Maserati Multi 70 and Giovanni Soldini for the Channel Record
Giovanni Soldini and the Maserati Multi 70 Team will challenge Britain’s MOD 70 PowerPlay, with skipper Ned Collier Wakefield, in a high-speed race during Cowes’s record attempt at Dinard. The two Trimarans have already competed in several races in recent years and have agreed to leave Cowes together in the morning, making the challenge even more exciting.
The departure is scheduled for tomorrow, Thursday, April 22 at 9.00 GMT . On board the Italian trimaran Soldini, sail with Vittorio Bissaro, Guido Broggi, François Robert, Carlos Hernandez Robayna and Matteo Soldini.
The current multihull record is held by Lloyd Thornburg and Brian Thompson, set aboard the MOD 70 Phaedo3 in 2015: 4 hours, 48 minutes and 57 seconds, with an average speed of 28.66 knots.
Giovanni Soldini and the Maserati Multi 70 team are ready to take off to try to conquer the canal record: 138 miles from Cowes (UK) to Dinard (France). The departure is scheduled for Thursday, April 22 at 9.00 GMT . On board the Soldini trimaran sail with a crew of 5 experienced sailors: Vittorio Bissaro, Guido Broggi, François Robert, Carlos Hernandez Robayna and Matteo Soldini.
The current multihull record is held by Lloyd Thornburg and Brian Thompson, set aboard the MOD 70 Phaedo3 in 2015: 4 hours, 48 minutes and 57 seconds, with an average speed of 28.66 knots. Phaedo3 broke by just 25 minutes the record set a few months earlier by Lending Club 2, (formerly Groupama 3, now IDEC SPORT), a 105-foot maxi trimaran with a long list of victories and records on its resume, including the Jules Trophy. Verne.
“It is not an easy record,” Soldini explains, “the route is short and treacherous and it is essential to maintain a very high average speed. We have to try to get out of the Solent Channel quickly, where there are 12 knots of wind in the direction, then we will be able to push hard in the English Channel with 25 knots of wind in the east-southeast wind. Another critical point will be in the final: approaching Dinard we will have to make some passes very close to islands and rocks, without straying too far from the direct path. Lots of maneuvers and little room for error – we’re loaded and focused, and we’ll do our best! ”
The Cowes-Dinard represents the second of three English Channel records included in the Maserati Multi 70 sports program: on April 16 the Team conquered Plymouth-La
Rochelle (12 hours, 15 minutes and 21 seconds) and, if conditions permit, allow it, in the coming weeks it will try to break the record of the Fastnet Original Course (from Cowes to Plymouth, via the Fastnet lighthouse, in the south of Ireland ).
