Giovanni Soldini and his international crew aboard the high-tech offshore trimaran, Maserati Multi70, are facing uncharacteristically light wind conditions in Antigua for the start of the RORC Caribbean 600 Race on Monday February 20.
Giovanni Soldini and his international crew aboard the high-tech offshore trimaran, Maserati Multi70, are facing uncharacteristically light wind conditions in Antigua for the start of the RORC Caribbean 600 Race on Monday February 20.
With just two days to go before the start of the RORC Caribbean 600 Race in Antigua the crew of the Italian Maserati Multi70 trimaran are closely monitoring an unusual set of weather conditions forecast for the period of the race.
Giovanni Soldini and his seven crewmates are busy making final preparations to the Maserati Multi70 before of the start of the RORC Caribbean 600 Race from Antigua on Monday February 20.
We arrived at 5 this morning after sailing for 10 hours with a 20 knots
wind.
This season Giovanni Soldini and his crew aboard the Italian trimaran Maserati Multi70 will take part in two of yacht racing’s most well-known offshore races – the RORC Caribbean 600 in February and the Transpacific Yacht Race in July.
After arriving into Grenada at 20h 54′ 23″ GMT (16.54 local time) yesterday evening, Maserati Multi70 skipper Giovanni Soldini gave us his first thoughts on the RORC Transatlantic Race, wich started from Lanzarote at 12.10 GMT on November 26 and was completed by the Italian team in a time of 7 days 8 hours and 23 seconds.
Giovanni Soldini and team complete RORC Transatlantic Race dash in 7 days, 8 hours, 44 minutes and 23 seconds.
Maserati Multi70 sailed across the finish-line of the third RORC Transatlantic Race at precisely 20h 54’ 23” GMT (16.54 local time), just off Camper & Nicholsons’ Port Louis Marina on the island of Grenada, completing her first ocean race in a time of 7 days, 8 hours, 44 minutes and 23 seconds.
Maserati Multi70 crossed the finish-line of the third RORC Transatlantic Race at precisely 20h 54′ 23″ GMT (16.54 local time), just off Camper & Nicholsons’ Port Louis Marina on the island of Grenada, taking second position in the multihull class of her first ocean race in a time of 7 days, 8 hours, 44 minutes and 23 seconds.
32.9 miles at a speed of 21 knots: at 18.30 GMT, Maserati Multi70 had a little over an hour’s sailing left to Grenada. Aboard the adrenaline is pumping and the whole crew is absolutely focused on making landfall on the Caribbean island where it is currently still broad daylight (local time: 14.30).
