I went to the 60th Genoa International Motor Show Some friends came to see me and we had decided to go to the boat show on Saturday morning. Unfortunately, we already knew from Friday that the show would be sold out. On the website it was no longer possible to buy tickets from Friday afternoon, so we showed up at […]
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“Giornale Luce” of January 1935 From Stockholm … For the lovers of life on the sea: here is a model of yacht built with a new system that aims to reduce the veiling to eliminate the risk and the difficulty of managing numerous sails, when the wind is raging. In this type of sailing rig with movable mast, there are […]
Wow … how strange …! But who invented it …? Well let’s start with those who invented it … a start-up in Riccione, where I was born, invented it, a town south of Rimini, on the Adriatic coast of Italy, south of Venice and Ravenna. Daniele Mingucci made the 47-foot aluminum sailing prototype named “Futura” with this strange U-shaped tree, […]
It looks like a nice system for faster, safer and more stable surfing. The only flaw is having these two wings, which look a bit like hanging wings, but in reality when they are closed on the bridge they don’t seem to be so hostile to the use of the deckhouse. They seem to increase sailing performance and above all, […]
This summer I’m back in Sicily We made beautiful trips around all the islands, Vulcano, Lipari, Alicudi, Filicudi, Panarea, Salina, we went to make beautiful visits to the wineries on the islands and for fruit fields, we went to the caves and went for splendid baths with wonderful seabeds. But every time we approached Stromboli, I expressed my dissent, because […]
We came from Ustica, the Ustica auctioneer. We left the Ustica marina early in the morning and set the sails in such a way that we could make a nice, light and fluid navigation. There was a beautiful sea breeze that allowed us to sail with a Yankee, sling and mainsail. During our navigation we also freed a turtle from […]
Ah the seas of the north … sailing during the extreme winter conditions of the North Sea … – chilly eh, but at the end with a ski mask it solves everything … ah that air brisk .. and waves … – Watch it all if you have time, or jump on the helmsman in helmsman, it’s fun … Kaplat […]
This image comes directly from Croatia. It shows the whirlwind that crashed behind Split about eight nautical miles from the marina. More precisely in the bay of Podstrana, behind, Split, in Italian Split. As you can see from the downloaded Europe card downloaded from the free and live service of The images are really crazy! They show the grandeur of […]
VIDEO Lightning hits the mast of the boat in the buoys field on the Island of San Pietro in Sardinia, Italy. A cameraman by chance was recovering the rain that was coming down copiously, when at one point, suddenly, lightning strikes the tree of the boat in full ….! A great bang and the calssic cloud of sparks that vaporises […]
