After the LV Act 13 disaster, the hard work continues at the base of the Italian Challenger +39.

Easter holidays are over, they have been celebrated with "carbon fiber spaghetti" as an Italian daily titled. The bottom part of the profile has already reached already "phase two", that is to say to the lamination process.

"Positioning from 50 to 100 skins of unidirectional fiber is the second step", explained the team’s shore manager Sebastiano Morassutti. "Before there was gluing, layering and laminating. The third phase is the curing, that will be done in the oven that was given us by the Shosholoza team and which is ready to work".

"For superstition too, I’m not making any definitive program", he added. "Let’s say that we are hoping to substitute the mast during the first Round Robin".

There are 12 to 14 people working now, some from the Soleri and Sicilcraft shipyards, some from the mast builder Marstrom, the whole shore team, 2 technicians and, in shifts the whole sailing crew and the design team.

On +39 is already stepped a generation 4 mast, that will be tested over the next days by the crew led by Iain Percy before the start of Round Robin 1.

On Monday 16th Percy, Walker, Bruni, Trujillo and Co. will then find themselves face to face with the competitors from Areva Challenge and the Spanish hosts of Desafío Español."