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moomin Send message Joined: 21 Oct 17 Posts: 6204 Credit: 38,420 RAC: 0 |
Tomorrow Sunday, October 14th at 10.30 am, the fiftieth edition of the Barcolana will start. Rai will follow the event very, very close with a "Special Barcolana 50" which will be broadcast live on Rai3 with regional distribution and national broadcast on RaiSport from 9.45 to 10.30 from the Molo Audace in Trieste with guests, services, interviews. Then the regatta live on RaiSport also streamed through the Rai Play platform |
tullio Send message Joined: 9 Apr 04 Posts: 8797 Credit: 2,930,782 RAC: 1 |
There is a new maxi yacht, Tempus Fugit. Tullio |
moomin Send message Joined: 21 Oct 17 Posts: 6204 Credit: 38,420 RAC: 0 |
There is a new maxi yacht, Tempus Fugit.That one looks very nice. Built to look like yachts used to do. Actually like my old sailingboat, a Dragon built 1939 but smaller of course. (pic. not my boat) In the Barcalona regatta they apply handicap rules so it doesn't mean that first boat over the finish line is the winner. ‘Time flies’ when sailing a big boat:) Every boat has the chanche to win. Perhaps even I could if I would participated with my Dragon:) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_(keelboat) |
tullio Send message Joined: 9 Apr 04 Posts: 8797 Credit: 2,930,782 RAC: 1 |
Spirit of Portopiccolo wins. Tempus fugit is second. Portopiccolo is a harbor and village of cottages deriving from a former limestone cave. In Aurisina there are caves going back to Roman times, when rocky blocs were hauled to a slide bringing them to barges in Sistiana bay. Venice palaces were built with them. Tullio |
moomin Send message Joined: 21 Oct 17 Posts: 6204 Credit: 38,420 RAC: 0 |
Tempus Fugit CQS is not what I thought the model and not vintage at all. CQS are capable to sail 32 to 33 knots! told skipper Ludde Ingvall from Finland. Today they sailed only 13 knots on average. http://www.ansa.it/sito/notizie/postit/Barcolana/2018/10/05/barcolana-tempus-fugit-sfidera-il-defender-portopiccolo-_c3b58f6a-f9eb-4a9b-bd52-17de269fe37d.html |
tullio Send message Joined: 9 Apr 04 Posts: 8797 Credit: 2,930,782 RAC: 1 |
Probably they did not know the Gulf of Trieste and its vagaries. Spirit of Portopiccolo is a Trieste based boat and has already won last year. |
moomin Send message Joined: 21 Oct 17 Posts: 6204 Credit: 38,420 RAC: 0 |
The wind was only 15-18 knots so it's no wonder they didn't sailed so fast. My boat would probably sail about 4 - 5 knots in those conditions:) |
tullio Send message Joined: 9 Apr 04 Posts: 8797 Credit: 2,930,782 RAC: 1 |
I think 20 knots is the limit for America Cup boats. If the wind is stronger they don't race. |
moomin Send message Joined: 21 Oct 17 Posts: 6204 Credit: 38,420 RAC: 0 |
Yes. But America Cup boats today (AC72) are very different to monohull boats like the Maxi Yachts. I guess the wind speed limit for those boats, that was 25 knots in last competition but perhaps be will 20 knots later, is because of safety and competition reasons. The Swedish Artemis AC72 catamaran capsized at America Cup 2013 with moderate wind speeds. Maxi Yachts don't do that and can "easily" sail at 30 knots and even at 40 knots wind speed. I have sailed in a regatta when at 33 knots wind speed. Rather scary actually when I had to climb the mast to fetch the end of the halyard to the genua that got loose. And one other boat's mast snapped... |
tullio Send message Joined: 9 Apr 04 Posts: 8797 Credit: 2,930,782 RAC: 1 |
Once my brother's first wife was sailing in a boat owned by Eric Tabarly in the Atlantic with Tabarly and her husband, a doctor from Sardinia. At night, during a storm, Tabarly was washed away. He had no safety rope. The boat had no radio, Tabarly did not want it, nor a GPS. They were saved by a passing ship the next day. Tabarly's body was found later on the Portugal coast. Tullio |
moomin Send message Joined: 21 Oct 17 Posts: 6204 Credit: 38,420 RAC: 0 |
I once saw a documentary about Eric Tabarly and he seemed to be a very odd person. For instance he didn't use tooth paste when brushing his teeth. C'est degueulasse, he said:) |
tullio Send message Joined: 9 Apr 04 Posts: 8797 Credit: 2,930,782 RAC: 1 |
My brother, a professional seaman with a sailing experience (he once won the Giraglia regata on Kerylos, a maxi yacht) said that, had Tabarly survived, he would have sent him to jail for endangering his customers. |
moomin Send message Joined: 21 Oct 17 Posts: 6204 Credit: 38,420 RAC: 0 |
Are we talking about the same Éric Tabarly? http://www.classicboat.co.uk/articles/people/eric-tabarlys-last-night-alive/ Of course there were no jackstays or safety lines; Eric never carried them. He once said he would rather spend an hour in the water than be tied on with a harness.I don't think his crew were customers . There were five crew on board Pen Duick. Eric had invited Lieutenant Jacques André Rebec and skiing friends from Chamonix, Antoine Costa with his wife Candida. They sailed every year on Pen Duick. But they were hardly a racing crew. Rather they were friends on a pleasure cruise.And he drowned in the Irish Sea. |
tullio Send message Joined: 9 Apr 04 Posts: 8797 Credit: 2,930,782 RAC: 1 |
Candida is the name of my brother's first wife. I met doctor Costa in Chamonix and we talked about Italian wines compared to French wines with a log burning in the fogoler (so called in Friuli). He is a nice person and has gone back to his native Corsica after Candida died. Tullio |
tullio Send message Joined: 9 Apr 04 Posts: 8797 Credit: 2,930,782 RAC: 1 |
Andrea Dovizioso, Ducati, wins the moto GP at Motegi Japan. Marc Marquez is still the leader,with Dovizioso second and Valentino Rossi third, but not yet the champion. All wrong, Dovizioso has fallen and Marc Marquez, Honda, wins and get the title. |
tullio Send message Joined: 9 Apr 04 Posts: 8797 Credit: 2,930,782 RAC: 1 |
GP USA Austin Texas 1 Kimi Raikkonen Ferrari 2 Max Verstappen Red Bull 3 Lewis Hamilton Meecedes 4 Sebastian Vettel Ferrari Lewis still leader but not yet champion |
William Rothamel Send message Joined: 25 Oct 06 Posts: 3756 Credit: 1,999,735 RAC: 4 |
Ciao Tullio, It pains me that there are not more posters here in Dante Alighieri's answer to the Latin tongue. I am also embarrassed that I learned just enough Italian to find my way around the trains, bathrooms and restaurants in Roma, Venezia, Firenze and Milano. I could almost rely on my smattering of knowledge of Latin and Spanish. Also after coming in from France I could often just add a vowel to the french word. Bain became Bagno and remember the pronounce the gn like the Spanish n with a tilde. The culture of a nation is often expressed in it's cuisine and I remember some great little places to eat in Italy. In Roma there is a restaurant called Otello which is still there. It is just off the Corso. There we learned to like the Saltimbocca alla Romana and enjoyed meeting fascinating people from around the world. They wouldn't let you leave--they wouldn't bring the check until you literally got up to leave. The pizza joint at the piazza de popolo had the best pizza ever--Just simple pies with sweet yellow peppers or fungi. There is also a restaurant near the plaza around the Spanish Steps --Abruzzi where the chicken tasted like the best game bird that you could imagine. The best pasta that we found was by following the locals down an alley off of the Corso. The place was down a few steps and into a modest size dining area where you sat on what was essentially a picnic table. You could see the old grandpa in the kitchen in his undershirt stirring the sauce. They plunked down a carafe of good ordinary red wine on the table and I guess they charged you by how much you drank. In Venice we kept going back to a little trattoria just over a bridge across a narrow canal behind St Marks. The waitress' name was Norma and we had the "Coda d' Rospo" each time--Later learned that this was Monkfish. Back 40 years ago it was a simpler life. It was 1800 lire to the dollar and a good Gelato was only cinquecento. |
tullio Send message Joined: 9 Apr 04 Posts: 8797 Credit: 2,930,782 RAC: 1 |
Thanks William. I was born in Trieste and am more familiar with Austrian and Slovene foods than with Rome and Venice foods, but you can eat well in all parts of Italy. I remember the risotto di pesce at Manarola, Cinque Terre in Liguria. I have also a brother in Pegli,near Genoa a former merchant navy captain and his wife, a Spanish Senora, makes an excellent Pesto. I live alone and mostly of frozen foods, like Alaska fish. But I regret that too many Italian volunteers never visit this cafe. Incidentally, I recently bought an Illy caffee machine which allows me to make an espresso or an American coffee cup. Illy is based in Trieste and imports coffee from Ethiopia, Colombia, Brasil,Guatemala and Haity. Yes, I am a coffee lover since it keeps me awake. Ciao. Tullio |
moomin Send message Joined: 21 Oct 17 Posts: 6204 Credit: 38,420 RAC: 0 |
I could almost rely on my smattering of knowledge of Latin and Spanish. Also after coming in from France I could often just add a vowel to the french word. Bain became Bagno.Well, it toke me some time to know the difference between "bagno caldo" and "bagno freddo" when visiting Italia first time:) In highscool we have to learn a second foreign language beside english. I chosed French. Went to Courmayeur in Italy at the border to France for skiing. Ha. Of course they know French I thought. They didn't. Never the less, Italians understand you anyway eventually. The French don't however even if I tried French. Hehe:) |
tullio Send message Joined: 9 Apr 04 Posts: 8797 Credit: 2,930,782 RAC: 1 |
Courmayeur is in Val d'Aosta and the valdostani speak their patois, which is close to French. Many piemontesi and torinesi speak French, like Giuseppe Luigi Lagrange who became Joseph Louis. Another example is that of Luigi Menabrea, who wrote an article in French on a Geneva magazine about a conference held in Torino by Charles Babbage on his Analytical Engine. The article was translated in English by Ada Byron, Countess of Lovelace, who wrote many comments and greatly enlarged it, so it is one of the main sources on the Analytical Engine. The translation was made on a suggestion by Babbage himself. Tullio |
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