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.
But in a more violent roll, the gaff swings out violently to starboard, to swing back with huge force. Eric takes it full in the chest. He is projected violently backwards, overboard and into the sea. When Erwan remembers this moment, he thinks that even with two crew-members there, both would have been thrown overboard in the same manner. Eric doesn’t have a harness. He shouts something. He is certainly not wounded. He’s not wearing a life jacket, nor carrying personal rockets to be able to show the boat where he is in the water

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.

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.

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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:)

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

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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...

I think 20 knots is the limit for America Cup boats. If the wind is stronger they don't race.

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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:)

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.

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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

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

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There is a new maxi yacht, Tempus Fugit.
Tullio

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)

There is a new maxi yacht, Tempus Fugit.
Tullio

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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

Giro di Lombardia
1 Thibaut Pinot France
2 Vincenzo Nibali
3 Dylan Teuns Belgium
Pinot also won the Milano-Torino three days ago Instead the Giro del Piemonte was won by Sonny Colbrellli.

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Trieste is preparing for La Barcolana sailboat race next Sunday with 2000 registered starters.
Tullio

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Thibaut Pinot wins the Milano Torino race, ending on the Colle di Superga near the Basilica. An Italian airliner crashed on that hill in 1948 destroying the whole Torino soccer team. Tomorrow is the Giro del Piemonte and Saturday the Giro di Lombardia, which ends the Italian cycling race season.

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Opa!
Last year Ferrari lent its name to the cycling world, and not to any coot but to Bianchi. The project is called "Bianchi for Scuderia Ferrari" and will result in bicycles in principle all categories. such as road bikes, mountain bikes, electric bikes, city-fitness bikes and children's bikes.
But Bianchi has not only bought the name, it promises that R&D from the two companies will work close to each other.
These bikes are painted in Enzo-red and Dino-yellow instead of Celeste:) Ferrari Red and Giallo Modena color to be exact.
https://store.ferrari.com/en-au/collection/bianchi-for-scuderia-ferrari
Owner and chairman of Bianchi Salvatore Grimaldi and Ferrari Chief Brand Officer Luca Fuso celebrate the partnership.

The prize for a Bianchi for Scuderia Ferrari? $18,000 !

I used to have Eurosport before. Expert commentators are Roberto Vacchi and Anders Adamson, both former cyclists.
Vacchi's parents came to Sweden from Italy in the 50's or 60's.
Since watching cycling can be rather boring at times I really enjoy their stories and anecdotes. They have many, not only about cycling but also history and cycling fashion:)
Adamson is often called by Vacchi for "Expert of Experts". This is possibly a travesty on the nickname of Vacchis favorite cyclist Fausto Coppi, sometimes known as Il Campionissimo, champion of champions.

Another Italian who came to Sweden in the 50's is Salvatore Grimaldi, Cykelkungen (The Bicycle King).
He is the owner of Bianchi (Coppi used them) since 1997 and keeping the traditions of 133 years of bicycle manufacturing alive.
Salvatore Grimaldi sings "O sole mio". LOL:)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6myJ7yZJv4

Coppi and Bartali represent the two souls of Italy, the lay soul (Coppi) and the Catholic soul (Bartali). Bartali was named Just among the Nations by Israel this year for his help in saving Jews during the Nazi occupation of Florence, risking his own life.
Tullio

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Gino Bartali e Fausto Coppi al Musichiere (1959)
Hehe:)
https://www.tag24.it/197752-fausto-coppi/