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92 SVN Solovelanet Global T he major boat shows of 2019 have elapsed one after the other. There was the Yacht Festival in Cannes, small, but very interesting for its internatio- nal audience, followed closely, perhaps a bit too clo- sely (less than a week between the two boat shows), by the Genoa boat show, the former greatest boat show in the world that nowadays, in a somewhat pathetic way, boasts being the greatest boat show in the Mediterranean: not much to be proud of, for the most important boat show in the nation with the highest turnover from the nautical industry in the world.Finally, the Nautic in Paris has never been a very important show, but once it was a pleasure to come here, there were many boats and it was here that the French loved to introduce their novelties worldwide, and since the French are leaders in the sailing industry, so Paris was the sailing novelties show. At present, not even French shipyards are coming to Paris any longer. The exhibited boats are very few, and always from the same shipyards such as Jeanneau, Beneteau, Dufour. There are neither Bavaria nor Hanse, Cantiere del Pardo or Solaris. Af- ter a so-so 2019, that however brought great news concerning new projects, here comes 2020.And here comes the sparkling Boote in Dusseldorf, the first and most important appointment of the year, that at present can be considered the biggest boat show in Europe, and probably in the world too, since Europe is the leading boating market in the world. A well- tended, organized Boote where everyone finds a pla- ce and where everything is on display, from the large superyacht to the mini sailboat.This is a boat show worth visiting. It's a safe bet that the most popular boat will be the Bavaria C42 which, as her designer Maurizio Cossutti told us, has been created on the concept of the C45: a boat that is fast and sporty as well as, of course, comfortable. P atrizio Bertelli is worried, he didn't want the AC 75. The new boats, according to the chairman of Luna Rossa, are too com- plex and full of uncertainties. The America's Cup, after Larry Ellison's experience, needs to find its way to stability. Bertelli would have preferred a bit more classic monohulls with much lower costs, so as to enable many more teams to participate. Many more te- ams from several nations would have meant a much larger audience, and therefore more interest from sponsors. Dalton, the chairman of Team New Zeland, seems convinced that the new boats will be the reason why crowds will flock to watch the upcoming America's Cup challenge. Who is right? Hard to say. Bertelli, who knows a lot about marketing, is aware that a serious accident during the Cup or a series of breakdowns might affect the outcome of the event. If the boats prove to be too complex to give life to a show like the Cup, there would be no more time or funds enough to address the problem, and if must be considered that no one yet knows how to sail an AC 75, as proven by the capsizings experienced by Team New Zeland and the difficulties faced by Luna Rossa in sailing with rough sea in Sardinia. The AC 75s are not different boats: they are a different thing that partially resembles a boat. Sailing them requires the creation of a completely different system and set of rules. It is necessary to review the roles of each individual crew member, to reinvent the way of tacking, bearing away or even just changing a headsail.The important thing is that at present everyone is doing as much as they can to turn this edition of the Cup into a super cup. America's Cup: Bertelli is skeptical Leaving 2019 behind, the Boot starts 2020 The Boot in Dusseldorf Patrizio Bertelli

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