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Tomorrow at 12, local time, starts the third edition of the RORC Transatlantic Race: the 2865 miles long ocean regatta crossing the Atlantic Ocean from Lanzarote (Canary Islands) to Grenada (Caribbean Sea). There’s a definite whiff of the big ocean regattas on the docksides in Marina di Arrecife these days as the 15 crews entered in the 2016 RORC Transatlantic Race busy themselves with last-minute boat preparations, and navigators and skippers pore over the weather predictions for the first couple of days at sea.

In just four days’ time, Maserati Multi70 will be ocean-bound in the 2016 RORC Transatlantic Race in which 11 crews will be starting from Lanzarote on Saturday, November 26.
The Trade Winds-favoured 2,865-nautical mile route will take the fleet all the way to the finish on the island of Grenada in the Grenadines. In the MOD 70 category, an exciting head-to-head between the Giovanni Soldini-skippered Maserati Multi70 and the Brian Thompson-skippered Phaedo3 is expected.

Three and a half days. That’s all it took for Maserati Multi70 to sail from La Spezia to Marina Lanzarote in the Canary Islands where she arrived this morning at daybreak.

After casting off on Sunday from La Spezia, Maserati Multi70 has now left the Balearics in her wake and is bound for the Straits of Gibraltar. She is expected to make landfall at Lanzarote in the Canaries by the end of this week.

Gear, sails, appendages – everything has been checked and rechecked aboard  Maserati Multi70 for the first ocean race of the  2016/17 season. The now-imminent RORC Transatlantic Race casts off on Saturday, November 26 from Lanzarote in the Canary Islands.

“Pretty intense!” was Giovanni Soldini’s description of Maserati Multi70’s return passage from Malta to La Spezia as he jumped ashore at 11.00 this morning.  Winds were fresh throughout and the sailing was fast and challenging. Both boat and crew are safe and sound, however. Their return marks the start of a short but intense spell in the yard during which Maserati Multi70 will be tuned in preparation for her departure for Lanzarote from where the RORC Transatlantic Race starts on November 26.

Less than 24 hours after her victorious arrival at Malta, Maserati Multi70 has cast off once again and is now bound for La Spezia. Once she arrives there, she’ll undergo a full check and have a second L-foil fitted in the run-up to the start of the RORC Transatlantic Race (Lanzarote-Grenada) on November 26 next.

Giovanni Soldini and the Maserati Multi70 team were first across the finish-line in the 37^a Rolex Middle Sea Race at 14 00’ 01” today. Buzzing with the joy of victory, they took the line honours in a time of 2 d, 1h, 25′ and 01″ in the 608 nm long regatta organized by the Royal Malta yacht Club. Aside from that win, Maserati Multi70 also set the new multihull record for the legendary Maltese race, slashing just over 10 hours off the previous one set in 2015 by American Lloyd Thornburg’s Phaedo³ (2 d, 11h, 29′ and 41″).

At exactly 14 00’ 01” today, Maserati Multi70 sailed across the finish-line of the 37^th Rolex Middle Sea Race after a 608-nautical mile gallop, stopping the clock in the multihull category of the Royal Malta Yacht Club – organised event at 2 days, 1 hour, 25 minutes  and 01 seconds.