lunedì 12 luglio 2010

WHAT A WEEK!

It had started perfectly. On the way to Garda I stopped in Venice to be present at the PEARL JAM concert during the Heiniken Jammin Festival. Awesome stuff :-)
I was bit touched when Eddie Vedder sang "Elderly woman behind the counter in a small town",which was the name of one of my 470es.... see video
By the way, the melges 24 offered a great show on Torbole fresh waters. About 60 boats on the starting line for the last leg of the VOLVO CUP.
The race officer, Fabio Barrasso, decided to make all us sail the course close to the eastern shore of the lake, which made the tactician's job harder, since it's not very common to compete there, and everybody had to deal with strategies quite different from usual.
Anyway the breeze was always nice and we sailed 12 races in 4 days.
On the first two days we were doing well: starts and speed were very good, but the wind patterns were tricky so it was very difficult to call good tactics. 2-7-2-2-6-9
On the third day,however, we were almost perfect. I learnt to read the wind properly and did excellent recovers on the runs. We scored 1-1-2 that day.
On the final day it was match racing between us and "Hurrican
e"(Alberto Bolzan/Daniele Cassinari). We won by two points, after recovering more than 20 boats on the final race, while Hurricane was leading! We never give up!!
So we won this last leg(results here) and the whole Volvo Cup circuit as well.
I have to say a big "thank you" to my team: they provided speed , good manouvers, and good spirit all along the year.
MICHELE GIOVANNINI
CESARE CLAUDANI
DANIELE FIASCHI
After an offshore regatta in southern Italy, I'll move again to the lake of Garda, for the melges 20 Gold Cup which will be held in Malcesine(22-25/7).
Ciao

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