text-align: justify;"&gt;Nannini expands on the subject: “Multiple Sclerosis is an  inflammatory disease of the central nervous system,” he says. “The basic  cause is unknown and the clinical course is highly variable with  varying levels of disability and it has a significant impact on quality  of life including loss of mobility,” explains the Italian skipper.  “Since a cure for Multiple Sclerosis seems to be a long way off, the  focus of the Wellington Multiple Sclerosis Society is on maximising the  quality of life by facilitating the provision of, and access to, all  appropriate health and welfare services available.”&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue; text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue; text-align: justify;"&gt;At the GOR race pontoons in Queen’s Wharf, representatives from  the Wellington Multiple Sclerosis Society helped apply the branding to  the hull of Financial Crisis. Hamish Bockett-Smith and Bill Pit from the  not-for-profit organisation that is entirely dependent on grants and  donations to support its activities were on hand: “This is our first  connection with a racing boat,” confirms Bockett-Smith.&amp;nbsp; “We’re very  appreciative to Marco and his donor to use our logo on the yacht and the  opportunity to spread the word about MS and giving it a little more  coverage,” he continues. “In New Zealand, it’s one of the charities that  doesn’t get a lot of exposure whereas the bigger charities like cancer  do get coverage, so any opportunity to become involved in this sort of  project is a great help.” &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2979183053996288408-6932769484852274365?l=navigamus.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/feeds/6932769484852274365/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2979183053996288408&amp;postID=6932769484852274365&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/6932769484852274365'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/6932769484852274365'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/2012/01/marco-nannini-links-his-gor-campaign-to.html' title='Marco Nannini links his GOR campaign to Multiple Sclerosis'/><author><name>Andrea Messersì</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12782675519045603248</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kgrhzLNmoOg/TyQewRyaLGI/AAAAAAAAI_8/4lf9QPXsEd0/s220/andreamessers%25C3%25AC.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-koG3EUPlDQ8/TxqQ48rGbsI/AAAAAAAAI8U/dn8Ahpp7Br8/s72-c/1077470603.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2979183053996288408.post-1963647373849026727</id><published>2012-01-21T11:16:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-21T11:16:46.295+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Les Voiles de Saint-Barth 2011: Revving up for a Best-Ever Edition</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-_nyQ9qJ1X-Y/TxqQJEEoRgI/AAAAAAAAI8M/ojdHwURVipM/s1600/m206_1302043331-WC3P5473.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="266" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-_nyQ9qJ1X-Y/TxqQJEEoRgI/AAAAAAAAI8M/ojdHwURVipM/s400/m206_1302043331-WC3P5473.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Les Voiles de Saint-Barth is just three  years young and scheduled for its third annual running this April 2-7.  Held on the fashionable French island in the northeastern Caribbean, the  regatta continues to show signs of healthy growth and popularity with a  roster that promises not only to expand by almost a third over last  years 47 entrants but also to showcase top sailing talent as well as  some of sailings most phenomenal racing machines.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;With more entries, we are able to have more classes, making the  racing tighter in each, said LVSB Competition Manager Annelisa Gee, who  pointed out that robust numbers in spinnaker racing have already allowed  for a split into two classes for that division. The event also will be  appending its Notice of Race to accommodate IRC racing for a class of 52  footers that will include Peter Cunninghams (Georgetown, Grand Cayman) &lt;em&gt;Powerplay&lt;/em&gt;, Jim Swartzs (Park City, Utah, USA) &lt;em&gt;Vesper&lt;/em&gt;, Irvine Laidlaws (Monaco) &lt;em&gt;Highland Fling&lt;/em&gt;, and Ashley Wolfes (Calgary, AB, CAN) &lt;em&gt;Mayhem&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a name='more'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;The news of the collapse of the MedCup (official international  competition of the TP52 and Soto 40 classes) is bad for the grand prix  corporate-sponsored end of the sport but okay for the rest of us said &lt;/span&gt;&lt;em style="color: blue;"&gt;Powerplay&lt;/em&gt;  project manager and crew member Tony Rey (Middletown, R.I.), a  three-time Americas Cup veteran, as all the existing TP52s will race  together under IRC in 2012 at several fantastic Mediterranean venues.  With eight IRC 52s, including &lt;em&gt;Powerplay&lt;/em&gt;, currently competing in  Key West, Rey knows that having four already signed up for Les Voiles  de Saint Barth insures yet another worthy contest right before the boat  is scheduled to ship overseas.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt; We've had a great year developing the &lt;em&gt;Powerplay &lt;/em&gt;team, said Rey, explaining that &lt;em&gt;Powerplay&lt;/em&gt; Racing was founded in 2011 even before Cunninghams acquisition of the TP52 (formerly named &lt;em&gt;Synergy&lt;/em&gt;),  which has been admirably representing the Cayman Islands in regattas  mostly on the East and West Coasts of the U.S. Peter is really excited  to get back down to the Caribbean with this boat.&lt;br /&gt;Not the least of &lt;em&gt;Powerpla&lt;/em&gt;ys worries, &lt;em&gt;Vesper&lt;/em&gt; will be  sporting much of the same crew that helped Jim Swartz win Les Voiles de  Saint-Barth last year and has been sailing with him since he took the  boat over from Quantum Racing about a year ago. While Swartz drives,  Gavin Brady will call tactics and Francesco Mongelli will navigate.  Mongelli navigated the TP52 &lt;em&gt;Quantum Racing&lt;/em&gt; to a TP52 Worlds victory in 2011.&lt;br /&gt;Sailing under CSA (Caribbean Sailing Association) measurement rules  will be additional classes for maxi yachts (75 feet/22.86 meters and  longer), racing yachts (spinnaker and non-spinnaker), classic yachts and  multihulls.&lt;br /&gt;Peter Harrisons &lt;em&gt;Sojana&lt;/em&gt;, the 115 (35 meter) Farr design that  has been participating for years in grand prix racing events around the  world, will serve as the events flag ship, of sorts, as Harrison has  been tapped as the 2012 events ceremonial Godfather, a distinction that  last year was bestowed upon singer Jimmy Buffet. Though Harrison is not  expected to perform on the music stage, the famous philanthropist will  no doubt aspire to make the awards platform after sailing against such  other power house entries in the maxi class as the 112 (34 meter) Baltic  &lt;em&gt;Nilaya&lt;/em&gt;, the 112 (34 meter) Swan &lt;em&gt;Highland Breeze&lt;/em&gt;, the 115 (35 meter) F-class &lt;em&gt;Firefly&lt;/em&gt; and the 90 (27.4 meter) Reichel/Pugh &lt;em&gt;Rambler&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;This is obviously a very strong competitor group and it will be difficult for &lt;em&gt;Sojana&lt;/em&gt;  and crew to retain or improve on its third (finish) position in 2011,  said Harrison, who counts this as his third time competing in the Les  Voiles de Saint-Barth and senses that it is his strong sense of  adventure and competitiveness that helped gain him the honor of being  named its Godfather. Among the reasons Harrison gives for the regattas  success are its location...the impressive organization... the strength  and quality of the competitiors, and of course the concomitant social  and fun part of meeting the other crew.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Nilaya&lt;/em&gt; is a relatively new boat, which in its first year won  the Super Yacht Cup in Palma and the Super Maxi division in the Maxi  Yacht Rolex Cup in Sardinia. We have a great team, which has been  sailing together for several years on the owner's (Filip Balcaen)  previous boats, said Bouwe Bekking, who will serve as tactician after  having competed last year here aboard &lt;em&gt;Highland Breeze&lt;/em&gt;. The crew is predominantly from Belgium and Holland and the owner will drive.&lt;br /&gt;Speaking to the competition he expects, Bekking explained, We are a  cruiser/racer, with all the luxuries you can have onboard, but we will  sail flat out. &lt;em&gt;Sojana&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Highland Breeze&lt;/em&gt; are the real competition, as it is apples to oranges to compare us to &lt;em&gt;Rambler&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Firefly. &lt;/em&gt;They  are flat-out racers with no interiors, but we might be in for a  surprise, as we have beaten many racers during the Les Voiles de  Saint-Tropez.&lt;br /&gt;While last year &lt;em&gt;Highland Breeze&lt;/em&gt;s owner Ben Kolff hosted his  employees on board for a chance to experience the exciting and--in this  location, anyway--exotic world of grand prix sailboat racing, this year  he has a crew of "hard core yachties. Bekking noted, however, that the  crew is comprised predominantly of amateur sailors in combination with a  few professionals.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Rambler&lt;/em&gt; is quite the opposite with a largely professional  crew. It won the inaugural Les Voiles de Saint-Barth with George David  (Hartford, Conn.) steering, and last year, David won again at the helm  of &lt;em&gt;Rambler 100&lt;/em&gt;, a distance racer purpose-built for breaking  records. The latter boat lost its keel and capsized, however, in the  2011 Rolex Fastnet Race and was deemed unrecoverable for racing  purposes. Reverting back to his 90-footer for the 2012 season, David has  already won the Ft. Lauderdale to Key West Race and plans to defend his  2011 RORC Caribbean 600 title (where he broke the monohull race record)  before heading to Saint-Barth.&lt;br /&gt;With a Tuesday through Saturday schedule that includes four days of  intense racing, the Les Voiles de Saint-Barth will kick off on Monday,  April 2, with opening ceremonies and cocktails at the festive Race  Village on the Quai General de Gaulle overlooking Gustavia Harbor, where  the event is headquartered. One lay day has been reserved for  competitors and friends to discover this quaint little collectivity of  France, with events planned at Nikki Beach that include lunch and a  surprise sporting challenge for all crews. Evening activities include  off-site parties as well as post-racing bands and entertainment in the  Race Village.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2979183053996288408-1963647373849026727?l=navigamus.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/feeds/1963647373849026727/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2979183053996288408&amp;postID=1963647373849026727&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/1963647373849026727'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/1963647373849026727'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/2012/01/les-voiles-de-saint-barth-2011-revving.html' title='Les Voiles de Saint-Barth 2011: Revving up for a Best-Ever Edition'/><author><name>Andrea Messersì</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12782675519045603248</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kgrhzLNmoOg/TyQewRyaLGI/AAAAAAAAI_8/4lf9QPXsEd0/s220/andreamessers%25C3%25AC.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-_nyQ9qJ1X-Y/TxqQJEEoRgI/AAAAAAAAI8M/ojdHwURVipM/s72-c/m206_1302043331-WC3P5473.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2979183053996288408.post-1709864652675628700</id><published>2012-01-20T09:20:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-20T09:20:44.797+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='marco nannini'/><title type='text'>Marco Nannini ci ringrazia per il sostegno al Velista dell'Anno - Votate !!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_r6bCFPVCzc/TxkgpUy7SFI/AAAAAAAAI8E/VwxX9QdJxWg/s1600/nannini.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300px" nfa="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_r6bCFPVCzc/TxkgpUy7SFI/AAAAAAAAI8E/VwxX9QdJxWg/s400/nannini.jpg" width="400px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Ormai è quasi una settimana che ho dichiaratamente dato il mio sostegno a Marco Nannini per il premio il Velista dell'Anno e non ho potuto fare a meno di contattarlo almeno via mail per esprimergli tutto il mio appoggio e quello dei lettori del blog e, come previsto, Marco ha risposto ed ha inviato il seguente messaggio di ringraziamento a me ma soprattutto a tutti gli internauti della famiglia di NAVIGAMUS:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;""Mi fa piacere salutare tutti i lettori di NAVIGAMUS,&amp;nbsp;è un piacere condividere la mia passione per la vela, internet&amp;nbsp;è il canale più importante per la diffusione di notizie per questo sport spesso trascurato dai media e NAVIGAMUS ricopre un ruolo importante per tutta la comunità di appassionati della vela. Un abbraccio dunque a tutti da Wellington.""&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Il curriculum velico di Marco Nannini spiega bene perchè merita di essere votato Velista dell'Anno:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;- Nel 2004 Marco si trasferisce definitivamente a Londra per lavoro e coltiva la sua passione per la vela iniziando a muovere i primi passi in Oceano con le prime regate in equipaggio ridotto organizzate dal RORC, RSYC e SORC. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;- NEL 2009 PARTECIPA E VINCE NELLA SUA CLASSE LA "OSTAR", LA MITICA E LEGGENDARIA REGATA IN SOLITARIO da Plymouth (UK) a Newport Rhode Island (USA). &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;- Nel 2010 Marco compra Mowgli, un Class40 e con questa barca partecipa alla Shetland Round Britain and Ireland con il partner britannico Paul Peggs finendo in seconda posizione assoluta dopo aver condotto per 3 delle 5 tappe. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;- Nel Novembre 2010 Marco partecipa alla Route du Rhum, 3500 miglia in solitaria dalla Francia alla Guadalupa e suo debutto ufficiale nella grande vela d'altura professionistica classificandosi 27°.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Ribadisco gli altri tre semplici e validissimi buoni motivi per sostenerlo :&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;1) è l'unico italiano che sta partecipando al giro del mondo a vela a tappe con coskipper su Class 40;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;2) pur non avendo trovato il main sponsor è partito lo stesso spendendo di tasca sua una marea di soldi;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;3) a causa delle ulteriori spese per le continue riparazioni delle attrezzature e delle vele causate dalle tempestose condizioni meteo ha già dovuto mettere in vendita la sua barca per finanziare le ultime tappe della Global Ocean Race.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;PER FAVORE VI PREGO DI VOTARE MARCO NANNINI VELISTA DELL'ANNO 2012 al link:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.giornaledellavela.com/content/html/index.php?page=nodeDetail&amp;amp;idRecord=15185"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;http://www.giornaledellavela.com/content/html/index.php?page=nodeDetail&amp;amp;idRecord=15185&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;PER FAVORE VI PREGO DI DONARE ANCHE SOLI POCHI EURO A MARCO NANNINI al link:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.marconannini.com/help"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;http://www.marconannini.com/help&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2979183053996288408-1709864652675628700?l=navigamus.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/feeds/1709864652675628700/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2979183053996288408&amp;postID=1709864652675628700&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/1709864652675628700'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/1709864652675628700'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/2012/01/marco-nannini-ci-ringrazia-per-il.html' title='Marco Nannini ci ringrazia per il sostegno al Velista dell&apos;Anno - Votate !!'/><author><name>Andrea Messersì</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12782675519045603248</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kgrhzLNmoOg/TyQewRyaLGI/AAAAAAAAI_8/4lf9QPXsEd0/s220/andreamessers%25C3%25AC.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_r6bCFPVCzc/TxkgpUy7SFI/AAAAAAAAI8E/VwxX9QdJxWg/s72-c/nannini.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2979183053996288408.post-4928345339062951765</id><published>2012-01-20T08:59:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-20T08:59:25.814+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ravenna Yacht Club'/><title type='text'>Invernale di Marina di Ravenna: quinta giornata di vela domenica 22 gennaio</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-dpYK9D7Nxu4/TxkeajAh7yI/AAAAAAAAI78/Kycg5fWT4Vw/s1600/RYC.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="298px" nfa="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-dpYK9D7Nxu4/TxkeajAh7yI/AAAAAAAAI78/Kycg5fWT4Vw/s400/RYC.jpg" width="400px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Dopo la bellissima giornata di sole con temperature quasi primaverili di domenica 8 gennaio che però non aveva l’ingrediente fondamentale per regatare, il vento, ci si prepara a scendere in acqua guardando sempre al meteo. Al momento i maggiori siti di vento indicano per domenica 22 una giornata di sole e vento moderato tra 5 e 7 nodi. Vento che però è dato in calo del primo pomeriggio, per cui l’ipotesi di disputare due regate come accadde nella prima giornata di novembre sembra poco percorribile. In ogni caso sarà il comitato di regata a decidere se ci saranno le condizioni per disputare l’eventuale seconda prova e lo indicherà direttamente sul campo prima delle procedure di partenza delle tre classi. Partenza come sempre dalle 10.30. A tutti i regatanti Buon Vento !!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2979183053996288408-4928345339062951765?l=navigamus.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/feeds/4928345339062951765/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2979183053996288408&amp;postID=4928345339062951765&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/4928345339062951765'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/4928345339062951765'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/2012/01/invernale-di-marina-di-ravenna-quinta.html' title='Invernale di Marina di Ravenna: quinta giornata di vela domenica 22 gennaio'/><author><name>Andrea Messersì</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12782675519045603248</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kgrhzLNmoOg/TyQewRyaLGI/AAAAAAAAI_8/4lf9QPXsEd0/s220/andreamessers%25C3%25AC.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-dpYK9D7Nxu4/TxkeajAh7yI/AAAAAAAAI78/Kycg5fWT4Vw/s72-c/RYC.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2979183053996288408.post-2338485365949778131</id><published>2012-01-20T08:50:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-20T08:50:26.177+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='LASER RADIAL'/><title type='text'>Giovanni Coccoluto, naviga online e fa rotta verso la Rolex Miami OCR 2012</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0Q1ZjjUs_uM/TxkbwXqrDdI/AAAAAAAAI70/io8JDSPq8eM/s1600/giovannicoccoluto_it.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="211px" nfa="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0Q1ZjjUs_uM/TxkbwXqrDdI/AAAAAAAAI70/io8JDSPq8eM/s400/giovannicoccoluto_it.jpg" width="400px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.giovannicoccoluto.it/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;www.giovannicoccoluto.it&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;, il nuovo sito del giovane velista muggesano, è da oggi online. Notizie ed agiornamenti riguardanti le attività e le regate di Giovanni saranno pubblicate sul nuovo sito realizzato dall’agenzia di comunicazione e marketing Numa Italia. Di forte impatto grafico e di facile fruibilità nei contenuti, il sito giovannicoccoluto.it intende diventare un punto di riferimento per gli appassionati sostenitori e per i media che sempre più rivolgono le loro attenzioni nei confronti del promettente laserista. Coccoluto, classe 1993, è attualmente il Campione del Mondo in carica classe Laser Radial Youth; Cinque titoli italiani, tre europei e due titoli mondiali fanno di Giovanni uno dei più promettenti atleti dello sport velico giovanile. Al suo esordio nella classe Laser Standard, quest’anno, prenderà parte dal 22 al 28 gennaio alla Rolex Miami OCR 2012, regata internazionale di alto livello agonistico.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;a name='more'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;In viaggio verso la Florida, Giovanni, inizierà ad ambientarsi nelle acque di Biscayne Bay a partire da venerdì per poi iniziare le prime regate lunedì 23 gennaio; sono previste undici prove totali. Oltre a Coccoluto, portacolori del Circolo della Vela Muggia, rappresenteranno l’Italia nella classe Laser Standard maschile anche Claudio Vallesi, Michele Regolo, Marco Gallo e Alessio Spadoni.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;“Mi aspetto di trovare delle condizioni di vento non troppo facili - ha commentato prima della partenza Giovanni - Miami è un campo di regata splendido ma allo stesso tempo difficile da interpretare. Ritorno in acqua dopo la vittoria, lo scorso anno, del circuito Europa Cup in classe Radial, punto ad arrivare alla medal race, sarebbe davvero un grande risultato come prima esperienza.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Per seguire e sostenere Giovanni oltre che sul sito web, potete collegarvi alla pagina &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.facebook.com/sailingfor2016"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;https://www.facebook.com/sailingfor2016&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;cliccando mi piace e condividendone i suoi contenuti. Attualmente Giovanni fa parte del progetto agonistico “Verso Rio 2016” della Federazione Italiana Vela con il quale partecipa agli allenamenti della nazionale italiana di cui fa parte: l’obiettivo principale è la partecipazione alle Olimpiadi 2016 in Brasile nella classe Laser Standard.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2979183053996288408-2338485365949778131?l=navigamus.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/feeds/2338485365949778131/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2979183053996288408&amp;postID=2338485365949778131&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/2338485365949778131'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/2338485365949778131'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/2012/01/giovanni-coccoluto-naviga-online-e-fa.html' title='Giovanni Coccoluto, naviga online e fa rotta verso la Rolex Miami OCR 2012'/><author><name>Andrea Messersì</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12782675519045603248</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kgrhzLNmoOg/TyQewRyaLGI/AAAAAAAAI_8/4lf9QPXsEd0/s220/andreamessers%25C3%25AC.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0Q1ZjjUs_uM/TxkbwXqrDdI/AAAAAAAAI70/io8JDSPq8eM/s72-c/giovannicoccoluto_it.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2979183053996288408.post-2878641356265672969</id><published>2012-01-19T09:19:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-19T10:20:30.927+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='marco nannini'/><title type='text'>Perchè Marco Nannini merita di vincere il Velista dell'Anno (ha vinto una OSTAR !! )</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-b47_uCQeHSg/TxfOy-b3zfI/AAAAAAAAI7s/bBc4P9AYMqU/s1600/MarcoNannini.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400px" nfa="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-b47_uCQeHSg/TxfOy-b3zfI/AAAAAAAAI7s/bBc4P9AYMqU/s400/MarcoNannini.jpg" width="306px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Una breve occhiata al curriculum velico di Marco Nannini vale più di mille spiegazioni:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;- Nel 2004 Marco si&amp;nbsp;trasferisce definitivamente a Londra&amp;nbsp;per lavoro&amp;nbsp;e coltiva la sua passione per la vela&amp;nbsp;iniziando a muovere&amp;nbsp;i primi passi in Oceano con le prime regate in equipaggio ridotto organizzate dal RORC, RSYC e SORC. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;- &lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;NEL 2009 PARTECIPA E VINCE NELLA SUA CLASSE LA&amp;nbsp;"OSTAR", LA MITICA E LEGGENDARIA REGATA IN SOLITARIO&amp;nbsp;da Plymouth (UK) a Newport Rhode Island (USA).&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;- Nel 2010 Marco compra Mowgli,&amp;nbsp;un Class40 e con questa barca partecipa alla Shetland Round Britain and Ireland con il partner britannico Paul Peggs finendo in seconda posizione assoluta dopo aver condotto per 3 delle 5 tappe. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;- Nel Novembre 2010 Marco partecipa alla Route du Rhum, 3500 miglia in solitaria dalla Francia alla Guadalupa e suo debutto ufficiale nella grande vela d'altura professionistica classificandosi 27°.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Ribadisco&amp;nbsp;gli altri tre semplici e validissimi buoni motivi per sostenerlo :&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;1) è l'unico italiano che sta partecipando al giro del mondo a vela a tappe con coskipper su Class 40;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;2) pur non avendo trovato il main sponsor è partito lo stesso spendendo di tasca sua una marea di soldi;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;3) a causa delle ulteriori spese per le continue riparazioni delle attrezzature e delle vele causate dalle tempestose condizioni meteo ha già dovuto mettere in vendita la sua barca per finanziare le ultime tappe della Global Ocean Race.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;PER FAVORE VI PREGO DI VOTARE MARCO NANNINI VELISTA DELL'ANNO 2012 al link:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.giornaledellavela.com/content/html/index.php?page=nodeDetail&amp;amp;idRecord=15185"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;http://www.giornaledellavela.com/content/html/index.php?page=nodeDetail&amp;amp;idRecord=15185&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;PER FAVORE VI PREGO DI DONARE ANCHE SOLI POCHI EURO A MARCO NANNINI al link:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.marconannini.com/help"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;http://www.marconannini.com/help&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2979183053996288408-2878641356265672969?l=navigamus.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/feeds/2878641356265672969/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2979183053996288408&amp;postID=2878641356265672969&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/2878641356265672969'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/2878641356265672969'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/2012/01/perche-marco-nannini-merita-di-vincere.html' title='Perchè Marco Nannini merita di vincere il Velista dell&apos;Anno (ha vinto una OSTAR !! )'/><author><name>Andrea Messersì</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12782675519045603248</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kgrhzLNmoOg/TyQewRyaLGI/AAAAAAAAI_8/4lf9QPXsEd0/s220/andreamessers%25C3%25AC.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-b47_uCQeHSg/TxfOy-b3zfI/AAAAAAAAI7s/bBc4P9AYMqU/s72-c/MarcoNannini.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2979183053996288408.post-8692660872613261093</id><published>2012-01-19T08:44:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-19T08:44:58.573+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='MELGES 32'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='MASCALZONE LATINO'/><title type='text'>Mascalzone Latino a fasi alterne nella seconda giornata della Key West Race Week - classifica</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-mg7NpZTjf8E/TxfJQ-7SMUI/AAAAAAAAI7k/LBXfdA_I_xQ/s1600/dsc_2093_0.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="265px" nfa="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-mg7NpZTjf8E/TxfJQ-7SMUI/AAAAAAAAI7k/LBXfdA_I_xQ/s400/dsc_2093_0.jpg" width="400px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;La seconda giornata della Quantum Key West 2012 è stata molto lunga. Come da programma il Comitato di Regata della seconda divisione, quella a cui appartiene la flotta dei 19 Melges 32, ha fatto disputare tre prove portando a cinque il totale delle regate svolte. Un vento che nel corso della giornata è stato mediamente di 10-12 nodi di intensità, inferiore alle aspettative, ha reso tutt’altro che semplice il lavoro dei tattici. Boat of the day sono stati gli americani di Pisces di Benjamin Schwartz, con alla tattica Ed Baird, capaci di vincere le prime due regate del giorno, la terza e la quarta del campionato, e di concludere sesti nella quinta. Un ottimo rullino di marcia che consente a Pisces di guadagnare la testa della classifica generale provvisoria, sebbene in coabitazione con Samba Pa Tì di John Kilroy, entrambi con un totale di 14 punti.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;a name='more'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Non delle migliori la giornata di Mascalzone Latino, il team di Vincenzo Onorato, che oggi è partito bene, conquistando un importante secondo posto nella prima regata, ma poi nelle due successive ha sofferto parecchio per cercare di rimanere nel gruppetto di testa. Nella quarta e quinta manche, i Mascalzoni hanno ottenuto rispettivamente un undicesimo ed un nono posto che gli valgono la quarta posizione in generale, a soli 3 punti dal terzo.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;“Sono state due incredibili giornate per regatare - commenta il drizzista Matteo Savelli - lunedì con vento teso, ieri con vento medio. Condizioni in cui abbiamo visto che dobbiamo e possiamo ancora migliorarci. Nella quarta e quinta prova abbiamo commesso diversi errori e soprattutto non abbiamo portato la barca al meglio. Comunque sia, siamo appena a metà del campionato: mancano ancora cinque regate, e i giochi sono ancora apertissimi”.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Per oggi, mercoledì 18 gennaio, le previsioni meteo sono di pochissimo vento: è infatti per questo motivo che nella seconda giornata il Comitato di Regata aveva anticipato la partenza di un’ora e fatto disputare tre prove.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Oggi, come il primo giorno, il colpo di cannone della sesta prova verrà dato alle ore 10.30 (16.30 orario italiano).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Classifica generale provvisoria dopo 5 regate:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;1) Pisces (U.S.A.), Benjamin Schwartz/Ed Baird, 3-3-1-1-6 = 14 pti&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;2) Samba Pa Ti (U.S.A.), John Kilroy/Lorenzo Bressani, 1-1-5-3-4 = 14 pti&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;3) Hedgehog (U.S.A.) Alec Cutler/Richard Clarke, 4-2-8-4-7 = 25 pti&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;4) Mascalzone Latino (ITA) Vincenzo Onorato/Gabriele Benussi, 2-4-2-11-9 = 28 pti&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;5) Heartbreaker (U.S.A.), Bob Hughes/Tovar Mirsky, 10-13-6-8-2 = 39 pti&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;........&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2979183053996288408-8692660872613261093?l=navigamus.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/feeds/8692660872613261093/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2979183053996288408&amp;postID=8692660872613261093&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/8692660872613261093'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/8692660872613261093'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/2012/01/mascalzone-latino-fasi-alterne-nella.html' title='Mascalzone Latino a fasi alterne nella seconda giornata della Key West Race Week - classifica'/><author><name>Andrea Messersì</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12782675519045603248</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kgrhzLNmoOg/TyQewRyaLGI/AAAAAAAAI_8/4lf9QPXsEd0/s220/andreamessers%25C3%25AC.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-mg7NpZTjf8E/TxfJQ-7SMUI/AAAAAAAAI7k/LBXfdA_I_xQ/s72-c/dsc_2093_0.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2979183053996288408.post-2320624552820819318</id><published>2012-01-19T08:38:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-19T08:38:11.480+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Canottieri Garda Salò'/><title type='text'>LA VELA NUOVAMENTE PROTAGONISTA SUL LAGO DI GARDA</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dpcXCt53Ank/TxfIBPBm2gI/AAAAAAAAI7c/kCVmCKse380/s1600/DSC_9673.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="265px" nfa="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dpcXCt53Ank/TxfIBPBm2gI/AAAAAAAAI7c/kCVmCKse380/s400/DSC_9673.jpg" width="400px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;La vela agonistica torna ad animare il golfo di Salò con ben due regate della “Winter Cup 2011-2012” e la presenza della nazionale azzurra delle Paralimpiadi di Londra. Sabato e domenica si correranno due tappe del Campionato Invernale della riva lombarda del Benàco, quella non disputata a Maderno le scorse settimane e la “Regata della Merla”. La “Winter gardesana” è un circuito a tappe co promosso dai club del Circolo Nautico di Portese, Circolo Vela Toscolano-Maderno, Canottieri Garda Salò e Circolo Vela Gargnano. Sempre a Salò ed al Marina della Canottieri sarà nuovamente presente la nazionale azzurra delle Paralimpiadi di Londra. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;a name='more'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Per la classe Sonar ci saranno per la classe Sonar: Massimo Dighe (Fiamme Azzurre), Paola Protopapa (Canottieri Aniene Roma), Antonio Squizzato (Canottieri Garda); per la classe Skud 18, Marco Gualandris (Avas Lovere) e Marta Zanetti (Centro Vela Alto Adriatico – Lignano); i tecnici Beppe Devoti e Giulio Comboni. Sabato 4 febbraio i velisti del lago saluteranno il 2012 con la tradizionale prova della "Trans Lac en Du", gara in notturra sulla rotta Salò-Portese-Maderno con equipaggi formati da sole due persone. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2979183053996288408-2320624552820819318?l=navigamus.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/feeds/2320624552820819318/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2979183053996288408&amp;postID=2320624552820819318&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/2320624552820819318'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/2320624552820819318'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/2012/01/la-vela-nuovamente-protagonista-sul.html' title='LA VELA NUOVAMENTE PROTAGONISTA SUL LAGO DI GARDA'/><author><name>Andrea Messersì</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12782675519045603248</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kgrhzLNmoOg/TyQewRyaLGI/AAAAAAAAI_8/4lf9QPXsEd0/s220/andreamessers%25C3%25AC.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dpcXCt53Ank/TxfIBPBm2gI/AAAAAAAAI7c/kCVmCKse380/s72-c/DSC_9673.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2979183053996288408.post-1623780603958709458</id><published>2012-01-19T08:34:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-19T08:34:40.332+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='PLATU 25'/><title type='text'>PLATU  - PRIMO CUP AI BLOCCHI DI PARTENZA</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-7nCpbnDf7P4/TxfHLmBVe0I/AAAAAAAAI7U/EO7r75zd8Q0/s1600/DSC_1464.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="265px" nfa="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-7nCpbnDf7P4/TxfHLmBVe0I/AAAAAAAAI7U/EO7r75zd8Q0/s400/DSC_1464.jpg" width="400px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;La classe internazionale dei Platu 25, dopo la lunga pausa invernale, si prepara a partecipare alla prossima edizione della Primo Cup che si svolgerà dal 3 al 12 di febbraio. Gli equipaggi dei Platu 25 scenderanno in acqua nel week end dal 3 al 5 febbraio, per prendere parte a un appuntamento irrinunciabile che ogni anno apre ufficialmente la nuova stagione velica. Il prestigio della Primo Cup è confermato dall'alto numero dei partecipanti e dall'elevato livello tecnico degli equipaggi. Alla "Primo Cup - Trophée Credit Suisse" organizzato dallo Yacht Club di Monaco sono attesi almeno un migliaio di regatanti da ogni parte d'Europa, di 15 nazionalità diverse&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;a name='more'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Nel primo fine settimana (dal 3 al 5 febbraio) regateranno le classi Dragon, J/24, Melges 20, Surprise, Platu 25, SB3 e Star. La settimana dopo, sarà la volta degli X35, Melges 32, Smeralda 888, Longtze Premier, Esse 850, J80, Tofinou, IRC. In occasione della sua 28esima edizione, la Primo Cup ha voluto rinnovarsi, aprendosi a un numero ancora più grande di partecipanti e invitando, per esempio, la classe Tofinou e IRC (racers/cruisers). Quindi quest'anno saranno rappresentate ben 15 classi diverse che si confronteranno di fronte alle acque della splendida baia di Monaco&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Anche quest'anno, la classe dei Platu 25 conferma il suo carattere internazionale, garantendo la partecipazione di equipaggi di almeno 4 diverse nazionalità. Ci saranno, infatti, quattro barche tedesche: "Gamberro" con al timone Sebastian Sturm, "Spirit of 25" e "Yes Weekend" timonata da Robert Siegle. Ci sarà anche un nuovo equipaggio, il "GRÜN Sailing Team" che altri non è che il vecchio e competitivo equipaggio tedesco di "Farrbar" a bordo di un'altra barca. Non mancheranno poi i talentuosi ragazzi di "Superbüsi" con al timone il valente Mathias Bermejo. Gli svizzeri lasceranno momentaneamente il lago di Lucerna per venire a dire la loro in acque monegasche. A questi si aggiungeranno altri due equipaggi francesi. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Tra gli italiani, è attesa "Nanuk" di Gianrocco Catalano che l'anno scorso, con al timone Luigi Ravioli, si è aggiudicata la vittoria della Primo Cup nell'ambito dei Platu 25. Due anni fa, nel 2010, l'imbarcazione tedesca "Farrbar" si è aggiudicata il gradino più alto del podio e quest'anno, l'equipaggio capeggiato da Jens Ahlgrimm torna a Monaco con il "GRÜN Sailing Team" per tentare di riprendersi il titolo. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2979183053996288408-1623780603958709458?l=navigamus.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/feeds/1623780603958709458/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2979183053996288408&amp;postID=1623780603958709458&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/1623780603958709458'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/1623780603958709458'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/2012/01/platu-primo-cup-ai-blocchi-di-partenza.html' title='PLATU  - PRIMO CUP AI BLOCCHI DI PARTENZA'/><author><name>Andrea Messersì</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12782675519045603248</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kgrhzLNmoOg/TyQewRyaLGI/AAAAAAAAI_8/4lf9QPXsEd0/s220/andreamessers%25C3%25AC.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-7nCpbnDf7P4/TxfHLmBVe0I/AAAAAAAAI7U/EO7r75zd8Q0/s72-c/DSC_1464.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2979183053996288408.post-3442164139831293755</id><published>2012-01-19T08:28:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-19T08:28:14.242+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='VELA E IMPEGNO SOCIALE'/><title type='text'>10.000 Vele di Solidarietà, in rotta verso la seconda boa</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-E7PwxbH_02g/TxfFixlLtbI/AAAAAAAAI7M/41miTZ06Mks/s1600/328426_1815981934756_1696342824_948318_1102405662_o.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="298px" nfa="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-E7PwxbH_02g/TxfFixlLtbI/AAAAAAAAI7M/41miTZ06Mks/s400/328426_1815981934756_1696342824_948318_1102405662_o.jpg" width="400px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Prosegue a pieno ritmo anche nel 2012 l'impegno dell'Associazione “10.000 Vele di Solidarietà” per la raccolta fondi a favore delle popolazioni liguri colpite dall'alluvione dell'ottobre scorso. Il primo atto, svoltosi nel Golfo dei Poeti, si è concluso il 4 dicembre; l'evento nonostante le previsioni meteo sfavorevoli ha visto la partecipazione di ben cento imbarcazioni a bordo delle quali si sono ritrovati appassionati e grandi nomi del mondo della vela, tra i quali Mauro Pelaschier, Pasquale De Gregorio, Susanne Beyer e Giovanni Soldini. La prima boa è stata raggiunta: hanno vinto tutti, nessuno escluso. In acqua la prima barca sul traguardo è stata quella della Sezione Velica della Marina Militare di La Spezia che ha ottenuto in premio un quadro del pittore spezzino Mimmo Ceccarelli. Il quadro, su proposta dei vincitori, è stato poi rimesso in palio per la tappa successiva.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;a name='more'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Con lo svolgimento del primo atto sono stati raccolti ben ventiseimila euro. La somma è stata destinata all’acquisto di due furgoni a favore della Coperativa Sociale Gulliver per il trasporto di bambini e disabili. Il primo dei due furgoni è stato già consegnato ai responsabili dell’Associazione, il secondo, già acquistato, sarà consegnato nelle prossime settimane.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Un vero e proprio villaggio della vela, aperto a tutti gli appassionati ed ai partecipanti è stato allestito all’interno delle strutture del Porto Mirabello, il quale ha concesso gratuitamente l’utilizzo dei propri spazi.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;La rotta per il raggiungimento della seconda boa vedrà lo svolgimento della seconda veleggiata nel Golfo dei Poeti dal 7 al 9 aprile, in concomitanza al weekend di Pasqua. La flotta virtuale continuerà fino a Primavera il suo cammino, si invita tutti, pertanto, ad iscrivere online barche vere o di fantasia che siano per aumentare il numero delle donazioni ed aiutare chi è stato colpito da questo drammatico evento. Sul sito &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.10000vele.it/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;www.10000vele.it&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt; si possono trovare tutti i moduli d'iscrizione e tutte le informazioni sul progetto.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;I fondi raccolti con le iscrizioni online alla regata e le donazioni volontarie non vengono utilizzati per coprire le spese organizzative, sostenute dall'impegno di numerosi volontari e aiuti degli sponsor.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;L'evento è stato creato e realizzato dall'Associazione "10.000 Vele di Solidarietà" in modo da portare un aiuto concreto alle popolazioni liguri colpite dall'alluvione dello scorso ottobre 2011. Si compone di due fasi: Act 1, veleggiata svolta nel Golfo dei Poeti il 4 dicembre; Act 2, seconda veleggiata che si terrà nella Primavera del 2012, dal 7 al 9 aprile, sempre nel Golfo dei Poeti.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Le quote d'iscrizione sono completamente devolute al fondo solidarietà. Si segnala che gli equipaggi che hanno partecipato all'Act 1 hanno versato più di quanto veniva richiesto e la stessa collaborazione è stata concessa dai porti turistici ed operatori del Golfo che hanno offerto tutti i loro servizi a titolo gratuito.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Per iscrizioni/donazioni di seguito indichiamo le coordinate bancarie:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Cassa di Risparmio della Spezia – Ag.Sarzana&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Associazione 10000 vele di solidarietà&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;IBAN IT05Y0603049840000046751701&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;B.I.C. CRFIIT2S335&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Causale: Iscrizione (indicare reale o virtuale) imbarcazione (indicare il nome) armatore (indicare nome/cognome/società)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2979183053996288408-3442164139831293755?l=navigamus.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/feeds/3442164139831293755/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2979183053996288408&amp;postID=3442164139831293755&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/3442164139831293755'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/3442164139831293755'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/2012/01/10000-vele-di-solidarieta-in-rotta.html' title='10.000 Vele di Solidarietà, in rotta verso la seconda boa'/><author><name>Andrea Messersì</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12782675519045603248</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kgrhzLNmoOg/TyQewRyaLGI/AAAAAAAAI_8/4lf9QPXsEd0/s220/andreamessers%25C3%25AC.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-E7PwxbH_02g/TxfFixlLtbI/AAAAAAAAI7M/41miTZ06Mks/s72-c/328426_1815981934756_1696342824_948318_1102405662_o.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2979183053996288408.post-84124861707198007</id><published>2012-01-19T08:24:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-19T08:24:27.840+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Global Ocean Race - BT Boats Class40 Kiwi40FC #3 Bodacious Dream undergoes sea trials in Wellington</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-crwqS9NW1Uc/TxfExydqxBI/AAAAAAAAI7E/TDRjbHWbM9c/s1600/1526427370.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="265px" nfa="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-crwqS9NW1Uc/TxfExydqxBI/AAAAAAAAI7E/TDRjbHWbM9c/s400/1526427370.jpg" width="400px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;The third BT Boats Kiwi40FC Class40, Bodacious Dream, was recently launched at Hakes Marine in Wellington, New Zealand. Before the boat leaves for the US, her American skipper, Dave Rearick, is taking the boat test sailing in Wellington Harbour. For Lapo Ancillotti, Bodacious Dream represents the BT Boats ideal of an all-round, high-performance Class40: “We definitely wanted to design an all-round Class40 and I had the feeling that most of the designs are fairly specialised, specifically for reaching,” says Ancillotti. “We wanted to develop a boat that could be raced effectively in many circumstances, short-handed, fully-crewed, inshore and offshore and I think we’ve really achieved something.” Watch a video of the Farr Yacht Design Class40 undergoing sea trails and an explanation of the project by Lapo Ancillotti here. Bodacious Dream will be shipped to Florida, USA, and will compete in the Atlantic Cup before beginning the work-up programme for the 2013-14 Global Ocean Race.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2979183053996288408-84124861707198007?l=navigamus.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/feeds/84124861707198007/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2979183053996288408&amp;postID=84124861707198007&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/84124861707198007'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/84124861707198007'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/2012/01/global-ocean-race-bt-boats-class40.html' title='Global Ocean Race - BT Boats Class40 Kiwi40FC #3 Bodacious Dream undergoes sea trials in Wellington'/><author><name>Andrea Messersì</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12782675519045603248</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kgrhzLNmoOg/TyQewRyaLGI/AAAAAAAAI_8/4lf9QPXsEd0/s220/andreamessers%25C3%25AC.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-crwqS9NW1Uc/TxfExydqxBI/AAAAAAAAI7E/TDRjbHWbM9c/s72-c/1526427370.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2979183053996288408.post-2168498947219491219</id><published>2012-01-18T09:23:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-18T09:23:09.305+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='marco nannini'/><title type='text'>Marco Nannini ringrazia i suoi sostenitori per il Velista dell'Anno</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jndZJIvHo9Y/TxZ-rbK2W8I/AAAAAAAAI68/X3VNB_MGWh4/s1600/nannini.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300px" kba="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jndZJIvHo9Y/TxZ-rbK2W8I/AAAAAAAAI68/X3VNB_MGWh4/s400/nannini.JPG" width="400px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;""Grazie! Col vostro aiuto sono passato in testa alla classifica provvisoria Velista dell'Anno. Vi invio questo breve messaggio per ringraziare tutti coloro che nei giorni scorsi mi hanno votato online sul sito del Giornale della Vela portandomi così in testa alla classifica provvisoria che determinerà la premiazione del Velista dell'Anno. Sono comparsi online svariati articoli di supporto e il link per votare si sta diffondendo rapidamente su Facebook e Twitter, in pochi giorni una valanga di voti che mi regala un sorriso durante gli stressanti preparativi per la terza tappa della Global Ocean Race. Oggi abbiamo iniziato a preprare le buste giornaliere contententi ognuna il cibo che Hugo ed io mangeremo durante la prossima tappa, tutti i pasti principali sono liofilizzati ma per tirare su il morale anche cioccolata e bustine per minestrine istantanee... c'e' ancora molto da fare prima della partenza ma in un modo o nell'altro saremo pronti. &lt;strong&gt;Ancora un grazie quindi, se non lo avete ancora fatto potete aiutarmi a rimanere in testa alla classifica seguendo questo link e partecipando anche voi alla votazione:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.giornaledellavela.com/content/html/index.php?page=nodeDetail&amp;amp;idRecord=15185"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;http://www.giornaledellavela.com/content/html/index.php?page=nodeDetail&amp;amp;idRecord=15185&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt; ""&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;In aggiunta ai ringraziamenti&amp;nbsp;di Marco ribadisco i miei tre semplici e validissimi buoni motivi per sostenerlo :&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;1) è l'unico italiano che sta partecipando al giro del mondo a vela a tappe con coskipper su Class 40;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;2) pur non avendo trovato il main sponsor è partito lo stesso spendendo di tasca sua una marea di soldi;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;3) a causa delle ulteriori spese per le continue riparazioni delle attrezzature e delle vele causate dalle tempestose condizioni meteo ha già dovuto mettere in vendita la sua barca per finanziare le ultime tappe della Global Ocean Race ..... per questi motivi ......&lt;br /&gt;PER FAVORE VI PREGO DI DONARE ANCHE SOLI POCHI EURO A MARCO NANNINI al link:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.marconannini.com/help"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;http://www.marconannini.com/help&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2979183053996288408-2168498947219491219?l=navigamus.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/feeds/2168498947219491219/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2979183053996288408&amp;postID=2168498947219491219&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/2168498947219491219'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/2168498947219491219'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/2012/01/marco-nannini-ringrazia-i-suoi.html' title='Marco Nannini ringrazia i suoi sostenitori per il Velista dell&apos;Anno'/><author><name>Andrea Messersì</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12782675519045603248</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kgrhzLNmoOg/TyQewRyaLGI/AAAAAAAAI_8/4lf9QPXsEd0/s220/andreamessers%25C3%25AC.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jndZJIvHo9Y/TxZ-rbK2W8I/AAAAAAAAI68/X3VNB_MGWh4/s72-c/nannini.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2979183053996288408.post-3321180999364586591</id><published>2012-01-18T09:02:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-18T09:02:09.540+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='MELGES 32'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='MASCALZONE LATINO'/><title type='text'>Quantum Key West - I Mascalzoni iniziano con il piede giusto - classifica</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-uPQsvWBTPKI/TxZ7mk6Hd-I/AAAAAAAAI60/ih_GW2FIuE8/s1600/AAD-ML-nero-WEB-CS-HEAD-M32.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="166px" kba="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-uPQsvWBTPKI/TxZ7mk6Hd-I/AAAAAAAAI60/ih_GW2FIuE8/s400/AAD-ML-nero-WEB-CS-HEAD-M32.jpg" width="400px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;La prima giornata della Quantum Key West 2012 è stata spettacolare, ma molto impegnativa per le dure condizioni meteo che si sono, come da previsioni, materializzate sul campo di regata.&amp;nbsp;Diciannove i Melges 32 al via, il raggruppamento più numeroso e senza ombra di dubbio quello con il livello tecnico più elevato. Condizioni maschie che hanno messo a dura prova gli equipaggi. Due le prove disputate con un vento da est di intensità di 14-16 nodi nella prima regata, andati poi ad aumentare sino a toccare quota 25. Un vero e proprio spettacolo. Mascalzone Latino, ITA-2121, che difende i colori del New York Yacht Club, è partito subito con il piede giusto, inanellando un secondo ed un quarto posto frutto di due regate costantemente in rimonta.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;a name='more'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Il team di Vincenzo Onorato, che per l’occasione schiera alla tattica il triestino Gabriele Benussi, è stato uno dei pochi capace di tenere testa ad un Samba Pa Tì, vice campione del mondo in carica, più che mai scatenato.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Nella prima regata i Mascalzoni partono bene e, grazie ad una buona conduzione del mezzo, hanno fatto vedere che, soprattutto di bolina, sono stati quelli maggiormente capaci di impressionare gli avversari per la velocità espressa sull’acqua. Sesto alla prima boa al vento, metro dopo metro, Mascalzone Latino recupera posizioni su posizioni sino a tagliare il traguardo secondo, un’ottantina di metri dietro a Samba Pa Ti di John Kilroy (tattico Lorenzo Bressani).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Nella seconda prova tutto è più difficile: prima del colpo di cannone, per evitare di impigliarsi sulla cima di una boetta che si trovava in prossimità della linea di partenza, Mascalzone Latino commette un fallo su un avversario ed è costretto a compiere la penalità. Il tattico, Gabriele Benussi, decide di scontarla ancor prima della sirena, ma ovviamente il tutto compromette seriamente l’avvio della regata.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Grazie però a un’ottima velocità di bolina e a scelte tattiche azzeccate i Mascalzoni, facendo slalom tra le barche, virano la prima boa del percorso in terza posizione. La regata è lunga: sono cinque lati, tre boline e due poppe. Anche la seconda regata viene vinta da Samba Pa Tì, davanti ai bermudiani di Hedgehog e un’ottimo Pisces con alla tattica il vincitore della 32esima America’s Cup, Ed Baird.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Per oggi le previsioni prevedono una ventina di nodi la mattina, che dovrebbero andare a diminuire di intensità a partire dalle prime ore del pomeriggio. Tenendo conto che per la giornata di mercoledì il meteo non promette nulla di buono, dovrebbe esserci bonaccia, il Comitato di Regata ha così optato per anticipare di un’ora (ore 10.30 locali, 16.30 in Italia) l’orario di partenza della prima prova della seconda giornata, con l’obiettivo di far disputare tre regate.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Classifica generale provvisoria dopo 2 regate:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;1.) Samba Pa Ti, (U.S.A.) John Kilroy/Lorenzo Bressani, 1-1 = 2&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;2.) Hedgehog, (BER) Alec Cutler/Richard Clarke, 4-2 = 6&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;3. Mascalzone Latino, (ITA) Vincenzo Onorato/Gabriele Benussi, 2-4 = 6&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;4.) Pisces, (U.S.A.) Benjamin Schwartz/Ed Baird, 3-3 = 6&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;5.) Catapult, (U.S.A.) Joel Ronning/Chris Larson, 5-6 = 11&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;6.) Warpath, (U.S.A.) Steve Howe/Morgan Larson, 12-5 = 17&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;7.) Sicktrix32, (U.S.A.) Geoff Pierini/Morgan Reeser, 9-8 = 17&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;8.) Mojo, (U.S.A.) Steve Rhyne/Johnny Lovell, 6-12 = 18&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;9.) Celeritas, (U.S.A.) Malcolm Gefter/John Mollicone, 8-10 = 18 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;10.) Swing, (JPN) Keisuke Suzuki/Jesper Radich, 11-9 = 20&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2979183053996288408-3321180999364586591?l=navigamus.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/feeds/3321180999364586591/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2979183053996288408&amp;postID=3321180999364586591&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/3321180999364586591'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/3321180999364586591'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/2012/01/quantum-key-west-i-mascalzoni-iniziano.html' title='Quantum Key West - I Mascalzoni iniziano con il piede giusto - classifica'/><author><name>Andrea Messersì</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12782675519045603248</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kgrhzLNmoOg/TyQewRyaLGI/AAAAAAAAI_8/4lf9QPXsEd0/s220/andreamessers%25C3%25AC.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-uPQsvWBTPKI/TxZ7mk6Hd-I/AAAAAAAAI60/ih_GW2FIuE8/s72-c/AAD-ML-nero-WEB-CS-HEAD-M32.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2979183053996288408.post-4346112924118351544</id><published>2012-01-18T08:55:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-18T08:55:05.415+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Vasco Vascotto'/><title type='text'>Quantum Key West 2012: Vasco Vascotto inzia l'anno sul Farr40, ottima partenza</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-otf5w-kbCaU/TxZ6cAO6oVI/AAAAAAAAI6s/UUcZjvqqVyQ/s1600/375.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="266px" kba="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-otf5w-kbCaU/TxZ6cAO6oVI/AAAAAAAAI6s/UUcZjvqqVyQ/s400/375.jpg" width="400px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Parte da Key la Stagione 2012 di Vasco Vascotto, con l'obbiettivo di puntare a grandi obbiettivi come nella passata stagione. Le acque della Florida aprono l'anno, dando vita alla Quantum Key West Regatta, evento che "catapulta" nella punta estrema delle isole Keys i migliori velisti al mondo, dissipati nella svariate categorie (12 per un totale di 112 imbarcazioni iscritte) che vanno dai piccolo Melges 24, passando per i Farr40, sino ai più grandi Tp52 ed i MiniMaxi. La mancanza di Nerone (da sempre l'imbarcazione alla quale Vasco è legato affettivamente per l'amicizia che lo lega allo storico armatore Massimo Mezzaroma) assente a questa tappa, ha visto salire il tattico triestino a bordo di Struntje light GER 40 dell'Armatore Wolfgang Schaefer. A bordo insieme a lui, anche Massimo Bortoletto, altro storico membro di Nerone ITA 1972. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;a name='more'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Due prove con condizioni perfette, sole e vento sostenuto, condizioni tipiche di questo periodo. Il feeling a bordo è sicuramente da rodare per i ragazzi capitanati da Vascotto, ma con l'esperienze dei singoli il risultato è subito a portata di mano. Sono sempre i soliti a far la differenza, Groovederci e Flash Gordon, ma con un secondo e un terzo di manche, la seconda piazza in classifica è il giusto "compenso" per l'imbarcazione tedesca GER 40. Vascotto è soddisfatto della giornata, domani, con condizioni di vento forte, il Comitato di Regata cercherà di portare a casa tre prove, chi ben comincia..... &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;"E' un inizio di stagione positivo - sono le parole di Vasco Vascotto, tattico di Struntje Light - le condizioni qui a Key West sono veramente ottimali per regatare, cerchiamo di migliorare il feeling a bordo e di regatare bene, i risultati poi vengon da soli." &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2979183053996288408-4346112924118351544?l=navigamus.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/feeds/4346112924118351544/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2979183053996288408&amp;postID=4346112924118351544&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/4346112924118351544'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/4346112924118351544'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/2012/01/quantum-key-west-2012-vasco-vascotto.html' title='Quantum Key West 2012: Vasco Vascotto inzia l&apos;anno sul Farr40, ottima partenza'/><author><name>Andrea Messersì</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12782675519045603248</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kgrhzLNmoOg/TyQewRyaLGI/AAAAAAAAI_8/4lf9QPXsEd0/s220/andreamessers%25C3%25AC.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-otf5w-kbCaU/TxZ6cAO6oVI/AAAAAAAAI6s/UUcZjvqqVyQ/s72-c/375.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2979183053996288408.post-7973662903111586415</id><published>2012-01-18T08:50:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-18T08:50:22.791+01:00</updated><title type='text'>LA MARINA DI LOANO PROMUOVE UN’OFFERTA CHE AZZERA LA NUOVA TASSA DI STAZIONAMENTO</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-EUYEOfqgCrs/TxZ48kC7qdI/AAAAAAAAI6k/1K2LzUB9Los/s1600/MarinaDiLoano.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="266px" kba="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-EUYEOfqgCrs/TxZ48kC7qdI/AAAAAAAAI6k/1K2LzUB9Los/s400/MarinaDiLoano.jpg" width="400px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Marina di Loano, la struttura portuale d’eccellenza realizzata a Loano su iniziativa del Gruppo Fondiaria SAI, lancia un’offerta dedicata al mercato del diporto per ammortizzare il costo della nuova tassa di stazionamento che entrerà in vigore il 1° maggio prossimo. Armatori e diportisti potranno così approfittare, per l’affitto di un posto barca, di condizioni esclusive che permetteranno loro di azzerare o attenuare gli effetti della nuova tassazione. La promozione, infatti, è modulata su vari livelli in rapporto alle dimensioni delle imbarcazioni; sono inoltre previste condizioni particolarmente vantaggiose per quanti acquisteranno un nuovo posto barca e per i turisti stranieri che vorranno ormeggiare a Marina di Loano. “Da sempre la mission di Marina di Loano è quella di ricercare la massima soddisfazione possibile dei propri clienti – dichiara il direttore della Marina Marco Cornacchia – anche in questo frangente, pertanto, abbiamo cercato soluzioni mirate ad agevolare il mercato in un momento difficile per la nautica italiana, mantenendo nello stesso tempo i nostri assoluti standard di qualità”. La promozione di Marina di Loano sarà in vigore fino 29 Febbraio 2012. Maggiori informazioni al n° 019 67.99.127 o su &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.marinadiloano.it/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;www.marinadiloano.it&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt; .&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;a name='more'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Marina di Loano: il Porto che vive tutto l’anno&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Marina di Loano nel Ponente Ligure, gode di una posizione centrale e facilmente raggiungibile via mare e via terra. Realizzata nell’assoluto rispetto per l’ambiente e integrata nel territorio circostante, Marina di Loano è in grado di accogliere oltre mille imbarcazioni dagli 8 fino ai 60 metri di lunghezza distribuite tra banchine, pontili galleggianti e ormeggi finger. Il cantiere navale (12.000 mq di area dedicata) è gestito da Amico Loano, secondo cantiere, dopo quello di Genova, del Gruppo Amico &amp;amp; Co. L’elegante Yacht Club dispone di camere e suite panoramiche ad elevato comfort, la Corte e i Portici ospitano i negozi e le attività commerciali, i ristoranti e il BFly Beach Beach Club. Sulla lunga spiaggia di Levante sono firmati da un’eccellenza della ristorazione, del relax e del divertimento: Marco BelloniZeffirino. Protetta da una imponente diga foranea, che non nasconde l’orizzonte a chi passeggia sul lungo mare, Marina di Loano racchiude un bacino facilmente accessibile e sicuro anche nelle condizioni più avverse. Marina di Loano è il Porto che vive tutto l’anno, dove i clienti sono accolti ogni giorno con ineguagliabile cura. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2979183053996288408-7973662903111586415?l=navigamus.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/feeds/7973662903111586415/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2979183053996288408&amp;postID=7973662903111586415&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/7973662903111586415'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/7973662903111586415'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/2012/01/la-marina-di-loano-promuove-unofferta.html' title='LA MARINA DI LOANO PROMUOVE UN’OFFERTA CHE AZZERA LA NUOVA TASSA DI STAZIONAMENTO'/><author><name>Andrea Messersì</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12782675519045603248</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kgrhzLNmoOg/TyQewRyaLGI/AAAAAAAAI_8/4lf9QPXsEd0/s220/andreamessers%25C3%25AC.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-EUYEOfqgCrs/TxZ48kC7qdI/AAAAAAAAI6k/1K2LzUB9Los/s72-c/MarinaDiLoano.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2979183053996288408.post-4799837070798192081</id><published>2012-01-18T08:43:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-18T08:43:47.703+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Global Ocean Race confirms the Felipe Cubillos Cape Horn Gate for Leg 3</title><content type='html'>﻿ &lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ZT9xm8Wm8pU/TxZ2gI1UuPI/AAAAAAAAI6c/LcDSg3b-NC0/s1600/1343370094.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300px" kba="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ZT9xm8Wm8pU/TxZ2gI1UuPI/AAAAAAAAI6c/LcDSg3b-NC0/s400/1343370094.jpg" width="400px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: small;"&gt;The Felipe Cubillos Cape Horn Gate Trophy - a replica of the albatross statue located at Cape Horn&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: small;"&gt;During Leg 3 of the double-handed, Class40 Global Ocean Race 2011-12 (GOR), the fleet will round Cape Horn, Chile, as they exit the Southern Ocean and enter the South Atlantic en route to the finish line in Punta del Este, Uruguay. At the longitude of Cape Horn, the boats will pass through the Felipe Cubillos Cape Horn Gate. Named after the late Chilean yachtsman and competitor in the inaugural 2008-09 GOR, the first GOR Class40 to round Cape Horn will receive a trophy presented by Felipe’s family and the Chilean skipper’s yacht club, the Cofradía Náutica del Pacífico. The trophy is a replica of the albatross statue installed on Horn Island west of the eastern lighthouse. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;a name='more'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: small;"&gt;Thursday 19 March 2009 was a landmark day for Chilean yachtsmen. At 00:50 UTC, two of the country’s offshore sailors, Felipe Cubillos and José Muñoz, raced around Cape Horn leading the fleet in the 2008-09 Global Ocean Race on their Class40, Desafio Cabo de Hornos, during Leg 3 from Wellington, New Zealand, to Brazil. Cubillos and Muñoz sailed straight into the record books as the first Chileans to race around their country’s southernmost outpost during a circumnavigation; the first modern, 40ft yacht to race around the bottom of the globe and the first Class40 to take on the Southern Ocean and reach 56°S, gaining the duo a sporting status in Chile usually reserved for football stars.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: small;"&gt;Following the GOR 2008-09, 49 year-old Felipe Cubillos became a driving force behind Desafío Levantemos Chile (Rise up Chile) – a charity involved with the reconstruction of Chile following the tsunami and earthquake in February 2010. On Friday 2 September last year, the sailor, entrepreneur and philanthropist was part of group of 21 passengers and crew on a CASA C-212 Chilean Air Force (FACH) plane heading from Santiago to Robinson Crusoe island, 365 miles off the Chilean coast, for an official ceremony to celebrate the completion of reconstruction following the national disaster.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: small;"&gt;On its final approach, the plane disappeared off the radar. Strong winds were reported in the area and may have been the cause for the plane’s disappearance. Rescue teams including a Hercules C-130 and various Chilean Navy ships were sent to the missing plane’s last known position immediately, but as bodies were recovered by the island’s fishermen and the rescue force, it soon became clear that there would be no survivors from the flight. The Chilean President, Sebastian Pinera, described the tragedy as ‘a very hard blow for our country’ and subsequently declared two days of national mourning in Chile.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: small;"&gt;Felipe Cubillos Sigall (1962-2011) epitomised the spirit of offshore racing. Shortly before rounding Cape Horn in 2009, Desafio Cabo de Hornos passed three miles south of the Islas Ildefonso: nine jagged, uninhabited and unlit stacks of rock at the western entrance to Drake Passage. Immediately, Cubillos fired off an email to the rest of the GOR fleet: “Please take care of these rocks,” he warned. “They are north of our current position, but my impression is that they are a little bit south of the position marked on the chart and they’re unlit.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: small;"&gt;Three hours later, a Chilean Navy P-111 spotter-plane buzzed Desafio Cabo de Hornos and with the light beginning to fade at 56°S, Felipe Cubillos sent a final message before rounding the cape: “I have an important message to deliver,” he wrote. “Everyone can fulfil their dreams if they apply passion and determination. If you can overcome pessimism, self-doubt and triumph over the fear of failure, it is worth it as the prize at the end is immense,” explained Cubillos. “For me – and possibly many of you – it is our reason for living. Each of us has a personal Cape Horn: it’s a matter of locating this goal and then heading straight for it. In a few hours we will be at the cape and we can hoist our country’s flag and shout VIVA CHILE!”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: small;"&gt;The non-points scoring gate at Cape Horn will be a perpetual memorial to Felipe Cubillos in future GORs and was an initiative by the GOR Race Organisation and Felipe’s yacht club, the Cofradía Náutica del Pacífico in Algarrobo, Chile; a club founded in the late 1970s by a group of Chilean yachtsmen including Felipe’s father, Hernan Cubillos Sallato; a former Chilean Navy officer, businessman, politician, Chile’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and the son of a Chilean Admiral. The trophy will be presented to the winning GOR team during the Leg 3 stopover in Punta del Este, Uruguay, and is a replica of the steel albatross statue installed on Horn Island.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: small;"&gt;The installation of the statue at Cape Horn was driven by the international group of sailors, the Chilean Section (1987) of the Cape Horn Captains Brotherhood, the "Cape Horniers", originally formed in France in the early 1937, as a memorial to sailors who have lost their lives fighting the elements in the Southern Ocean. With the full support of the Commander-in-Chief of the Chilean Navy and funded through donations from Chilean businesses, 120 tons of material were transported to Cape Horn by the navy and on a 6 X 6 metre concrete base, the steel statue by the Chilean sculptor, José Balcells, was erected in the soggy peat bog between the two lighthouses on the island, near to the small Stella Maris chapel and a monument to The Unknown Sailor.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: small;"&gt;The first GOR Class40 through the Felipe Cubillos Cape Horn Gate will be presented with a stunning replica of the albatross statue sculpted by Antonio Balcells Aguirre, the son of the original statue’s sculptor. The winning team will also receive a copy of Pasión de Navegantes ; the exquisite book written by Felipe Cubillos and José Muñoz describing the momentous adventures and experiences of the GOR 2008-09.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: small;"&gt;Josh Hall, Race Director of the GOR, has lasting memories of the popular and charismatic Chilean sailor: “Felipe made an impact on everyone he met and it was our great privilege to spend nine months with him as he lapped the planet, chasing and catching his dreams, during the last GOR,” says Hall. “We miss him hugely,” he adds. “His massive sailing achievements were to be dwarfed by his passion, leadership and drive to rebuild a Chile devastated by natural disaster and his untimely, tragic passing is a keenly felt loss to us, his colleagues, his friends, his family and his country,” confirms Hall. “From every generation rises a character of exceptional quality and true grit – cometh the hour, cometh the man. Felipe was such a character. It is our honour to host this trophy on behalf of his nation – it will be an inspiration to all, as the man himself was. Thank you Felipe.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: small;"&gt;Close to the albatross statue is text by the Chilean poet, Sarah Vial:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: small;"&gt;I am the albatross that awaits at the end of the world.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: small;"&gt;I am the forgotten soul of the sailors lost,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: small;"&gt;rounding Cape Horn from all the seas of the world.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: small;"&gt;But die they did not in the fierce waves,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: small;"&gt;for today towards eternity, in my wings they soar,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: small;"&gt;in the last crevice of the Antarctic winds. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2979183053996288408-4799837070798192081?l=navigamus.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/feeds/4799837070798192081/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2979183053996288408&amp;postID=4799837070798192081&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/4799837070798192081'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/4799837070798192081'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/2012/01/global-ocean-race-confirms-felipe.html' title='Global Ocean Race confirms the Felipe Cubillos Cape Horn Gate for Leg 3'/><author><name>Andrea Messersì</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12782675519045603248</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kgrhzLNmoOg/TyQewRyaLGI/AAAAAAAAI_8/4lf9QPXsEd0/s220/andreamessers%25C3%25AC.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ZT9xm8Wm8pU/TxZ2gI1UuPI/AAAAAAAAI6c/LcDSg3b-NC0/s72-c/1343370094.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2979183053996288408.post-3546198734902037655</id><published>2012-01-17T08:43:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-17T08:43:16.575+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='marco nannini'/><title type='text'>Marco Nannini alla Global Ocean Race - Votiamolo come Velista dell'Anno e sosteniamolo economicamente</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sr1lbjCXBV8/TxUjKl1g7lI/AAAAAAAAI6U/gBC6XuYT5NI/s1600/thumb_440x29577a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="267px" kba="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sr1lbjCXBV8/TxUjKl1g7lI/AAAAAAAAI6U/gBC6XuYT5NI/s400/thumb_440x29577a.jpg" width="400px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Marco Nannini scrive: ""Sono a Wellington dove procedono i preparativi per la terza e piu' temuta delle tappe della Global Ocean Race che ci vedra' affrontarel'Everest indiscusso della vela d'altura con il passaggio del mitico Capo Horn. Nelle scorse due settimane ho avuto modo di recuperare le energie dopo la dura tappa da Cape Town a Wellington, procedono i lavori per rimediare ai danni fatti durante le tempeste dell'Oceano Indiano anche se un po' a rilento visto che il container della regata che ci segue con tutti i ricambi ed attrezzi non e' ancora franco dalle stringenti ispezioni di dogana. Ne ho approfittato dunque per andare via due giorni fuori citta' e ammirare i paesaggi spettacolari di questo paese che con soli quattro milioni e mezzo di abitanti regala ancora angoli di natura incontaminata. In questi giorni in Italia il Giornale della Vela sta tenendo l'annuale voto online per determinare il velista dell'anno, al momento sono in seconda posizione ma se credete che mi meriti il vostro supporto potete aiutarmi a tentare di scalare la vetta di questa classifica virtuale votandomi a questo link: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.giornaledellavela.com/content/html/index.php?page=nodeDetail&amp;amp;idRecord=15185"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;http://www.giornaledellavela.com/content/html/index.php?page=nodeDetail&amp;amp;idRecord=15185&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Vi ricordo che la partenza della terza tappa e' fissata per il 29 Gennaio, 6500 miglia da Wellington a Punta del Este in Uruguay passando dal temuto Capo Horn!""&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;In aggiunta all'invito di Marco ribadisco i miei tre semplici e validissimi buoni motivi&amp;nbsp;per sostenerlo&amp;nbsp;:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;1) è l'unico italiano che sta partecipando al giro del mondo a vela a tappe con coskipper su Class 40;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;2) pur non avendo trovato il main sponsor è partito lo stesso spendendo di tasca sua una marea di soldi;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;3) a causa delle ulteriori spese per le continue riparazioni delle attrezzature e delle vele causate dalle tempestose condizioni meteo ha già dovuto mettere in vendita la sua barca per finanziare le ultime tappe della Global Ocean Race.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Io credo che Nannini, con la sua determinazione, sia un'esempio perfetto di pura dedizione allo sport della vela e che, come pochi altri, stia tenendo alta la bandiera dell'Italia nella vela mondiale utilizzando tutte le sue risorse di "testa" e di "cuore" !!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;PER FAVORE VI PREGO DI VOTARE MARCO NANNINI VELISTA DELL'ANNO 2012 al link:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.giornaledellavela.com/content/html/index.php?page=nodeDetail&amp;amp;idRecord=15185" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;http://www.giornaledellavela.&lt;wbr&gt;com/content/html/index.php?&lt;wbr&gt;page=nodeDetail&amp;amp;idRecord=15185&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;PER FAVORE VI PREGO DI DONARE ANCHE SOLI POCHI EURO A MARCO NANNINI al link:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.marconannini.com/help"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;http://www.marconannini.com/help&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2979183053996288408-3546198734902037655?l=navigamus.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/feeds/3546198734902037655/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2979183053996288408&amp;postID=3546198734902037655&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/3546198734902037655'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/3546198734902037655'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/2012/01/marco-nannini-alla-global-ocean-race.html' title='Marco Nannini alla Global Ocean Race - Votiamolo come Velista dell&apos;Anno e sosteniamolo economicamente'/><author><name>Andrea Messersì</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12782675519045603248</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kgrhzLNmoOg/TyQewRyaLGI/AAAAAAAAI_8/4lf9QPXsEd0/s220/andreamessers%25C3%25AC.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sr1lbjCXBV8/TxUjKl1g7lI/AAAAAAAAI6U/gBC6XuYT5NI/s72-c/thumb_440x29577a.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2979183053996288408.post-5641036043766611832</id><published>2012-01-17T08:21:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-17T08:21:48.701+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Global Ocean Race Leg 2 Man Over Board details</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EzfVf8EiiY4/TxUgc0LlrSI/AAAAAAAAI6M/m6pYB4byvEY/s1600/891363842.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="241px" kba="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EzfVf8EiiY4/TxUgc0LlrSI/AAAAAAAAI6M/m6pYB4byvEY/s400/891363842.jpg" width="400px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;In the closing stages of Leg 2 in the double-handed Global Ocean Race (GOR), a harsh lesson was learnt on Class40 Cessna Citation through quick thinking; instinct and training when Conrad Colman and Sam Goodchild dealt quickly with a Man Over Board (MOB) off the west coast of South Island, New Zealand. Now that both skippers have discussed the MOB with their families and Maritime New Zealand and the Rescue Coordination Centre New Zealand are aware of the incident, the GOR can now publish details of the MOB as a valuable illustration of the importance of training and safety at sea for all offshore crews, short-handed or fully-crewed. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;a name='more'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Colman and Goodchild had been leading the GOR fleet for 20 days as they crossed the Tasman Sea and closed in on the northern tip of South Island with under 160 miles remaining to the finish line in Wellington after a total of 31 days at sea and 7,500 miles of high latitude sailing through the Indian Ocean’s Roaring Forties. Remarkably, 28 year-old Kiwi, Colman, and his 22 year-old, British co-skipper had met just days before the Leg 2 start gun and while both had logged many miles offshore and on Class40s, their union for Leg 2 produced astonishing speeds – setting the GOR Class40 24-hour run at a new record of 359.1 miles – gaining the respect of the other, seasoned crews in the fleet and repelling continuous challenges from the highly-experienced, Kiwi father-and-son duo of Ross and Campbell Field on Class40 BSL.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;In the late afternoon (local) on Tuesday 29 December, as their Akilaria RC2, Cessna Citation, closed in on the western coast of South Island, 57 miles south of Cape Farewell at the entrance to Cook Strait and 33 miles west of the Heaphy River’s mouth at the northern end of the Karamea Bight, the youngest team in the GOR held a 56-mile lead over the Fields on BSL and thoughts of victory, fresh food, steak, hot-water showers and the forthcoming reunion with friends and family were foremost in the minds of the two crew. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;A cold front had just swept over Cessna Citation leaving in its wake a big sea and breeze of around ten knots. Colman was on watch at the helm wearing lifejacket and harness: “Conditions were probably three to five metres of swell and we had been beating into wind of around 26-33 knots with fog and rain, so pretty shocking visibility and conditions in general,” Colman recalls. Goodchild was below, cooking food during the lull. “Conrad was driving and I was sitting in the cuddy chatting to him,” adds Goodchild.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Conrad Colman describes the quick change in conditions: “The wind went very quickly from 10 to then 26 then 30, so we had one reef in the main and it was clearly time to change from the Solent to staysail,” he confirms. Goodchild left his remaining food and prepared for the sail change: “I put on my jacket and went up on the foredeck and dropped the jib,” he remembers. “I was a bit overconfident and, in retrospect, crazy not clipping on or wearing my lifejacket, but it was a job that had to be done quickly.” With Colman in the cockpit and Goodchild on the foredeck, both co-skippers spotted one significant wave simultaneously: “I was running the pit during the manoeuvre and Sam ran up and pulled the Solent down on the forestay and as he was doing that, I saw a big wave,” says Colman, immediately bearing away to minimise the wave’s impact. Goodchild caught the wave from the corner of his vision as he hauled the headsail down: “It had a big crest which was about to break and it was going to hit us pretty hard,” he says. “A big wall of spray came over the bow and I thought Sam had ducked down as it obscured him completely from view,” continues Colman.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;However, Goodchild was scrabbling to find a handhold: “I tried to hang on, but it threw me out the side and I landed on the jib and made a few attempts to grab stuff, but nothing successful.” The 22 year-old yachtsman was quickly flung over the guardrails: “So I floated passed the cockpit, I saw Conrad and Conrad saw me,” he adds. With water pouring aft, for Colman a clear view of the foredeck was impossible. “Then I looked down to leeward of the boat and there was Sam with this look of amazement on his face going passed the gunwhale in the water.” Colman immediately pushed the helm away and crash-tacked Cessna Citation to try and slow the Class40 down. “Then I ran and picked up the heaving line which, thankfully, I knew exactly where it was and how to use it,” he recalls. “I threw it to him and it landed a metre away and as he reached for it, the boat lurched and pulled it out of his reach.” Goodchild lunged for the line: “It got pretty close and I did a quick sprint-swim but missed it,” he confirms.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;As soon as it was clear Goodchild could not reach the bright orange heaving line, Colman’s experience as a sailing instructor cut in: “I ran below to punch the MOB button and make a waypoint, then started sailing away from him and I’m sure it was stressful for Sam as he was in the water watching me sail away.” Instantly, Goodchild’s training took over and any panic and futile paddling was averted: “When I hit the water, I knew instinctively that I must conserve energy, so I tried to get the line when it was close, but it wasn’t going to happen,” says Goodchild. “So I tried to keep an eye on the boat and save energy and it was then that all the small things started to add up.” Goodchild was mid-sail change when he was washed overboard and there was no windward sheet on either of the headsails. “So, to tack and come back and get me, Conrad had to re-reeve the sheet, so it took him about ten minutes to tack. At first, I thought it was fine and he’d just turn around and pick me up,” Goodchild continues. “But it slowly started dawning on me as ten minutes passed that he hadn’t tacked yet and I couldn’t see him and he certainly couldn’t see me.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Calmly, Goodchild prepared for an extended period in the water: “I was wearing full foulies and boots and mid-layer thermals and they filled up with water,” he explains. “Waves began breaking over my head and started pulling me down, so, slowly but surely, I stated taking them off; mid-layers, smock, everything down to my thermal top.” Shedding the extra weight came at a heavy price: “It started getting cold,” Goodchild confirms. “I had a knife in my smock pocket, so I cut the hood off my smock, which is bright yellow, and gave me something to wave. I ditched everything else – there was no point holding on to anything that wasn’t going to help me.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Meanwhile, Colman had Cessna Citation back under control. “Once I’d got the sheets sorted, I tacked back around and came back as close as I could to the MOB waypoint,” he explains. “It was gusting up to 32 knots and very poor visibility and it was very difficult to see anything to windward because of all the spray blowing off the top of the waves, so I tried to secure a position to windward of where I thought he was, then hove-to and drifted down to where he was.” Manoeuvring the boat and constantly climbing through the companionway to check the MOB position kept Colman totally physically and mentally occupied. “Having to short tack and gybe while keeping an eye on the chartplotter to see where he was and calculate the drift to where he might be while I knew I had a very, very tight window of opportunity was hard work – it felt like I needed to be seven places at once!”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Colman’s search pattern was successful: “I was tacking and reaching across the position of where I thought he was and slowly working my way downwind and after some time I saw a flash of yellow, just for a split second and I couldn’t be certain it was Sam.” The Kiwi skipper made two more passes while Goodchild conserved as much energy as possible: “I was going up and down in the troughs of waves, so I was a bit selective when I waved [the severed yellow hood], but he saw me and sailed close.” Colman took the chance with a Dan-buoy: “I was able to throw the horseshoe with the flashing light to him,” he explains. “I saw that he’d got it and we both breathed a huge sigh of relief and I was able to put his actual position on the chart plotter and saw he had drifted a fair way.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;It’s likely that the floatation unit arrived just in time. “By this stage, he’d been in the water for 25 minutes at least. I’m a sailing instructor, so not only have I done this manoeuvre many times, I’ve also taught it, and I know that if you’re cold and exhausted and you don’t have floatation, you run out of energy and the ability to stay afloat.” Goodchild confirms his status: “I was getting pretty tired and struggling to swim after about 25 minutes in the water,” he agrees.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;With the horseshoe in Goodchild’s grasp, Colman could manoeuvre the boat again: “After I saw he had floatation I could tack away again and come back to him on a reach, then releasing the sheets and stopping the boat to windward of him,” says Colman. “I had coiled a spare sheet to throw to him as I couldn’t use the heaving line again, but in the flurry of activity to stop the boat from landing on top of him, I actually threw another coil if rope which was the staysail halyard.” Despite his situation Goodchild was fully aware of the dilemma on board: “I had the jib halyard in one hand and the Dan-buoy in the other and Conrad couldn’t drop the jib if he wanted to as I was on the end of the halyard, so he cut the jib sheets.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;With Goodchild connected to the boat by the halyard, he worked closer to the boat. “I hauled him in hand-over-hand, deployed the rope ladder and Sam clambered back on,” says Colman. “I think it was the happiest moment of our lives,” he adds, but there was no time for celebration: “I went straight into the cabin, took off all my remaining wet clothes and jumped into the sleeping bag and started warming up while Conrad tidied up the boat,” explains Goodchild. “We continued for about half an hour with just the mainsail up and went under pilot while we recovered from what could have been a big disaster.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Just over 24 hours later, Cessna Citation crossed the finish line in Wellington Harbour taking first place in GOR Leg 2, but their experience shortly before entering Cook Strait left a lasting impression: Sam has learnt a valuable lesson: “It was a harsh lesson and one I will never forget,” he confirms. “You hear these stories and think, well that’s a bit stupid, but that’s not going to be me, which is a bit arrogant. It only takes a second for something to turn into a big disaster and I’ll be clipping on in future,” he adds. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;For 28 year-old Conrad Colman, the rescue is a landmark moment: “My father was killed in an accident on a boat when I was 11 months-old when not wearing the appropriate safety equipment and, of course, that came rushing back,” he explains. “When I first tacked the boat back round I made a very conscious promise that I wasn’t going to let Sam be alone out there.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Josh Hall, Race Director of the GOR, is a multiple solo circumnavigator: “Sailing has many inherent risks attached, if it did not there would be no spirit of adventure or challenge and would probably not attract many competitors,” says Hall. “Falling overboard is every sailor’s worst nightmare, more so for their families and friends. Sadly, many sailors have been lost from the decks of well-found yachts – some inexperienced and some highly experienced, the sea is not selective,” he continues. “As an event we do our utmost to mitigate the risks through safety equipment and training demands, but the greatest mitigation is the competence of our sailors in extreme circumstances,” explains Hall. “Every sailor I know has at some time been forward to complete a job that needs doing quickly and forgotten their lifejacket or harness, we all go by the grace of God at times. There are of course important lessons to be learned from this incident as it is a stark reminder of how fragile personal safety can be, but the way in which both Conrad and Sam dealt with the situation should be saluted and applauded. We at the race organisation are extremely proud of them both.” &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;( &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.globaloceanrace.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;www.globaloceanrace.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt; )&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2979183053996288408-5641036043766611832?l=navigamus.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/feeds/5641036043766611832/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2979183053996288408&amp;postID=5641036043766611832&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/5641036043766611832'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/5641036043766611832'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/2012/01/global-ocean-race-leg-2-man-over-board.html' title='Global Ocean Race Leg 2 Man Over Board details'/><author><name>Andrea Messersì</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12782675519045603248</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kgrhzLNmoOg/TyQewRyaLGI/AAAAAAAAI_8/4lf9QPXsEd0/s220/andreamessers%25C3%25AC.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EzfVf8EiiY4/TxUgc0LlrSI/AAAAAAAAI6M/m6pYB4byvEY/s72-c/891363842.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2979183053996288408.post-5217774687023141894</id><published>2012-01-16T09:29:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-16T09:33:10.717+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='marco nannini'/><title type='text'>Tre buoni motivi per votare Marco Nannini Velista dell'anno 2012 e per sostenerlo</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-c579rPSBnIM/TxPZKshDbBI/AAAAAAAAI6E/4trFV74iU94/s1600/nannini.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300px" kba="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-c579rPSBnIM/TxPZKshDbBI/AAAAAAAAI6E/4trFV74iU94/s400/nannini.jpg" width="400px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Sono in corso sul sito del Giornale della Vela le votazioni per selezionare il Velista dell'anno 2012 e mi sono deciso a sostenere Marco Nannini per tre semplici e validissimi&amp;nbsp;buoni motivi (anche "sentimentali") :&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;1) è l'unico italiano che sta partecipando al giro del mondo a vela a tappe con coskipper su Class 40;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;2)&amp;nbsp;pur non avendo trovato il main sponsor è partito lo stesso spendendo di tasca sua una marea di soldi;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;3) a causa delle ulteriori spese per le continue riparazioni delle attrezzature e delle vele causate dalle tempestose condizioni meteo ha già dovuto mettere in vendita la sua barca per finanziare le ultime tappe della Global Ocean Race.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Io credo che Nannini, con la sua determinazione,&amp;nbsp;sia un'esempio perfetto di pura dedizione allo sport della vela e che, come pochi altri, stia tenendo alta la bandiera dell'Italia nella vela mondiale utilizzando tutte le sue risorse di "testa" e di "cuore" !!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;PER FAVORE VI PREGO DI VOTARE MARCO NANNINI VELISTA DELL'ANNO 2012 al link:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.giornaledellavela.com/content/html/index.php?s=&amp;amp;page=nodeDetail&amp;amp;idRecord=15624"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;http://www.giornaledellavela.com/content/html/index.php?s=&amp;amp;page=nodeDetail&amp;amp;idRecord=15624&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;PER FAVORE VI PREGO DI DONARE ANCHE SOLI POCHI EURO A MARCO NANNINI al link:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.marconannini.com/help"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;http://www.marconannini.com/help&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;P.S. anche se questa è la mia scelta ho comunque la massima STIMA per tutti gli altri candidati.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2979183053996288408-5217774687023141894?l=navigamus.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/feeds/5217774687023141894/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' 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xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-c579rPSBnIM/TxPZKshDbBI/AAAAAAAAI6E/4trFV74iU94/s72-c/nannini.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2979183053996288408.post-2741564457765175958</id><published>2012-01-16T08:41:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-16T08:41:57.869+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Canottieri Garda Salò'/><title type='text'>SUL GARDA E' INIZIATA LA STAGIONE DELLA VELA AGONISTICA</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-XQ4DJyhYCL4/TxPUYbFnPkI/AAAAAAAAI58/MzMwJH0zXAM/s1600/DSC_0105.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="265px" kba="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-XQ4DJyhYCL4/TxPUYbFnPkI/AAAAAAAAI58/MzMwJH0zXAM/s400/DSC_0105.jpg" width="400px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Sole ed arietta leggere per l’apertura velica 2012 della Società Canottieri Garda di Salò (al suo 121 anno di attività). In acqua c’erano la classe olimpica delle Star e il singolo del Dinghy 12p per una tappa del circuito “Autunno Inverno”. Dominatori di giornata sono stati i Benamati di Malcesine (Star) e Riccardo Pallavidini (Dinghy). Nella classe olimpica delle Star i veronesi Benamati (entrambi ex Campioni mondiali) hanno conquistato 3 successi su 3 gare corse. Il giovane Michele e il padre Roberto hanno preceduto, i gargnanesi Marco Redaelli e Roberto Baratti, autori di un 4°, un 3° ed un 2° posto; terzo l’equipaggio del lago d’Orta comandato da Stefano de Bernardis. Nel singolo del “Dinghy 12 piedi” Riccardo Pallavidini ottiene 2 primi ed un quinto posto, nettendosi in scia il lariano Andrea Falciola e il palermitano Marcello Coppola.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;a name='more'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;La stagione della Canottieri Garda prosegue già dal prossimo week end con due giorni di gare per la "Winter Cup" delle classi monotipo e cabinate, mentre da metà settimana sarà presente nuovamente la nazionale azzurra delle Paralimpiadi di Londra. Per la classe Sonar ci saranno Massimo Dighe (Fiamme Azzurre), Paola Protopapa (Canottieri Aniene), Antonio Squizzato (Canottieri Garda); per la classe Skud 18, Marco Gualandris (Avas Lovere) e Marta Zanetti (Alto Adriatico – Lignano).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2979183053996288408-2741564457765175958?l=navigamus.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/feeds/2741564457765175958/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2979183053996288408&amp;postID=2741564457765175958&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/2741564457765175958'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/2741564457765175958'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/2012/01/sul-garda-e-iniziata-la-stagione-della.html' title='SUL GARDA E&apos; INIZIATA LA STAGIONE DELLA VELA AGONISTICA'/><author><name>Andrea Messersì</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12782675519045603248</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kgrhzLNmoOg/TyQewRyaLGI/AAAAAAAAI_8/4lf9QPXsEd0/s220/andreamessers%25C3%25AC.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-XQ4DJyhYCL4/TxPUYbFnPkI/AAAAAAAAI58/MzMwJH0zXAM/s72-c/DSC_0105.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2979183053996288408.post-8318787976219243227</id><published>2012-01-16T08:37:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-16T08:37:25.380+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Cicolo Canottieri Aniene'/><title type='text'>Tp52 Aniene 1ª Classe: a Riva di Traiano le quotazioni sono sempre in rialzo</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-coCp-XkP7so/TxPS8lga_aI/AAAAAAAAI50/rwENP4b8Z94/s1600/322.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="236px" kba="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-coCp-XkP7so/TxPS8lga_aI/AAAAAAAAI50/rwENP4b8Z94/s400/322.jpg" width="400px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Per il Tp52 Aniene 1ª Classe l'anno nuovo si apre con il 23° Campionato Invernale 2011/2012 - Trofeo Paolo Venanzangeli, organizzato dal Circolo Nautico Riva di Traiano. Dopo l'annullamento del 18 dicembre il 2012 prende il via con una giornata perfetta per regatare. Vento da sud-est tra gli otto e i dodici nodi, cielo sereno e mare quasi calmo, l'inverno da queste parti pare non esser mai arrivato. Il Comitato di Regata prende il largo con la certezza che sarà una buona giornata, i team hanno voglia di dimostrare il valore sul campo e tutto sembra pronto. Linea di partenza posizionata, il segnale di via arriva alle 11,15 e c'è molto traffico nella zona centro-comitato, quello non a caso è il lato migliore per la "chiamata" dei tattici. E' la prima volta che Matteo Aglietti prende il timone di un Tp52, sostituendo Alessandro Maria Rinaldi, la partenza avviene in timing perfetto, leggermente verso la boa, non proprio nella zona "Target" prevista, è il momento di dare subito velocità alla barca e mettersi davanti alla flotta per aumentare il vantaggio che verrà "compensato" al termine della prova. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;a name='more'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Complice un salto del vento alla prima boa le altre imbarcazioni sembrano abbastanza vicine. Nessun problema, i ragazzi manovrano bene e la velocità della barca è sicuramente al top delle performances che può sviluppare. In poco più di un'ora il percorso è concluso, ottima regata, anche con l'innesto in ruoli chiave di alcune "new entry", questo è lo spirito del gruppo creato per i soci del Circolo Canottieri Aniene al Campionato Invernale di Riva di Traiano. Si rientra in porto, come sempre c'è da attendere per i risultati "compensati ", una bella spaghettata ed ecco l'arrivo delle classifiche. Primi in Classe Orc davanti a Ars Una e Zigo Zago. In classe Irc il parziale di giornata decreta la vittoria di Ulika, seconda è Talj, terza posizione per Aniene 1ª Classe. A conti fatti, il tutto si traduce in un primo posto nella classifica generale Orc, secondi in quella Irc. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;"E' stata un emozione incredibile poter timonare questa macchina da corsa, il Tp52 è una vera formula uno del mare - sono le parole di Matteo Aglietti, timoniere del Tp52 Aniene 1ª Classe - oggi le condizioni erano perfette, in partenza siamo andati un po' fuori dalla zona scelta, è forse mancato solo un po' di feeling nelle fasi iniziali, poi tutti si è risolto e sono riuscito a portare la barca al massimo delle perfomances, un primo e un terzo posto nelle due classifiche sono un ottimo risultato."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;"Condizioni perfette oggi per regatare - sono le parole di Roberto Emanuele de Felice, tattico di Aniene 1ª Classe - in partenza siamo scivolati verso la boa, ma siamo riusciti a dominare subito il campo di regata portando a casa due ottimi risultati. Continua il processo di integrazione dei soci del Circolo Canottieri Aniene, oggi a bordo con noi c'era Stefano Piccolo, esperto velista a bordo della classe Swan 45, il suo apporto è stato sicuramente di peso, appuntamento per la prossima regata, qui a Riva di Traiano, il 29 gennaio."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2979183053996288408-8318787976219243227?l=navigamus.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/feeds/8318787976219243227/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2979183053996288408&amp;postID=8318787976219243227&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/8318787976219243227'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/8318787976219243227'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/2012/01/tp52-aniene-1-classe-riva-di-traiano-le.html' title='Tp52 Aniene 1ª Classe: a Riva di Traiano le quotazioni sono sempre in rialzo'/><author><name>Andrea Messersì</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12782675519045603248</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kgrhzLNmoOg/TyQewRyaLGI/AAAAAAAAI_8/4lf9QPXsEd0/s220/andreamessers%25C3%25AC.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-coCp-XkP7so/TxPS8lga_aI/AAAAAAAAI50/rwENP4b8Z94/s72-c/322.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2979183053996288408.post-326523404582237347</id><published>2012-01-16T08:31:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-16T08:31:47.761+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Swift preparation progress for the Global Ocean Race teams in Wellington</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-aJR-i7cDzyI/TxPRvFhsUHI/AAAAAAAAI5s/svTxQM24P2g/s1600/772609314.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="265px" kba="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-aJR-i7cDzyI/TxPRvFhsUHI/AAAAAAAAI5s/svTxQM24P2g/s400/772609314.jpg" width="400px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;The Wellington stopover of the Global Ocean Race (GOR) marks the halfway point for the fleet of Class40s in the 33,000 mile, double-handed circumnavigation. With 15,000 miles and a total of between 65-78 days of racing completed in Legs 1 and 2, the next 18 days in New Zealand is a vital repair and preparation period for the 6,200-mile Leg 3 through the Pacific Ocean and around Cape Horn to Punta del Este, Uruguay. Fortunately, the 7,500 miles sailed through the high-latitudes of the Indian Ocean, including a succession of frontal systems sweeping eastwards through the fleet delivering wind speeds up to 60 knots, have left all the boats structurally intact with very limited damage. Indeed, the majority of work being undertaken in Wellington is general maintenance. Three boats have pulled their rigs and the carbon masts of Cessna Citation, BSL and Phesheya-Racing are being checked by Duffy Yacht and Rigging at Chaffers Marina.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;a name='more'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;The South African team of Nick and Phillippa Hutton-Squire have moved Phesheya-Racing to Seaview Marina on the eastern shore of Wellington Harbour and the keel of their four year-old version one Akilaria Class40 has been removed by the racing specialist team from Hakes Marine to check the keel head, keel bolts and flange bolts – a very prudent move at the GOR’s halfway point.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Conrad Colman’s Akilaria RC2, Cessna Citation, will shortly motor mastless across the harbour from the GOR base in Queen’s Wharf to join Phesheya-Racing and Hakes Marine will fit extra longitudinal stringers in the forepeak as although Colman’s Class40 has shown no indication of structural failure after 65 days and half a planet of hard racing, the boat’s manufacturers, MC-TEC in Tunisia, has recognised potential structural weakness in the bow of RC2s.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Remaining in Queen’s Wharf, Marco Nannini and Hugo Ramon are working together on Financial Crisis with a complete engine overhaul and a new clutch plate; some electronic replacements undertaken by Auckland-based marine specialist, David Minors, and sail repairs. On the neighbouring pontoon, Halvard Mabire and Miranda Merron’s Pogo 40S² Campagne de France is already in full racing trim with just running maintenance to complete.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Meanwhile, on Ross and Campbell Field’s Verdier-designed Tyker 40, BSL, the buckled stanchions and pulpit have been removed for repair, sails are being serviced and re-cut and the engine is being serviced with all belts replaced. As one of the very few Class40s with a shaft rather than a sail drive, Hakes Marine will shortly haul BSL and make adjustments to the stern gland.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Josh Hall, Race Director of the GOR, is continually impressed by the punishment that the boats and the teams can withstand: “Without doubt, the Indian Ocean leg of the Global Ocean Race exerted incredible demands on both man and machine,” says Hall. “As a round-the-world race organisation, we have always maintained that Class40s are robust, reliable boats that can withstand the demanding conditions in the high-latitudes,” he explains. “In the hands of capable and skilled sailors, the yachts have proved yet again that they can be pushed at pace through some of the toughest waters on the planet. The condition of the GOR fleet here in Wellington is testimony to the skills of the designers and builders of this great class and to talent of our sailors.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Meanwhile, in Cape Town, work is progressing well on the sixth GOR Class40, Sec. Hayai of the Dutch father-and-son duo, Nico and Frans Budel. On the first evening of racing in Leg 2, Sec. Hayai dismasted off the Cape of Good Hope and the Budels returned to Cape Town without assistance. Subsequently, a failed rigging component was found to be the cause of the dismasting. However, the Budels plan to rejoin the GOR in Punta del Este, Uruguay, and compete in Legs 4 and 5. A replacement carbon fibre mast from Southern Spars will be stepped in Cape Town on 23 January and, following sea trials, Sec. Hayai will sail from Cape Town to Punta del Este, timing the arrival to be ready to greet the five other GOR Class40s at the end of Leg 3. (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.globaloceanrace.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;www.globaloceanrace.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2979183053996288408-326523404582237347?l=navigamus.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/feeds/326523404582237347/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2979183053996288408&amp;postID=326523404582237347&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/326523404582237347'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/326523404582237347'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/2012/01/swift-preparation-progress-for-global.html' title='Swift preparation progress for the Global Ocean Race teams in Wellington'/><author><name>Andrea Messersì</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12782675519045603248</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kgrhzLNmoOg/TyQewRyaLGI/AAAAAAAAI_8/4lf9QPXsEd0/s220/andreamessers%25C3%25AC.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-aJR-i7cDzyI/TxPRvFhsUHI/AAAAAAAAI5s/svTxQM24P2g/s72-c/772609314.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2979183053996288408.post-8345281314292693447</id><published>2012-01-15T12:10:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-15T12:10:03.228+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='MASCALZONE LATINO'/><title type='text'>Riparte da Key West la stagione agonistica di Mascalzone Latino</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nOInRbQVDc4/TxKzpx-nw6I/AAAAAAAAI5k/WuubC8OKiAo/s1600/mascalzoni.net" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="266" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nOInRbQVDc4/TxKzpx-nw6I/AAAAAAAAI5k/WuubC8OKiAo/s400/mascalzoni.net" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-yadK4CZoKVs/TxKzOFFLyjI/AAAAAAAAI5c/73ZZu-2pt3A/s1600/Immagine.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;Mascalzone Latino è  pronto a tornare in acqua in occasione della prima grande classica  dell'anno per i Melges 32: la 25ma Quantum Key West Race Week. Un  appuntamento tradizionale tanto quanto importante nella storia dei  Mascalzoni, sempre fra i protagonisti di questo evento, che li ha visti  dominatori nella classe Farr 40, nel 2006 e nel 2009, e anche l’anno  scorso con l’RC44. L'appuntamento in Florida per i Mascalzoni  segue il sesto posto conquistato al campionato del mondo di Palma di  Maiorca, a settembre 2011, ed è il primo con la nuova barca (USA 49, ex  Full Throttle) vice-campione del mondo nel 2010 a San Francisco, che  verrà utilizzata per le regate oltre oceano.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a name='more'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vincenzo Onorato, armatore e timoniere di Mascalzone Latino, ha così commentato: "&lt;i&gt;La  Key West Race Week è uno degli appuntamenti che preferisco. E' una  decina d'anni che Mascalzone Latino vi prende parte, in differenti  classi: per tanto tempo con il Farr 40, poi con gli RC44, vincendone  complessivamente tre edizioni. Con il Melges 32 è la nostra prima volta  e, sebbene l'evento in generale abbia perso in numero di iscritti, la  classe in cui regatiamo, oltre ad essere la più numerosa, è senza dubbio  quella più competitiva. Per noi si tratta del primo di una serie di  eventi di preparazione in vista del Campionato del Mondo che si terrà a  Newport, Rhode Island, a settembre&lt;/i&gt;".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Come recentemente  annunciato, sul Melges 32 di Mascalzone Latino farà il suo esordio il  tattico triestino Gabriele Benussi, mentre il resto dell'equipaggio sarà  quello della passata stagione: Vincenzo Onorato al timone, Andrea  Ballico e Stefano Ciampalini alle scotte, Alberto Bolzan alla randa,  Matteo Savelli alle drizze, Iztoc Knafelk all'albero e Daniele Fiaschi a  prua.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Negli ultimi anni la regata ha subito un evidente calo del  numero dei partecipanti, ma quella dove corrono i Mascalzoni risulta  ancora una delle più gettonate; nel 2012 sono 122 le imbarcazioni  iscritte, di cui 19 Melges 32, con Mascalzone Latino unico team battente  bandiera italiana. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mascalzone Latino dovrà vedersela con avversari quali gli americani di &lt;i&gt;Samba Pa Tì&lt;/i&gt;, vice-campione del mondo 2011, dell’armatore John Kilroy con alla tattica Lorenzo Bressani, &lt;i&gt;Warpath&lt;/i&gt; di Steve Howe, tattico Morgan Larson, indiscusso dominatore a dicembre, a Ft. Lauderdale, della Gold Cup 2011, &lt;i&gt;Catapult&lt;/i&gt; di Joel Ronning, tattico Chris Larson, vincitore nella stessa classe l’anno scorso con Gombay Smash, &lt;i&gt;Arthusa&lt;/i&gt; di Philip Lotz, tattico Eric Doyle, &lt;i&gt;Heartbreaker&lt;/i&gt; di Bob Hughes, tattico il campione australiano di match race Tovar Mirsky, &lt;i&gt;Pisces&lt;/i&gt; di Benjamin Schwartz con in pozzetto Ed Baird, i giapponesi di &lt;i&gt;Swing&lt;/i&gt; di Keisuke Suzuki con il danese Jasper Radich, solo per citarne alcuni.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Le  regate della Quantum Key West 2012 avranno inizio lunedì 16 gennaio  alle ore 11.30 (17.30 in Italia) e si concluderanno venerdì 20. Sono  previste un totale di 10 regate per un massimo di tre prove al giorno.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2979183053996288408-8345281314292693447?l=navigamus.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/feeds/8345281314292693447/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2979183053996288408&amp;postID=8345281314292693447&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/8345281314292693447'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/8345281314292693447'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/2012/01/riparte-da-key-west-la-stagione.html' title='Riparte da Key West la stagione agonistica di Mascalzone Latino'/><author><name>Andrea Messersì</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12782675519045603248</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kgrhzLNmoOg/TyQewRyaLGI/AAAAAAAAI_8/4lf9QPXsEd0/s220/andreamessers%25C3%25AC.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nOInRbQVDc4/TxKzpx-nw6I/AAAAAAAAI5k/WuubC8OKiAo/s72-c/mascalzoni.net' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2979183053996288408.post-3421724806569588860</id><published>2012-01-14T10:52:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-14T10:52:24.406+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Premiazione Skiff dell’anno e tavola rotonda promossa da 1001 Vela Cup</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kenp3VkUMoc/TxFP3VBYaGI/AAAAAAAAI5U/ePUasaOJIMk/s1600/202235_1001a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="266" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kenp3VkUMoc/TxFP3VBYaGI/AAAAAAAAI5U/ePUasaOJIMk/s400/202235_1001a.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Il prossimo appuntamento con 1001VELA CUP è a Carrara per il Seatec, il 9 febbraio 2012: è un evento&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;promozionale che l’associazione sta preparando con serietà ed impegno, in considerazione della&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;crescente attenzione del mondo economico e professionale verso questa manifestazione, e dunque&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;della apprezzabile opportunità di esporre i lavori e le attività di ricerca svolte fino ad oggi nel campo&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;del design nautico e dei materiali.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;L’incontro promosso verte sul confronto delle esperienze progettuali, costruttive e sperimentali&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;maturate in campo nautico dalle università partecipanti al progetto didattico-sportivo 1001VELACUP,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;firmato dagli architetti M. Paperini e P. Procesi.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a name='more'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Gli argomenti che verranno trattati dai docenti universitari, coordinatori scientifici dei gruppi di lavoro,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;riguardano:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;- la didattica sperimentale, basata sulla progettazione, realizzazione e funzionamento dei prototipi di&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;imbarcazione nati per il “Trofeo 1001VELACUP”;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;- la progettazione nautica sviluppata dalle università e le ricerche ad essa associate;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;- i metodi costruttivi improntati all’eco-sostenibilità dei prototipi.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Alla tavola rotonda seguirà l’assegnazione dei due premi, di recente istituzione: il premio “Skiff&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;dell’anno” per la miglior imbarcazione di classe R3 progettata, ed il “Premio Formazione” per il miglior&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;progetto didattico Universitario avviato negli ultimi anni.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;La Commissione tecnica dell’associazione, che si è riunita prima delle feste, ha infatti deliberato&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;l’adozione di questi due nuovi premi, che si aggiungono al trofeo “overall” delle passate edizioni, con&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;il fine di promuovere e sottolineare gli aspetti innovativi della didattica e della progettualità&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;sperimentata dagli atenei attraverso 1001vela cup. La giuria dei premi è mista, costituita cioè da&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;esponenti e professionisti del mondo accademico e del mondo economico della nautica.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span id="goog_1209407796"&gt;&lt;span id="goog_816199774"&gt;&lt;span id="goog_1310903345"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span id="goog_1310903346"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span id="goog_816199775"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span id="goog_1209407797"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2979183053996288408-3421724806569588860?l=navigamus.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/feeds/3421724806569588860/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2979183053996288408&amp;postID=3421724806569588860&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/3421724806569588860'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/3421724806569588860'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/2012/01/premiazione-skiff-dellanno-e-tavola.html' title='Premiazione Skiff dell’anno e tavola rotonda promossa da 1001 Vela Cup'/><author><name>Andrea Messersì</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12782675519045603248</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kgrhzLNmoOg/TyQewRyaLGI/AAAAAAAAI_8/4lf9QPXsEd0/s220/andreamessers%25C3%25AC.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kenp3VkUMoc/TxFP3VBYaGI/AAAAAAAAI5U/ePUasaOJIMk/s72-c/202235_1001a.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2979183053996288408.post-7187125729241598860</id><published>2012-01-13T08:35:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-13T08:35:40.357+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='CIRCOLO NAUTICO SANTA MARGHERITA'/><title type='text'>Tutte le regate 2012 Circolo Nautico Santa Margherita di Caorle</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-EpyJ9G_qAJ0/Tw_eKQLl2lI/AAAAAAAAI5M/-xfKR3WzHQM/s1600/tramonto_2012_Chiesa_Madonna_dell%2527Angelo-Duomo_di_Caorle.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="265px" kba="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-EpyJ9G_qAJ0/Tw_eKQLl2lI/AAAAAAAAI5M/-xfKR3WzHQM/s400/tramonto_2012_Chiesa_Madonna_dell%2527Angelo-Duomo_di_Caorle.JPG" width="400px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Riprende dopo la pausa natalizia l’attività del Circolo Nautico Santa Margherita di Caorle che, anche per il 2012, proporrà un ricco calendario di eventi per derive e cabinati, alcuni rinnovati nella formula e con interessanti innovazioni. Il primo appuntamento per l’altura è già carico di novità: il tradizionale Campionato PrimaVela organizzato in collaborazione con Marina 4, diventa quest’anno il PrimaPasqua e si disputerà proprio nel week-end pasquale dal 7 al 9 aprile, con regate a bastone e costiere, preceduto da una giornata di “practice race” l’1 aprile. Il Campionato sarà aperto alle imbarcazioni stazzate IRC, ORC, Minialtura e IRC Crociera -una classe che sta incontrando sempre di più i favori dei regatanti- e si concluderà ufficialmente il 14 aprile. Aprile è dedicato anche alle coinvolgenti lezioni della quindicesima edizione del progetto VELASCUOLA, organizzato in collaborazione con il Comune di Caorle e Banca del Veneziano che porterà l’arte della marineria nelle scuole elementari e medie di Caorle e Bibione.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;a name='more'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Il programma prevede lezioni teoriche, pratiche e sulla sicurezza e si concluderà a giugno. L’attività si terrà presso la Base a Mare in Spiaggia di Levante a Caorle, che sarà attiva da aprile ad ottobre anche con i corsi della Scuola Vela per adulti e ragazzi. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Maggio e giugno saranno dedicati alle regate offshore, fiore all’occhiello del CNSM.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;La XXVIII edizione della 200 Lombardini Cup si disputerà dal 11 al 13 maggio sia nella formula X2 che in quella In Equipaggio. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Questa “piccola lunga” che si corre lungo la rotta Caorle-Grado-Sansego (CRO) e ritorno è cresciuta notevolmente dal 1994, anno in cui debuttò come versione a “percorso ridotto” della più nota 500x2, fino a diventare negli ultimi anni affollatissima regata con partenza indipendente.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Confermate le classifiche IRC, ORC e MOCRA, dedicata ai trimarani, soprattutto tedeschi, che non perdono un’edizione di questa sfida.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Novità 2012 è l’inserimento della 200 Lombardini Cup nel calendario nazionale FIV, quale regata valida per l’assegnazione del titolo di Campione Italiano Offshore.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Giugno sarà dedicato alla 500 Thiénot Cup, la prima regata in doppio ideata in Italia nel 1974, giunta alla XXXVIII edizione senza perdere l’antico fascino.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;La 500 Thiénot Cup si correrà dal 3 al 9 giugno sia nella classe In Equipaggio che in quella classica X2, in IRC, ORC e MOCRA.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Lo scorso anno la competizione ha visto la vittoria di due equipaggi austriaci: nella classe In Equipaggio vittoria assoluta con record per il VO70 E1 dell’austriaco Aegyd Pengg e nella classe X2 la coppia Hanakamp-Petter con il Class 40 Vaquita.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Il percorso, si snoda lungo uno dei più affascinanti tratti dell’Adriatico, con via dalla Chiesa della Madonna dell’Angelo di Caorle, sulla rotta Sansego (CRO), Isole Tremiti e ritorno. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Entrambe le regate potranno essere seguite live grazie al sistema di rilevamento satellitare installato a bordo di ciascuna imbarcazione, nel sito www.lacinquecento.com. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Le derive torneranno protagoniste a luglio con la quattordicesima edizione di una regata molto amata, la Prosecco’s Cup, organizzata in collaborazione con Cantina Colli del Soligo e Modulo Tecnica, riservata alle classi Laser, 470 e Contender.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Il 4 agosto sarà di scena la regata open Festival delle Derive, aperta a Laser, 470, 420, Catamarani, Flying Junior e Contender, che si correrà con i compensi RYA un sistema che, come avviene nell’altura, cerca di minimizzare le differenze tra gli scafi attraverso una formula matematica.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Altra novità per l’altura è quella del Campionato Autunnale, che quest’anno prenderà il via l’11 novembre e si concluderà a gennaio, con una formula che consentirà sia la partecipazione alla singola regata nelle classi IRC, ORC e IRC Crociera, sia all’intero Campionato.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Il Campionato Autunnale sarà valido anche per l’assegnazione della Coppa delle due Lagune patrocinata da Panathlon, organizzata per il sesto anno in collaborazione con alcuni circoli friulani.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;“Il 2011 è stato un anno molto particolare, inutile nascondere che la crisi economica ha condizionato pesantemente le scelte anche nell’ambito del tempo libero” dichiara la Presidente Oriana Tono “Per la prossima stagione abbiamo pensato di rinnovare nella formula alcuni nostri classici appuntamenti, per dare più spazio alla voglia di regate.” &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2979183053996288408-7187125729241598860?l=navigamus.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/feeds/7187125729241598860/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2979183053996288408&amp;postID=7187125729241598860&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/7187125729241598860'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/7187125729241598860'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/2012/01/tutte-le-regate-2012-circolo-nautico.html' title='Tutte le regate 2012 Circolo Nautico Santa Margherita di Caorle'/><author><name>Andrea Messersì</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12782675519045603248</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kgrhzLNmoOg/TyQewRyaLGI/AAAAAAAAI_8/4lf9QPXsEd0/s220/andreamessers%25C3%25AC.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-EpyJ9G_qAJ0/Tw_eKQLl2lI/AAAAAAAAI5M/-xfKR3WzHQM/s72-c/tramonto_2012_Chiesa_Madonna_dell%2527Angelo-Duomo_di_Caorle.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2979183053996288408.post-8832349575783056479</id><published>2012-01-12T09:05:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-12T09:05:12.792+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='MASCALZONE LATINO'/><title type='text'>Gabriele Benussi è il nuovo acquisto di Mascalzone per la Premiere-Racing di Key West</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-gI5Uj9OBGX0/Tw6TnsWmrHI/AAAAAAAAI5E/lRYMl90sADM/s1600/news-8401.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="266px" kba="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-gI5Uj9OBGX0/Tw6TnsWmrHI/AAAAAAAAI5E/lRYMl90sADM/s400/news-8401.jpg" width="400px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Gabriele Benussi, anno 1970, è l’ultimo acquisto di Mascalzone Latino in vista del primo appuntamento stagionale nella classe Melges 32, la Premiere-Racing di Key West, una tappa classica del circuito americano. Benussi, triestino, proprio come Alberto Bolzan -randista- e Stefano Ciampalini -trimmer-, avrà il compito di eleggere le scelte tattiche al Patron di Mascalzone Latino, Vincenzo Onorato, ruolo precedentemente ricoperto dal palermitano Francesco Bruni. La sua passione per la vela è iniziata all’età di otto anni e, come la maggior parte dei velisti, la prima esperienza l’ha fatta nella classe Optimist, ove ha militato sino all’età di quindici anni, passando successivamente alle classi superiori: 420, 470, Europa, categoria in cui ha raggiunto i primi importanti risultati a livello internazionale.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;a name='more'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Parallelamente all’attività agonistica, ha intrapreso l’attività professionale, collaborando, dal 1992 al 1999, come velaio in una nota veleria di Trieste, l’Olimpic Sails, dove si è specializzato nell’evoluzione delle forme delle vele utilizzate nei principali circuiti d’altura e nelle classi monotipo. Proprio in queste classi ha ottenuto ottimi risultati che lo hanno catapultato ai vertici della vela internazionale.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Al suo attivo vanta 4 titoli mondiali, 4 titoli europei, 2 campionati del mediterraneo, 4 vittorie alla Maxi Rolex Cup, 11 titoli italiani, 8 vittorie al Giro d’Italia a Vela, due primi posti alla prestigiosissima Coppa del Re di Palma di Maiorca, per citarne alcuni.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;"Sono molto soddisfatto di questo incarico", spiega Benussi a pochi giorni dall'inizio delle regate, "che arriva da un team di grande rispetto e caratura agonistica. Mi rende davvero felice poter sedere per la prima volta nella mia carriera a fianco di uno degli armatori-timonieri più vincenti nella storia recente dello yachting come è Onorato, e contribuire al progetto di mostrarsi al top anche in una flotta così combattuta come lo è quella dei Melges 32. Sono tanti i motivi per cui sono attratto da questo team, e ancora una volta sono lieto di poter vedere un pozzetto tutto italiano, anzi per buona parte triestino, che corre contro i più grandi nomi del mondo della vela internazionale: quello che mi ha convinto a correre con Mascalzone Latino è il suo approccio realistico alla disciplina, che a causa degli impegni di lavoro di Vincenzo Onorato li ha visti non sempre presenti negli ultimi anni ai blocchi di partenza. Ma la voglia di ricominciare con il massimo della grintà c'è e quindi speriamo di poter già subito ottenere risultati soddisfacenti".&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Palmares Gabriele Benussi:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;4 Titoli Mondiali&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;4 Titoli Europei &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;2 Titoli di Campione del Mediterraneo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;11 Titoli Italiani&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;4 Vittorie alla Maxi Rolex Cup &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;8 volte vincitore Giro d’Italia a Vela&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;5 vittorie alla Giraglia Rolex Cup&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;2 volte Vincitore Coppa del Re&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Campione Americano Melges32&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;2 Vittorie alla Palermo Montecarlo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;1 Vittoria alla Middle Sea Race&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2979183053996288408-8832349575783056479?l=navigamus.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/feeds/8832349575783056479/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2979183053996288408&amp;postID=8832349575783056479&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/8832349575783056479'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/8832349575783056479'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/2012/01/gabriele-benussi-e-il-nuovo-acquisto-di.html' title='Gabriele Benussi è il nuovo acquisto di Mascalzone per la Premiere-Racing di Key West'/><author><name>Andrea Messersì</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12782675519045603248</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kgrhzLNmoOg/TyQewRyaLGI/AAAAAAAAI_8/4lf9QPXsEd0/s220/andreamessers%25C3%25AC.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-gI5Uj9OBGX0/Tw6TnsWmrHI/AAAAAAAAI5E/lRYMl90sADM/s72-c/news-8401.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2979183053996288408.post-1614287274887735445</id><published>2012-01-12T08:54:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-12T08:54:38.060+01:00</updated><title type='text'>VELA ED ECOLOGIA: UNA COLLEZIONE DI ACCESSORI E BORSE DALLE VELE DI CORK</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-O_Z3GaPzqFY/Tw6RTAg6H-I/AAAAAAAAI48/OmG4pj5XL1g/s1600/196209_192086080821758_100000611016913_530562_6596775_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="268px" kba="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-O_Z3GaPzqFY/Tw6RTAg6H-I/AAAAAAAAI48/OmG4pj5XL1g/s400/196209_192086080821758_100000611016913_530562_6596775_n.jpg" width="400px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Cap d’Agde, 11 gennaio 2012 - Anche le vele di Cork, il prestigioso e glorioso yacht a vela in attesa di iniziare un restauro “ecologico” grazie alla passione e all’iniziativa di alcuni professionisti dello yachting (Antonio Costamante e Michele Lucchini consulenti di AIM Yacht Interiors, società di project management nell’allestimento e refit di yacht), torneranno a nuova vita. Infatti è già in fase di design e realizzazione una collezione di borse e accessori ricavati dalle numerose vele che l’armatore di Cork, l’imprenditore calzaturiero varesino Cesare Rotelli, utilizzava per navigare in Mediterraneo. Rande, fiocchi, spinnaker, stay-sails, big-boys, bloopers (le vele asimmetriche di quei tempi non si chiamavano ancora gennaker) diventeranno borse e accessori di grande appeal per uomo o donna, non solo velisti, ma anche per coloro attenti alle nuove tendenze.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;a name='more'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;La collezione comprende una linea di borse di differenti forme e misure, cappellini, portadocumenti, secchielli, cuscini, paraventi, lampade, set americani per la tavola dell’estate, tutte da scoprire. Naturalmente oltre all’utilizzo del Dacron e del Nylon riciclati dalle vele, i particolari di tutti gli articoli saranno realizzati con uno speciale tessuto di sughero che ricorderà ancora una volta l’idea da cui nacque Cork, negli anni ’70, e il progetto del suo restauro eco-compatibile.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;La nuova collezione SAVECORK, prodotta e distribuita da Daniela Martelli, sarà presentata in esclusiva alla fine di gennaio in occasione del BOOT 2012, Salone nautico di Dusseldorf, in Germania, presso lo stand C42 di DANIELA MARTELLI nel Padiglione 12, prima di essere proposta attraverso il CORK STORE del sito &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.savecork.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;www.savecork.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt; e attraverso una rete di punti vendita.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2979183053996288408-1614287274887735445?l=navigamus.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/feeds/1614287274887735445/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2979183053996288408&amp;postID=1614287274887735445&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/1614287274887735445'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/1614287274887735445'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/2012/01/vela-ed-ecologia-una-collezione-di.html' title='VELA ED ECOLOGIA: UNA COLLEZIONE DI ACCESSORI E BORSE DALLE VELE DI CORK'/><author><name>Andrea Messersì</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12782675519045603248</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kgrhzLNmoOg/TyQewRyaLGI/AAAAAAAAI_8/4lf9QPXsEd0/s220/andreamessers%25C3%25AC.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-O_Z3GaPzqFY/Tw6RTAg6H-I/AAAAAAAAI48/OmG4pj5XL1g/s72-c/196209_192086080821758_100000611016913_530562_6596775_n.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2979183053996288408.post-1146282380914589814</id><published>2012-01-12T08:44:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-12T08:44:29.462+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Canottieri Garda Salò'/><title type='text'>SUL GARDA A SALO' TORNA LA VELA AGONISTICA</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Ad0UNZI8aTw/Tw6PFWO9j-I/AAAAAAAAI40/wCTWmDPoRlg/s1600/STAR1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400px" kba="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Ad0UNZI8aTw/Tw6PFWO9j-I/AAAAAAAAI40/wCTWmDPoRlg/s400/STAR1.JPG" width="265px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Dopo il raduno nazionale dei velisti delle Paralimpiadi il golfo di Salò e la Marina della Canottieri Garda tornano ad ospitare la vela agonistica. Domenica prossima, 15 gennaio, sarà la volta della terza tappa del circuito “Autunno-Inverno”, riservato alla classe olimpica delle Star e al piccolo singolo Dinghy 12 piedi. Sarà il primo atto della lunga stagione 2012 della Canottieri Garda che già nel primo week end di febbario proporrà una sua classica, la “Trans lac en Du”, regata in notturna per due persone d’equipaggio. Quanto al circuito “Autunno-Imverno” le classifica provvisorie sono comandate da Riccardo Pallavidini (YC Sirmione) nel singolo Dinghy davanti ad Andrea Falciola del Lario (YC Domaso) e al bergamasco Marco Dubbini (YC Maderno). Nella Star la vetta della classifica è della famiglia Benamati di Malcesine, padre e figlio (entrambi ex campioni mondiali), che precedono il comasco Moschioni e il gargnanese Redaelli.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2979183053996288408-1146282380914589814?l=navigamus.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/feeds/1146282380914589814/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2979183053996288408&amp;postID=1146282380914589814&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/1146282380914589814'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/1146282380914589814'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/2012/01/sul-garda-salo-torna-la-vela-agonistica.html' title='SUL GARDA A SALO&apos; TORNA LA VELA AGONISTICA'/><author><name>Andrea Messersì</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12782675519045603248</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kgrhzLNmoOg/TyQewRyaLGI/AAAAAAAAI_8/4lf9QPXsEd0/s220/andreamessers%25C3%25AC.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Ad0UNZI8aTw/Tw6PFWO9j-I/AAAAAAAAI40/wCTWmDPoRlg/s72-c/STAR1.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2979183053996288408.post-7332463717082733986</id><published>2012-01-11T09:13:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-11T09:13:57.836+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ravenna Yacht Club'/><title type='text'>Vela - Campionato Invernale di Ravenna: niente vento per la quarta tappa</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Ba3vi5FwcyI/ToFtazywGFI/AAAAAAAAH1w/KBCy7LC1hYU/s1600/ITA_505_Kimbe.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="266px" kba="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Ba3vi5FwcyI/ToFtazywGFI/AAAAAAAAH1w/KBCy7LC1hYU/s400/ITA_505_Kimbe.jpg" width="400px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Anche per quest'ultima domenica le 140 le barche iscritte erano tutte in acqua. Il meteo che annunciava vento tra 8 e 10 nodi ma in calo sul mezzogiorno ha spinto tutti gli iscritti ad essere più ch euntuali per le procedure di partenza. Alle 10.30 il campo di regata - sempre a sud della diga foranea- era preparato ma in pochi minuti la brezza proveniente da terra di 6- 8 nodi è completamente scemata. Lunga attesa sotto il sole primaverile fino alle 12.30 nella sperana che entrasse la termica dal mare, ma nulla di fatto. Tutti al rientro a terra come di consueto per la tradizionale ospitalità romagnola. Il prossimo appuntamento con il campionato d’inverno è per domenica 22 gennaio quando si cercherà di recuperare anche questa prova. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2979183053996288408-7332463717082733986?l=navigamus.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/feeds/7332463717082733986/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2979183053996288408&amp;postID=7332463717082733986&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/7332463717082733986'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/7332463717082733986'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/2012/01/vela-campionato-invernale-di-ravenna.html' title='Vela - Campionato Invernale di Ravenna: niente vento per la quarta tappa'/><author><name>Andrea Messersì</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12782675519045603248</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kgrhzLNmoOg/TyQewRyaLGI/AAAAAAAAI_8/4lf9QPXsEd0/s220/andreamessers%25C3%25AC.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Ba3vi5FwcyI/ToFtazywGFI/AAAAAAAAH1w/KBCy7LC1hYU/s72-c/ITA_505_Kimbe.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2979183053996288408.post-7877581765869992084</id><published>2012-01-10T10:41:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-10T10:41:47.830+01:00</updated><title type='text'>"Capire il vento, conoscere il mare" il corso base di meteo in DVD di Gianfranco Meggiorin di Navimeteo.it</title><content type='html'>&lt;iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/lPa1GKaC8bc" width="560"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Dico subito che ho ricevuto in omaggio il DVD "Capire il vento, conoscere il mare" al fine di visionarlo e di recensirlo liberamente senza alcun altro obbligo da parte mia. Chiarita questa premessa necessaria per motivi di "trasparenza" mia nei confronti dei lettori del blog passiamo ad esminare l'interessante lavoro di Gianfranco Meggiorin che è da anni un'esperto del settore e che ha già pubblicato un libro&amp;nbsp;sull'argomento per chi preferisce strumenti più tradizionali. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Il DVD si articola in 16 "capitoli" (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.navimeteo.it/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/locandinaDVD.pdf"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;http://www.navimeteo.it/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/locandinaDVD.pdf&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;) nella trattazione dei quali tocca tutti i principali argomenti base (e non solo) della meteorologia marina usando un linguaggio accessibile a qualsiasi skipper e limitando al minimo l'uso di tecnicismi da "fisica dellea bassa atmosfera" che possono risultare antipatici a molti. Ho trovato molto sensata l'idea di base che la conoscenza della meteorologia deve essere considerata come una dotazione di sicurezza obbligatoria a bordo di qualsiasi imbarcazione nel senso che, ogni comandante non solo deve possedere un&amp;nbsp; discreto bagaglio di conoscenze in questo campo ma, anche, avere l'attitudine mentale e la sensibilità all'osservazione dell'evoluzione delle condizioni del tempo anche durante le navigazioni più brevi e/o costiere.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Ho trovato interessanti&amp;nbsp;i Cap. 5 e 6 sul vento e sul&amp;nbsp;moto ondoso&amp;nbsp;ed anche i Cap. 9 e 10 sui fronti caldi e freddi ed i temporali in cui in entrambi i casi con l'ausilio di fotografie dall'alto e/o satellitari si mostra efficacemente come molto spesso chi sta a terra abbia grosse difficoltà a comprendere le reali condizioni in mare aperto. Molto&amp;nbsp;utile e direi anche suggestivo il Cap. 14 dove si illustra l'efficace schematizzazione del tempo come un'onda che si propaga e trasla&amp;nbsp;sulla superficie del pianeta, sia terrestre che marina, dove la "cresta" è costituita dall'alta pressione ed il "cavo" dalla bassa.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Il DVD dura circa due ore perciò consiglierei di dividerne la visione in tre/quattro&amp;nbsp;volte in maniera da rendere più facilmente assimilabili le nozioni che vengono spiegate e, soprattutto, per meglio comprendere le reciproche relazioni tra tutti gli argomenti spiegati nel corso che, complessivamente considerato, contiene informazioni e spunti che vanno oltre il livello "base" e che tendono a rendere consapevoli gli skipper che, come dice l'autore: "Un buon marinaio non può cambiare il tempo ma sa capire quando è il momento di cambiare rotta". Altre info su &lt;a href="http://www.navimeteo.it/"&gt;http://www.navimeteo.it/&lt;/a&gt; .&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2979183053996288408-7877581765869992084?l=navigamus.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/feeds/7877581765869992084/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2979183053996288408&amp;postID=7877581765869992084&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/7877581765869992084'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/7877581765869992084'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/2012/01/capire-il-vento-conoscere-il-mare-il.html' title='&quot;Capire il vento, conoscere il mare&quot; il corso base di meteo in DVD di Gianfranco Meggiorin di Navimeteo.it'/><author><name>Andrea Messersì</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12782675519045603248</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kgrhzLNmoOg/TyQewRyaLGI/AAAAAAAAI_8/4lf9QPXsEd0/s220/andreamessers%25C3%25AC.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://img.youtube.com/vi/lPa1GKaC8bc/default.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2979183053996288408.post-626113639505803463</id><published>2012-01-10T08:22:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-10T08:22:55.862+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='FINN'/><title type='text'>Pubblicato il calendario da tavolo della classe Finn italiana</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vZywqqH62-Y/Twvmp24oGgI/AAAAAAAAI4s/77yGgSCU8z0/s1600/Cover_calendario_2012.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="225px" kba="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vZywqqH62-Y/Twvmp24oGgI/AAAAAAAAI4s/77yGgSCU8z0/s400/Cover_calendario_2012.jpg" width="400px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;La classe Finn italiana ha deciso di offrire ai suoi associati un ricordo della splendida stagione 2011 che li accompagni per tutto l’anno, stampando un calendario da tavolo con le foto degli eventi che si sono disputati in Italia nell’anno appena trascorso. La stagione 2011 dei Finn italiani è stata davvero memorabile, con in particolare l’edizione record del Finn World Master a Punta Ala, che ha visto la partecipazione di 283 timonieri da 28 nazioni ed ha offerto uno spettacolo indimenticabile in mare e a terra. Anche la Coppa Italia Finn nel 2011 ha battuto i precedenti record di partecipazione, con 151 timonieri tra italiani e stranieri che si sono sfidati in 35 prove nell’arco di 7 fine settimana. Hanno completato la stagione il Campionato Nazionale Master a Porto San Giorgio ed il Campionato Italiano a Malcesine. Il calendario da tavolo è stato realizzato con la collaborazione della HiTechSailing di Walter Riosa, ditta che produce in Inghilterra Finn ed accessori di alta qualità. Le foto del calendario sono state realizzate da Marina Prinzivalli, che ha curato anche la veste grafica. Una preview del calendario può essere visualizzata all’indirizzo: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://issuu.com/classefinn/docs/2012_calendar"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;http://issuu.com/classefinn/docs/2012_calendar&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt; . Per informazioni e per ordinare una copia del calendario: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="mailto:classefinn@libero.it"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;classefinn@libero.it&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt; .&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2979183053996288408-626113639505803463?l=navigamus.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/feeds/626113639505803463/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2979183053996288408&amp;postID=626113639505803463&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/626113639505803463'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/626113639505803463'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/2012/01/pubblicato-il-calendario-da-tavolo.html' title='Pubblicato il calendario da tavolo della classe Finn italiana'/><author><name>Andrea Messersì</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12782675519045603248</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kgrhzLNmoOg/TyQewRyaLGI/AAAAAAAAI_8/4lf9QPXsEd0/s220/andreamessers%25C3%25AC.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vZywqqH62-Y/Twvmp24oGgI/AAAAAAAAI4s/77yGgSCU8z0/s72-c/Cover_calendario_2012.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2979183053996288408.post-5837308602029963085</id><published>2012-01-09T09:41:00.005+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-09T21:16:03.276+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='superbignavigation'/><title type='text'>Perchè Banque Populaire ha conquistato il Trofeo Jules Verne</title><content type='html'>&lt;iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/aKUwK4NOUs8" width="560"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Qualche giorno fa il "mostruoso" trimarano&amp;nbsp;francese ha conquistato il &amp;nbsp;Trofeo Jules Verne migliorando il precedente record di oltre due giorni e mezzo e portandolo agli attuali incredibili 45 giorni 13 ore e spicci .....(velocità media kn 26,51). Un'impresa eccezionale e memorabile che è&amp;nbsp;diventata realtà grazie alle caratteristiche "megagalattiche" di questa imbarcazione&amp;nbsp;che sarebbe riduttivo definire una barca a vela. Assomiglia molto di più ad un'astronave per&amp;nbsp;oceani o, se preferite, ad una grossa berlina&amp;nbsp;che viaggi tranquilla in autostrada a 200 chilometri all'ora: fila via liscia che è un&amp;nbsp;piacere. &amp;nbsp;Infatti come potete vedere dal video il trimarano nonostante navighi in aperto oceano alla pazzesca velocità di oltre 41 nodi (il record mondiale di velocità a vela ottenuto in acque "protette" è di poco oltre 54 nodi) non sembra affatto essere al limite delle sue potenzialità anzi, per dirla tutta, sembra che non stia nemmeno "tirando" al massimo: lo scafo centrale si solleva dall'acqua solo ogni tanto (come giusto che sia) e solo nella prima parte del video. Da notare che, date le condizioni del mare non eccezionalmente agitato, la velocità del vento non doveva essere superiore ai 30 nodi, forse meno, infatti gran parte della superficie velica è esposta al vento e addirittura nella seconda parte del video il trimarano ha ben due vele a prua&amp;nbsp;di cui una molto grande! Quindi l'imbarcazione può superare molto facilmente la velocità del vento ed è progettata per&amp;nbsp;navigare ben oltre&amp;nbsp;i 40 nodi che, è bene&amp;nbsp;ricordare, è una velocità alla quale le nostre normali barche a vela si sbriciolerebbero come biscotti &amp;nbsp;solo per il fatto che bulbi e timoni non reggerebbero mai le forze idrodinamiche che si verrebbero a creare. Insomma Banque Populaire V sembra una "macchina"&amp;nbsp;straordinaria di quelle create apposta a tavolino da qualcuno a cui dire: TI PIACE VINCERE FACILE EH !&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Nondimeno devo togliermi il cappello davanti alla fantastica impresa di Loïck Peyron e del suo equipaggio il cui unico rammarico è stato di non aver visto Capo Horn dato che il passaggio è avvenuto in notturna ed a velocità moto sostenuta.&amp;nbsp; ;-) &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2979183053996288408-5837308602029963085?l=navigamus.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/feeds/5837308602029963085/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2979183053996288408&amp;postID=5837308602029963085&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/5837308602029963085'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/5837308602029963085'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/2012/01/perche-banque-populaire-ha-conquistato.html' title='Perchè Banque Populaire ha conquistato il Trofeo Jules Verne'/><author><name>Andrea Messersì</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12782675519045603248</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kgrhzLNmoOg/TyQewRyaLGI/AAAAAAAAI_8/4lf9QPXsEd0/s220/andreamessers%25C3%25AC.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://img.youtube.com/vi/aKUwK4NOUs8/default.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2979183053996288408.post-563628983959934153</id><published>2012-01-09T08:41:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-09T08:41:15.944+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Yacht Club Padova'/><title type='text'>Iniziano le serate allo Yacht Club Padova</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-d-XIhkAcVrI/TwqZbxIwAPI/AAAAAAAAI4k/BxH1c8c8Xjc/s1600/mosso.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400px" rea="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-d-XIhkAcVrI/TwqZbxIwAPI/AAAAAAAAI4k/BxH1c8c8Xjc/s400/mosso.jpg" width="292px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Nel mondo della nautica e della vela in particolare, l'uso dei cavi è di primaria importanza e di conseguenza la conoscenza di nodi e impiombature viene considerata una parte fondamentale del bagaglio tecnico di ogni marinaio. Nella realtà la conoscenza dei nodi risulta di buon livello, mentre le impiombature sono spesso poco considerate. Questo libro è uno strumento pratico e attuale che illustra le impiombature realizzate con cavi prodotti con fibre sintetiche sia standard sia esotiche e anche loop e stroppi di ultima generazione. Mercoledi 11 Gennaio ore 21:30 presso la nostra Club House nella sala conferenze del Museo Internazionale del Vetro d'Arte e delle Terme in via E. Fermi 1 a Montegrotto Terme. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;a name='more'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Per l’occasione ci sarà l’autore Alfredo Mosso la presentazione inizierà alle 21.30, ma sarà possibile ritrovarci per due chiacchiere in compagnia o per una cena informale presso la Club House al Piano Terra dalle sapienti mani di Isabella e Daniele de “El Bacareto dei Ansoi”. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Per chi fosse interessato a fine della serata verranno programmate delle giornate studio sul tema, Alfredo Mosso oltre ad essere un attrezzista tra i più preparati in attività in Italia è un validissimo didatta con alle spalle anni di insegnamento tecnico. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;(da &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.yachtclubpadova.org/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;www.yachtclubpadova.org&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt; )&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2979183053996288408-563628983959934153?l=navigamus.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/feeds/563628983959934153/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2979183053996288408&amp;postID=563628983959934153&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/563628983959934153'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/563628983959934153'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/2012/01/iniziano-le-serate-allo-yacht-club.html' title='Iniziano le serate allo Yacht Club Padova'/><author><name>Andrea Messersì</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12782675519045603248</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kgrhzLNmoOg/TyQewRyaLGI/AAAAAAAAI_8/4lf9QPXsEd0/s220/andreamessers%25C3%25AC.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-d-XIhkAcVrI/TwqZbxIwAPI/AAAAAAAAI4k/BxH1c8c8Xjc/s72-c/mosso.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2979183053996288408.post-2347880275376662879</id><published>2012-01-09T08:34:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-09T08:34:43.410+01:00</updated><title type='text'>A look back at Global Ocean Race Leg 2</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-YxuTNYQH8G4/TwqW69yb30I/AAAAAAAAI4c/YvISkMXfaR0/s1600/1039630029.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="330px" rea="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-YxuTNYQH8G4/TwqW69yb30I/AAAAAAAAI4c/YvISkMXfaR0/s400/1039630029.jpg" width="400px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;With the six GOR Class40s leaving Cape Town after a 48-hour delay due to strong winds, disaster struck the Dutch entry, Sec. Hayai, on the first night with a dismasting off the Cape of Good Hope. Descending through the Roaring Forties to the western Indian Ocean Ice Limit at 42S, the fleet remained compact with leadership changing frequently. At the Celox Sailing Scoring Gate mid-Indian Ocean, Cessna Citation crossed in first place and held the lead for the remaining 21 days of racing. The two lead boats, Cessna Citation and BSL dropped south to 48S after passing Kerguelen Island, while Campagne de France, Financial Crisis and Phesheya-Racing stayed further north. Cessna Citation and BSL rode the Southern Ocean frontal systems at high speed, separating from the main pack of boats with Campagne de France frequently stuck in light airs throughout the Tasman Sea and the western boats, Financial Crisis and Phesheya-Racing, experiencing the strongest winds (up to 60kts) behind the cold fronts and while the leaders closed up in light and fluctuating airs west of South Island, Cook Strait delivered a final blow for the fleet leaders supplying 50-60 knots for a gruelling finish to the 7,500-mile GOR Leg 2. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;a name='more'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Week 1: Tuesday 29 November – Monday 5 December&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Slow start and a quick drop south to the ice limit:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;With the start delayed by two days due to strong winds, the six Class40s crossed the start line in Cape Town’s Table Bay at 14:00 Local (12:00 GMT) on Tuesday 29 November. The New Zealand Class40, Cessna Citation, of Conrad Colman and Sam Goodchild was first across the line, followed by the Kiwi father-and-son duo of Ross and Campbell Field on BSL (an order that would be repeated at the finish line 30 days later). Following a spectacular reaching start, the breeze failed and the GOR fleet was left creeping south towards the Cape of Good Hope as night fell. After 14 hours of racing, the Dutch father-and-son team of Nico and Frans Budel dismasted shortly before rounding the Cape of Good Hope and entering the Indian Ocean. Both the Budels were uninjured and returned to Cape Town unassisted with their Class40 Sec. Hayai while a rigging component was suspected to be the cause of the dismasting.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;The remaining five Class40s spent the first full day at sea in Leg 2 beating close inshore towards the Cape of Good Hope in strong headwinds before the breeze slackened. At 09:00 GMT on Wednesday as dawn broke, the New Zealand duo of Ross and Campbell Field with BSL took the lead from Conrad Colman and Artemis Offshore Academy sailor, Sam Goodchild, with Cessna Citation, as Colman and Goodchild took the inside track, sailing just six miles off Quoin Point, a rocky headland west of Cape Agulhas. Leaving South of Africa by 200 miles, the GOR Class40 fleet ran into light airs on Day 3, waiting for the westerlies to push them east and south, deeper into the Indian Ocean. On Friday morning, Campagne de France and BSL, furthest south in the fleet, dug into new breeze and by Sunday, (Day 5) under 36 miles separated the front of the pack with the fleet pinned down to the GOR’s ice limit at 42 degrees South, running downwind to the eastern end of the no-go zone before dropping deeper into the Southern Ocean. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;At the end of the first week, the leaderboard ranking continued to change hourly after six days at sea. At the head of the fleet, Cessna Citation and Campagne de France continued swapping pole position, separated by a handful of miles since Friday, while BSL in third was closing down fast on the lead duo with the two trailing Class40s, Financial Crisis and Phesheya-Racing, enjoying a private battle and making gains on the frontrunners.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Week 2: Tuesday 6 December – Monday 12 December&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Through the Celox Sailing Scoring Gate with the leaders plummeting south of Kerguelen:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Close competition has always been a basis of the Class40 Association, but after one week and over 1,300 miles of racing through the Indian Ocean, the five, double-handed, Class40s in the Global Ocean Race were taking this characteristic to extremes. The Franco-British duo of Halvard Mabire and Miranda Merron took the lead on Monday night with their Pogo40S² Class40, Campagne de France, before Conrad Colman and Sam Goodchild regained pole position at 05:00 GMT on Tuesday with the New Zealand-British team’s Akilaria RC2, Cessna Citation, but relinquished the lead to Mabire and Merron just four hours later.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;The GOR fleet leaders passed the eastern extremity of the ice limit mid-week and by late Thursday, Marco Nannini and Hugo Ramon with Financial Crisis were the fourth boat to pass the end of the limit, followed two hours later by the South African duo of Nick Leggatt and Phillippa Hutton-Squire in fifth on Phesheya-Racing.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;By Friday, the five Class40s were approaching the most remote part of the Indian Ocean, 1,800 miles from the Cape of Good Hope, Africa, and 2,600 miles from Cape Leeuwin at the south-western tip of Australia after ten days of racing with the fleet reaching east on port in the Roaring Forties with the Leg 2 Celox Sailing Scoring Gate at 69 degrees East as their next virtual target. In fourth and fifth place, Financial Crisis and Phesheya-Racing remained 90 miles north of the leading trio with Cessna Citation at the head of the fleet pushing up the speed averages to over 14 knots, hunted by Campagne de France with BSL in third dropping back behind the leading two boats overnight.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;As the weekend arrived, furthest north, Financial Crisis and Phesheya-Racing were locked down in a cold front as Cessna Citation crossed the Celox Sailing Scoring Gate at 69E, north of Kerguelen Island in the middle of the Indian Ocean, in first place shortly after 15:00 GMT on Saturday with Colman and Goodchild taking the maximum 6 points. Within three hours of Colman and Goodchild crossing the gate, Halvard Mabire and Miranda Merron on Campagne de France and Ross and Campbell Field with BSL tore through the gate averaging just under 14 knots and separated by two miles – an exceptionally compressed pack after 11 days and over 2,500 miles of racing from Cape Town.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Meanwhile, north-west of the leading trio of Class40s, Financial Crisis and Phesheya-Racing were first to feel the front on Saturday with the wind switching round to an icy, southerly blast as the system rolled east through the Roaring Forties. By late Sunday and into Monday, the extraordinary, sustained speeds of the leading trio hurtling east ahead of the front began to moderate as the breeze went aft and settled in the south-west.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Week 3: Tuesday 13 December – Monday 19 December&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Punishing conditions and extraordinary speeds:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Complex weather conditions in the middle of the Indian Ocean between 40S and 50S forced some tough decisions in the fleet early in Week 3. Furthest north, Phesheya-Racing and Financial Crisis made painful tacks to the south-west, away from the finish line, beating away from the path of a vicious low pressure system. Right in the middle of the Roaring Forties, Campagne de France in third place fell into an area of exceptionally light breeze and, furthest south at 48S, Cessna Citation was covering BSL as they ran downwind in a band of westerly breeze, timing their gybe for the north-easterly ascent and towards the GOR’s Australian Ice Limit at 45S.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;By Wednesday, the windless isolation of Halvard Mabire and Miranda Merron on Campagne de France in third place ceased as Conrad Colman and Sam Goodchild on Cessna Citation and Ross and Campbell Field on BSL hammered through variable conditions furthest south while Marco Nannini and Hugo Ramon on Financial Crisis and the South African team of Nick Leggatt and Phillippa Hutton-Squire on Phesheya-Racing finally finished their painful upwind struggle. But as the low pressure system left the two westerly boats battered and bruised, it swiftly moved on to give Campagne de France a hammering as the two leading boats, Cessna Citation and BSL, reached the western end of the Ice Limit at 45S with their speeds getting intense and building rapidly from 13-16 knots.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;After 17 days and 4,000 miles of hard racing, the five, double-handed Class40s were undergoing the toughest sailing so far in Leg 2 as the Southern Ocean bared its teeth. Hammering along the GOR’s ice limit at 45S, 700 miles south of Australia, fast reaching in northerly breeze of 30-35 knots, the fleet leader, Cessna Citation, was consistently polling averages of 16 knots with BSL hard on the chase in second reporting surfs of 25 knots as the two boats piled east on the edge of control. Passing north of the western end of GOR’s Australian Ice limit at 10:00 GMT on Friday, Campagne de France in third experienced monstrous, rolling waves and gusts of 30 knots with the forecast predicting that a solid 40 knots was on the way.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Having already endured two days in a violent, three-reef, Roaring Forties centrifuge with gusts up to 45 knots, Financial Crisis and Phesheya-Racing were unable to shake off the strong conditions and with a solid 40-45 knots blasting from the south-west, the two Class40s were barrelling east in building seas. Furthest north in fifth place, the autopilot on Phesheya-Racing was unable to cope with 45 knot squalls, forcing Nick Leggatt and Phillippa Hutton-Squire to hand steer and reduce sail. On Financial Crisis, Marco Nannini and Hugo Ramon in fourth, sailing 70 miles further south than Leggatt and Hutton-Squire, recorded 52.7 knots of wind, but continued to average 11-12 knots throughout Friday night and Saturday morning, taking refuge down below as the storm raged.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;On Campagne de France, 1,000 miles directly north of the storm’s centre, and 558 miles east of Financial Crisis, Halvard Mabire and Miranda Merron also registered 52 knots and steep waves with hail stones strafing the Franco-British duo. At the front of the fleet, Conrad Colman and Sam Goodchild set a new GOR 24-hour run record of 350 miles on Friday morning with Cessna Citation and continued to poll the fleet’s highest averages on Friday night and into Saturday, extending their lead over Ross and Campbell Field in second with BSL despite the father-and-son duo averaging just under 13 knots for most of Saturday.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Throughout the weekend and into Monday the brutal conditions continued, as the leading pair of Class40s plummet south beyond the eastern extremity of the Australian Ice Limit, led Cessna Citation with drama on BSL in second place as Ross and Campbell Field knifed their spinnaker halyard in a 48-knot squall, managing to save the spinnaker and their carbon fibre mast. In third place, Halvard Mabire and Miranda Merron made the hard choice to head north with Campagne de France and avoid 50-knot winds chasing them along the ice limit.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Week 4: Tuesday 20 December – Monday 26 December&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Speed records continue with strong winds before a Tasman Sea park-up grips the leaders:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Strong conditions continued into Week 4 and down below 47S, Cessna Citation and BSL were breaking and resetting the GOR’s 24-hour distance records as the two boats fast-reached east in sustained 30-35-knot winds. Meanwhile, above the Australian Ice Limit at 45S, Financial Crisis in fourth place was hurled towards the virtual safety barrier in 60-knot, northerly gusts. In 25-30 knots of NNW wind, Campagne de France in third picked up the pace descending south and Phesheya-Racing was back-up to speed, running east above the ice limit and making up ground, trailing Financial Crisis by 312 miles and taking 45 miles from Nannini and Ramon’s lead in 24 hours.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;On Tuesday afternoon, the highest sustained speeds in the GOR were recorded by the fleet leaders, Conrad Colman and Sam Goodchild on their Akilaria RC2 Class40, Cessna Citation, and the New Zealand, father-and-son duo of Ross and Campbell Field in second place on their Verdier-designed Class40, BSL, as the two boats hooked into strong north-westerly wind. Geovoile tracking data revealed that having polled averages of over 14 knots, the Fields clocked a 24-hour run of 355.6nm and two hours later – after polling averages of 16 knots – Colman and Goodchild set the 24-hour barrier at 359.1nm – phenomenal distances for a Class40.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;As the leading double-handed Class40s prepared to enter the Tasman Sea with 1,200 miles of Leg 2 remaining, the light conditions threatened to shake up the ranking table for the remaining miles to the finish line in Wellington, New Zealand. Having led the fleet for 13 days and over 3,000 miles, logging phenomenal speeds, Cessna Citation hit the buffers 350 miles below Tasmania at 49S with Ross and Campbell Field, further north in second place with BSL, slowing down, but holding the breeze and closing in. In third place, the Franco-British duo of Halvard Mabire and Miranda Merron were polling the highest speed averages with Campagne de France as they dropped south taking miles out of the leaders.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;There would be no seasonal holiday for the fleet, and while the leading trio of Class40s struggled with fickle and frustrating light airs south and south-east of Tasmania, the two boats further west had a Christmas Day pasting in 47 knots of wind, but delivered impressive speeds. For the leaders, the zone of minimal breeze ballooned and stretched to an area covering 350 miles south of Tasmania on Christmas Day and Cessna Citation and BSL in second place were snared early on 25 December with the speeds dropping to below five knots as the two Class40s struggled east towards South Island, New Zealand. By 18:00 GMT on Christmas Day, Cessna Citation and BSL had increased speeds to nine-knot averages, but Halvard Mabire and Miranda Merron on Campagne de France in third place remained glued to the Tasman Sea, 150 miles south of Tasmania with averages dropping to just two knots. While the Franco-British duo on Campagne de France enjoyed Christmas lunch and tried to ignore the lack of wind, conditions were heavy further west for Marco Nannini and Hugo Ramon in fourth on Financial Crisis and the South African team of Nick Leggatt and Phillippa Hutton-Squire in fifth with Phesheya-Racing with gusts reaching 50 knots for the two trailing Class40s.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Week 5: Tuesday 27 December – Monday 2 January&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;No respite for the fleet as Cook Strait delivers a final gale:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;A tough Christmas Day for the westerly Class40s was followed by a headwind hammering for the two leading boats to the east on Boxing Day in the Tasman Sea and with the fleet’s distance accordion beginning to squeeze in a tune-up to the Wellington arrival overture, boats were closing up as diverse weather effected the fleet after 7,000 miles and 27 days in Leg 2 from Cape Town.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;With the fleet spread over 1,200 miles to the west of New Zealand, there were, naturally, immense differences in the conditions for the five boats. The leading duo of Cessna Citation and BSL were separated by 110 miles on Wednesday having entered an area of light airs off the western coast of South Island with 253 miles of Leg 2 remaining for Cessna Citation. Campagne de France in third, 306 miles astern of BSL, was also trapped in a breeze vacuum tantalisingly close the finish line in Wellington and, further west, straddling Tasmania, Financial Crisis in fourth and Phesheya-Racing in fifth were in strong westerly wind and making good progress, despite a batten-breaking crash gybe for the Italian-Spanish team on Financial Crisis.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;By Thursday, after 29 days of racing through the high-latitudes of the Indian Ocean, the five Class40s were being severely tested as they approach the Leg 2 finish line in Wellington, New Zealand. At the head of the fleet, race leader Cessna Citation escaped the area of light airs off the west coast of South Island on Wednesday evening GMT, only to run into strong headwinds and punishing seas along the continental shelf with under 200 miles to the finish. The second Kiwi team, Ross and Campbell Field on BSL, came to within 70 miles of Cessna Citation at 03:00 GMT on Thursday as they chased Colman and Goodchild along the coast. In mid-fleet, the Franco-British duo of Halvard Mabire and Miranda Merron in third on Campagne de France remained trapped in light airs 380 miles west of South Island, showing brief bursts of speed before slowing down early evening on Wednesday.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;While Campagne de France suffered mid-Tasman Sea, the Italian-Spanish duo of Marco Nannini and Hugo Ramon in fourth on Financial Crisis continued to poll the best speeds in the fleet, fast reaching in 25-30 knots of breeze despite the batten damage sustained on Wednesday and stealing an impressive haul of miles from Mabire and Merron. Meanwhile, the South African duo of Nick Leggatt and Phillippa Hutton-Squire in fifth place on Phesheya-Racing were dropping below 45S, running downwind in strong breeze, also sustaining batten damage in a crash gybe 120 miles south of Tasmania.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Colman and Goodchild rounded Cape Farewell at the northern tip of South Island at 14:00 GMT on Thursday (03:00 local on Friday), fighting against headwinds. With Cook Strait set for a 40-50 knot south-easterly blast, potentially gusting to 60 knots, the stretch of water separating South Island from North Island was not a location to be caught in. Cessna Citation tacked hard in 35 knots of south-easterly wind in extremely ugly seas ahead of the main gale, sailing close to d’Urville Island and Port Gore on the northern tip of South Island before they attacked the 14-mile wide wind funnel at the narrowest part of the strait between Cape Terrawhiti on North Island and Perano Head on Arapawa Island in Marlborough Sound at 06:00 GMT on Friday with 18 miles remaining to the finish line. One hour later, as the wind built to 45 knots, Cessna Citation barrelled through the 2km-wide entrance to Wellington Harbour between Pencarrow Head and the Miramar Peninsular in torrential rain and grey, rolling waves as daylight faded fast. Colman and Goodchild left the partially exposed Barrett Reef to port and crossed the GOR Leg 2 finish line off Worser Bay on the harbour’s western shore, taking victory in Leg 2 at 08:20:40 GMT (21:20:40 local) on Friday 30 December after 30 days 22 hours 20 minutes and 40 seconds, netting the maximum of 30 points for Leg 2.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;While Colman and Goodchild shot into Wellington Harbour in terrible conditions just ahead of the worst of the gale, Ross and Campbell Field on BSL weren’t so lucky. The Fields rounded Cape Farewell in the middle of the New Zealand night and ran straight into the south-easterly Force 7-8 howling through Cook Strait. BSL tacked briefly onto port towards Golden Bay lying behind the 15-mile long Farewell Spit jutting east into the strait from the cape, with slow and painful progress. With the breeze building to 60 knots and the wind instruments torn from the top of the mast, BSL headed towards the North Island shore finding shelter from the gale and at 10:38 on New Year’s Day in New Zealand (21:38 GMT 31 December), The Kiwi father-and-son team of Ross and Campbell Field took second place in Leg 2 of the double-handed Global Ocean Race (GOR) with their Class40 BSL, crossing the finish line in Wellington harbour after 32 days 11 hours 38 minutes and 40 seconds and 7,000 miles of racing from Cape Town South Africa - just over one and-a-half days behind Leg 2 winners, Conrad Colman and Sam Goodchild on Cessna Citation.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Shortly after sunrise the following day, Campagne de France beat along the northern coast of Cook Strait towards Wellington Harbour close inshore to the exposed rocks of West Ledge before bearing away near the eastern entrance to the harbour at Pencarrow Head and hoisting a masthead asymmetric for the final miles to the finish line in Worser Bay and at 09:49 on Monday local time (20:40 GMT 01/01/12), Halvard Mabire and Miranda Merron crossed the finish line in third place after 33 days 10 hours 40 minutes and 15 seconds. Mabire and Merron’s hard-won podium place kept them in second place on points behind Ross and Campbell Field on BSL and two points ahead of Leg 2 winner, Conrad Colman and Sam Goodchild with Cessna Citation.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Having endured some of the worst conditions in the fleet during Leg 2, Marco Nannini and his co-skipper, Hugo Ramon, had typically robust conditions as the duo logged the final miles of Leg 2 through Cook Strait with 20-25 knots and a big sea off North Island’s southern coast with Financial Crisis carrying two reefs and staysail. Bearing away round the Barrett Reef Buoy, Financial Crisis entered Wellington Harbour and the duo could begin to relax for the first time in over one month spent locked the Roaring Forties, finishing Leg 2 at 06:13:45 GMT on Monday 2 December (19:13 local) after 33 days 20 hours 13 minutes and 45 seconds and 7,000 miles of racing.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Week 6: Tuesday 3 January – Wednesday 4 January&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Final boat finishes after 36 days in the Southern Ocean:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;In the moonless and cloudless pre-dawn, Phesheya-Racing ‘turned left’ out of Cook Strait between the Barrett Reef buoy and Pencarrow Head for a final, bone-shaking beat in 45 knots under triple-reefed main and staysail. Leaving the exposed and jagged rocks of Barrett Reef in a mass white water to port, Nick Leggatt and Phillippa Hutton-Squire crossed the finish line off Worser Bay at 15:14:30 GMT (04:14:30 local) on Wednesday 4 January taking fifth place, completing the 7,500 mile course from Cape Town to Wellington in 36 days 05 hours 14 minutes and 30 seconds.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;GOR LEG 2 FINISHING POSITIONS/SPEEDS/TIMES AND BOAT DATA:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;1. Cessna Citation: Conrad Colman and Sam Goodchild (NZL/GBR). Akilaria RC2 Class40. Launched 2011. Finish 30/12/2011 08:20:40 UTC. 30d 22h 20m 40s. Av Spd 10.08kts. Dist 7,484nm. Best 24hrs 359.1nm&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;2. BSL: Ross and Campbell Field (NZL). Tyker 40 Class40. Launched 2008. Finish 31/12/2011 21:38:40 UTC. 32d 11h 38m 40s (Gap to 1st 1d 11h 38m 40s) Av Spd 9.7kts. Dist 7,564nm. Best 24hrs 355.6nm &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;3. Campagne de France: Halvard Mabire/Miranda Merron (FRA/GBR). Pogo 40S² Class40. Launched 2011. Finish 01/01/2012 06:13:45 UTC. 33d 10h 40m 15s Gap to 1st 2d 12h 19m 35s) Av Spd 9.37kts. Dist 7521nm. Best 24hrs 303.7nm &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;4. Financial Crisis: Marco Nannini/Paul Peggs (ITA/GBR). First Generation Akilaria Class40. Launched 2008. Finish 02/01/2012 06:13:45 UTC. 33d 20h 13m 45s (Gap to 1st 2d 21h 53m 05s) Av Spd 9.55kts. Dist 7758nm. Best 24hrs 298.3kts &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;5. Phesheya-Racing: Nick Leggatt and Phillippa Hutton-Squire (RSA/RSA). First generation Akilaria Class40. Launched 2007. Finish 04/01/2012 15:14:30 UTC. 36d 06h 53m 50s (Gap to 1st 5d 06h 53m 50s) Av Spd 8.8kts. Dist 7651nm. Best 24hrs 273.2nm&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;6. Sec. Hayai: Nico Budel/Ruud van Rijsewijk (NDL/NDL). First generation Akilaria Class40. Launched 2008. Dismasted/RTD&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;GOR LEG 2 POINTS:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;1. BSL: 64 (4 points at the Celox Sailing Scoring Gate + 25 points for 2nd place in Leg 2)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;2. Campagne de France: 56 points (5 points at the Celox Sailing Scoring Gate + 20 points for 3rd place in Leg 2)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;3. Cessna Citation: 54 (6 points at the Celox Sailing Scoring Gate + 30 points for Leg 2 win)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;4. Financial Crisis: 42 (3 points at the Celox Sailing Scoring Gate + 15 points for 4th place in Leg 2)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;5. Phesheya-Racing: 24 (2 points at the Celox Sailing Scoring Gate)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;6. Sec. Hayai: 6 (RTD from Leg 2)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2979183053996288408-2347880275376662879?l=navigamus.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/feeds/2347880275376662879/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2979183053996288408&amp;postID=2347880275376662879&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/2347880275376662879'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/2347880275376662879'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/2012/01/look-back-at-global-ocean-race-leg-2.html' title='A look back at Global Ocean Race Leg 2'/><author><name>Andrea Messersì</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12782675519045603248</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kgrhzLNmoOg/TyQewRyaLGI/AAAAAAAAI_8/4lf9QPXsEd0/s220/andreamessers%25C3%25AC.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-YxuTNYQH8G4/TwqW69yb30I/AAAAAAAAI4c/YvISkMXfaR0/s72-c/1039630029.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2979183053996288408.post-2151983253891305165</id><published>2012-01-06T10:39:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-06T10:39:02.894+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='OPTIMIST'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Fraglia Vela Riva'/><title type='text'>Assegnato alla Fraglia Vela Riva il Mondiale Optimist 2013</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-lPqZdNZgntE/TwbARx_KdkI/AAAAAAAAI4U/rr__Kp5MQE4/s1600/072_GD3_2996.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="266" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-lPqZdNZgntE/TwbARx_KdkI/AAAAAAAAI4U/rr__Kp5MQE4/s400/072_GD3_2996.jpeg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue; text-align: justify;"&gt;Non poteva iniziare meglio questo 2012 per la Fraglia Vela Riva:  dall'altra parte del pianeta, in Nuova Zelanda, dove si stanno ormai  concludendo i Mondiali Optimist valevoli per i titoli 2011, è stato  assegnata alla Fraglia Vela Riva l'organizzazione del Mondiale Optimist  2013, la classe velica che rappresenta il grande vivaio della vela  internazionale e che forma i bambini e i ragazzi della vela del domani,  quegli stessi giovani che spesso ritroviamo come timonieri di fama  internazionale nelle classi olimpiche o in Coppa America.&lt;i&gt;"Santa Monica&lt;/i&gt; (USA) - &lt;i&gt;il  club concorrente - ha ritirato nel momento clou della votazione la  propria candidatura perchè non si è sentito abbastanza competitivo con  il progetto presentato dalla Fraglia"&lt;/i&gt; ha raccontato il rivano  Norberto Foletti nonchè segretario della classe italiana Optimist  presente alla trasferta neozelandese. Naturale soddisfazione alla  Fraglia, in cui si è lavorato sodo per presentare al meglio la propria  candidatura e poter centrare l'obbiettivo.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a name='more'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;"Siamo davvero contenti per questo risultato &lt;/i&gt;- ha dichiarato questa mattina Mauro Stanga presidente della Fraglia Vela Riva - &lt;i&gt;che  ci fa iniziare il nuovo anno con tanta energia! Questa assegnazione ci  premia degli anni dedicati all'attività giovanile Optimist sia come  squadra agonistica e circolo, che come organizzazione di regate dedicate  all'Optimist e ai giovani. Un bel premio anche per il Meeting del Garda  Optimist che quest'anno (nella settimana di Pasqua) festeggerà la sua  trentesima edizione e offrirà a tutti i partecipanti un'occasione in più  per conoscere e provare il campo di regata del Mondiale 2013. Per la  30esima edizione tenteremo anche di conquistare e certificare il nuovo  Guinness dei primati per la manifestazione velica monoclasse più  numerosa del mondo: tra un paio di settimane dovrebbe arrivarci la  risposta dal "Records management Team Guinness World Records" per  l'accettazione ufficiale della sfida" - &lt;/i&gt;ha concluso Stanga.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: blue; text-align: justify;"&gt;Il  Mondiale - &amp;nbsp;che dovrebbe disputarsi a metà agosto - è un'ulteriore  occasione di turismo per tutto il Garda Trentino, dato che le squadre  almeno di tutta Europa sfrutteranno questa palestra naturale per  allenarsi fin da subito, pensando al 2013. Anche le regate Optimist  organizzate sia dalla Fraglia, che dagli altri circoli dell'Alto Garda,  dovrebbero incrementare le iscrizioni dopo questa importante conferma  giunta dalla Nuova Zelanda.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2979183053996288408-2151983253891305165?l=navigamus.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/feeds/2151983253891305165/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2979183053996288408&amp;postID=2151983253891305165&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/2151983253891305165'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/2151983253891305165'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/2012/01/assegnato-alla-fraglia-vela-riva-il.html' title='Assegnato alla Fraglia Vela Riva il Mondiale Optimist 2013'/><author><name>Andrea Messersì</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12782675519045603248</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kgrhzLNmoOg/TyQewRyaLGI/AAAAAAAAI_8/4lf9QPXsEd0/s220/andreamessers%25C3%25AC.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-lPqZdNZgntE/TwbARx_KdkI/AAAAAAAAI4U/rr__Kp5MQE4/s72-c/072_GD3_2996.jpeg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2979183053996288408.post-4648565647900102130</id><published>2012-01-05T09:27:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-05T09:27:08.578+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='MINI 6.50'/><title type='text'>Mini 650 - Diario di Bordo - Parte il 2012... tante novità in arrivo!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-FulxiKdG9-A/TwVdi93kbZI/AAAAAAAAI4M/aaNX6iQCp5M/s1600/trans013_sindaci.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="266px" rea="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-FulxiKdG9-A/TwVdi93kbZI/AAAAAAAAI4M/aaNX6iQCp5M/s400/trans013_sindaci.jpg" width="400px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Gli appassionati di regate oceaniche con qualche capello bianco in testa non potranno non ricordare un finale di gara che, coi suoi contorni mitici, li ha fatti sognare dilatando a dismisura la loro passione. Correva il 1979 ed a Lorient si esaurivano le ultima battute di una regata lunghissima: la Lorient-Bermuda-Lorient. Dopo 6000 miglia e quasi un mese di regata il Dream Team composto da "Monumento" Eric Tabarly e dal suo delfino, giovanissimo ma già illustre, Marc Pajot conduceva sull'ultima genialata dell'immenso bretone, il caracollante Paul Ricard, un tri a Foil ! Il vento calava, di spi leggeri a bordo non ce n'erano più ed a questo gioco si assisteva all'implacabile recupero di un tri più leggero ed invelato. Fortuna volle che l'arrivo avvenne all'ora di cena e venne quindi trasmesso in diretta sul telegiornale della sera. Milioni di Francesi poterono assistere al drammatico sorpasso di VSD, che si aggiudicò la prova con pochi minuti di vantaggio.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;a name='more'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Ed allora direte? Che centrano i Mini?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Più di quanto credete, dal momento che VSD era condotto da Eugene Riguidel e da...Gilles GAHINET, il papà di Gwenolè, recente vincitore tra i Serie a Bahia.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Purtroppo papà Gilles non riuscì a trasmettere la sua eperienza al moccioso, dato che venne a mancare prematuramente.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Ad ogni modo buon sangue non ha mentito ed il 27enne di Lorient, dopo la laurea in architettura navale e tre anni di pratica nel "sancta sanctorum" degli studi di progettazione, VP-LP, ha mollato tutto per organizzare la sua Transat, ed in solo SETTE mesi di full immersion ha toccato il cielo, da cui Gilles lo osserverà con legittimo orgoglio. Davvero una bella fiaba!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;E si torna ai Caraibi!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;E rieccoci coi capelli bianchi in testa! Quanti ricordi....&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Dai gente... la Mini Transat è nata per arrivare ai Caraibi.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;E' lì che ce la mandò Bob Salmon nel 77, è lì che la logica marina deve spingere barchette di 6.50 ed è lì che ci è arrivata per 22 anni.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Credo che una bella risciacquata alla bacinella ridarà nuova linfa al parterre dei sognatori. Si torna all'antico per guardare avanti: bravi i cugini… Ben fatta!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Piuttosto sono curioso di vedere con sapranno gestire l'evento nel porto di partenza: Douarnenez.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Come spettatore o protagonista ho vissuto in prima persona le edizioni di Brest, Concarneau e la Rochelle. I tre MiniFastnet che mi trovo sul groppone fanno si che l'Iroise non abbia quasi segreti per me. Mi permetto quindi di fare un paragone.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;In effetti Douarn non ha la magniloquenza delle altre tre località. La cittadina è infinitamente più tranquilla, direi sonnolenta, l'area tecnica è striminzita, aleatori i collegamenti con aereoporti e stazioni e mi chiedo dove potranno ormeggiare più di 80 imbarcazioni non in tripla fila come avviene ora...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Di contro i volontari, tutti pensionati del luogo, sono di una simpatia e di una efficienza ineguagliabile, il Circolo è estremamente accogliente ed i centri per il vettovagliamento vicini al porto. Sono sicuro che andrà benissimo.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Già rullano i tamburi per le regate del 2012.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;La Classe Italiana ha riproposto un menù che, per nostra fortuna, sta diventando un classico per gli appassionati.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;L'Arci aprirà le danze Mediterranee già a fine Marzo, seguiranno due perle come il GPI e la Sanremo Mini Solo. Doppia corta, Doppia lunga e Solitaria... ce n'è veramente per vellicare tutti i palati e fornire ogni tipo di esperienza a chi vuole consolidare le proprie capacità ed a chi le sta invece costruendo.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Si sarebbe voluto organizzare una seconda regata "en solo" a Settembre ma la Classe Francese ha fatto pollice verso, notando la contemporaneità logistica con la prova organizzata a La Grand Motte a fine agosto, di cui salutiamo con gioia il ritorno con le classiche autunnali spagnole. Bene lo stesso! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Gli armatori che vorranno e sapranno organizzarsi potranno usufruire di una stagione lunghissima.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Dopo le Transat avviene come negli anni post-olimpici: si volta pagina e si guarda al futuro con schemi rinnovati.Dopo tre anni di immobilismo progettuale la categoria dei Serie dà robusti segnali di rinnovamento.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Ci vorrà ancora un bel pò per scardinare la dittatura dell'imperiale Pogo2 ma qualcuno ci sta lavorando.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Classe Mini ha inviato Sebastien Stephand in Argentina per verificare la corrispondenza ai parametri della Guida per l'RG650, lo Studio Lombard è in dirittura con l'Argo 650 ed i Nacira di nuova e più leggera costruzione vanno come le noccioline...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Il bello è che anche da noi le acque si muovono.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Il cantiere Nautica Sicilia ha acquistato gli stampi del Twister, iniziando la costruzione di un modello che, se fossero presi in conto tutti i Twister naviganti fino ad oggi, sarebbe già il sesto del lotto (ne occorrono 10 per lo Status) ed in Adriatico si intenderebbe lanciare il Walkabout 650, costruito in Epoxy. Se son rose...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Ministi nel mondo: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;il neozelandese Conrad Coleman e l'indimenticato Hugo Ramon (tre Transat a soli 25 anni) non hanno fatto in tempo a scendere dai 650 che ce li ritroviamo protagonisti nel GOR, il giro del mondo a tappe per i 40 piedi!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Il primo ha coronato il sogno di una vita, aggiudicandosi la seconda tappa, che finiva proprio a casa sua, ad Aukland, dove da piccolo assisteva agli arrivi di Steilager e Fischer and Peikel durante la Whitbread, il secondo è co-skipper dell'italiano Marco Nannini. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;La scuola sulle piccolette vi è servita eh?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Ancora più stupefacente la parabola di Christophe Lagrange, che ricordiamo al GPI 2008 sul suo TipTop. Christophe partirà con altri 22 transalpini alla Rame Guyane, cioè l'Atlantico A REMI ! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Se non son matti non li vogliamo !&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;(da &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.classemini.it/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;www.classemini.it&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt; di S. Paltrinieri)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2979183053996288408-4648565647900102130?l=navigamus.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/feeds/4648565647900102130/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2979183053996288408&amp;postID=4648565647900102130&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/4648565647900102130'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/4648565647900102130'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/2012/01/mini-650-diario-di-bordo-parte-il-2012.html' title='Mini 650 - Diario di Bordo - Parte il 2012... tante novità in arrivo!'/><author><name>Andrea Messersì</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12782675519045603248</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kgrhzLNmoOg/TyQewRyaLGI/AAAAAAAAI_8/4lf9QPXsEd0/s220/andreamessers%25C3%25AC.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-FulxiKdG9-A/TwVdi93kbZI/AAAAAAAAI4M/aaNX6iQCp5M/s72-c/trans013_sindaci.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2979183053996288408.post-6923595839882606637</id><published>2012-01-05T09:14:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-05T09:14:33.304+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Fraglia Vela Riva'/><title type='text'>FRAGLIA VELA RIVA GEMELLATA CON IL REAL CLUB NAUTICO DE GRAN CANARIA</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/--YcBxsyFdlI/TwVbVVvPWfI/AAAAAAAAI4A/1D-nMPlZTZM/s1600/foto.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="265px" rea="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/--YcBxsyFdlI/TwVbVVvPWfI/AAAAAAAAI4A/1D-nMPlZTZM/s400/foto.JPG" width="400px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Fine anno con il "botto" per la Fraglia Vela Riva, che in occasione del Trofeo Aecio della Classe Optimist (27-30 dicembre) - a Las Palmas di Gran Canaria - ha dato vita al gemellaggio con il Real Club Nautico di Gran Canaria. Un gemellaggio che ha dato la possibilità a nostri 6 ragazzini della squadra agonistica Optimist e al tecnico Mauro Berteotti, di essere ospitati dalle famiglie di altrettanti regatanti. Un'esperienza sicuramente eccezionale e un'ospitalità che potrà essere restituita dai nostri ragazzi in occasione del Meeting del Garda Optimist, previsto nella settimana di Pasqua a Riva del Garda. La squadretta canaria...era formata da Alberto Tezza (buon ottavo finale con discreti parziali), Francesco e Giorgio Brichetti, Maria Sofia Salvetta e i cadetti Guido Gallinaro e Tommaso Salvetta. Una vacanza natalizia sicuramente da ricordare e un'esperienza agonistica importante, anche per le condizioni difficili che solitamente ci sono a Las Palmas.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;a name='more'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;E mentre si è concluso il 2011 con questa importante novità dedicata alla nostra squadra agonistica Optimist, ora si è in trepidante attesa per la decisione sull'assegnazione del Mondiale Optimist del 2013. In questi giorni infatti si sta disputando in Nuova Zelanda il mondiale Optimist valevole per il 2011 e tra un paio di giorni tutti i delegati nazionali del mondo dovranno votare sulla località del 2013: in lizza la Fraglia Vela Riva con il suo Garda Trentino e una località degli Stati Uniti. Per l'Italia e per la Fraglia in particolare sarebbe un risultato importante portare il meglio del mondo giovanile della vela sull'Alto Garda, proprio nell'anno successivo alla 30esima edizione del Meeting del Garda Optimist che sarà festeggiata quest'anno. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Intanto per il 2013 è stato confermata e assegnata alla Fraglia Vela Riva la World O'Pen Bic Cup, il Campionato del Mondo di questa giovane classe dedicata a bambini e ragazzi, riconosciuta nel 2007 dall'ISAF (la federazione Internazionale della vela) e che sta avendo sempre più successo. Sono attesi 200 regatanti da tutto il mondo. Intanto incrociamo le dita per il Mondiale Optimist 2013: sarebbe un avvio di nuovo anno davvero stimolante per tutto il movimento giovanile della vela nazionale e del lago di Garda in particolare.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2979183053996288408-6923595839882606637?l=navigamus.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/feeds/6923595839882606637/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2979183053996288408&amp;postID=6923595839882606637&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/6923595839882606637'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/6923595839882606637'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/2012/01/fraglia-vela-riva-gemellata-con-il-real.html' title='FRAGLIA VELA RIVA GEMELLATA CON IL REAL CLUB NAUTICO DE GRAN CANARIA'/><author><name>Andrea Messersì</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12782675519045603248</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kgrhzLNmoOg/TyQewRyaLGI/AAAAAAAAI_8/4lf9QPXsEd0/s220/andreamessers%25C3%25AC.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/--YcBxsyFdlI/TwVbVVvPWfI/AAAAAAAAI4A/1D-nMPlZTZM/s72-c/foto.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2979183053996288408.post-4140529105093357388</id><published>2012-01-05T09:09:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-05T09:09:24.925+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ravenna Yacht Club'/><title type='text'>Campionato Invernale di Ravenna: domenica 8 gennaio, 4 tappa</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-2KNjK8liCs8/TwVaO2X_aDI/AAAAAAAAI30/g_rACyIqtLY/s1600/ChiSiamoSede.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="239px" rea="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-2KNjK8liCs8/TwVaO2X_aDI/AAAAAAAAI30/g_rACyIqtLY/s320/ChiSiamoSede.jpg" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Dopo la veleggiata di Santo Stefano a cui hanno partecipato 53 barche riprendono le regate della 30’ edizione del Campionato d’Inverno organizzato dal Ravenna Yacht Club. Il meteo promette una giornata fredda, serena e con vento da nord ovest che in tarda mattinata dovrebbe diminuire dalla iniziale intensità di 11 nodi per poi ruotare a sud est. La partenza è fissata come di consueto alle 10.00 e quindi se le previsioni meteo dovessero essere rispettate dovremmo assistere ad uno spettacolo avvincente. Una tappa importante questa perché segna il giro di boa del campionato e potrebbe iniziare a cambiare l’assetto della classifica sgranando molte posizioni. Tanta attesa nel raggruppamento dei Farr40, perché da dicembre ha iniziato a regatare Enfant Terrible di Rossi, l’attuale campione iridato ORC, che sembra intenzionato a raggiungere l’attuale leader di classifica ( e neo vincitore della veleggiata di S. Stefano) Shear Terror di Setti. Una stagione fortunata questa del trentesimo anniversario, perché le condizioni meteo sono sempre state eccellenti ed hanno sempre permesso di scendere in acqua assicurando divertimento e sport. Come di consueto il sabato pomeriggio sarà possibile effettuare l’allenamento sul campo pratica che viene allestito proprio all’uscita della diga foranea e la domenica, come di consueto dopo la regata la tradizionale ospitalità romagnola del circolo per tutti i regatanti. . &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2979183053996288408-4140529105093357388?l=navigamus.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/feeds/4140529105093357388/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2979183053996288408&amp;postID=4140529105093357388&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/4140529105093357388'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/4140529105093357388'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/2012/01/campionato-invernale-di-ravenna.html' title='Campionato Invernale di Ravenna: domenica 8 gennaio, 4 tappa'/><author><name>Andrea Messersì</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12782675519045603248</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kgrhzLNmoOg/TyQewRyaLGI/AAAAAAAAI_8/4lf9QPXsEd0/s220/andreamessers%25C3%25AC.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-2KNjK8liCs8/TwVaO2X_aDI/AAAAAAAAI30/g_rACyIqtLY/s72-c/ChiSiamoSede.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2979183053996288408.post-7492530679978553346</id><published>2012-01-05T08:59:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-05T08:59:18.371+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Global Ocean Race - The South African team take fifth place in GOR Leg 2</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-k4cHsyKiJYU/TwVXPv_VFXI/AAAAAAAAI3o/CSpfeBqKsWw/s1600/1308415211.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="265px" rea="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-k4cHsyKiJYU/TwVXPv_VFXI/AAAAAAAAI3o/CSpfeBqKsWw/s400/1308415211.jpg" width="400px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;At 15:14:30 GMT (04:14:30 local) on Wednesday 4 January, the South African double-handed team of Nick Leggatt and Phillippa Hutton-Squire took fifth place in Leg 2 of the Global Ocean Race with Class40 Phesheya-Racing, completing the 7,000 mile course from Cape Town to Wellington, New Zealand, in 36 days 05 hours 14 minutes and 30 seconds. On New Year’s Day, the South African duo of Nick Leggatt and Phillippa Hutton-Squire and Class40 Phesheya-Racing began sailing parallel to the coast of South Island, New Zealand, for the final 600 miles to the double-handed Global Ocean Race (GOR) Leg 2 finish line in Wellington. South-westerly breeze of between 25-30 knots pushed the fifth-placed GOR Class40 along the coast making the South African’s best speeds of the entire 7,000-mile voyage across the Indian Ocean with a 24-hour run of 273 miles. At 01:00 GMT on Wednesday morning, Leggatt and Hutton-Squire rounded Cape Farewell for a fast run through Cook Strait, putting in their final gybe of the voyage off d’Urville Island at 08:00 GMT and rounding the final headland of the voyage at Cape Terawhiti on the North Island coast four hours later.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;a name='more'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;In the moonless and cloudless pre-dawn, Phesheya-Racing ‘turned left’ out of Cook Strait between the Barrett Reef buoy and Pencarrow Head for a final, bone-shaking beat in 45 knots under triple-reefed main and staysail. Leaving the exposed and jagged rocks of Barrett Reef in a mass white water to port, Leggatt and Hutton-Squire crossed the finish line off Worser Bay and continued under sail, hardening up around Point Halswell and Point Jerningham before finding some shelter off the city of Wellington. “We thought Leg 2 was really, really tough,” confirmed 44 year-old Nick Leggatt as the South African sailors moored alongside the GOR race pontoons. “But when the handle on the kettle broke it was even tougher!” adds his 28 year-old co-skipper, Phillippa Hutton-Squire. “That happened this morning and since then, things have gone downhill!” continues Leggatt with a broad smile. “We couldn’t have tea with fruitcake and it’s all been a disaster,” Hutton-Squire explains, laughing. The lack of refreshment in the final hours of Leg 2 overshadowed the broach that Phesheya-Racing underwent shortly before entering Wellington Harbour: an event that ripped the radar from the Class40’s carbon fibre mast, but barely merits comment following 36 days of hardship and storms in the Roaring Forties.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;The South Africans navigated a successful course across the Indian Ocean’s high latitudes taking a similar, northerly option as Marco Nannini and Hugo Ramon on Financial Crisis: “Financial Crisis definitely had it worse than us,” Leggatt believes. “When we realised we weren’t keeping up with the cold fronts, we figured the next best option was to find the route with the least hard work.” As Phesheya-Racing left the restrictions of the GOR’s western Indian Ocean Ice Limit at 42S after nine days of racing, Leggatt and Hutton-Squire dropped down to 44S having crossed the Celox Sailing Scoring Gate north of Kerguelen as a series of fronts swept through the fleet. Skating along the Australian Ice Limit at 45S, the duo maintained this latitude until ascending towards New Zealand through the Tasman Sea. “The strongest wind we had the whole time was 47 knots, which compared to what Marco and Hugo had was nothing,” confirms Leggatt. “It was never that extreme, but just started getting slightly monotonous and wet and cold.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Throughout Leg 2, Leggatt and Hutton-Squire constantly logged wildlife as part of their passion for the sea and continuously recorded data for the Environmental Investigation Agency’s marine research programme running during the GOR: “Other than all the birds, the most interesting sight was the Southern Right Dolphins on Christmas Eve,” say Phillippa Hutton-Squire. “Also the Minke whales that surfed next to the boat with their heads out of the water stayed with us for 20 minutes and I really thought we were going to hit them as they were so close,” she explains. “If we’d got the boat hook out we could probably have touched them, they were so tame.” Leggatt has a practical approach to the whales: “They were about the same length as the boat, but they weigh something like 18 tons, so you don’t really want to argue with them!”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;With 24 days in Wellington before the start of GOR Leg 3 on Sunday 29 January, Leggatt and Hutton-Squire have a lot of work ahead to prepare for the Pacific Ocean and South Atlantic voyage from Wellington to Punta del Este, Uruguay, as despite every attempt to preserve their four year-old Akilaria in the Southern Ocean, there is much to be done. “I don’t even want to start with the list and we’ve got to work out how to pay for the repairs in Wellington,” comments Hutton-Squire, although the South Africans have no intention of pulling out of the race. “There’s no turning back now,” says Leggatt. “Even to get home, we’ve got to go downwind round Cape Horn anyway as we’re certainly not beating back to South Africa,” he jokes.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;While Nico and Frans Budel complete preparation for their dismasted Class40, Sec Hayai, in Cape Town and are working towards rejoining the GOR for Legs 4 and 5, the five teams in Wellington are now recovering from Leg 2 and looking ahead to Leg 3. The GOR’s Race Ambassador, Dee Caffari, has four circumnavigations to her credit, knows Wellington well and has been following the fleet’s progress closely: “It’s great to see the smiling faces of these teams as they are given a warm, Wellington welcome,” says Caffari. “They have worked hard and sailed a long way through some pretty hostile conditions to get there and the people of Wellington know only too well what these guys have gone through as they are practised at welcoming sailors to their shores.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Dee has been especially impressed by the performance of the Leg 2 winners, Conrad Colman and Sam Goodchild with Cessna Citation: “It’s without doubt an impressive victory by the young guns of Sam and Conrad and it must be a doubly special feeling for Conrad being a Kiwi and victorious in his home waters,” says Caffari. “Each boat that arrives deserves the congratulations from us all and this leg can only help fuel confidence and adrenalin for the next leg,” she believes. “Leg 3 starts at the end of the month and takes us across the Pacific Ocean and round the notorious Cape Horn,” Dee explains. “Right now though, it is about rest and recuperation for our crews,” she adds. “They need to eat well and sleep well and work on the jobs list to ensure they and their boats are in the best possible condition for the next leg,” advises the GOR Race Ambassador.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Caffari has raced across the Pacific’s Southern Ocean fully-crewed, double-handed and solo and provides sound advice to the GOR teams: “There are no bolt holes or Islands providing sanctuary on the way,” she warns. “The Pacific Ocean is the most remote sea area in the world, although the weather is normally less harsh than the Indian Ocean, however, I can guarantee at least one big blow before the Horn just to remind our sailors that Mother Nature is in control out there no matter how confident they feel!”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;However, before the ten sailors set off on Leg 3, they have just over three weeks in Wellington. “It really is a beautiful time of year to be in New Zealand,” says Caffari. “My last visit was at this exact time with the launch of my Open 60 Aviva in January 2008,” she recalls. “We sailed daily checking everything was okay before we left the safety blanket of our building task force at Hakes Marine in Wellington and I wish these guys well and can reassure the Global Ocean Race fleet that if they need any boat building work done, these guys are the best,” advises Caffari. “Hakes Marine has seen me successfully cover many thousands of miles with very few problems.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;GOR leaderboard 4 January:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;1. Cessna Citation 30d 22h 20m 40s &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;2. BSL 32d 11h 38m 40s &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;3. Campagne de France 33d 10h 40m 15s &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;4. Financial Crisis 33d 20h 13m 45s &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;5. Phesheya-Racing 36d 05h 14m 30s&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;GOR cumulative Leg 1 and Leg 2 points:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;1. BSL: 64 (4 points at the Celox Sailing Scoring Gate + 25 points for 2nd place in Leg 2)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;2. Campagne de France: 56 points (5 points at the Celox Sailing Scoring Gate + 20 points for 3rd place in Leg 2)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;3. Cessna Citation: 54 (6 points at the Celox Sailing Scoring Gate + 30 points for Leg 2 win)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;4. Financial Crisis: 42 (3 points at the Celox Sailing Scoring Gate + 15 points for 4th place in Leg 2)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;5. Phesheya-Racing: 24 (2 points at the Celox Sailing Scoring Gate + 10 points for 5th place in Leg 2)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;6. Sec. Hayai: 6 (RTD from Leg 2)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2979183053996288408-7492530679978553346?l=navigamus.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/feeds/7492530679978553346/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2979183053996288408&amp;postID=7492530679978553346&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/7492530679978553346'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/7492530679978553346'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/2012/01/global-ocean-race-south-african-team.html' title='Global Ocean Race - The South African team take fifth place in GOR Leg 2'/><author><name>Andrea Messersì</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12782675519045603248</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kgrhzLNmoOg/TyQewRyaLGI/AAAAAAAAI_8/4lf9QPXsEd0/s220/andreamessers%25C3%25AC.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-k4cHsyKiJYU/TwVXPv_VFXI/AAAAAAAAI3o/CSpfeBqKsWw/s72-c/1308415211.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2979183053996288408.post-4452169153440040642</id><published>2012-01-04T08:39:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-04T08:42:58.858+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='marco nannini'/><title type='text'>Nannini alla G.O.R. - Celebrazioni a Wellington dopo una durissima seconda tappa</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xo24h6UZMws/TwQBfRGm-MI/AAAAAAAAI3c/JoZikGyb0gk/s1600/1305436040_0.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="265px" rea="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xo24h6UZMws/TwQBfRGm-MI/AAAAAAAAI3c/JoZikGyb0gk/s400/1305436040_0.jpg" width="400px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;La radio VHF per la prima volta dopo un mese ha rotto il silenzio poco prima delle 6 del pomeriggio ora locale, il direttore della regata Josh Hall ci ha chiamato per dirci che ci stanno venendo in contro con un gommone, ci siamo, siamo a Wellington. Il gommone ci ha girato in torno varie volte con le videocamere a riprendere il nostro arrivo sotto un cielo cupissimo e minaccioso, finalmente incrocio lo sguardo di Ella, arrivata la mattina dello stesso giorno da Londra e un po' emozionato continuo a timonare verso la linea del traguardo. Il finale non e' stato certo regalato, travolti da 35 nodi di vento sul muso nella baia di Tasmania siamo dovuti andare a cercare riparo sotto costa prima di affrontare il temuto stretto di Cook, dove abbiamo faticato bordeggiando in un onda corta e difficile a guadagnar terreno ad un certo punto siamo stati sorpresi da un nuvolone scuro e per una mezz'ora a mala pena riuscivamo a muoverci sotto vilente raffiche, pioggia ed un mare nervoso coperto di spuma bianca. Noi, infreddoliti, stanchi avevamo pero' un sorriso sul volto, sapendo che fra poco ci saremmo goduti una doccia calda e un pasto caldo a terra. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name='more'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Avvicinandoci a Wellington harbour, con perfetto timing cinematografico, 4 delfini sono venuti a giocare con noi, saltando gioiosi quasi a darci il benvenuto in Nuova Zelanda.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;La barca del comitato ci ha seguito fino alla linea di traguardo dove hanno sparato un colpo di fucile e una tromba a segnalare ufficialmente che avevamo finito la seconda tappa della Global Ocean Race. Un giudice di regata e' salito a bordo per controllare i sigilli del motore e delle dotazioni di sicurezza mentre Ollie e il cameraman Clive ci hanno intervistato a caldo. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Arrivati vicini alla marina abbiamo calato la randa per scoprire che il motore pur accendendosi non ingranava le marce, siamo quindi stati trainati fino al nostro posto barca a Queen's Wharf dove ora Financial Crisis si riposa con il GPS che legge 0.0 nodi. Siamo esattamente dall'altra parte del mondo rispetto all'Europa e a meta' strada di questa incredibile avventura. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Sceso a terra finalmente gli abbracci e i baci di Ella che era arrivata da Londra la mattina stessa, poi ci sono state due bottiglie di Champagne con le quali io e Hugo abbiamo spruzzato la folla e l'un l'altro: ce l'abbiamo fatta, la gioia e il sollievo sono immensi, abbiamo affrontato 7000 miglia di navigazione fra i mari piu' difficili al mondo, travolti da burrasche e venti fino a forza 10, abbiamo dannegiato vele e materiali ma siamo ora pronti a riposarci e ripartire per i preparativi della prossima tappa. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Il piazzamento e' un quarto posto che per noi vale molto di piu', finire a meno di 24 ore da Ross Field su BSL che e' con questo al suo sesto giro del mondo, ed aver riagguantato Campagne de France condotto da Halvard Mabire, navigatore di esperienza leggendaria ci riempe di orgoglio. La conferma arriva proprio da loro che appena scesi a terra ci sono venuti a stringere la mano e salutare come se avessimo appena vinto la tappa, visto anche che noi abbiamo una barca di prima generazione e loro certo non si aspettavano che potessimo stargli cosi' stretti alle calcagne (alla prima tappa ci avevano staccato di oltre una settimana).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Ora cominciera' lo sgradevole compito di fare il conto dei danni subiti durante questa tappa e farci fare i preventivi per le riparazioni, abbiamo gia' ricevuto enorme supporto da amici e appassionati di ogni dove e se voleste darci una mano potete farlo tramite la scherzosa pagina web &lt;a href="http://www.marconannini.com/it/aiutaci"&gt;www.marconannini.com/it/aiutaci&lt;/a&gt; che avevamo creato piu' per gioco e che si sta trasformando in un'importante fonte di insperato aiuto per il nostro esiguo budget di regata.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2979183053996288408-4452169153440040642?l=navigamus.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/feeds/4452169153440040642/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2979183053996288408&amp;postID=4452169153440040642&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/4452169153440040642'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2979183053996288408/posts/default/4452169153440040642'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://navigamus.blogspot.com/2012/01/nannini-alla-gor-celebrazioni.html' title='Nannini alla G.O.R. - Celebrazioni a Wellington dopo una durissima seconda tappa'/><author><name>Andrea Messersì</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12782675519045603248</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kgrhzLNmoOg/TyQewRyaLGI/AAAAAAAAI_8/4lf9QPXsEd0/s220/andreamessers%25C3%25AC.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xo24h6UZMws/TwQBfRGm-MI/AAAAAAAAI3c/JoZikGyb0gk/s72-c/1305436040_0.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2979183053996288408.post-3508645592008745207</id><published>2012-01-04T08:34:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-04T08:34:16.353+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Global Ocean Race - Final miles for Phesheya-Racing</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-g83-orDgwaQ/TwQAceLi3pI/AAAAAAAAI3Q/J4Kcl-IA5Yw/s1600/153514969.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="235px" rea="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-g83-orDgwaQ/TwQAceLi3pI/AAAAAAAAI3Q/J4Kcl-IA5Yw/s400/153514969.jpg" width="400px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;On New Year’s Day, the South African duo of Nick Leggatt and Phillippa Hutton-Squire and Class40 Phesheya-Racing began sailing parallel to the coast of South Island, New Zealand, for the final 600 miles to the double-handed Global Ocean Race (GOR) Leg 2 finish line in Wellington. South-westerly breeze of between 25-30 knots pushed the fifth-placed GOR Class40 along the coast making the South African’s best speeds of the entire 7,000-mile voyage across the Indian Ocean. “We’ve had some awesome sailing at last,” confirms Phillippa Hutton-Squire. “Covering 274 miles in 24 hours at an average speed of 11.42 knots and in one three-hour period we averaged 13.1 knots on the GOR tracking system.” The four year-old, first generation Akilaria Class40 began performing like a new boat: “Phesheya-Racing loved the conditions,” Hutton-Squire continues. “A long and high swell with the wind lined up perfectly to the waves. We reefed the mainsail and hoisted the bluQube A6 and she took off like a rocket, often doing 17, 18 or 19 knots with ease.” &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;a name='more'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;On Monday, as Phesheya-Racing drew level with the latitude of Cape Foulwind on the South Island’s west coast, conditions changed and some inexplicable damage was discovered, stalling the South Africans: “The wind suddenly began to change, becoming shifty and gusty once again, so our speeds began to drop once more,” Nick Leggatt explains. “Daylight also revealed that we had broken another batten during the night,” he reports. “How that happened is a bit of a mystery as we didn't carry out any manoeuvres during the night.” The mainsail was dropped and the duo replaced the batten from the selection of spares lashed to the guardrails. “Once that was done, we changed from the bluQube A6 to the slightly larger and lighter A4 spinnaker,” says Hutton-Squire.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;As Phesheya-Racing closed in on the Karamea Bight, south of Cape Farewell, the breeze dropped further but remained in the south. “We then shook out the reef in the mainsail and changed to our largest, A2, spinnaker,” says Leggatt. “We now have our maximum sail area deployed, over 300 square metres, for the first time in many, many days.” Throughout Tuesday, Phesheya-Racing closed on the coast on starboard gybe maintaining a steady seven-knot average and by midnight GMT, Leggatt and Hutton-Squire were just five miles off Cape Farewell at the northern tip of South Island with the potential for a downwind run for the final 100 miles through Cook Strait to the finish line in Wellington and an ETA of Thursday morning (Friday evening GMT). &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;GOR leaderboard at 00:00 GMT 3-4 January:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;1. Cessna Citation 30d 22h 20m 40s &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;2. BSL 32d 11h 38m 40s &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;3. Campagne de France 33d 10h 40m 15s &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;4. Financial Crisis 33d 20h 13m 45s &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;5. Phesheya-Racing DTF 116 8.8kts&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;GOR cumulative Leg 1 and Leg 2 points:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;1. BSL: 64 (4 points at the Celox Sailing Scoring Gate + 25 points for 2nd place in Leg 2)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;2. Campagne de France: 56 points (5 points at the Celox Sailing Scoring Gate + 20 points for 3rd place in Leg 2)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;3. Cessna Citation: 54 (6 points at the Celox Sailing Scoring Gate + 30 points for Leg 2 win)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;4. Financial Crisis: 42 (3 points at the Celox Sailing Scoring Gate + 15 points for 4th place in Leg 2)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;5. Phesheya-Racing: 14 (2 points at the Celox Sailing Scoring Gate)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;6. Sec. 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