Is this route really possible? In recent days, at a quiz on RAI 1, they asserted that a sea route from Pakistan to the Kamchatka peninsula in Russia was possible, right by right without running into any obstacle. I tried to run it with Google Earth PRO, but I couldn’t make one, for every route I enter from Pakistan to […]
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Many have wondered… What happens to a sailboat when it capsizes? Here is a video that demonstrates it … In this video you can see how everything, in fact, turns upside down. It must surely be a disorienting experience, everything overturns and falls to the ground, you too are subject to capsizing inside the boat, along with everything that will […]
I went to the 60th Genoa International Motor Show Some friends came to see me and we had decided to go to the boat show on Saturday morning. Unfortunately, we already knew from Friday that the show would be sold out. On the website it was no longer possible to buy tickets from Friday afternoon, so we showed up at […]
What is that? Simple … it’s a textile ladder, with aluminum pegs, which is used to be hoisted, with the mainsail halyard to go up into the masthead. Very interesting the system that as shown in the video is sold by Osculati. Presented in Paris and Berlin successfully. How does it work? Simple, connect the shackle on top of this […]
“Giornale Luce” of January 1935 From Stockholm … For the lovers of life on the sea: here is a model of yacht built with a new system that aims to reduce the veiling to eliminate the risk and the difficulty of managing numerous sails, when the wind is raging. In this type of sailing rig with movable mast, there are […]
Wow … how strange …! But who invented it …? Well let’s start with those who invented it … a start-up in Riccione, where I was born, invented it, a town south of Rimini, on the Adriatic coast of Italy, south of Venice and Ravenna. Daniele Mingucci made the 47-foot aluminum sailing prototype named “Futura” with this strange U-shaped tree, […]
It looks like a nice system for faster, safer and more stable surfing. The only flaw is having these two wings, which look a bit like hanging wings, but in reality when they are closed on the bridge they don’t seem to be so hostile to the use of the deckhouse. They seem to increase sailing performance and above all, […]
This summer I’m back in Sicily We made beautiful trips around all the islands, Vulcano, Lipari, Alicudi, Filicudi, Panarea, Salina, we went to make beautiful visits to the wineries on the islands and for fruit fields, we went to the caves and went for splendid baths with wonderful seabeds. But every time we approached Stromboli, I expressed my dissent, because […]
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Arriving to the island of Ustica from Terrasini in Sicily, where we left in the morning with a beautiful sailboat, around eleven o’clock morning, we came across a beautiful pack of dolphins . It was a decidedly large pack. These dolphins behaved differently from those I normally saw, perhaps more accustomed to passing ships. In particular, this herd was immediately […]
We came from Ustica, the Ustica auctioneer. We left the Ustica marina early in the morning and set the sails in such a way that we could make a nice, light and fluid navigation. There was a beautiful sea breeze that allowed us to sail with a Yankee, sling and mainsail. During our navigation we also freed a turtle from […]
Have you ever dismasted and then re-raised? Or, have you ever noticed that you have a soft rigging? Have you ever had the need to measure the rigging tension of your sailboat? Well, to do that there is an instrument called a StringMeter for shrouds. It is used to measure the tension of the shrouds correctly, for navigation or before […]
I was in Alghero, with the stranger (that I would be …) … the legendary Venanzio and I, exhausted by a two-day sailing with strong wind on the west side of Corsica, from San Remo, with only salty food, for a small problem, finally landed, took two bicycles we went for a ride to Alghero … When I saw this […]
