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Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Rolex Ilhabela Sailing Week 2009

©ROLEX/Carlo Borlenghi

Last week we (Carlo Borlenghi and me) have been in that paradise on earth that's Ilhabela, Brazil, for the Rolex Ilhabela Sailing week 2009. It has been a return for us because we already went there one year ago for 2008 edition. We've fallen in love again for this place, brazilian people and food and obviously the regattas, especially the long distance one that reach the little island called Alcatrazes, a place you should see to believe it... something, so wild and untouched that seems come out from a Jurassic Park movie.

©ROLEX/Carlo Borlenghi

©ROLEX/Carlo Borlenghi

For further info, visit REGATTANEWS.COM

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Thursday, July 09, 2009

Alinghi 5 launched by helicopter

©Bruno Cocozza/Alinghi

In the amazing picture here above you can finally appreciate the incredible size of The new Alinghi's beast. Compare it with the spectators and you'll understand what I'm talking about...
To lift a huge catamaran you need a huge a huge helicopter and this is what has happened. At 16:00 this afternoon, Alinghi 5, the Swiss America’s Cup Defender’s new catamaran, was lifted out of the tent where it was built in Villeneuve, Switzerland, and into the air by a Mil Mi-26 helicopter, the biggest and most powerful in the world, to be launched on Lake Geneva. Take a look at this impressive show in the pictures by Carlo Borlenghi's assistants Stefano Gattini and Bruno Cocozza:

©Bruno Cocozza/Alinghi

©Stefano Gattini/Alinghi

©Stefano Gattini/Alinghi

For further info visit Alinghi's website

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Wednesday, July 08, 2009

Alinghi's new huge catamaran unveiled

©Stefano Gattini/Alinghi

Finally, after great expectations, Alinghi has unveiled their mostre-catamaran which they will use to defend the America's Cup in the next edition against BMW Oracle Racing. The images speak for theirselves about the size of this giant.

©Bruno Cocozza/Alinghi

©Stefano Gattini/Alinghi

This could be the right moment to make a black and white journey through the building of the boat thanks to the pictures of Carlo Borlenghi and his assistants:

©Carlo Borlenghi/Alinghi

©Bruno Cocozza/Alinghi

©Carlo Borlenghi/Alinghi

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Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Fake Shark Attack Wetsuit

Have you ever thought that all the wetsuit looks the same?
Well Diddo, a dutch artist and designer has definitely put the word end to this lack of originality...
With custom inks and unique printing techniques, he has been able to map textures onto the suits to create original designs. Lookin his masterpiece, the "chewed-looking wetsuit", that simulate you've been attacked by an angry shark I must admit he has been really imaginative....
Try to imagine the panic spreading over a beach if a surfer with a wetsuit like this would rise slowly from the water walking toward the people...

There are other great designs, a rusted iron diving suit, the anatomic musculature suit and finally a whale shark patterned suit, my favourite one.

Visit Diddo's site for any further info

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Monday, June 29, 2009

Rolex Farr 40 World Championship 2009

© Stefano Gattini/Joe Fly

Stefano Gattini has passed his last week in Porto Cervo taking pictures at the Rolex Farr 40 World Championship 2009. Great sailing conditions = Great sailing pictures... here's a selection:

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Monday, June 22, 2009

A storm with whirlwinds strikes Isola d'elba.

©Guido Trombetta

I was in Isola d'Elba for the wedding of my sister (finally a weekend not taking pictures of boats.. I thought) when during the night between saturday and sunday a really strong storm has stricken the Island. For less than an hour winds up to 100km/h, whirlwinds and heavy rain has unleashed their power: many boats sank and many other were scattered over the beaches. Sadly a skipper is still missing. On the following morning I went for a walk on the beach and this is what I saw: One big boat hurled against the rocks in front of a house, another one, even bigger, grounded some meters further. On the beach there were rubber dinghies everywhere, pieces of the boats and dead seabirds

UPDATE: after 36 hours in the rough seas the skipper has been found still alive at 23 nautical miles (42 km) from the point where he fell into the sea... that's surviving spirit!

©Guido Trombetta

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Audi Melges20 Sailing Series Malcesine 2009

©Bruno Cocozza/BPlan

My friend Bruno Cocozza was in Malcesine this weekend to take pictures at the Audi Melges 20 Sailing Series.
Here is an selection of his amazing shots:

©Bruno Cocozza/BPlan

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Giraglia Rolex Cup 2009

©ROLEX/Carlo Borlenghi

A nice gallery by Carlo Borlenghi about last week Giraglia Rolex Cup 2009 the annual regatta that starts in Saint Tropez and ends in Genova after turning around Giraglia islet

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Wednesday, June 17, 2009

VOR: Puma wins the ninth leg but Ericsson4 is the overall winner

The ninth and penultimate leg of the Volvo Ocean Race has finished with a great victory by PUMA Ocean Racing. Despite that, Torben Grael's ERICSSON 4 has won this tenth edition of the VOR because PUMA will not be able to reach them in the next and last leg.
Let's celebrate these two great teams with some spectacular images from this leg taken by VOR official photographers:

Volvo Ocean Race/Rick Tomlinson

Volvo Ocean Race/Dave Kneale

Volvo Ocean Race/Rick Tomlinson

Volvo Ocean Race/Rick Tomlinson

A part from the final classification, the main event of this leg was that Telefonica Blue was forced to suspend racing after running aground on a rock soon after the start in Marstrand suffering damages to the keel and appendages.

Telefonica hits a rock:

Volvo Ocean Race/Rick Tomlinson

The boat immediately started to take on water:

Gabriele Olivo/Telefonica Blue/Volvo Ocean Race

The damages:

María Muiña/Equipo Telefónica

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Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Translucent Creatures

Photograph by Ingo Arndt/Minden Pictures

Jellyfish, Squids, Octopuses, Krill... every kind of underwater creature that inhabit the abysses usually share a see-through, translucent body, sometimes vividly colourful. Ingo Arndt and Chris Newbert have admirably portrayed some of them in this National Geographic gallery.
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