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At 21.30 UTC, Maserati Multi 70 arrived at its destination and is now moored at Hong Kong Yacht Club.

Because of the unusual lack of Trade Winds, the delivery was longer than expected. Giovanni Soldini explains: «We’re all very happy to have arrived. For the first ten days we were forced to sail North, to try and find the winds created by the depressions and the cold fronts. Fortunately in the last days we found normal downwind conditions, in which we were able to sail very well and to glide on the waves: we regained quite a few miles. Maserati Multi 70 is in great shape, after almost 6000 miles in the Pacific Ocean we’re ready for the Hong Kong to Vietnam Race!»

After a long delivery, Maserati Multi 70 is approaching the destination and is now 24 hours away from Hong Kong. Giovanni Soldini says: «The weather is perfect: there’s a 18 knots wind on broad reach and the sea is almost flat. The long waves from North East help us accelerate over 30 knots! There’s a big typhoon following us, but fortunately it’s two days behind us. Out solar panels did a great job and with this sun they give us so much energy!»

Maserati Multi 70 is 2000 miles away from Hong Kong: the trimaran’s delivery continues in the Pacific, riddled with plastic debris. Giovanni Soldini explains: «We keep seeing floating objects whizzing by. Last night something hit a rudder, but our fuse system worked perfectly and we were able to put it back in use with no damage. Yesterday we also bumped into a big plastic sheet, fortunately we were able to pull it on board: it’s one less plastic piece in the ocean, but there are so many. It’s really scary to see the state the sea is in, when the plastic has been introduced only a few decades ago».

At 8 UTC, Maserati Multi 70‘s Team is passing the third low pressure zone, with 20/25 knots of Southerly wind, that will first turn Easterly then North-Easterly. Because of some problems with the alternator, the trimaran’s only energy source are the solar panels, but the weather is not the best, Giovanni Soldini explains: «Our energy situation is quite delicate, it’s been raining for 36 hours so the panels charge very little. We will have to sail with our instruments switched off today, to save the energy for the most difficult moments. In the past few days we’ve been seeing so many floating objects whizzing between our hulls, it’s really sad to see».

Shortly after 18 UTC on September 29th, Maserati Multi 70‘s Team crossed the Date Line and is sailing with a 16/18 knots South-Easterly wind, but the delivery is proving to be difficult.

Giovanni Soldini explains: «In the last 24 hours we had a fair wind and we made some headway, now (at 18.24 UTC) we’re at 30°N 179.54°E, but in the next few hours the wind will drop and the next night there will be no wind again. The crossing will take longer than expected: there’s no sign of the Trade Wind. We’re also having problems with the alternator and we’re forced to save energy. The Solbian solar panels are saving us, we hope it’s going to be sunny all the time!»

Maserati Multi 70‘s delivery to Hong Kong continues, but the weather is not favourable. During the night Giovanni Soldini explained: «The Trade wind is completely cancelled out by many low pressure zones, the direct route towards destination is very slow. The routage suggests that we take a faster route further to the North, but there are many difficult passages on this course: there are many unstable windows that risk turning into traps if we don’t pass through them on time. The depressions also cause many typhoons to form throughout the Pacific: we will decide in the next hours which of the two options to pick, this is not the best situation».

Maserati Multi 70 is sailing towards Hong Kong with particular weather: the Italian trimaran sailed around the cold front and is now sailing with a Northern wind.

Giovanni Soldini says from aboard: «We’re taking advantage of a wind created by a depression North of the Pacific. The water is very warm and there are many depressions: the normal trade wind is completely cancelled out and there are many typhoons. We’re sailing with a Northern wind, which will then turn North-East».

Maserati Multi 70 set sail from Honolulu and is sailing towards Hong Kong.

The Italian Team spent the last two months in the shipyard, both for repairing the damages occurred at the left side bow and rudder after an accident during the latest edition of the Transpac, and for ordinary maintenance works.

The trimaran set sail from Hawaii and is sailing with full main and gennaker with 15 knots of wind; Giovanni Soldini says from aboard: «We’re heading North to sail around a cold front, around 500 miles North of Honolulu. We should then find a North-North-East wind that will take us to Hong Kong».

At 3.56 51” on July 18th local time (13.56 51” UTC, 15.56 51” Italian time) Maserati Multi 70 crossed the finish line of the 50^th edition of the Transpacific Yacht Race (Transpac) off Diamond Head, Honolulu, Hawaii. Giovanni Soldini and his Team arrived with an elapsed time of 4 days, 18 hours, 26 minutes and 51 seconds.