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Alla Spezia the guided technological super sailing boat from skipper the Soldini
Under consideration the institution of an oceanic school of sail in from Liguria city
November 15, 2011
The VOR 70 Maserati, technological the super sailing boat of beyond 20 meters with which skipper Giovanni Soldini and its crew of nine people it will try to conquer three important record in North Atlantic, finds from last week to where, thanks to the hospitality granted from the Harbour Authority and the availability of LSCT and Speter, it will remain until January 2012 when it will leave for the first regatta from Cadice to San Salvador (Bahamas). They will follow Miami-New York and New York-Chief Lizard (UK then).
The boat, than from today on the transom carries the written "Port of La Spezia", it has participated to the turn of the world in crew 2008-2009. It possesses a tree in carbon of beyond 30 meters, the balancing keel, ballast tanks you furnish, drifts of bow you furnish, water lines tiratissime and structures in material composites.
"We are honored - the president of the Harbour Authority of has declared, Lorenzo Forcieri - to support with means to our disposition a large one skipper as Soldini. Giovanni had necessity to obtain is a watery space, is a space to earth to be able to work calmly to setting up of the realized hull after the refitting in shed of a local yard. After several inspections we have characterized with him an area of the Sailing club, that I thank so as the terminalisti for the supplied collaboration, and we have fastly adapted it to the scope". Forcieri is also working with skipper and to the National Federation the Sail in order to realize in from Liguria city an oceanic school of sail.
"I thank the Harbour Authority of for the hospitality", Giovanni Soldini has said. "This city, with its marine and industrial vocation, with its professionalities - it has emphasized - is ideal in order to prepare ships from race".
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