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Simone De Mari
Simone de Mari is an Italian sailor who has competed in multiple America's Cups. He sailed in the 2000 Louis Vuitton Cup as a grinder for Prada Challenge. De Mari fell overboard during one of the races, but was recovered and Prada Challenge went on to win the Cup before losing 0–5 to Team New Zealand in the America's Cup. He stayed with the team, which was later renamed to Luna Rossa Challenge for the 2003 and 2007 Louis Vuitton Cups. Working He then joined Oracle Racing in 2008 and was the pitman on ''USA 17'' when it won the 2010 America's Cup. He sailed in the 2011 Extreme Sailing Series with the Italian Niceforyou team and also sailed with Mascalzone Latino that year. He then re-joined Luna Rossa and sailed with them in the 2013 Louis Vuitton Cup The 8th Louis Vuitton Cup was held during July and August 2013, in San Francisco, California, United States of America. The three contenders were Artemis Racing (Sweden), Emirates Team New Zealand (New Zealand), and Luna Ross ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sailor (sport)
The sport of sailing involves a variety of competitive sailing formats that are sanctioned through various sailing federations and yacht clubs. Racing disciplines include matches within a fleet of sailing craft, between a pair thereof or among teams. Additionally, there are specialized competitions that include setting speed records. Racing formats include both closed courses and point-to-point contests; they may be in sheltered waters, coast-wise or on the open ocean. Most competitions are held within defined classes or ratings that either entail one type of sailing craft to ensure a contest primarily of skill or rating the sailing craft to create classifications or handicaps. On water, a sailing competition among multiple vessels is a regatta, which usually consists of multiple individual races, where the boat crew that performs best in over the series of races is the overall winner. There is a broad variety of kinds of races and sailboats used for racing from large yacht to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
