Nautica, the great sport at the 61st Genoa boat show from 16 to 21 September

The 61st Boat Show kicks off on Thursday 16 September, where sport will play a leading role in celebrating Italian achievements and successes in the world. The RoundItaly Genova-Trieste, the longest non-stop regatta in the Mediterranean (1,130 miles of navigation) organized by Yacht Club Italiano, Società Velica di Barcola and Grignano, Barcolana and Confindustria Nautica will start on Thursday 16 September, on the opening day of the Boat Show. the involvement of the Italian Sailing Federation. The Genoa-Trieste RoundItaly will unite the two cities, the 61st edition of the Genoa Boat Show with the 53rd edition of the Barcolana, two major events that have collaborated for years for the culture and defense of the sea. The digital version, the E-RoundItaly Genova-Trieste Virtual Regatta 2021, already held with great success in 2020, with over 20 thousand participants connected online, is flanked by the regatta at sea. On board the virtual hulls, the e-sailors will race for 1,130 nautical miles with the aim of crossing the finish line before the sailors who will participate in the real competition. proposes a program of initiatives and meetings to tell everything about the sporting event and what the city is organizing for the next few years. At the Boat Show there will be one of the boats that took part in The Ocean Race Europe, The Austrian Ocean Race Project, moored in the Superyacht area of ​​the Show. The boat will take part in the Millevele, organized by the Italian Yacht Club on Saturday 18 September, with a crew made up of the team’s sailors, personalities and sportsmen. For the 2021 edition of the Millevele the start of the boats in the water on the starting line of the sailing is confirmed at 11:00. The 33rd edition of the regatta will also be the occasion for the first edition of the Confindustria Nautica Award, reserved for the shipyard and the boat belonging to a shipyard on display at the Boat Show that will have achieved the best placement in each group. The Millevele award ceremony will take place on Sunday 19 September at 12:00 at the Terrace of the Blue Pavilion. On Friday 17 September at 14:30 the press conference “Obiettivo Vendée Globe 2024″ by Giancarlo Pedote, solo ocean navigator, skipper of the ” IMOCA Prysmian Group at the Vendée Globe 2020, a solo tour of the world, without assistance and without a stop. On stage together with Giancarlo Pedote will be present: Valerio Battista, CEO of Prysmian Group, Francesca Santoro, Program Specialist, IOC UNESCO and Roberto Candela, CEO, Prysmian Electronics. In addition to the sports project, a project related to the protection of the Oceans will also be presented. The representatives of the technical sponsors will also be present (Helly Hansen, Gottifredi Maffioli, Raymarine, Kohler Lombardini) .The golden year of Italian sport will be celebrated on Saturday 18 September, with the intense calendar of events dedicated to sailing at the Breitling Theater, starting at 12:15, with the meeting with the Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli Team “The wind of Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli at the Genoa Motor Show”. Max Sirena, Team Director & Skipper, Gilberto Nobili, Operations Manager and Horacio Carabelli, Design Coordinator will participate. Moderator Eleonora Cottarelli, journalist of Sky Sport. The afternoon program will open at 13:30 with the event “The excellence of Italian sailing meets the public of the 61st Boat Show” and will see the participation of Max Sirena, Giancarlo Pedote and the Tokyo 2020 Olympic gold medals Ruggero Tita and Caterina Banti. Following the events organized by the FIV – Italian Sailing Federation at 2.00 pm, the presentation of the 2022 federal regattas is scheduled and at 3.00 pm the award ceremony of the FIV Sailing Schools. Tokyo 2020 Olympic champions Ruggero Tita and Caterina Banti will be the protagonists of a meeting dedicated to them at 16:00, a unique opportunity for visitors to the 61st Genoa Boat Show to get to know and compare themselves with two authentic champions of world sailing . Events at the Breitling Theater will be streamed to the Boat Show TV.