Italian Offshore Sailing Edison Next Brindisi 2024: last day and awards ceremony

Brindisi offers two more races with a north wind of 12-13 knots. Here are the four new Italian FIV 2024 offshore sailing champions

The final rankings of the event and the special UVAI prizes will also include the mayor of Brindisi Giuseppe Marchionna at the awards ceremony. The 2025 edition of the Italian Offshore Sailing Show will be in Capo d’Orlando in Sicily

Closing still under the sign of the wind in Brindisi for the Edison Next 2024 Italian Offshore Sailing Championship. The Apulian sea also provided a constant wind from the North on the final day, slightly lighter than the previous days, around 12 knots with a few gusts just above strong and always formed wave, typical of this race course.

The Italian Altura Edison Next 2024 therefore closes with the fully respected program of 8 tests in four days. Thanks to the weather conditions but also to the organization of the Circolo della Vela Brindisi and the Regatta Committee.

It wasn’t just a beautiful event with many regattas, it was a difficult championship, with the pursuit of the Italian titles challenging the crews and technicians. There was no shortage of differences in assessments regarding the weather data underlying the calculations of the rankings with compensated times, and the comparisons between the Race Committee, the Technical Committee and the competing teams, always with mutual respect for roles.

THE FINAL RANKINGS AND SPECIAL PRIZES

The mayor of Brindisi Giuseppe Marchionna spoke at the awards ceremony together with the president of CV Brindisi Nino Caso and the president of FIV Francesco Ettorre. The latter, in addition to thanking the organizing club and all the competitors, spoke about the discussions that accompanied some technical aspects of the championship: “We are not hiding behind a finger, I am sorry for some situations during the regatta, we will treasure it because we always want to see the competitors happy. We will draw attention to what can be done to always improve, which is our goal.”

The new Italian offshore sailing champions 2024

Group 1 – Classes 0, A, B Regatta: Blue Sky, Swan 42 by Claudio Terrieri (YC Hannibal)

Group 1 – Classes 0, A, B Cruise/Regatta: Reve de Vie, Grand Soleil 43 by Ermanno Galeati and Angelo Davide (Circolo Nautico Sanbenedettese)

Group 2 – Class C Regatta: Sarchiapone Fuoriserie, Italia Yachts 9.98 by Gianluigi Dubbini (Yacht Club Sanremo)

Group 2 – Class C Cruise/Regatta: Unpopergioco, Italia Yachts 9.98 by Nicola Vescia (LNI Trani)

UVAI Special Awards

Three Seas Trophy – Group 2: Sarchiapone Fuoriserie, Italia Yachts 9.98 by Gianluigi Dubbini (Yacht Club Sanremo)

Three Seas Trophy – Group 1: Blue Sky, Claudio Terrieri’s Swan 42 (YC Hannibal)

Group 2 Owner-Helmsman Trophy: Take Five Jr, Italia Yachts 9.98 by Roberto Di Stefano (Yacht Club Porto San Rocco)

Group 1 Owner-Helmsman Trophy: Blue Sky, Swan 42 by Claudio Terrieri (YC Hannibal).

The championship podiums in the various classes (including foreign teams)

Group 1 Classes 0,A,B, Regatta

1) Blue Sky, Swan 42 in Claudio Terrieri (YC Hannibal)

2) Sugar 3, Italia Yachts 11.98 di Ott Kikkas (Estonia)

3) Sideracordis, X41 by Pier Vettor Grimani (CV Venezia)

Group 1 Classes 0,A,B, Cruise/Regatta

1) Reve de Vie, Grand Soleil 43 by Ermanno Galeati and Angelo Davide (Circolo Nautico Sanbenedettese)

2) To Be, Italia Yachts 11.98 by Stefano Rusconi (YC Italiano)

3) Verve Camer, Comet 50 by Luigi Ancora (CV Gallipoli)

Group 2 Class C Regatta

1) Sarchiapone Fuoriserie, Italia Yachts 9.98 by Gianluigi Dubbini (Yacht Club Sanremo)

2) Hebe V, M37 di Zdenek Jakubek (Repubblica Ceca)

3) White Shark, First 35 by Concetto Costa (NIC Catania)

Group 3 Class C Cruise/Racer

1) Unpopergioco, Italia Yachts 9.98 by Nicola Vescia (LNI Trani)

2) Take Five Jr, Italia Yachts 9.98 by Roberto Di Stefano (Yacht Club Porto San Rocco)

3) South Kensington, First 35 by Massimo Licata d’Andrea (CC Roggero di Lauria)

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ONE OCEAN FOUNDATION – In its role as Sustainability Partner of the FIV, One Ocean Foundation will contribute with information and dissemination activities on good practices for the protection of the sea on the occasion of the Italian Absolute Offshore Championship. In particular, competitors will be asked to identify a crew member as the Onboard Ecological Manager, with the responsibility of implementing actions aimed at promoting culture for the protection of the sea.