New Italian regatta

Yacht Club Costa Smerelda's Rolex Capri Sailing Week to take place next week

Filling the slot on the Mediterranean racing calendar previously occupied by the Rolex IMS Offshore World Championships, the first edition of the Rolex Capri Sailing Week will take place on 16-21 May in the Gulf of Naples.

Organised by the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda (YCCS) in collaboration with the Yacht Club Capri and sponsored by Rolex, the regatta will consist of one-design racing for the Farr 40 and Swan 45 classes, and handicap racing for IMS racing boats with performance handicap ratings between 560 and 610. For the highly competitive Farr 40 class, Rolex Capri Sailing Week will be the kick-off event for the 2005 Deutsche Bank Farr 40 Sailing Trophy, a class competition based on scores from four regattas. Countries participating in Rolex Capri Sailing Week include Australia, France, Germany, Greece and Italy.

36 entries have registered for the event to date, including many of the world’s top Farr 40 and Swan 45 competitors. The Farr 40 preliminary entries include 2004 Deutsche Bank Farr 40 Sailing Trophy winner Massimo Mezzaroma of Italy at the helm of Nerone, TWT owner Marco Rodolfi, also of Italy, fresh from his third-place finish in the Rolex Farr 40 Worlds in March, and Australian businessman and avid Farr 40 campaigner, Lang Walker sailing his boat Kokomo.

In the Swan 45 class, battles can be expected between Italians Leonardo Ferragamo, who drove his boat Cuordileone to a first-place finish in the Primo Cup last February, and Vertigo co-owners Marco Salvi and Alberto Signorini, who won the 2004 Rolex Swan Cup title ahead of Ferragamo by three hard-fought points last September.

“Rolex Capri Sailing Week is poised to become a fixture on the Mediterranean racing calendar,” noted YCCS Commodore Gianfranco Alberini. “For the past several years, the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda, the Yacht Club Capri and Rolex held the IMS World Offshore Championships in the Gulf of Naples this time of year. With that regatta moving to Mahon, Spain, in July, we saw the opportunity to create a new, top-tier racing event that would give teams a chance to go head-to-head early in the season. We expect that many of the battles on the race course during Capri Sailing Week will continue to play out as the same boats compete for titles throughout the summer.”

Entry list

Boat name	Sail no	Owner	Helm	LOA	Beam	Draft	Type
ATALANTI XI	GRE 44	George Andreadis	Stratis Andreadis	12.4	3.95	2.6	Farr 40
CALVI	GBR 7040 R	Carlo Alberini	Carlo Alberini	12.4	3.95	2.6	Farr 40
FIAMMA	GBR 25R	Alessandro Barnaba	Alessandro Barnaba	12.4	3.95	2.6	Farr 40
GAME ON		Carlo Alberini	Carlo Alberini	12	4	2.55	Farr 40
JOE FLY	ITA 1805	Giovanni Maspero	Giovanni Maspero	12	4	2.55	Farr 40
KOKOMO	AUS 8883	Lang Walker	Lang Walker	12	4	2.55	Farr 40
LA MARACHELLA	USA 40040	Massimiliano De Martino	Massimiliano De Martino	12	4	2.55	Farr 40
LG ELECTRONICS	ITA 40080	SA.BA Consulting srl	SA.BA Consulting srl	12.4	3.95	2.6	Farr 40
MADINA	ITA 4038	Dario Ferrari	Dario Ferrari	12	4	2.55	Farr 40
MASCALZONE LATINO	ITA 1	Vincenzo Onorato	Vincenzo Onorato	12	4	2.55	Farr 40
NERONE	ITA 1972	Massimo Mezzaroma	Massimo Mezzaroma	12	4	2.55	Farr 40
STRUNTJE LIGHT	GER 5055	Wolfgang Schaefer	Wolfgang Schaefer	12.4	3.95	2.6	Farr 40
MUKKA EXPRESS	ITA 4003	Manfredo Toninelli	Manfredo Toninelli	12.4	3.95	2.6	Farr 40
TWINS 2	FRA 007	Eric Maris	Eric Maris	12	4	2.55	Farr 40
TWT	ITA 13771	Marco Rodolfi	Marco Rodolfi	12	4	2.55	Farr 40
VANITAS CUBE	ITA 4088	Ennio Storti	Ennio Storti	12	4	2.55	Farr 40
ANDROMEDA	ITA19538	Antonio Roncone	Michele Vaccari	15.03	4.7	2.9	Comet 51
CLEAN ENERGY	ITA 3703	Alberto Cogni	Alberto Cogni	12.1	3.77	2.45	IMX 40
CRISTIANA	ITA 13390	Cascone Giancarlo	Morani Antonio	11.9	3.7	2.4	First 40.7
DR. FAUSTROLL	ITA 329	Franco Visco	Franco Visco	13.09	3.78	2.7	Grand Soleil 44 R
LE COQ	ITA 3081	Raimondo Cappa	Raimondo Cappa	9.43	3.39	2.12	Mumm 30
LUSI	ITA 2013	F.lli Clerico	F.lli Clerico	13.5	4.5	3.6	Grand Soleil 45
MON AMI	ITA 13999	Ferruccio Fasoli	Giuseppe Barone	11.99	3.6	2.6	Vismara 40'
NAUTILUS QQ7	ITA 2533	Pino Stillitano	Pino Stillitano	12.5	3.7	2.69	Vismara 42
VAHINE' 5	ITA 14140	Francesco Raponi	Daniela Diana	11.99	3.77	2.37	Grand Soleil 40 R
ATLANTICA RACING		Carlo Perrone	Carlo Perrone	13.83	3.9	2.81	Swan 45
CUORDILEONE	ITA 14545	Leonardo Ferragamo	Leonardo Ferragamo	14.9	4.5	3	Swan 45
DSK		Danilo Salsi	Danilo Salsi	13.83	3.9	2.81	Swan 45
JEROBOAM	ITA 14525	Vittorio Codecasa	Vittorio Codecasa	14	4	2.55	Swan 45
KORA 3	ITA 4541	Paolo Scerni	James Gair	13.83	3.9	2.81	Swan 45
MAGICIAN	FRA 9400	Jacques Bureau	F. Pavilloux	13.83	3.9	3	Swan 45
MINTAKA	ITA 14519	Stefano Polti	Stefano Polti	13.83	3.9	2.81	Swan 45
OPUS ONE	GER 5245	Wolfgang Stolz	Thomas Ehler	13.92	3.92	2.8	Swan 45
T AL J	ITA 14694	Vittorio Ruggiero	Alex Orsino	13.83	3.9	3	Swan 45
TSUNAMI TOO	ITA 15000	Francesco Martino	Francesco Martino	14.9	4.5	3	Swan 45
VERTIGO	GBR 23 R	Marco Salvi	Marco Salvi	13.83	3.9	2.81	Swan 45