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.
Giovanni Soldini and Maserati Multi 70‘s crew are heading towards the African coast. The Team has to pass one more cold front to reach the Northeasterly wind that will take the trimaran to Cape of Good Hope.
The delivery to Cape Town continues for Giovanni Soldini and his crew aboard Maserati Multi 70.
Today at 8 UTC the Italian Team was sailing East of Madagascar, dealing with rough sea. Giovanni Soldini explains: “We’re sailing with 18/20 knots of wind, with very long waves from South West, up to 7 meters high. The boat is bouncing on the waves and we slowed down a little.
After a few days’ stop, today at 6 UTC Maserati Multi 70 set sail from Singapore and is heading to Cape Town.
“We’re heading South, towards the Sunda Strait,” says Giovanni Soldini. “The wind is very light, it will be a challenging leg, but once we pass the Strait, we should find a stable wind to Madagascar.”
After the Royal Hong Kong Nha Trang Rally, Maserati Multi 70‘s Team set sail towards Singapore.
At 8.30 UTC, Giovanni Soldini explains: “We’re painfully sailing through the doldrums, the area North of the Equator with very light and variable wind. We probably will have to suffer for a couple more days, then a more stable Southeasterly wind should arrive.”
