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Headed by “Boating Club” Riva di Traiano, the gulet 26 meters long owned by Michele Alfredo Paese who is going to take part in the historical regatta in Bodrum ( Turkey ) the third week of October.
Rome, September 29, 2015. The new adventure of the italian gulet “Santa Lucia” will start in October 19 in Turkey, during the opening ceremony of the 27th Edition of the Bodrum Cup dedicated to the gulets coming from all over Europe.
“Bodrum Cup is a beautiful race – Michele Alfredo Paese, shipowner of Santa Lucia, says – and i can’t wait to take part in it. These are spacious, big boats but heavy and hard to drive as well as sometimes, during the race, they could be agile. We will practice both for moving to Bodrum and for setting up the best crew including local experienced sailors for this kind of race as well as “Mustafà Kemal” who knows everything about the routes by heart. We will be proud to carry the Italian flag to Bodrum and sail headed by Boating Club Riva di Traiano”.
“We are too happy to carry on our name in Turkey – Alessandro Farassino, The President of the Boating Club Riva di Traiano, says – and we would like to host a similar regatta in Riva di Traiano, a spring. This is a different sail we always move but absolutely charming. We have nothing to say unless as they say in nautical activities, “Buon Vento” or as the English are popularly used to say, “Break a Leg!”. We are waiting for their coming back”.
On board the boat, there will be the shipowner Michele Alfredo Paese, the Captain Felice Calabrese, the Captain Giorgio Papini ( tactical ), Gianni Lombardi ( mainsail ), Stefano Gregni ( taylor ), Mauro Astore ( taylor ), Francesco Esposito ( bowman ), Mustafà Kemal ( bowman ), Letizia Gregni ( rigging ), Paola Gregni ( rigging ).
The first step is going to bring the gulets from Bodrum to Gumulsuk, in Bodrum Peninsula.
The second step will start from Grecia, all the way to Leros Island in October 22. On 23 October they will come back to Turkey, in the wonderful Yalikavak, moving to Bodrum at last where the award ceremony will take place.
Santa Lucia is a “Bodrum Gulet” 26 meters long built in 2006. It get a sail area of about 273 square meters and two steel masts with two different spreaders: “Genoa jib overlapping”; mainsail and procuress sail with lazy jack.
The Bodrum Cup is an annual race managed by Era Bodrum Sailing Club in order to promote somone’s interest to Bodrum charter fleet and testing skipper’s abilities on board the gulets who will need to sail safely on board this beautiful boats, the symbol of the nautical turism in Turkey. The event is also a friend-way for skippers to meet eachother, drinking and chatting together. Since 1989 the Bodrum Cup was planned for the third week in October. The following years, even private gulets or vessels flying flags from other countries had been able to take part in the event. Everybody amuse themselves together, it is unforgettable. What a wonderful race, what a wonderful entertainment!
