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Sailing the Maserati Multi70 with Italy's Most Famous Skipper, Giovanni Soldini

By Alessandra Codinha

If the world’s great dream is to, as Arthur Miller once wrote , “escape the dreadful, ordinary, industrial, technological life,” let it be known, world, that Giovanni Soldini has beat you to it. Italy’s most revered sailor, a 50-year-old “single-handed offshore virtuoso” (with a training regimen of “beer, cigarettes, and pool halls” according to The New York Times ) is the skipper of the Maserati Multi70 , an ocean–going trimaran that competed in the RORC Caribbean 600 race to and from Antigua this week. The Multi70 came in a neck-in-neck second place to the record-setting Phaedo 3 after over 30 hours at sea, and there is nothing dreary or boring or even ordinary about it—though, admittedly, technology does come into play.

If there is such thing as an “average” ocean-faring trimaran, Multi70 is not it. Through a number of carefully engineered adjustments (some still underway), the Multi70 is designed to rise above the water and skim the top of the waves. Essentially, it can fly. “We have rudders that allow us to lift the stern, and foils that allow us to lift the floats, and one L-shaped foil on the starboard side,” Soldini explained during a test–drive in early February. When the conditions are right, the boat rises out of the water and flies on its foil and rudder. In Antigua in early February, it looked a bit like something designed by Luc Besson; penetrated by deep Caribbean shades of blue from above and below. Roofless, floorless, it is not a pleasure craft in the traditional sense. While aboard and traveling a little under 40 knots, the experience is high-octane and very, very wet. (The rare passenger rarely comes along for more than an hour, which is typically spent seated, with their fingers laced through the netting.) The RORC Caribbean is 600 miles around a complex inter–island course from Antigua and back. And while the team is competitive—you don’t choose this line of work unless you’re competitive—they consider this race to be something of a test run. In July comes the Transpacific Yacht Race (Transpac): a straight 2,225 nautical mile line from Los Angeles out to Honolulu. And for that, the boat will have both of the special foiled daggerboards, explained Soldini, “and then we’ll fly.”

The Maserati Multi70

It is important to note that Soldini is something of a folk hero in this genre, with victories and (rare) defeats, roguish escapades breathlessly recounted in the international press, and the kind of innate personal charm that belies the range of his achievements. There’s an air of the explorer or the astronaut—the type of figure that’s somehow, as one of his colleagues puts it, “just exactly who you want him to be.” (This may be where the Times ' reference to pool halls and cigarettes comes in.) This is not your prep school roommate’s world of sailing—while, as Soldini scoffs, the America’s Cup has “dinghys delivering you to your boat, we have adventures.” On his forearm is a tattoo of a sperm whale to remind him of the time he hit one during his first solo race around the world in 1994, somewhere between Charleston and Cape Town. The whale hit him, or he the whale, but he was 20 hours behind schedule when he finally arrived. The tattoo, said Soldini, “reminds me who the true masters of the sea are.” There would be other reminders: the heart-wrenching loss of his close friend and racing partner, Andrea Romanelli, in 1998, during an attempt to break the transatlantic record. “For sure I worry about what is to come. But these things can happen,” Soldini told the New York Times three months later, “It is the same in all life. These things happen in cars, in boats, or perhaps when your heart just stops one day.” The next year, Soldini rescued his friend and competitor Isabelle Autissier (herself famous for being the first woman to complete a solo world navigation), who had capsized a few thousand miles west of Cape Horn. Soldini went off-course to find her, plucked her from the Pacific, and fed her wine and cheese on his boat, the Fila . He dropped Autissier off, and went on to win the race . (In fact, he shaved off four days and twenty-one hours from the previous record.)

It has been said that there have been more people in space than have successfully sailed around the world alone. It requires incredible stamina, both mental and physical, and the desire to spend almost half a year alone on the water—with few traditional pleasures like food (beyond dried goods like rice or pasta) or company. “I spent most of my life racing alone, racing single–handed,” Soldini said. And in the Southern Ocean, “you’re really alone, if something happens, you know that nobody will come. There are no ships. When you’re alone, you’re really in a special relationship with the boat. You cannot imagine. It’s like magic. In the middle of a lot of noises, you can hear something from the inside, you recognize that there is a strange noise, and you search and search and search and find the problem. And there are thousands of noises, so it’s crazy. But if you spend a lot of time, you’re able to understand a lot of things, just from the noise and the movement of the boat.” For the last five years, with Maserati, he’s had a crew, which is a different experience, though one shot through with affection. “To share emotion with the whole team,” says Soldini, “it’s really nice.”

At present, the Multi70 crew, Guido Broggi, François Robert, Oliver Herrera, Carlos Hernandez, Matteo Soldini, Francesco Malingri, and Vittorio Bissaro is a mix of sailors from Italy, France, and Spain— “we speak Esperanto!” crows Robert—and ranges in age from their mid-20s to twice that. All are accomplished in their own right: Bissaro just competed in the Nacra 17 catamaran class at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. The team communicates with great respect that they have all either known Soldini (or known about him) for most of their careers. Most aspects of their lives are dictated by their captain: what they eat, when they sleep, what they do in this next second, what they’ll do several hours from now. The Multi70 only has room for two members of the team to sleep at a time. During these 30-plus hour races, Hernandez told me, “Giovanni won’t sleep at all.” There is not much room on the boat—there is even less room for interpersonal problems. Soldini, the crew says, makes it easier. “Of course, he is very famous,” Bissaro told me over a team dinner at Abracadabra, a popular Antiguan restaurant and nightclub that serves rustic Italian food and Harry Potter–themed cocktails. “But what he won’t tell you is how much he cares about social causes.” Bissaro detailed Soldini’s previous efforts to draw attention to issues that have affected both his native Italy and the planet beyond it, like addiction and recovery, the economy, and the environment. Two other teammates chimed in to approximate, in Spanish and English, one of the more elegant compliments one person can pay another: He’s the type of person who makes everyone around him want to be better.

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And this may be among the most compelling things about Soldini, beyond all the records and the winning and the super fast boat. The cool rigor of his abilities, his legendary talent, these are counterbalanced by an enormous sense of compassion. He is extremely worried about climate change. He does around 15 trans-Atlantic crosses a year, he has seen the international embarrassment of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch firsthand, and witnessed the melting polar ice caps, the increase in icebergs (“It’s crazy, crazy, crazy, crazy. There’s a lot of ice in the Southern oceans that just 15 years ago was not there”), and the changing Gulf Stream; the steadily shifting wind patterns. “It’s much more easterly wind than [10 years ago], when it was much more westerly, and now there is more and more easterly wind. There’s something big coming,” he says, and it’s the rare moment in our conversation where he doesn’t laugh.

In fact, for a man who has spent 145 days alone on a boat in the middle of the ocean, who has lost friends and comrades and confronted all sorts of sea creatures—human and otherwise—with nothing but his hands and the boat he stood on, the one time he mentions fear (beyond the kind of constant thrum of fear he feels during a solo sail around the planet; “it's not panic,” he clarifies, “It’s more, ‘be careful’”) is about the rest of us, our choices, our seeming international dedication to turn back time, to repeat the mistakes we promised we’d never forget making. “We need in this moment really smart and serious politicians,” Soldini says. “In Europe, Brexit, all this stuff, it’s just shit. We go back—to what?! Just because the people are scared. They are not able to think positively to deal with the problem.” What Soldini does, traveling the world with a route dictated not by airline schedule or gasoline tank, but by his whims and the wind, with a global crew united not by nationality but by pure love of adventure (and winning, of course, always by winning), this is the opposite of the walls and deportations and small, fearful closed-off places that isolationist rhetoric would have you believe that you need, in order to be safe. “To deal with these problems you need to have a big vision,” Soldini says, with an air of anxiety that edges into the existential. And in this way he is more than a hero, really, for who better than the freest among us to know best what the loss of that freedom would mean?

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We Raced on Maserati’s High-Tech 70-Foot Trimaran. Here’s What It Was Like.

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Italian Captain Giovanni Soldini steers one of two tillers at the stern, always on the “uphill” side, as the boat heels over modestly. No wheel or even dual-wheel helm here. This is a full-on race boat with zero concessions to creature comfort, to the point where the carbon-fiber daggerboard under the central hull reverberates up through the cabin to the mast and over to the outrigger hulls. It first sounds like a whistle and then becomes a scream as our speed picks up.

Soldini’s crew of six, now making their third trip around the globe, needs to adapt to that tune to be able to sleep in the two tiny bunks below deck.

This Multi70 often wins the races it enters, but this year’s Transpac has posed more than the typical challenge of man against the sea, thanks to customs agents in Mexico who confiscated a shipping container full of equipment, including the racing foils and sails. With no hope of liberating the container before the race started for the big trimarans on July 1, Soldini and his crew had to set sail with delivery equipment only.

That kind of performance presents specific challenges solved in partnership with Maserati, a team-up that began 10 years ago when the late Sergio Marchionne, the auto titan credited with the turnarounds of Fiat and Chrysler, noticed Soldini setting transoceanic records. Marchionne offered a collaboration that helped this racing yacht become one of the fastest in its class.

“Maserati’s input has always been important,” Soldini told Robb Report. “We worked with them to solve a whole range of challenges, perhaps the most important one was aerodynamics.” The engineers at Maserati Centro Stile improved the trim of the three rudders, synchronizing the rudders to reduce water resistance and enhance performance. The sensors Maserati developed to facilitate the gains is the same technology the carmaker uses to dial in automotive steering and alignment.

The Multi70 also only weighs about 15,500 pounds, mostly because every ounce counts on an offshore racing machine. That’s despite a conversion to electric power that employs dense 15 kWh batteries developed at Maserati’s innovation lab in Modena.

On our sail, Soldini uses the electric motor to pull into and out of San Pedro in near silence, noting that the electric system has been much more reliable than old-school diesel engines. 

The yacht also has some other notable innovations. Three kilowatts of solar panels, built in Italy, double as grip tape on the Multi70’s slippery surfaces. They can replenish the 20 to 30 percent of charge that is used to pull out of a harbor in only two hours of sailing. A tiny wind turbine serves as a backup generator in case of darker days due to weather or low winter sun.

I am only there for the day, so experience just a small taste of what the race, a flat-out 24/7 experience, would be like for the team. Compared to the 42-foot Jeanneau and Hunter 410 monohulls I grew up sailing, the Multi70 builds up speed much more quickly. At the 16-knot speeds we’re experiencing, my childhood boats would be heeled to the extreme.

But this trimaran’s three adjustable hulls are rarely off level. That kind of impressive side-to-side stability then combines with a bow-to-stern length of 70 feet that lets the boat skate from crest to crest, over all but the deepest the troughs, keeping the sails perfectly positioned to maximize wind—even if the Los Angeles coastline’s idyllic conditions leave us wanting more speed.

With the crew working hard in preparation for the start of the Transpac, I help crank up the mainsail (and end up feeling it the next day). Despite the luxury connotations of the Maserati name, the cramped, spartan quarters mean everyone is always within earshot. Given the Maserati logos plastered everywhere, we joke about a lack of martinis or caviar.

For Soldini, the Maserati Multi70 is more than just about racing. He calls it a “permanent laboratory” that will continue to improve with innovations launched by the carmaker.

The one takeaway I have from the afternoon’s sail is that, despite its futuristic design, the boat still has to contend with the unknowns of ocean racing. If something goes wrong, it could happen hundreds of miles from the nearest rescuer. In that sense, this shares the same thrills and pitfalls as old-time sailing, but at much faster speeds.

Update: The Maserati Multi70 finished second for an elapsed time of 4 days, 23 hours, 55 minutes. It’s the eighth fastest time in Transpac history.

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Maserati and Soldini’s Flying Multi70 Trimaran Just Broke a Sailing Record

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Maserati Multi70 skipper GIOVANNI SOLDINI Giovanni Soldini was born in Milan on 16 May 1966. Ocean navigator and pioneer in the development of innovative technologies and trim for racing yachts, he has over thirty years of solo and crewed ocean […]

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Giovanni Soldini was born in Milan on 16 May 1966. Ocean navigator and pioneer in the development of innovative technologies and trim for racing yachts, he has over thirty years of solo and crewed ocean races behind him, including two solo round-the-world races (one second and one first place), six Québec-Saint Malo (one won in the monohull class), six Ostar (two wins in the 50′ and 40′ classes), three Transat Jacques Vabre (one win in the 40′ class) and more than 40 transoceanic races.

In 1994/95 at the B.O.C. Challenge, the solo round-the-world race in stages, Soldini crossed the finish line in second place with the 50-footer Kodak. In 1998-99 he won the Around Alone, his second solo round-the-world race in stages, with Fila, the first 60-footer with canting keel and wing mast built in Italy. During the third leg he rescued and saved the French sailor Isabelle Autissier, who had capsized in the South Pacific at 60° south, between New Zealand and Cape Horn.

Between 2001 and 2005, Soldini was the first Italian to compete in the 60-foot trimaran class ORMA with the multihull first named Fila, then Tim. From 2007 to 2009, on board Telecom, he raced in the new Class 40, taking first place in all the most important regattas he took part in, as well as winning the class world championship in 2009.

On board the monohull VOR 70 Maserati, Soldini conquered the new record on the Golden Route from New York to San Francisco in 2013 (13,225 miles in 47 days, 42 minutes and 29 seconds) and won important regattas such as the Cape2Rio in 2014, setting a new record that is still unbeaten today.

Since 2016, on board Maserati Multi70, the first flying ocean trimaran, he has set the Hong Kong-London route record in 2018 (15,083 actual miles in 36 days, 2 hours, 37 minutes and 12 seconds), the English Channel record in 2021 and the record on the original Fastnet route, and he has won numerous victories in the RORC Transatlantic Race, RORC Caribbean 600 and Rolex Middle Sea Race.

Soldini has always been passionate about spreading the culture of the sea and is committed to its preservation. In 2022 he transformed Maserati Multi70 into the first full-electric racing boat and collected data on the ocean that is useful to the scientific community for the UNESCO Ocean Decade.

In 2000, by decision of French President Jacques Chirac, he received the Légion d’honneur for the rescue of Isabelle Autissier. In 2004, he was appointed Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic by Italian President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi. In 2008, he was awarded the Medaglia d’Oro al Merito di Marina for his achievements in sailing sport by the President of the Republic Giorgio Napolitano.

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Giovanni Soldini and Maserati: A Decade of Offshore Sailing Innovation

The collaboration between Italian offshore sailor Giovanni Soldini and luxury car brand Maserati, which spanned 11 years and covered over two hundred thousand miles, has come to an end. The partnership saw the development of the monohull Maserati VOR70 and the transition to the trimaran Maserati Multi70, which introduced foiling technology to ocean sailing. Together, they set nine new records and participated in 27 regattas worldwide, achieving remarkable success and contributing to scientific data collection for UNESCO. Soldini expressed gratitude for the support and partnership, while Maserati thanked him for representing the brand globally and creating a lasting sporting legacy.

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The conclusion of the 11-year collaboration between Giovanni Soldini and Maserati marks the end of an era in ocean sailing, symbolizing a legacy of remarkable achievements and contributions to scientific data collection.

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For the first time Rosatom Fuel Division supplied fresh nuclear fuel to the world’s only floating nuclear cogeneration plant in the Arctic

The fuel was supplied to the northernmost town of Russia along the Northern Sea Route.

The first in the history of the power plant refueling, that is, the replacement of spent nuclear fuel with fresh one, is planned to begin before 2024. The manufacturer of nuclear fuel for all Russian nuclear icebreakers, as well as the Akademik Lomonosov FNPP, is Machinery Manufacturing Plant, Joint-Stock Company (MSZ JSC), a company of Rosatom Fuel Company TVEL that is based in Elektrostal, Moscow Region.

The FNPP includes two KLT-40S reactors of the icebreaking type. Unlike convenient ground-based large reactors (that require partial replacement of fuel rods once every 12-18 months), in the case of these reactors, the refueling takes place once every few years and includes unloading of the entire reactor core and loading of fresh fuel into the reactor.

The cores of KLT-40 reactors of the Akademik Lomonosov floating power unit have a number of advantages compared to the reference ones: a cassette core was used for the first time in the history of the unit, which made it possible to increase the fuel energy resource to 3-3.5 years between refuelings, and also reduce the fuel component of the electricity cost by one and a half times. The FNPP operating experience formed the basis for the designs of reactors for nuclear icebreakers of the newest series 22220. Three such icebreakers have been launched by now.

For the first time the power units of the Akademik Lomonosov floating nuclear power plant were connected to the grid in December 2019, and put into commercial operation in May 2020. The supply of nuclear fuel from Elektrostal to Pevek and its loading into the second reactor is planned for 2024. The total power of the Akademik Lomonosov FNPP, supplied to the coastal grid of Pevek without thermal energy consumption on shore, is about 76 MW, being about 44 MW in the maximum thermal power supply mode. The FNPP generated 194 million kWh according to the results of 2023. The population of Pevek is just a little more than 4 thousand, while the FNPP has a potential for supplying electricity to a city with a population of up to 100 thousand people. After the FNPP commissioning two goals were achieved. These include first of all the replacement of the retiring capacities of the Bilibino NPP, which has been operating since 1974, as well as the Chaunskaya TPP, which has already been operating for more than 70 years. Secondly, energy is supplied to the main mining companies in western Chukotka in the Chaun-Bilibino energy hub a large ore and metal cluster, including gold mining companies and projects related to the development of the Baimsk ore zone. In September 2023, a 110 kilovolt power transmission line with a length of 490 kilometers was put into operation, connecting the towns of Pevek and Bilibino. The line increased the reliability of energy supply from the FNPP to both Bilibino consumers and mining companies, the largest of which is the Baimsky GOK. The comprehensive development of the Russian Arctic is a national strategic priority. To increase the NSR traffic is of paramount importance for accomplishment of the tasks set in the field of cargo shipping. This logistics corridor is being developed due regular freight voyages, construction of new nuclear-powered icebreakers and modernization of the relevant infrastructure. Rosatom companies are actively involved in this work. Rosatom Fuel Company TVEL (Rosatom Fuel Division) includes companies fabricating nuclear fuel, converting and enriching uranium, manufacturing gas centrifuges, conducting researches and producing designs. As the only nuclear fuel supplier to Russian NPPs, TVEL supplies fuel for a total of 75 power reactors in 15 countries, for research reactors in nine countries, as well as for propulsion reactors of the Russian nuclear fleet. Every sixth power reactor in the world runs on TVEL fuel. Rosatom Fuel Division is the world’s largest producer of enriched uranium and the leader on the global stable isotope market. The Fuel Division is actively developing new businesses in chemistry, metallurgy, energy storage technologies, 3D printing, digital products, and decommissioning of nuclear facilities. TVEL also includes Rosatom integrators for additive technologies and electricity storage systems. Rosenergoatom, Joint-Stock Company is part of Rosatom Electric Power Division and one of the largest companies in the industry acting as an operator of nuclear power plants. It includes, as its branches, 11 operating NPPs, including the FNPP, the Scientific and Technical Center for Emergency Operations at NPPs, Design and Engineering as well as Technological companies. In total, 37 power units with a total installed capacity of over 29.5 GW are in operation at 11 nuclear power plants in Russia. Machinery Manufacturing Plant, Joint-Stock Company (MSZ JSC, Elektrostal) is one of the world’s largest manufacturers of fuel for nuclear power plants. The company produces fuel assemblies for VVER-440, VVER-1000, RBMK-1000, BN-600,800, VK-50, EGP-6; powders and fuel pellets intended for supply to foreign customers. It also produces nuclear fuel for research reactors. The plant belongs to the TVEL Fuel Company of Rosatom.

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Maserati and Giovanni Soldini: a massive technological challenge

The 2016 season is getting underway on something of a high note for Giovanni Soldini and his partners with the move from their previous monohull to the new Maserati Multi70 trimaran. This faster, more modern craft will allow Soldini and his crew to tackle new records and compete in prestige competitions of the likes of the Rolex Middle Sea Race in October and the RORC Transatlantic Race in November.

Flanking Giovanni Soldini this new season are Maserati, returning as main sponsor for the fifth consecutive year, and UnipolSai Assicurazioni which will be playing a more prominent sponsorship role in the project than last season.  Also renewing their support as official challenge suppliers are:  Ermenegildo Zegna for clothing and Boero Bartolomeo S.p.A. which supplies hull paint and enamels.

After an extremely busy and satisfying three years that saw them clock up an impressive number of nautical miles with the monohull Maserati VOR70 , Soldini and his team will henceforth be sailing aboard Maserati Multi70 , a cutting-edge, very high performance trimaran capable of making extremely fast speeds. Stretching 21.2 metres in length and 16.8 in the beam with a 29-metre mast, Maserati Multi70 can rise up off the water on her rudders and foils, significantly reducing her wetted surface area to the benefit of performance. The trimaran was originally penned by the VPLP (Van Peteghem Lauriot-Prévost) studio and optimised by Team Gitana in collaboration with Guillaume Verdier.

“We are just starting to discover Maserati Multi70 ’s potential. The passage from Lorient gave us our first taste: it was a positive and very enlightening experience,” commented Giovanni Soldini.

 “This craft’s innovative character is all down to her appendages. Team Gitana transformed the starboard side with an L-foil and got her flying but always in sheltered waters.

We are now trying to find out if and how it is possible to do the same in a moderate swell. Clearly that will involve a lot of research and development work that we’ve only just begun but what we’ve seen so far is really enthusing us already”. 

Three challenges are scheduled for this season: a Monaco-Porto Cervo record attempt, the Rolex Middle Sea Race and RORC Transatlantic Race.

In September, Maserati Multi70 will be on stand-by in Monte Carlo for the perfect weather window for an attempt to set a new multi reference time between Monaco and Porto Cervo, a 195-nautical mile route. The current record is held by the monohull Esimit Europa 2 which covered the distance in 10 hours, 13 minutes and 42 seconds in 2012, making an average speed of 19 knots. 

The second challenge of the season is also the most important as the Rolex Middle Sea Race is one of the great classic offshore races. Launched in 1968 and now on its 37th outing, it has attracted some of the leading names in international sailing over the years. The 608-nautical mile route starts and finishes from Malta and involves an anticlockwise circumnavigation of Sicily with the Aeolian Islands, the Egadi Islands, Pantelleria and Lampedusa to port of the fleet. The current race record was set by Rambler (USA) in 2007: she covered the 608 nautical miles in 47 hours, 55 minutes and 3 seconds.

Maserati Multi70’s third and final challenge of the year is the RORC Transatlantic Race , which starts from Lanzarote in the Canaries on November 26 and also marks her ocean debut. The fleet will cross the finish-line at Grenada in the Caribbean after around 3,000 nautical miles of sailing.

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