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SVN Solovelanet Global
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n the two and a half months that have elapsed between the first issue of
SVN Global Sailing Network and this one that you are reading, the world
has totally changed. Coronavirus has spread everywhere, and with the
complicity of those rulers who refused or were unable to understand the
seriousness of the situation, it is causing thousands of deaths worldwide
and many more yet to come.We at SVN Global Sailing Network are in full
solidarity with all those who are fighting this terrible epidemic, and want to
make our contribution to what appears to be more and more like a planetary
war. Our contribution consists in offering you a moment of leisure, something
to distract your thoughts from the pressing problems we are experiencing in
these days. To help our imagination to fly and get lost in the immensity of the
ocean, what could be possibly better than talking about sailing to yachtsmen?
So, in this issue you will find particularly interesting readings such as Foils,
a unique article that deals with the foils of the new AC75 of the America's
Cup with a level of insight that no one else has reached yet, an article that
will excite you and make even the most experienced of you say "I didn't
know that".Another nice reading is the article about sailing in rough seas
and strong winds, whose author has experienced a lot of storms in his life.
Moreover, there are many other articles that we think will meet your interest.
Those articles have been studied in depth and checked thoroughly in order
to avoid inaccuracies, written by specialists in their specific fields: from the
fluid dynamics engineer who wrote about foils to the sailing master, instruc
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tor of the Clipper Race who wrote the article on how to sail in a heavy sea.
Hoping that our work will please you, I wish you a nice reading.
EDITORIAL
Everything
has changed
In a world that has changed completely in three
months, let's use sailing to distract ourselves a
little bit from the many problems of these days
Maurizio Anzillotti
m.anzillotti@svn-network.net
Maurizio Anzillotti
