Maserati Multi70, the state-of-the-art ocean racing trimaran has finished in second place in the RORC Caribbean 600 race to and from Antigua this week. Maserati Multi70 was in a close race with Phaedo 3 after 30 hours at sea.
According to Yachting World, Italian ocean racing legend Giovanni Soldini is in charge of the first ever attempt to convert a Multi One Design into a trans-oceanic foiling multihull. Team Maserati took the ownership of the former Gitana MOD70 at the end of 2015 and began alterations immediately adding a T-foil rudder and an L-foil daggerboard in place of the MOD70 C-foil on one of the hulls, leaving the other side untouched in order to compare performance on opposite tracks. There were some other changes like a brand new set of wings to the central daggerboard in order to fly the boat on three points: rudder, lateral foil and the adjustable central Manta foil that sits in the slot just forward of the mast in the central hull.
Vogue reported that with all these carefully engineered adjustments, the Multi70 is designed to rise above the water and skim the top of the waves. The captain of Multi70, Giovanni Soldini is Italy’s most revered sailor, has completed the RORC Caribbean 600 race and he finished second. The race is 600 miles around complex inter-island course from Antigua and back.
The Multi70 crew, Guido Broggi, Francois Robert, Oliver Herrera, Carlos Hernandez, Matteo Soldini, Francesco Malingri, and Vittorio Bissaro are all accomplished sailors in their own right. However, the whole team communicates with great respect. The captain Giovanni Saldini has a legendary talent. He does around 15 trans-Atlantic crosses a year.
He has witnessed the international embarrassment of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, he has witnessed the melting polar ice caps, the steadily shifting wind patterns. He is a man who has spent 145 days alone on a boat in the middle of the ocean, a man who has lost friends, a man who has confronted all sorts of sea creatures with nothing but his hands and the boat he stood on. Now Giovanni Saldini travels the world on Maserati Multi70 with a crew that is united by pure love of adventure.
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