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From 24th to 27th August a new regatta overlooks the gulf of Sanremo, i.e. the first World Championship for Wooden Dragons. These splendid boats built from 1929 onwards have gone through numerous phases, from a simple wooden construction to lamellar construction or with crossed and overlapping planking. There are six nations present ranging from Estonia to the United States, twenty magnificent boats registered, among which there are those who will participate to win and those who even just to show off their beautiful boat. All created by the Sanremo Yacht Club, one of the most active clubs in Europe and always close to this class, for which it organized the 90th anniversary with more than 150 boats. This regatta will represent a moment of meeting and friendship between these passionate sailors and owners, with pleasant moments of conviviality and celebration. An act of love towards these Queens of the seas […]

 Tuiga, Mariella, Il Moro di Venezia are some of the splendid boats that will participate in the regatta this weekend: Tuiga, owned by Albert of Monaco, a splendid boat built and designed by William Fife in 1908 and bearer of the Yacht Club of Monaco; Mariella, of the Italian Consul in Antigua, of almost thirty meters built in 1938 also in the Fife shipyards but based on a design by Alfred Mylne, a boat that lives between the Caribbean and the Mediterranean, with two ocean crossings a year. Il Moro di Venezia, a splendid project by German Frers from 1976 and which marked the beginning of a great series of Moors who brought the tricolor to all the seas of the world. Then other boats of that era such as Ojala II, the Resolute Salmon of the Zaoli family and Sagittarius, all boats that were part of the golden age […]

After three races in difficult conditions with an east wind between 8 and 18 knots and a westerly sea, Klaus Diederichs, current world champion of the class, also triumphs in Sanremo, ahead of the German Ingo Ehrlicher and the Swede Jesper Stalheim. First of the Italians, and therefore Italian Champion, is the President of the host Club, the Yacht Club Sanremo, Beppe Zaoli. Four days with very difficult conditions during which the Race Committee worked hard to bring home the maximum number of races. Excellent participation: thirty-three boats, coming from ten different nations, and World and European Champions ready to challenge each other for what has become a classic of the class and one of the major events in the world of Dragons. The Dragons will return at the end of August for the first edition of the Wooden Dragon World Championship, an event that is awakening great interest at […]

Like all spring in March in the waters of Sanremo, organized by the local Yacht Club, the Dragons return. After a non-stop month of February with over a thousand participants between Optimists, 420s and ORCs, it is the traditional time for the Paul&Shark Trophy. Thirty-four boats entered from ten different countries to try to take home this trophy and nine Italian boats that will compete for the title of Italian Champion. The level with the current European and World Champions in charge is the Swiss Wolf Waschkuhn and the German Klaus Diederichs who boasts the current world champion of the Star class, Diego Negri, on board. Great satisfaction for the organizers in a difficult year with the nearby World Championship in Bodrum in Turkey and the Russian fleet among the most numerous in the world that will not be able to participate. The fight for the title of Italian Champion […]

Marina degli Aregai, 3/5 March 2022. 05 March 2023 – An east wind of around 10 knots accompanied the start of the third and final day of racing of the first stage of the Optimist Italia Kinder Joy Of Moving Trophy, underway since last Friday at the Sanremo Yacht Club and with almost 350 young sailors from all over Italy and from Lithuania, the Principality of Monaco, the Netherlands, Poland and Switzerland. During the morning the wind gradually decreased until it stabilized at around 6 knots, a condition which, thanks to a very strong current in the same direction of the wind which made the upwind courses extremely long, allowed the two fleets of Division A to bring home a race only (entire for the blue fleet, shortened for the yellow one, which saw the finish moved to the stern gate); the athletes of Division B instead failed to reach […]

Another weekend at the Sanremo Yacht Club during which the “Festival della Vela” took place, the fourth stage of West Liguria, which marked the conclusion of the Winter Sailing Championship, organized by the Sanremo Yacht Club and now in its thirty-ninth edition, which sees the overall final victory of SARCHIAPONE FUORISERIE by Gianluigi Dubbini, on equal points but with a better final result with IL PINGONE DI MARE IIII by Federico Stoppani, winner in the IRC ranking. There were two particular days in the Gulf of Sanremo for this final: on Saturday the absence of wind kept the crews on the ground while on Sunday, with a north-easterly wind, a race was held with a quick return due to the arrival of the perturbation. There was also the social event for all the crews which took place on Saturday evening at Villa Nobel with a wonderful party accompanied by a […]

 16/19 February 2023 – Marina degli Aregai. Record participation in the ninth edition of the 420&470 The Carnival Race, organized by the Yacht Club Sanremo, with the precious support of the Cozzi Parodi Group, in the magical location of Marina degli Aregai. 185 boats for the 420 class and 15 for the 470 class, coming from as many as 13 countries: Spain, Germany, Great Britain, France, Poland, Greece, Lithuania, Croatia, Slovenia, Hungary, Switzerland, Turkey and Italy gathered to four days of racing. The light wind and the calm sea made it possible to compete in 5 beautiful races with a margin applied. In the general classification of the 420 Open class, the Spanish Badia – De Maqua took the top step of the podium, the Greeks Sotiriou-Koulouris second and the Spanish Mesquida-Villanueva third. On the women’s podium in the 420 class, great success for the Yacht Club Sanremo which takes […]

Fourth and last act of the Dragon Winter Series, in Sanremo, in the week OF February 3/5. Beautiful conditions also in this last series and a program respected in full: five races completed with one discard applied. Friday 3 February two stages with a west and two bullets for Beppe Zaoli. On Saturday 4th February, Fabio Mangione won first place with JAVELIN in a test, again with a westerly wind. On Sunday, a beautiful east on twelve /14 knots saw the double success of the Germans of GER 1232 JAM. A completely Italian podium where the domination of this last stage was ITA 79 ROCK’N’ ROLLA FOR EMMARA, helmed by Andrea Zaoli. Seconds were ITA 49 JAVELIN, by Fabio Mangione, ahead of ITA 44 BALTHAZAR by Giovanni Stracquadaneo. In the overall standings of the entire Dragon class Winter Championship, ROCK’N’ ROLLA FOR EMMARA is confirmed in first place, second is […]