..fINANCIAL cRISIS!!

..è il nome del Class40' (foto sopra) col quale Marco Nannini sta correndo la Global Ocean Race, in questo momento giunta alla sua seconda tappa: quelle 6.200 miglia giusto tra Wellington (NZL) e Punta de l'Este (URU) via Capo Horn..

..il nome non è casuale, l'impresa di Nannini, da un punto di vista economico, si tiene assieme col gray-tape (non quello 3M, che costa troppo!), come spiega puntualmente Nannini nel pezzo sottostante, apparso su SailingAnarchy.com..

..nel pezzo ci sono anche i riferimenti per contribuire in maniera tangibile all'impresa di Nannini, neo-procalmato velista dell'anno italiano da una nota rivista di aperitivi&fichettonaggio a vela..

..quindi chi voglia fare qualcosa di meritorio in ambito velico, dia una mano al buon Nannini, che non costringe nessuno a strapagare bollini adesivi per fare quello che fa.

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We have now been at sea for 2 full days and slowly getting back in the swing of ocean life, daily food bags, sail changes, position reports, naps and snacks... the start of this leg was far from simple for us with lots of little snags to worry about, the brand new spare NKE wind wand started
throwing an error before even leaving the dock, but too late to do anything about it, the master alternator wasn't initially charging the batteries, the ballast pump didnt respond and the mast navigation and deck lights would not work on the first night...

When we left Wellington harbour in about 10 knots of wind we were caught completely by surprise finding 35 knots just outside, probably Wellington's way of waving us goodbye. We had not set the staysail before leaving and everything suddenly became very uncomfortable and we lost ages to do the sail changes trying to avoid any early damage.

On the second day we slowly fixed the problems and things looked up and we started enjoying the Pacific Ocean ride, we are now with our small spinnaker, one of the two kindly repaired free of charge by Dave at Seaview Sails and Rigging to help us get going again. We have a lot of
people to thank in Wellington for the support received during this stopover, the wonderful Ben and Sarah Spencer who hosted us in Karori, Eva and Frank Kiss who lent us a car to get around as well as treating us to a few nice meals, Craig and Geoff who donated some freeze dried food, Ben Amor who serviced our winches, dived to scrub the boat and invited us for a killer barbecue... all in all i will never forget the kindness and generosity of everyone in Wellington.

Such generosity made our life easier and kept the cost down and now that we left we can draw a line, thanks also to the donations received from friends and the sailing public during the previous leg we pulled it off and are at sea again. Now that land is a few hundred miles behind I can
reveal that i very nearly got into negotiations to sell the boat but hopefully we'll take care and try to minimise damage on this leg and in Punta we'll be one leg closer to home.

Adding up the donations received to our racing funds from the beginning of the race i can also reveal that the public has now officially become our number one sponsor, a massive thanks hence to all those that helped us keep going by donating through our paypal page at
www.marconannini.com/help

 

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