Difficult day aboard Maserati Multi 70: with a rough sea and a strong wind, LoveWater‘s longer hulls advantage is felt.
Difficult day aboard Maserati Multi 70: with a rough sea and a strong wind, LoveWater‘s longer hulls advantage is felt.
Maserati Multi 70, at 20 UTC, is sailing at 28 knots towards North West. The Italian trimaran gybed in the afternoon and is now sailing away from the African coast.
Maserati Multi 70‘s direct opponent, LoveWater, is now in the lead and is sailing at 27 knots following a more Southern route.
Maserati Multi 70, at 12.30 UTC, is flying at 27-30 knots of speed with a 20 knots tailwind.
At the start, 24 hours before, the Italian trimaran suffered damages to the foil’s cylinders that adjust the rake, the foil’s upward thrust. Giovanni Soldini and his Team were able to solve the problem, but they were forced to slow down while LoveWater, the 80′ trimaran, was gaining miles.
At 20 UTC, 8 hours after the start of the Cape2Rio, Maserati Multi 70 is sailing North West at 27.7 knots, with a couple dozens miles of advantage over the competitor LoveWater.
It wasn’t an easy start for Giovanni Soldini and his Team, who had to slow down for around twenty minutes at the start of the race for a technical problem. “We suffered damages to the foils’ pistons”, Soldini explains. “We were able to manage the situation and to make a jury-rig repair, we never had this problem before but we were able to catch up with our competitors and we’re confident that this will be a great race!”
They’re off! At 14.30 local time (12.30 UTC, 13.30 Italian time) Giovanni Soldini and Maserati Multi 70’s Team crossed the starting line of the 16th edition of the Cape2Rio, the 3.600-mile-long historical transoceanic race from Cape Town to Rio de Janeiro.
Giovanni Soldini and Maserati Multi 70’s Team are ready for a new big challenge, the Cape2Rio 2020, 3.600 miles from Cape Town to Rio de Janeiro. The start is less than 24 hours away: tomorrow January 11th at 14.30 local time (12.30 UTC, 13.30 Italian time) Maserati Multi 70 and their competitor, the 80’ LoveWater, will cross the starting line in Table Bay, before Cape Town, and will head North West towards the Island of Trindade, before setting course to the finish line in Rio de Janeiro.
Everything is ready aboard Maserati Multi 70 for the start of the 16th edition of the Cape2Rio, on January 11th, at 14.00 local time (12.00 UTC, 13.00 Italian time).
Maserati enters into a new era of innovation and launches a process for the transfer of technological know-how from the world of cars to the world of high-performance yachts: the engineers of the Maserati Innovation Lab in Modena and Giovanni Soldini, skipper of Maserati Multi 70, take centre stage.
Maserati Multi 70 is getting closer to the destination and is now sailing with 30 knots tailwind 320 miles away from Cape Town.
Giovanni Soldini and his crew set sail from Singapore on October 29th and, around 6200 miles later, they expect to arrive in Cape Town by tonight.
