| France. Mirabella V owner Joe Vittoria talks frankly to BYM News about the world’s largest sloop |
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; "Joe Vittoria AG-C/BYM News")
| Sunday, 08 October 2006 | |
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Marian Martin Dockside gossip has always criticised the Mirabella V: for having a mainsail that has to be lowered to clear the backstay and rehoisted, whenever she tacks; for always sailing with a reefed main; for having headsails that need to be furled whilst tacking. The word in the Côte d’Azur bars has been that she is slow, ungainly and, generally speaking, not a good sailing boat. Slow and ungainly she is NOT; that was proved – when BYM sailed on her - by her ability to stay with the Maltese Falcon, which is longer and has more sail area. In fact, J-class tactician James Scott-Anderson said, after helming her, that, if problems had not prevented her using her large genoa, he believed she would have topped 20 knots and gone away from the big clipper. So we asked owner, Joe Vittoria “Why, so much criticsm?” Read his frank answers about the pleasures and frustrations of owning the world’s largest sloop See HERE . See Pictures & See Videos of the Mirabella V & the Maltese Falcon sailing together. |
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