Think of a sailing team on the way back from Saint Maxime – 2. part

Thanks to a dropped call, we left you hanging, waiting for the rest of the story about Giacomo Giulietti from Sailing & Travel coming back from Saint Maxime in the company of a sailing team and journalists where they were testing a boat.

After a while, we were able to reconnect so we went on with our questions. Here they are:

6.What is your favorite period to stay by the sea, and which adventure piques your interest the most?

Do you mean for holiday or sailing? A sailor is happy just to stay by the sea even without going anywhere. Every season is beautiful; usually during summer, the days are longer and the temperature is more pleasant.
I want to sail around Cape Horn and I ‘d love to do a world tour passing by the great capes.

7. What is your favorite route so far?

From Castiglione della Pescaia to the port of Giglio, because right in the middle there are the Formiche di Grosseto: it’s amazing that this rock is exactly half way…

8.Do you have any rituals when you are on the boat or before leaving the port?

No umbrella and no green things on board, it is bad luck. No animals with long ears – excuse me? … Yes, I’ll tell you later -, the flags cannot be folded but they have to be rolled into balls.

Ah, a really good one: if you want wind, you have to make knots on a rope and beat it on the deck of the boat while repeating the name of someone who has been cheated on… It is not so difficult, there are many of them. Another way to get wind is whistling and scratching the tree and if you want good luck in general place a coin under. If Bonavita brings new shoes on board, they definitely have to be new: he is the only human waiting for a foot transplant because of stink.
Changing the name of the boat brings bad luck. Ah, and women bring bad luck as well, but only because they generate strife.

9. Other ways to have fun?

There are many: sailing on flat boards – when instead of going upwind like normally, we zigzag without moving forward, cahsing the mouse – the “technical” expression is referring to a short text to stick to the backstay to hold up the gangway. Since we did‘t how it was called, we invented this term with Nicholas Volpati my collegue from the sailing magazine. Mud-digger is for a very slow boat, dumping nails into the ocean – when there is little wind but strong waves and slams that fling the boat, the boat is not an agricultural equipment. Steering in a jumbled manner is called hoeing, while someone who is a crackerjack at steering “has a good handle.
Anyways we generally talk about women and poo on the boat (more the second than the first).

10.Are you planning to come back for the seventh edition? Why?

Definitely,I wouldn’t miss it! First because this regatta is organized around my favorite place. I love that every 2 hours a new piece of land shows up.
Then, only a few regatta gives you the opportunity to have fun also on land before and after like during 151 Miglia and then because last year we watched the third place slip out of our hand when only we got stuck for two hours near to the end. Hopefully this year have something better in store for us!