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Main Facts
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Internet
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Official Website |
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Yacht
Club
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Circolo
Vela
Gargnano
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Country
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ITA
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Budget
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Challenge
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25
march, 2004
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ACC
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2000
: SUI 59
1995 : ITA 43
1992 : ITA 15 & 28
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Syndicate
Head
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Lorenzo
Rizzardi
(ITA)
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Design
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Giovanni
Ciccarelli
(ITA)
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Skipper
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Luca
Devoti
(ITA)
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Helmsman
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Iain
Percy
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After
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Xavier
Rohart
(FRA)
Maxwell Treacy
(IRL)
Rafael Trujillo
(ESP)
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Sponsors
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On board +39 Challenge -
Updated (09/23/04)
(sources : Velanet.it
&
Piutrentanove)
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+39 Challenge have just finished its first sailing
session in Villa Igiea (Sicily) and now, the programme
will move in Valencia.
ITA 59, former Alinghi's trial horse (and Pajot's
Be-Happy), will be out on the water this week-end
with an afterguard composed of :
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Skipper
: Luca Devoti (ITA), silver in the Finn class
at Sydney 2000, second at the 1997 Finn Europeans
and Worlds, second at the 1995 and 2002 Finn Europeans
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Helmsman : Iain Percy
(GBR), Gold in the Finn class at the Sydney Games,
1999 Finn European Champion, 2002 Star World Champion,
6th at the Athens Games in the Star class ; |
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Tactician : Xavier
Rohart (FRA), Star World Champion in 2003. Bronze
medal in Athens with his crew Pascal Rambeau (FRA),
also on board "+39" ; |
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Navigator : Maxwell
Treacy (IRL), Irish Star Championship ; |
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Mainsail Trimmer :
Rafael Trujillo (ESP), second at the 2003 Finn
Worlds and at Athens 2004 ; |
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Tailers : Claudio
"Ciccio" Celon and Stefano Rizzi (ITA), winner
of the Louis Vuitton Cup on board "Luna Rossa"
in 2000 ; |
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Also on board are : |
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Massimo
"Centurione" Galli (ITA), who has more
than twenty years’ experience in the America’s
Cup, winner of the Louis Vuitton Cup on board
"Luna Rossa" in 2000 ; |
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Antony Nossiter (AUS)
sixth in the Finn class in Athens ; |
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Karlo Kuret (CRO),
4th in the Finn class in Athens ; |
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Alejandro Colla (ARG),
who represented Argentina at the recent Athens
games in the Finn class ; |
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Chris Brittle (GBR),
third at the 2002 Finn Worlds ; |
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Andrew "Barth" Simpson
(GBR), third at the 2003 Finn Worlds ; |
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Gabriele Bruni (ITA),
second at the 49er European Championship and Hobie
Cat Tiger World champion. He represented Italy
in Sydney ; |
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James Lyne (GBR),
who raced the last AC with Team "GBR" ; |
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Cesare Pasotti, Daniele
Barbi, Michele Gnutti, Gabrio Zandonà and Eros
Paghera(ITA). |
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+39 Challenge presents its
Sailing Team (09/06/04)
(source : Nautica.it)
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Lorenzo Rizzardi (Gargnano YC president), Cesare
Pasotti (team manager) and Luca Devotti (skipper) held
a press conference at the Circolo Velico Gargnano to
announce the sailing team and afterguard who will be
leading the Italian challenge to the America's Cup 2007.
A very "Olympic-colored" Team were hanging
around Luca Devoti (ITA), Finn silver medallist at the
Sidney Olympic Games.
No less than five members of the +39 Team competed in
the Olympic Finn sailing class at Athens 2004. Beside
Rafael Trujillo of Spain (silver medallist in Athens),
the Challenge has recruited Karlo Kuret of Croatia (4e),
the Australian Antony Nossiter (6e), the French Guillaume
Florent (8ème) and Alejandro Colla of Argentina
(22ème).
The other "Finnists" are the Brits Chris Brittle
et Andrew "Barth" Simpson, third in the finn
class world championship 2002 and 2003.
The Italian syndicate was represented in the Star class
too with the French pair Xavier Rohart/Pascal Rambeau
(bronze medalists) and the former gold medallist in
the Finn Class in Sydney Iain Percy (6e).
The Italians Gabriele Bruni and Dede De Luca were in
Sydney (respectively in the 49er and in the Soling Class).
Rounding out the field of team members are three former
Prada boys (Claudio "Ciccio" Celon, Stefano
Rizzi and Massimo Galli) and James Lyne, who competed
in Auckland with the GBR Challenge. |
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Ian Percy with the GBR Challenge
? (09/01/04)
(sources : Mariantic
& The
Times)
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The Mariantic website has posted an excerpt from
a story by Ed Gorman of the London Times that states,
"there is a possibility that Iain Percy, the
Finn class gold medal-winner at the Sydney Olympics,
may yet join the GBR Challenge after deciding two
months ago to work with a new Italian America's Cup
team instead".
"It appears Percy is less than satisfied in Italy
and despite their public dust-up with him when he
decided to sign with the Italian +39 syndicate, the
British team are keen to speak to him again."
We are not sure how he can be "less than satisfied
in Italy " as he has been at the Olympics since
it was announced he was joining +39...Also rather
far fetched, we think, is this paragraph; "Even
more intriguing is their hope to speak again to Ben
Ainslie, the triple Olympic medal-winner who won his
second gold medal in the Finn class at Athens and
who has joined Team New Zealand (TNZ) for the next
Cup as a helmsman.
Although Ainslie is thought to be under contract to
TNZ, the GBR Challenge has not given up hope of luring
him back to Britain."
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+39
Challenge buys SUI 59 (08/26/04)
(sources
: ACM
& Mariantic)
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The new Americas Cup Management web site revealed
on Aug 26 that +32 intended to race ITA59 (ex Alinghi
ex Fast2000 "BeHAppy") in Acts 2 & 3 in
October.
The
Swiss team started its victorious campaign by buying
the former Be Happy of the 2000 Swiss challenge. But
five months was spent modifying SUI 59's radical tandem
keel into a more conventional single keel and rudder.
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First
outings for the +39 Challenge (08/17/04)
(sources
: Velanet
&
Margherita
Bottini on 2007ac.com Forum)
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While their future teammates are in Athens (in
particular Ian Percy in Star Star Class and Rafael Trujillo
in Finn Class), the +39 Challenge Team members are beginning
a first training session in Palermo (Sicily).
The team will carry on with this programme of on-the-water
testing through to the end of December.
If the the +39 Challenge are sailing two America³
vintage boats (Kanza et Mighty Mary), the rumor is out
that they will have a "real" trial horse soon. |
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