Monotipo L30, embarcación en la que se disputará el Europeo Mixto Offshore

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Los medalistas olímpicos Iker Martínez y Natalia Vía-Dufresne se unen para el Europeo Mixto Offshore en el L30 “Movistar-Geseme”

20 de agosto de 2020

El próximo 30 de agosto se disputa en Génova (Italia), en la sede de la etapa final de la próxima vuelta al mundo, el Campeonato de Europa Mixto Offshore de 2020.

El tándem formado por Martínez/Vía-Dufresne atesora una gran experiencia en equipos olímpicos. Ambos suman una medalla de oro y tres de plata en tres ediciones de Juegos Olímpicos: Barcelona 1992 -plata para Vía-Dufresne en la clase Europa-, Atenas 2004 –oro para Martínez en 49er y plata para Vía-Dufresne en 470- y Pekín 2008 –plata para Martínez en 49er-.

El campeón olímpico y regatista oceánico Iker Martínez se muestra muy ilusionado con este nuevo reto: “Tengo muchas ganas de probar una nueva clase olímpica como es el offshore mixto. Es verdad que me gustaría hacerlo mejor preparado, pero aún así el desafío es excitante”.

Iker explica cómo surgió la idea: “Todo comenzó en enero, pero el COVID-19 conllevó el aplazamiento de los Juegos en Tokio, anularon el Mundial y ahora han recolocado el Europeo en Italia”.

“La idea de navegar con Natalia surge de que somos viejos amigos de batallas y nos respetamos mucho así que decidimos probarlo. No hemos navegado aún juntos, así que el objetivo no puede ser otro que divertirnos y hacer una toma de contacto para poder evaluar con criterio esta nueva clase y entender sus necesidades”.

La gran experiencia en regatas oceánicas por parte de Iker (cuatro ediciones de Volvo Ocean Race y una de Barcelona World Race) será un gran activo para el tándem Martínez/Vía-Dufresne. “Ahora toca darlo todo encima del barco e intentar sacar provecho a nuestra experiencia para dejar el pabellón lo más alto posible”, comenta el regatista vasco.

Por su parte Natalia Vía-Dufresne muestra su ilusión por un proyecto ambicioso a largo plazo y por la novedad para ella del modelo mixto y ‘offshore’: “Estoy muy ilusionada y con ganas de volver a la competición en clase olímpica. Es un reto muy grande porque el formato es distinto al que yo suelo competir y con muchas cosas por aprender en poco tiempo, pero creo que con Iker podemos hacer muy buen equipo. Los dos somos competitivos y sabemos lo que conlleva una preparación de este nivel.”

El campeonato de Europa serán tres días y tres noches, empezando el día dos de septiembre “pero antes vamos a navegar con el L30 ‘Movistar-Geseme’ tres días en el pre-Europeo, del 24 al 27 de agosto”, comenta Iker.

El equipo español “Movistar-Geseme” cuenta con el apoyo de la FNOB (Fundación Navegación Oceánica de Barcelona), la RFEV (Real Federación Española de Vela) y el CNA (Club Nàutic S’Arenal).

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MONTEVIDEO 18 de ago. de 20 20
Se retomaron las regatas de J70 y J24 en el Yacht Club Uruguayo

El Plan B es la Nueva Normalidad

Los fuertes vientos del Oeste exigieron al máximo a las tripulaciones de las clases J70 y J24 en su regreso a las regatas luego de meses de inactividad por la crisis sanitaria. Quienes salieron a disfrutar de un paseo por la rambla bajo el sol, seguramente pudieron ver grandes planeadas a máxima velocidad, tumbadas espectaculares y maniobras arriesgadas de las 16 embarcaciones que participaron de la Copa Nueva Normalidad organizada por el Yacht Club Uruguayo.
En la clase J70, se alzó con el triunfo el Plan B de Pedro Garra tripulado por Nicolas Parodi, Juan Real de Azua y QuiqueSchickendantz, mostrando gran dominio de las extremas condiciones. Finalizó en segundo el BAWA de IgnacioGercar, confirmando que va a ser uno de los grandes desafiantes en esta Nueva Normalidad de la Clase J70 que comienza.
En la categoría J24 se quedó con el premio máximo la embarcación Pantera,tripulada por Guillermo Pla, Fernando Castro, Álvaro Anelo, Ismael Caballero, Juan De Marco. El Luca, timoneado por Bruno Grunwaldt, se quedó con el segundo lugar. Es de destacar la participación de la tripulación femenina integrada por Paula Mariño, Florencia Bellini, Francesca Rinaldi, Paola Rapela, Paula Santos, Marta Lorenzi y Luana González, quienes por primera vez ganaron una de las regatas del día sábado a bordo del Pedrín Garra.
La alegría de las tripulaciones de poder retomar las actividades competitivas fue notoria. Es un privilegio en la región poder hacerlo, cuando se sabe que en los vecinos países muchos amigos, rivales pero principalmente amigos, no están pudiendo hacerlo. Nadie se puede imaginar aún cuando se volverán a encontrar en la cancha, pero nadie deja de soñar en que eso va a ser en poco tiempo.
La actividad de regatas se retoma el 12 y 13 de setiembre, con una fecha más en el Yacht Club Uruguayo.

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Never Give Up

Never give up, even if you’re defeated and end up in the lower part of the table, even if at the beginning of the crucial race of selection you capsize, even if in the final your principal opponent starts like a rocket.

Never give up especially if you’re Ruggero Tita, Francesco Rubagotti and Matteo Pilati and you name your team – with the right irony – “Top Gun Racing”, because at the end you win with honor the Persico 69F Revolution FCL.

Three crucial races in one day, this morning, with an amazing wind from north: Top Gun Racing needed two flight (one of them started with a capsize), both finished with the second place behind Young Azzurra, to get to the final. Waiting for them, fresh and rested, Zeta Racing and Dutch Sail Janssen de Jong, qualified yesterday thanks to a direct path in the upper part of the table.

At the start the Dutch, favorite after winning the first Revolution last week, got a great advantage but then completely lost it with the wrong decision to go left after the first buoy. Top Gun Racing gybed after the first buoy and it was the first one to get the best gusts in the stern, increasing the speed until they got the lead and defending until the finish line the gap built with great determination.

What to say about Young Azzurra? Even here, never give up: the Italian challenge for the Youth America’s Cup was officially announced by Yacht Club Costa Smeralda just one week ago and the chosen team went immediately on water, they lose the first race in Day 1 but they never gave up until they won two races today and finishing second-placed in the final, that position shows how much you’re promising, with great margins and potential, and it also gives you the starting points to improve. When the apprentice surpasses master – coach Zennaro, third-placed with his Zeta Racing – the competition, enthusiasm, and revenge can only increase.

Returning to the winners: “We had a lot of fun – said the tireless Ruggero Tita – they were beautiful races and the satisfaction today is great. Now we stay friends but we’ll go on separate ways”. Tita jokes, but the racing season divides the team: “We all do different things, and it’s for this it’s great to meet on this boat; each of us puts their skills and it’s the perfect mix of ingredients”. Suitcase already ready: Tita will continue the Olympic Campaign, Pilati will be the coach in 49er FX and Rubagotti will continue to contribute to the success of Persico 69F and to race offshore.

For Young Azzurra the program is strictly drawn up: “Great satisfaction today – says Ettore Botticini – after losing the first race we learned to do the simple things and to focus on the essential things: we freed ourselves from pressure and the emotion to start a project so big and important. We focused on the tactic and it got better and better. The team works very well, with Francesca Bergamo at the mainsail and Federico Colannino controlling the foil we started to create automation, we’re in the game. We just have to train, already from next week, because the road just started”.

The young Francesca Bergamo has done both the revolution in different roles: “Last week I was at the helm and in Young Azzurra I was at the mainsail, two very different roles but one thing remains the same: this boat is so cool”.

With the results of today, the leaderboard overall is completed, which takes into account the placings combined of the participation to both the Revolution; the victory goes to Dutch Sail Janssen de Jong, followed by RHKYC Team Agiplast and FP Sailing.

Revolution finished and arrives the comment of the organizers, assigned to Dede De Luca: “What the Revolution taught us is that these boats and this formula reward the tenacity. We saw continuous changes in the board, surpasses, capsizes, protest: the victory was assigned to who has always believed in it until the end, who never gave up, who took the opportunity to catch up. And I really like this, because our formula has to put on a show, entertain the competitors keeping everyone in the game until the end. Thanks to the wind from north we learned that these boats are solid and safe: in training, we went out with 25 knots and waves, and everything has worked. The teams are used to go faster than 20 knots, the boat is solid and reliable and the feedback we get from water is more than positive”.

In the following days, the Persico 69F will be used for a series of training by the teams that compete in the Youth America’s Cup and then they will be at the start line in Gorla Trophy and in “100 Foils”, the version for flying boats of the classic Centomiglia. Then they will be back with Persico 69F Cup, in Malcesine, for the second of four Grand Prix in program for the middle of September.

Photo credit: Marcello Chiodino
Yacht Club Costa Smeralda launches a challenge for the Youth America’s Cup.

Ettore Botticini, Skipper of Young Azzurra, racing in the Persico 69F CUP circuit.

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YOUNG AZZURRA AT THE YOUTH AMERICA’S CUP

Yacht Club Costa Smeralda launches Italian challenge

Porto Cervo, 13 August 2020. The Yacht Club Costa Smeralda is set to launch an Italian challenge for the Youth America’s Cup, participating in the event scheduled for 2021 in Auckland with an Italian team named Young Azzurra. The ambitious project stems from the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda’s objective of investing in young people, encouraging a passion for sailing among new generations, while keeping gender equality in mind.

The Youth America’s Cup is a regatta organised by the yacht club defending the America’s Cup, Auckland’s Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron, and due to take place aboard one-design foiling boats from 18 February to 12 March 2021. The event will be part of the final stages of the Prada Cup selection races to designate the Challenger to the Defender, and of the America’s Cup itself, which is scheduled to begin on 6 March 2020.

After the first Italian challenge for the America’s Cup with Azzurra in Newport, R.I., in 1983, in 2021 a YCCS team will once again represent Italy in the context of the world’s most prestigious sailing trophy. The Young Azzurra project joins that of Azzurra, the TP52 owned by YCCS members the Roemmers family, which for ten seasons has been the sporting symbol of the YCCS in the most competitive professional sailing circuit – where she is the defending champion.

In order to present the initiative to the membership, on the occasion of the YCCS General Assembly on 1st August, a hull from the Persico 69F fleet went on display in Piazza Azzurra. The Persico 69F is the next generation foiling boat which the Young Azzurra team will train on in the run up to the competition in New Zealand.

To realise this project, the YCCS involved both the Italian Sailing Federation, which gave its full support, and the Persico 69F CUP circuit organised by YCCS member Giorgio Benussi, which will make its platform available. Team skipper for the 69F circuit will be Ettore Botticini, a promising young match racer. The other crew members will be identified based on their performances in the Grand Prix circuit regattas, and during training sessions. This will be an excellent opportunity for talented young sailors across Italy to be selected and to join the Young Azzurra team.

Observation to identify the crew members who will take part in the Youth America’s Cup races for the YCCS on board the new AC9F foiling one-design boats, very similar to the Persico 69F, are scheduled to start this month. The crew will be made up of 4 members, two male and two female, aged between 18 and 25 at 12 March 2021.

The first event where a team representing the YCCS will participate will be the Persico 69F Revolution, taking place from 14 to 19 August in Gargnano, on Lake Garda. The calendar will then continue from 14 to 19 September in Malcesine, Lake Garda, from 29 September to 4 October in Trieste, and finally from 10 to 15 November in Porto Cervo.

The Young Azzurra team members will act as spokespeople for the One Ocean Foundation, the international initiative commissioned by the YCCS for the protection and preservation of marine and coastal environments.

Michael Illbruck, Commodore of Yacht Club Costa Smeralda, commented: “We are proud that the YCCS with its resources – and with the support of the Italian Sailing Federation, the Persico 69F CUP circuit and its partners – is able to launch a project of this type, allowing keen and talented young sailors to take part in the Youth America’s Cup, representing not only the YCCS, but also Italy as a nation. Our main goal is to help expand the sphere of opportunity for younger generations, allowing them to grow professionally as well as personally within the world of sailing.”