XXIV Primo Cup Trophée Credit Suisse
Monaco, 7-10 February 2008
The traditional One Design appointment has successfully started the Mediteranean racing season. During the second regattas week-end, as protagonists resulted the M 30s and the brand new Melges 32s debuting in the European circuits. Good results for those boats with the Spidertech™ Technology sails: Diletta of Mauro Mocchegiani with Andrea Casale on board, and Compagnia della Vela Venezia of Francesco Rigon, ranked respectively 5° and 6° in the ranking where the Italian owner Serena won on Enfant Terrible.
International sailing characters as Paolo Cian, Tommaso Chieffi and Sebastian Còl have risen up the technical level of the races.
Diletta’s tactician Andrea Casale stated: “We didn’t start well, but at the end we ranked quite successfully: the 10th place in the first race was due to my mistake. Primo Cup is a fantastic event, however, tactical choices have been difficult to be taken because of closeness of regatta courses. During the first race we hit an other course, followed by the largest part of the fleet. However we successfully finished the later races (2-4-7-3-4). We have really appreciated the stability of the Spidertech™ membrane cloth. We didn’t use the latest main sail for the World Championship but the old one for the Circuito Italiano 2007. Despite it was an old sail, Diletta has the same windward performances and acceleration as the best boats of the fleet. This performance is another proof of the great products given by the cooperation between Spidertech ™ and Montefusco Sailloft regarding M 30. Don’t forget, we are speaking about World Champion sails!”
The Melges 32 class, to which all the best sailors in the world are already taking part, is giving more and more satisfactions to Spidertech ™. Here in Monaco, Parimor Thule of Rubbini, which ranked 2° having on board Sandro Montefusco, sailmaker of the Parimor Thule team, has good race results (1-2-1-6-4-3), showing great speed upwind, but not perfectly set up downwind.
Here follows what Alessandro Battistelli, tailer of Parimor said about the results: “Perfect the sails shapes and the upwind speed, considering that we have always started the downwind leg in the first two positions. We have not great downwind performances, we should be more confident in the boat particularly reaching.”
Giacomo Baldassari for Spidertech News


