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Tre Golfi Sailing Week: only two weeks to the start of the 2023 edition

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Two weeks to go until the start of the 2023 edition of Tre Golfi Sailing Week, organized by the Circolo del Remo e della Vela Italia of Naples and supported by Rolex and Loro Piana.

Starting on May 12, the 68th edition of the Regata dei Tre Golfi will open the event: about 100 Maxi and ORC boats will be on the starting line of the long-distance course that will represent the inaugural race of the IMA Maxi European Championship, organized with the International Maxi Association.

For 66 editions the regatta traditionally started at midnight, in 2022 the start was moved to 7 p.m.,and this year it will be further brought forward to 5 p.m. in order to potentially favour the wind conditions for the fleet. Following the start from Naples, the fleet will then proceed 150 miles past Procida and Ischia, then round Zannone and Ponza, before rounding the "Li Galli" islands past Capri and finishing in Sorrento.

Following the Regata dei Tre Golfi, it will be the turn of the inshore series of races: the maxis competing for the IMA Maxi European Championship will race out of Sorrento and Capri from May 15 to 18. A record fleet of 28 boats between 60 and 100 feet in length is registered at the event: the longest is Furio Benussi's Arca SGR, the line honour winner of the 2022 edition when they completed the course in 22 hours, 25 minutes and 30 seconds.

After intensive refinements during the winter, Arca will still be the boat to beat, but the regatta will be wide open due to the highly competitive fleet: last year the first Maxi 72 arrived only half an hour after Benussi's 100-footer. This year the competition is enhanced not only by the presence of Pier Luigi Loro Piana's Swan 80 My Song, but also by a number of former Maxi 72 Class led by Dario Ferrari's Cannonball, three feet longer than last year and with a new keel. In the Maxi 1-2 Class the competition will be hot with the four other yachts that were part of the former Maxi 72 class: Jim Swartz’s Vesper (USA), George Sakellaris’ Proteus (USA), sir Peter Ogden’s Jethou (GBR) and North Star (GBR), owned by Peter Dubens, member CRV Italia, who won the Tre Golfi offshore race in 2022 on corrected time.

Maxi and ORC yachts will be hosted in their respective ports, Marina Piccola and Piano di Sorrento. They will receive complimentary breakfast offered by Caffè Borbone every morning and pasta at the dock after the daily races.

The IMA Maxi European Championship will end with a prize giving ceremony scheduled after racing on May 18.

From May 19 to the 21 it will be the turn of the ORC boats to compete around the buoys for the ORC Mediterranean Championship title as well as for the Middle and Lower Tyrrhenian National Championship selection to the Italian national championship. Currently 31 yachts from 7 countries are registered, but more are coming. The overall winner of the ORC Mediterranean Championship will be awarded of a Citroën Ami, an innovative ultra-compact electric vehicle, a prize that fits well within the clean energy spirit of the 2023 Tre Golfi Sailing Week.

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