Sartoria Vera crew in the Rolex Giraglia
For the fist time ever Kabestan has entered an all-female star crew into the iconic offshore race, the Rolex Giraglia Cup. The team of Russian ladies, lead by former World and Olympic sailing champion, Tatiana Lartseva, and organised by fashion brand Sartoria Vera, battled it out with the best of offshore racing talent and has performed remarkably well, taking places in the top third of the fleet, over all as well as in class.
Having sailed in the feeder race between Genoa and San Remo, the ladies came out with all guns blazing and were one of the first teams to round starting marks on the course, before proceeding to a race mark near St Tropez, where the race went truly offshore, over a 150 mile stretch of open water, all the way to the Giraglia rock, just north of Corsica. The wind has picked up by that stage and the crew faced moderately strong winds, gusting up to 30 knots, while rounding the rock.
The way back was a brilliant downwind ride, with the Sartoria Vera spinnaker taking the ladies all the way to the finish line. Exhausted and happy the crew arrived to a party back in Genoa, with the commodore of the club awarding the team two bottles of Champagne. Which were gratefully received and put to appropriate use!
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