TRANSATLANTIC MAXI YACHT ROLEX CUP 2007

Maurizia Falone Percivale (The story is in descendant date) (from the end to the start). DECEMBER 14, 2007 - Friday NEWS!!! RESULTS!!! A "SWAN 70" HAS WON THE CUP!!! AND NARIIDA HAS WON IN REAL TIME!!! Current mood: gloomy. It has arrived the time of the Prize Giving Ceremony! Below you can read the final results. Final Results of the Transatlantic Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup 2007: Finish, Yacht Name (Home Port), Type, Owner, Country, Elapsed Time, Corrected Time 1) Blue Pearl (GBR), Swan 70, Anders Johnson , SWE, 12:2:22:41, 16:12:56:48 2) Nariida (NOR), Wally 105, Morten Bergesen, NOR, 10:14:1:48, 16:16:36:19 3) Zefiro (GER), Solaris 76, Gerhard Ruether, GER, 14:1:21:5, 17:14:42:5 4) Dark Shadow (MON), Wally 100, Andrè Auberton, FRA, 11:21:33:34, 17:22:3:9 5) Valkyrie (CAN), Swan 78, Will Apold, CAN, 12:8:55:57, 17:23:26:35 6) Sojana (GBR), Farr 115, Peter Harrison, GBR, 11:14:54:59, 18:4:30:15 7) Julie Marie (GER), Swan 100, Bernd Kortüm, GER, 12:19:14:20, 18:16:52:34 and with this THE RACE has finished. NOW WE HAVE TO WAIT FOR JUNE WHEN THE MAXI BOATS WILL RETURN IN PORTO CERVO FOR THE NEXT ITALIAN COMPETITION! THANKS TO EVERYBODY FOR THE ATTENTION! CIAO, MAU 12 DECEMBER 2007 AND, IN THE END, A SWAN HAS WON!!!!!!! THE BEAUTIFUL SWAN 70 "BLUE PEARL" SHOWED HER MAJESTY WINNING THE CUP. THE 14 OF DECEMBER, IN SIMPSON BAY, in the same Yacht Club that organises the very well known (and Funny to!!!) HEINEKEN REGATTA, IT WILL BE THE PRICE GIVING OF THIS NEW AND FOR SURE UNFORGETTABLE CUP. THE WINNERS WILL RECEIVE A PRESTIGIOUS ROLEX WATCH THAT WILL REMIND THEM, EVERY DAY, IN EVERY MOMENT, THE MAGNIFICENT EVENT. THANK YOU TO THE YACHT CLUB COSTA SMERALDA, the Italian Yacht Club that will end his activities for the 2007 with a PROUD "BRAVISSIMO"!!! AND THANK YOU TO THE SINT MAARTEN YACHT CLUB for the HAPPY WELCOME! I wish to be there with them...!!!! May be the next year! CIAO, MAU 7 DECEMBER 2007 Hi to Everybody! Today we arrived to 1118 PEOPLE reading "MY SAILING BLOG"! THANK YOU VERY MUCH! And thanks for the advices that you are sending me trough my personal e-mail: I just love it! INCREDIBLE BUT TRUE........ NARIIDA HAS ARRIVED IN SIMPSON BAY THIS MORNING!!!!!!! SHE IS THE TRUE WINNER OF THE RACE. After we will see WHO will win in compensate time. BUT FOR SURE SHE IS THE QUEEN OF EVERYBODY! WELL DONE NARIIDA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ciao MAU 3 DECEMBER 2007 It seems that the Bermudian KETCHS are sailing much better in this Transatlantic Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup!!! Nariida, a Wally 105 designed in 1994 by Luca Brenta, has taken the head of the fleet from Santa Cruz and choosing the Northest path in the Atlantic Ocean, is almost close (700 miles) to the Netherlands Island of Sint Maarten. Incredible! but true... The other Ketch that is trying to beat it is the Farr 115, SOJANA, launched in the 2003 and owned by the very well known Mr. Peter Harrison. But ... no chance until now. NARIIDA, the oldest and beautiful maxi is crossing the Ocean like a butterfly passing through sweet winds in the beginning and swimming into the rain and squalls right now. On board might be an Italian psychologist of Turin (like me) and of course the atmosphere must be happy and content. I think so. So, let see what will be the news in the next days. In Palapa Marina the friends of the "Soggy Dollar" for sure are waiting preparing glasses of fresh bier. And all around the little, warm restaurants are thinking for a nice menu to restore the sailors at theyr arrival... We can smell the perfumes. See you soon, Mau 26 NOVEMBER 2007 Hi to Everybody! With 10 knots of wind the TMYRC has started! From Santa Cruz de Tenerife to Simpson Bay, Sint Maarten, Netherlands Antilles. The Wonderful Maxi Yachts are 7. It's enough to give passion and emotions to the First Transatlantic Maxi Yachts ever organised. After the long travel the peace of Caribbean Islands. With sun all year long, sweet temperatures, and the most multicultural Island of that part of the World. Over 85 different cultures in a Island that has the specificity of the Con division of the Space and of the Land. After centuries of wars between Spain, France, England, Holland the Island was divided in two parts: one is under France influence and the other under Netherlands. And they are able to live all in peace. The France part has the elegant Marigot as capital; the Hollanders has Philippsburg. In the France part seems to be in Saint Tropez: boutiques, crepes and all what you like of France. In Philippsburg you can buy the most innovative technologies (Boolchans is my favourite place) at light price. The waters colours are just incredible and you can have almost all you like and need in this thin Island. Isolated beaches and Casinos, Gucci and Dior and all the other great names of Fashion; Sony and Canon and Nikon. Little romantic restaurants and bar plages fascinating and very updates. Simpson Bay is a large "lake" into the Island that is able to connect many of the important places of the Island (not Phillisburg that is on the coast). There is a Bridge to enter in the Bay and the Sint Maarten Yacht Club is in the entrance of the Bay so... they are there to say HELLO! to every boat is entering (it seems to come back home!). 17 NOVEMBER 2007 INTRODUCTION TO THE TRANSATLANTIC MAXI YACHT ROLEX CUP. The Second Regatta I wish to introduce you is another jewel of the minds of His Highness the Prince Karim Al Husseini, the AGA KHAN IV and of the Commodoro of the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda, the Comandante Gianfranco Alberini: the TRANSATLANTIC MAXI YACHT ROLEX CUP". In just 40 years this Yacht Club has become one of the most prestigious in the World. Thanks to the incomparable location, the exemplary organisation, the seriousness of the Competitions the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda is renowned as synonymous of Elegance and Refinedness. In the past month of September the waters colour emerald in front and around of Porto Cervo, in the north-est of the Italian Island of Sardinia, have seen many of the most charming, fast, innovative and ...beautiful sailing boats of the Planet! Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup, 40Th Anniversary Regatta, and Rolex Veteran Boat Rally&12 Metre Series, Rolex TP 52 Global Championship and Moby Mumm 30 World Championship have gathered sailors of all part of the world, all astonished for the beauty of the Nature and for the incredible occasion to see (and to sail) between those splendid creatures taking to fly over the waves. The TRANSATLANTIC ROLEX MAXI YACHTS Regatta will start from Tenerife (Canarie) the 26 of November 2007 and Will arrive in Sint Maarten (the Ducth side) in Simpson Bay, at Palapa Marina. We will speak about it widespreadly. Good Night, MAU to see directly the Regatta you can click on http://www.yccs.it/ (it is the web site of the YACHT CLUB COSTA SMERALDA). CIAO, MAU .