Out on the Pacific, midway between Los Angeles and Honolulu, the Italian boat is engaged in a three-way ocean dog fight for supremacy against two non-foiling American trimarans – Mighty Merloe and Phaedo3.
Out on the Pacific, midway between Los Angeles and Honolulu, the Italian boat is engaged in a three-way ocean dog fight for supremacy against two non-foiling American trimarans – Mighty Merloe and Phaedo3.
Lighter winds caused by a high-pressure weather system on the northern side of the “rhumb line” (the shortest direct route between Los Angeles and Hawaii) have slowed the progress of MaseratiMulti70 and the two American trimarans – Mighty Merloe and Phaedo3 – as the multihull trio scrap it out for the Transpac Race line honours lead.
There has been no let-up in the relentless pace being set by Giovanni Soldini and his crew aboard the Italian offshore foiling trimaran MaseratiMulti70 on the way from Los Angeles to Honolulu in the 2017 Transpac Race.
The Italian trimaran MaseratiMulti70 continues to lead the multihull division and has moved into overall line honours first place at the head of the 55-boat Transpac fleet racing from California to Hawaii.
Giovanni Soldini’s crew on the Italian flying ocean going trimaran MaseratiMulti70 have taken the lead in the multihull class in the 2017 Transpacific Yacht Race after 26 hours of racing along the 2,225-mile Pacific Ocean course from Los Angeles to Honolulu.
The crew of the MaseratiMulti70 trimaran skippered by Giovanni Soldini are today locked in a high speed three-way battle for the lead of the multihull division in the Transpacific Yacht Race from Los Angeles to Honolulu.
The MaseratiMulti70 trimaran is in second place in the multihull division after nine hours of racing in the Transpac Race.
At 13.30 local time (22.30 in Italy) Giovanni Soldini’s flying ocean racing trimaran, Maserati Multi70, together with four other multihulls crossed the start line off the Point Fermin headland of the 2017 Transpacific Race from Los Angeles, California to Honolulu, Hawaii.
Giovanni Soldini and his crew of Spanish and Italian sailors aboard MaseratiMulti70 – the first ocean-going flying multihull – are today primed and ready in Los Angeles, California to take on one of yacht racing’s classic open ocean races – the Transpacific Yacht Race to Honolulu, Hawaii.