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[Newsletter #6] June – Allagrande Mapei Racing : Alla Grande!
What can we say about this June. It started with a construction site to close, ended with a victory no one had predicted — and in between, everything else. A month we will hardly forget.

Ambrogio wins the Vendée Arctique!
What an incredible night! Ambrogio has won the Vendée Arctique, in his first solo IMOCA race and aboard "Allagrande Mapei", after having been more than 200 miles behind Sam Goodchild on "MACIF", wh...

In Italian there is a phrase that doesn't translate directly into English: "tutti i nodi vengono al pettine" — all knots come to the comb, meaning every decision eventually has its consequences. Th...

Friday night into Saturday was exhilarating: "Allagrande Mapei" held averages above 25 knots and ran downwind with the full power of the foils.

A sailor's life is made of constant choices. Sometimes it's a matter of deciding between an infinite number of options, as happened two days ago; other times there's only one fork in the road, but ...

Heading back from the arctic circle
The Arctic Circle has finally arrived, and among the countless ways the fleet could have reached it, the crossing looked almost ironically like a club race: every boat in a line, close-hauled on st...
