Maserati-- 70' Ocean Racing Foiler

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Transpac 2019 | Race Information https://2019.transpacyc.com/race-info

MASERATI MULTI 70’S TEAM IS READY FOR THE TRANSPAC
July 10, 2019
Giovanni Soldini and Maserati Multi 70’s Team arrived two days ago in Los Angeles for the 50th edition of the Transpacific Yacht Race (Transpac): the regatta will start on Saturday July 13th at 12.30 local time (19.30 UTC, 21.30 Italian time).

The historical ocean race starts from Pt. Fermin, Los Angeles and the finish line, around 2225 miles away, is in Diamond Head, Honolulu, Hawaii.

Maserati Multi 70’s Team is continuing its research and testing in order to optimize the trimaran’s flying performance. Giovanni Soldini explains: «During the last race, the CA 500, we carried out some tests that helped us further improve the rudders’ system. We already tried it out on the water and it seems to work really well».

The crew joining skipper Giovanni Soldini aboard Maserati Multi 70 for this edition of the Transpac is made up of 7 expert sailors:

• Alberto Bona (IT) – he has been passionate about sailing since his youth, he raced in several classes, including Mini 6.50s and Class 40s. He has many miles of sailing experience, two single-handed Atlantic crossings and 8 victories in the Mini 6.50 class. He has already sailed many miles aboard the Italian trimaran during deliveries, and this edition of the Transpac will be his first race aboard Maserati Multi 70.
• Guido Broggi (IT), mainsail trimmer – he is Maserati Multi 70’s boat captain and has thousands of miles of ocean sailing under his belt. He has been working alongside Giovanni Soldini for many years, since he was team leader in the building and in the racing preparation of 60’ Fila in 1998. He was part of Maserati Multi 70’s crew for the Tea Route record from Hong Kong to London and, in 2019, for the RORC Caribbean 600 and the CA 500.
• Carlos Hernandez Robayna (ESP), trimmer – he has many years of sailing experience and has raced in various classes. He has sailed alongside Giovanni Soldini in several regattas and ocean crossings, among which the Transpacific Yacht Race and the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race. Aboard Maserati Multi 70, he participated, in 2018, in the Rolex Middle Sea Race and in the RORC Transatlantic Race and, in 2019, in the RORC Caribbean 600.
• Oliver Herrera Perez (ESP), bowman – throughout his career he raced aboard Ims 500s, Swan 45s and Rc44s. He was previously part of VOR 70 Maserati’s crew and now he continues to race as bowman aboard Maserati Multi 70. He crewed for Giovanni Soldini during the Tea Route record and, in 2019, for the RORC Caribbean 600 and the CA 500.
• Nico Malingri (IT), grinder and trimmer – he started sailing at a very young age and has conquered two double-handed records with his father Vittorio Malingri aboard a 20-foot-long catamaran: the Marseilles-Carthage in 2016 and the Dakar-Guadeloupe in 2017. Aboard Maserati Multi 70 he participated in the latest editions of the Rolex Middle Sea Race, the RORC Transatlantic Race, the RORC Caribbean 600 and the CA 500.
• François Robert (FRA), pitman – he participated in many races, among which two Mini Transat and one Transat Jacques Vabre. He was part of the building Team for Giovanni Soldini’s 60’ Fila and Class 40 Telecom Italia. Aboard the Italian trimaran he participated in the latest edition of the Rolex Middle Sea Race, the RORC Transatlantic Race and, in 2019, in the CA 500.
• Matteo Soldini (IT), grinder and trimmer – he has been part of the Maserati Multi 70 project since its start and has participated in many offshore races. He was part of the trimaran’s crew for the latest Rolex Middle Sea Race, the RORC Transatlantic Race, the RORC Caribbean 600 and the CA 500.

Maserati Multi 70’s Team, who already participated in the Transpac of 2017, will compete again with the two MOD 70s that they previously challenged many times: American Argo and British PowerPlay. The two rival trimarans will sail in classic mode, even though Argo is working to develop a flying system and will race with flying rudders.(emphasis dl)

Go Maserati!

 

From Team Maserati:
LEFT SIDE BOW DAMAGED FOR A STRONG IMPACT IN THE OCEAN
July 15, 2019
At 4.30 UTC, Maserati Multi 70, while sailing at 23-24 knots, collided with a big floating object that damaged the left side hull’s bow and the rudder’s wing.

Giovanni Soldini explained: “We couldn’t understand what it was, but it was very big, it was at least one meter high out of the water. It hit the left side hull with great force, severely damaging it, then it glided along the hull and hit the rudder. The fuse system worked, but the object was so big that we lost the outer half of the wing. We stopped for one hour: we took off the wing completely so we could use the rudder’s blade. Now we’re sailing with the bow out of the water using the foil: we’re waiting for the light to do a thorough inspection of the side hull – which has 7 watertight bulkheads – to check if there are any holes.”

According to the 3.00 UTC position updates, Maserati Multi 70‘s Team was sailing at 26 knots, with 1872 miles ahead of them, on the wake of their competitors: Argo, at 25 miles, had 1732 miles before the finish line, followed by PowerPlay, at 25 knots with 1833 miles to go.

 

From Team Maserati:
MASERATI MULTI 70 “A CANNAMORTA” AFTER GYBE
July 17, 2019
For many hours Maserati Multi 70 had to sail on starboard tack, on the damaged hull. It was impossible to reach an average speed higher than 25 knots. At 12 UTC, Giovanni Soldini and his crew gybed and now, on port tack, they are able to fly steadily and reach a higher speed.

The positions updated at 8 UTC, before the last gybe, show Maserati Multi 70 782 miles away from the finish line, more than a hundred miles behind PowerPlay, with 655 miles to go, and Argo, with 602 miles ahead of it: the disadvantage is not small, but the Italian trimaran’s Team is not giving up and will fight to the end.

 

Damage pictures:
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From Team Maserati:
MASERATI MULTI 70 AT THE FINISH LINE OF THE TRANSPAC. SOLDINI “TOO BAD ABOUT THE ACCIDENT BUT WE’RE HAPPY ABOUT MASERATI MULTI 70’S PERFORMANCE”
July 18, 2019
At 3.56 51” on July 18th local time (13.56 51” UTC, 15.56 51” Italian time) Maserati Multi 70 crossed the finish line of the 50th edition of the Transpacific Yacht Race (Transpac) off Diamond Head, Honolulu, Hawaii. Giovanni Soldini and his Team arrived with an elapsed time of 4 days, 18 hours, 26 minutes and 51 seconds.

The American MOD 70 Argo crossed first the finish line, at 20.50 32” on July 17th local time (on July 18th at 6.50 32” UTC and 8.50 32” Italian time), with an elapsed time of 4 days, 11 hours, 20 minutes and 32 seconds. The English trimaran PowerPlay followed shortly after, at 21.21 50” local time (July 18th 7.21 50” UTC and 9.21 50” Italian time), concluding the race with an elapsed time of 4 days, 11 hours, 51 minutes and 50 seconds.

The multihull record, set in 2017 by ORMA 60 Mighty Merloe, of 4 days, 6 hours, 32 minutes and 30 seconds, remains undefeated.

Maserati Multi 70 and its competitors, set sail from Pt. Fermin, Los Angeles on Saturday July 13th at 12.30 local time (19.30 UTC, 21.30 Italian time), ready for a 2225-mile-long ocean crossing.

The race start was difficult for Maserati Multi 70: the weather models suggested a northern route, to sail around a low pressure zone with 3-6 knots of wind, before reaching the trade wind, stable around 17 knots. Unfortunately the centre of the depression moved south 3 hours later than anticipated, blocking the way for the Italian trimaran while Argo was able to pass by just a few miles. PowerPlay, who was only 5 miles behind the American trimaran, got stuck in the low pressure and Argo was able to gain 100 miles of advantage.

Once it reached the trade wind, Maserati Multi 70’s Team started chasing its competitors, with full main and gennaker, but shortly after a serious accident forced them to slow down. Around 4.30 UTC on Monday July 15th Maserati Multi 70 hit an unidentified object. Giovanni Soldini, just landed, explained: «The left side bow hit a huge floating object and we immediately went from 24 to 0 knots! The debris then hit the side rudder: the fuse system worked, the rudder rotated horizontally, but the object was at least one meter high above the water and it ripped off the outer half of the rudder’s wing. In the impact we also lost the left steering rod».

The Italian Team had to stop for one hour, to assess the extent of the damage and to get the rudder system back in use: thanks to the fuse system, the rudder’s blade and bushings were unharmed. «Once we set sail again,» continues Giovanni Soldini, «we weren’t able to reach the same speed as before: without the rudder’s foil it was difficult to fly steadily and every time the left bow hit the water we slowed down. We tried everything we could but it was impossible to go faster than 25 knots and our competitors, sailing an average 3 knots faster, outdistanced us».

Giovanni Soldini and his crew are pleased with Maserati Multi 70’s performance nonetheless: «We’re super happy about the long steps forward we made with the latest changes, the rudders’ settings that we developed in the last months, work very well and we’re able to fly much steadier. On port tack we reached an average speed of 30 knots and we were able to fly for very long distances, we sailed 670 miles over the last 24 hours!»

Over the coming weeks Maserati Multi 70’s Team will be working to repair the damages suffered during the race.
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Argo, with her "flying rudders", won followed by Power Play and then Maserati....

 

From Team Maserati:
MASERATI MULTI 70 SAILING TOWARDS HONG KONG
September 26, 2019
Maserati Multi 70 set sail from Honolulu and is sailing towards Hong Kong.

The Italian Team spent the last two months in the shipyard, both for repairing the damages occurred at the left side bow and rudder after an accident during the latest edition of the Transpac, and for ordinary maintenance works.

The trimaran set sail from Hawaii and is sailing with full main and gennaker with 15 knots of wind; Giovanni Soldini says from aboard: «We’re heading North to sail around a cold front, around 500 miles North of Honolulu. We should then find a North-North-East wind that will take us to Hong Kong».
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MASERATI MULTI 70’S TEAM IS FORCED TO SAVE ENERGY
October 2, 2019
At 8 UTC, Maserati Multi 70‘s Team is passing the third low pressure zone, with 20/25 knots of Southerly wind, that will first turn Easterly then North-Easterly. Because of some problems with the alternator, the trimaran’s only energy source are the solar panels, but the weather is not the best. Giovanni Soldini explains: «Our energy situation is quite delicate, it’s been raining for 36 hours so the panels charge very little. We will have to sail with our instruments switched off today, to save the energy for the most difficult moments. In the past few days we’ve been seeing so many floating objects whizzing between our hulls, it’s really sad to see».

Starting tomorrow, the weather should get more stable and the trimaran should be able to sail with a North-Easterly wind for a few days.

 

From Team Maserati:
MASERATI MULTI 70 AND GIOVANNI SOLDINI SET SAIL FOR THE ROYAL HONG KONG YACHT CLUB NHA TRANG RALLY (EX HONG KONG TO VIETNAM RACE, RENAMED TODAY BY THE ORGANIZERS)
October 16, 2019
Maserati Multi 70 and Giovanni Soldini set sail today, Wednesday October 16th at 15.10 local time (7.10 UTC, 9.10 Italian time) for the Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club Nha Trang Rally (ex Hong Kong to Vietnam Race). Maserati Multi 70’s Team and their competitor, Orma 60 SHK Scallywag Fuku, set sail from Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong, and will arrive in Nha Trang, Vietnam, after sailing predominately downwind for 673 miles.

With an Easterly wind of 12-15 knots and a calm sea, Maserati Multi 70 crossed the starting line in the Hong Kong canal, in front of the Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club, on the wake of SHK Scallywag Fuku. After the first few hours, Maserati Multi 70 should find a North-Easterly wind of 25 knots that will last for the first half of the course. After that, the wind will drop to 20-15 knots and then drop again approaching the finish line.

A few moments before setting sail, Giovanni Soldini commented: «It will be important for us to prevent our competitor from outdistancing us at the start in the canal, where there will be less wind». SHK Scallywag Fuku is a 60-foot trimaran, much lighter than Maserati Multi 70, so the Hong Kong based trimaran will be very advantaged with light winds. Soldini continues: «With a strong wind and a rough sea we are surely more at ease, we will try to monitor our competitor and to avoid leaving lateral distance. Lighter boats are very strong with downwind like the one expected for this race, but I’m sure that with long waves we will be able to make a difference. Maserati Multi 70’s Team is definitely pumped and we will fight tooth and nail as always!».

Skipper Giovanni Soldini will race aboard Maserati Multi 70 with a 7-man crew: shift supervisors Guido Broggi and Oliver Herrera Perez; grinders Furio Carboni, Lorenzo Jovanotti Cherubini and Nico Malingri; trimmer and grinder Matteo Soldini; tactician Ronan Cointo.

Today, October 16th, the Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club, organizer of the race, has delayed the multihull start by 4 hours and modified the course at the arrival in Nha Trang. To preserve the records of the previous editions, the Hong Kong to Vietnam Race is now called Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club Nha Trang Rally.

The Hong Kong to Vietnam Race speed record, of 1 day, 18 hours, 17 minutes and 24 seconds, was set in 2015 by Sydney Fisher aboard the monohull Ragamuffin 100. The multihull record was set in 2006, when Benoit Lesaffre finished the race in 1 day, 23 hours, 40 minutes and 25 seconds aboard the catamaran Atmosphere.
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MASERATI MULTI 70 NECK AND NECK WITH SHK SCALLYWAG FUKU
October 16, 2019
At 22.30 local time (14.30 UTC, 16.30 Italian time), around 7 hours after the start from Hong Kong, Maserati Multi 7o and SHK Scallywag Fuku are sailing neck and neck.

The Italian trimaran is sailing at 23.4 knots, following a slightly more southern route than its competitor, who is sailing at 23.9 knots. With 169 miles behind them, the two trimarans still have 519 miles ahead of them before reaching the finish line off Nha Trang, in Vietnam.

 

From Team Maserati:
SHK SCALLYWAG FUKU CROSSED THE FINISH LINE, MASERATI MULTI 70 IS 22 MILES AWAY
October 17, 2019
SHK Scallywag Fuku, skippered by David Witt, Maserati Multi 70‘s direct competitor, crossed the finish line of the Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club Nha Trang Rally.

The Italian trimaran, after sailing at reduced speed, between 6 and 8 knots, is now sailing at 28 knots towards Nha Trang.
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MASERATI MULTI 70 CROSSED THE FINISH LINE OF THE ROYAL HONG KONG YACHT CLUB NHA TRANG RALLY
October 17, 2019
At 21.57 on Thursday October 17th local time (14.57 UTC, 16.57 Italian time), Maserati Multi 70 crossed the finish line of the Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club Nha Trang Rally (ex Hong Kong to Vietnam Race) off Nha Trang, Vietnam. Giovanni Soldini and his Team completed the race with an elapsed time of 1 day, 7 hours and 47 minutes (the official time is yet to be confirmed by the race’s organization).

Maserati Multi 70’s direct competitor, Orma 60 SHK Scallywag Fuku, skippered by David Witt, crossed the finish line in first place at 20.19 27” local time (13.19 UTC, 15.19 Italian time), winning Multihull Line Honours with an elapsed time of 1 day, 6 hours, 9 minutes and 27 seconds.

Aboard Maserati Multi 70, skipper Giovanni Soldini raced with a 7-man crew: shift supervisors Guido Broggi and Oliver Herrera Perez; grinders Furio Carboni, Lorenzo Jovanotti Cherubini and Nico Malingri; trimmer and grinder Matteo Soldini; tactician Ronan Cointo.

Maserati Multi 70’s Team and their competitor, SHK Scallywag Fuku, set sail from Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong, on Wednesday October 16th at 15.10 local time (7.10 UTC, 9.10 Italian time).

 

From Team Maserati:

MASERATI’S INNOVATION ON BOARD THE MULTI 70 TRIMARAN: THE TECHNICAL PARTNERSHIP
November 26, 2019
Maserati enters into a new era of innovation and launches a process for the transfer of technological know-how from the world of cars to the world of high-performance yachts: the engineers of the Maserati Innovation Lab in Modena and Giovanni Soldini, skipper of Maserati Multi 70, take centre stage.

A collaboration between people moved by passion, adrenaline and the search for maximum performance, values that have been shared by Maserati and Giovanni Soldini since 2012, the year in which the collaboration began and that goes beyond sponsorship.

Today, the results of a unique study are unveiled. The research project sets out to apply the aerodynamic knowledge and virtual analysis tools usually used when developing cars to the Maserati Multi 70 trimaran, to boost its performances and aerodynamics, and to enhance its flight attributes, by means of special hydrodynamic profiles.

The Maserati engineers analysed the data of Maserati Multi 70‘s latest races to identify the key parameters of its motion. They made an in-depth study of the craft’s current configurations to identify possible areas of improvement using advanced CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) simulations, able to predict the behaviour of the complex flows created around the trimaran.

Virtual tools were also used to test different hull streamlining and sheet configurations, on the one hand to reduce the boat’s resistance to the air and on the other to increase the efficiency of its sails by controlling extremity phenomena.

The outcome of these studies was a reduction of about 5% in the entire vessel’s aerodynamic penetration (Cx) coefficient. What’s more, improving the flows around the craft enables the sails to work more efficiently, increasing propulsion force by 4% with a less than 1% rise in heeling force. With these results, the yacht’s cruising speed could now exceed 43 knots in ideal conditions.

By applying its technical expertise even to sailing, Maserati yet again reaffirms its aptitude for innovation, adopting Maserati Multi 70 as a continually evolving “laboratory boat”.

During today’s press conference, Maserati Multi 70‘s 2020 racing season was also announced:

• January 2020: Cape to Rio Race
• February 2020: RORC Caribbean 600 Race
• March 2020: St. Maarten Heineken Regatta
• April 2020 – May 2020: Atlantic Record attempt (Bermuda – Plymouth)
• May 2020: English Channel record attempt
• September 2020: Super 8 Race
• October 2020: Rolex Middle Sea Race

The Maserati Innovation Lab is the heart of the Brand’s technological research, development and design.

The Brand’s engineering hub, on via Emilia Ovest in Modena, recently opened its doors to share its key role in the development of new Maserati models with the outside world for the first time.

It is at this facility of excellence that all Maserati models of today and tomorrow are designed, with digital processes that support the product’s development, applying the exclusive Maserati formula which adopts an integrated approach to prioritise the human factor right from the initial phases: customer-focus is incorporated in the world of virtual simulation with an exclusive hardware-software mix.

In fact, the Maserati Innovation Lab engineers are assisted by advanced technologies such as the new, latest-generation DiM (Driver-in-Motion) Simulator, the Static Simulator and the labs working to develop “User eXperience”.

 

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