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No Wind. No Problem. The Sailing Race Must Go On.

The suspense mounted at the world’s largest regatta in Trieste, Italy: Which boat would come in last?

By Jason Horowitz

TRIESTE, Italy — The Bora wind blows so fiercely through Trieste, a melancholic port town on the Adriatic Sea, that some sidewalks are lined with handrails. The wind maddens pedestrians, but it also fills the sails of skippers who come from all over to compete in Italy’s aquatic equivalent of the New York City Marathon.

Before this year’s race, the sleepy docks that once served as the main port of the Austro-Hungarian Empire buzzed with life. Olympic sailing crews, boating enthusiasts and excitement-thirsty locals packed Trieste’s piers, old world cafes and vast square facing the sea.

Everything was in place.

Except the wind.

“Not a breath of it,” Pietro Faraguna, 36, said before dawn on race day as he and members of his crew collected their boat in a neighboring town.

Last year, the 50th anniversary of the Barcolana, as the race is called, included 2,689 boats with 16,000 sailors, making it the largest regatta in the world by some counts. Mr. Faraguna and his friends finished in 15th-to-last place.

This year he was not sure whether to try for a better finish or compete for a newly introduced last-place trophy or “give up if it’s going nowhere.”

For now, Mr. Faraguna and his crew just needed to get into position at the starting line. In the calm morning air, they loaded up their secondhand boat, the Confinandante , with supplies of wine and beer, and motored toward the race’s starting line.

As one of the crew put bottles of friulano, prosecco and sauvignon in the fridge, the decades-old boat puttered past mussel farms and the Duino Castle , a 14th-century fort overlooking the Gulf of Trieste.

Mr. Faraguna, an amiable father of two and constitutional law professor, reflected on his previous 12 Barcolanas. He talked about how the thermodynamic differences caused by the shape of the coast altered wind conditions and how the Bora — named for Boreas, the Greek god of the north wind — howled down from the Julian Alps to the sea.

“But this isn’t going to happen,” Mr. Faraguna said, observing that the dark, flat water looked as motionless as an oil spill.

On the other side of the boat, Giacomo Longo, 32, received a picture from a friend already chugging a white wine spritz near the starting line. Mr. Longo checked his nautical watch and reported a meager high of 4.35 knots of wind. The crew shrugged and decided to unfurl the white-and-blue-striped sail. Some stink bugs fell from it onto the deck.

A couple of hours later, the Confinandante reached a harbor near the Barcolana’s starting line and just behind the Miramare Castle, built by Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, who, tradition holds, was forced to dock at this spot in 1855 by strong gusts of the Bora.

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Friends of Mr. Faraguna climbed aboard, carrying more refreshments and a guitar. One of the men’s wives, Giada Dal Mas, 36, told the crew, “Since there is no wind, at least try and catch some sea bass for tonight.”

The Barcolana began in 1969, when a few friends at a local sailing club organized a race with 51 boats. Since then, the winds have come and gone as the skippers race from Miramare Castle toward Slovenia and back to the finish line near Trieste’s Unity of Italy square.

Some years, the Bora has been so vicious as to break masts. Others it has been so nonexistent that boats drifted back to Trieste backward.

Over the years, the race has grown into a major enterprise. Last year, the 50th anniversary brought about 70 million euros into Trieste. Its corporate sponsor, Generali, the insurance giant founded in Trieste during the port’s glory days, slaps its name everywhere, from the race bibs on the boats to the red inflatable buoy marking the finish line.

In the days before the race, the dock in front of Trieste’s main square turns into a nautical Times Square, with beer, sausage and Barcolana merchandise vendors dwarfed by the sails of megayachts advertising luxury cars (“Sail With Land Rover”), banks, fashion brands and prosecco.

But the spirit of the race, said the Barcolana’s president, Mitja Gialuz , a 44-year-old law professor and former sailing world champion, was better captured by the hundreds of smaller sloops, ketches and traditional wooden passera fishing boats that competed, or got completely sloshed, in the big boats’ wake.

He noted how last year’s official regatta poster featured the celebrated artist Marina Abramovic declaring, amid a national crackdown on migrants, “We’re all in the same boat.” Local officials in the anti-migrant League party were furious, but Mr. Gialuz said it was just the right, inclusive message for a faded cosmopolitan city looking to shed its provincialism and make a global comeback.

“Once we became the biggest race in the world,” he said in front of a boat-sized sardine sculpture made from recycled Trieste plastic, part of the race’s expanded environmental consciousness, “we assumed a bigger responsibility.”

Still, most of this year’s participants focused mostly on the task at hand — getting their sailboats to go anywhere.

On the eve of the race , a room of skippers listened to organizers wish them “fair winds” but also remind them that “since there are very, very light winds in the forecast,” judges will be especially watchful of boats that used their engines at the opening bell.

Just before 10:30 a.m., Mr. Faraguna’s boat inched forward to the starting line of white sails, which from a distance resembled a long mountain range of snow-capped peaks. Surrounded by boats named Lady Killer, Passion Fruit and Stairway to Heaven, Mr. Faraguna waited, ready to race.

The starting cannon fired. The smoke cleared. Nothing changed.

Eventually, some of the professional crews sailing state-of-the-art ships captured enough puffs of air to move forward . The race’s organizers decided two legs of the race was enough and canceled the last two.

The Way of Life, an early favorite, won with a time of one hour, 54 minutes and 10 seconds. Mr. Faraguna’s boat hardly moved at all.

For the next few hours, Mr. Faraguna and his friends drank white wine and Union Svetlo beer and sang old Trieste folk songs about how life was better under the old empire (“We weren’t lacking pasta and chickpeas”). They went swimming.

Early in the afternoon, with no wind in sight, they called it quits and motored back to the pier, where they happily basked in the applause directed at Way of Life, which finished another victory lap behind them.

Mr. Faraguna went home to see his wife and take a nap. As he slept, some of the last boats sprinted, or inched, to the finish line.

“Five, four, three, two, one” the crew members of Itaparica shouted with relief as they finished in 948th place. It was just shy of 5 p.m., nearly seven hours after the start. A few minutes later, the Cassiopeia II crossed and one of its passengers screamed wildly into the no wind.

Dario Motz, an official from the Italian Sailing Federation, stood on the elevated deck of a vessel recording the finish times. He looked at the ships lingering in the distance and debated with his colleagues whether they had frozen purposefully in pursuit of the loser’s cup.

“It’s a fight for last,” he said.

At 6 p.m., as Mr. Faraguna woke to play with his young children, the Xeinos, a 50-foot yacht sailed by Serbian, Montenegrin and Italian dentists, took the last-place trophy with 1,098th place.

Mr. Gialuz, the Barcolana’s president, was there to climb aboard and celebrate. This was the spirit, he said, that would reinvigorate his town.

“For a long time, Trieste was like a dark and stuffy room,” he said. “The Barcolana opens up the windows. It lets the fresh wind in.”

Jason Horowitz is the Rome bureau chief, covering Italy, the Vatican, Greece and other parts of Southern Europe. He previously covered the 2016 presidential campaign, the Obama administration and Congress, with an emphasis on political profiles and features. More about Jason Horowitz

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Italy seizes Russian billionaire Melnichenko's Sailing Yacht A

The vessel is the world's biggest sailing yacht.

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Italian police have seized a superyacht owned by Russian billionaire Andrey Igorevich Melnichenko, the prime minister's office said on Saturday, a few days after the businessman was placed on an EU sanctions list following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

The 143-metre (470-foot) Sailing Yacht A, which has a price tag of 530 million euros ($578 million), has been sequestered at the northern port of Trieste, the government said.

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Designed by Philippe Starck and built by Nobiskrug in Germany, the vessel is the world's biggest sailing yacht, the government said.

Melnichenko owned major fertiliser producer EuroChem Group and coal company SUEK. The companies said in statements on Thursday that he had resigned as a member of the board in both companies and withdrawn as their beneficiary, effective Wednesday.

The luxury yacht " Sailing Yacht A " with her unique form, which was built for Russian billionaire Andrey Melnichenko, sails past Italian Isola del Giglio island on July 10, 2018, near the "Scole" rocks where the Costa Concordia cruise ship crashed l ((Photo by VINCENZO PINTO/AFP via Getty Images) / Getty Images)

A spokesperson for Melnichenko, Alex Andreev, said the businessman had "no relation to the tragic events in Ukraine. He has no political affiliations".

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"There is no justification whatsoever for placing him on the EU sanctions list," Andreev said. "We will be disputing these baseless and unjustified sanctions, and believe that the rule of law and common sense will prevail.

Since last week Italian police have seized villas and yachts worth more than 700 million euros ($763.63 million) from high-profile Russians who have been placed on the EU sanctions list, Economy Minister Daniele Franco said on Saturday.

This photograph taken on March 10, 2022, shows a sailing yacht A owned by Russian oligarch Andrey Melnichenko in Trieste, Italy. - The sailing yacht A is the largest private sail-assisted motor yacht in the world. (Photo by Jure Makovec / AFP) (Photo ( (Photo by JURE MAKOVEC/AFP via Getty Images) / Getty Images)

"So far we have hit what was visible, now we have to hit the rest such as shareholdings. We are doing a great job to bring out what is shielded by trusts and front names," Giuseppe Zafarana, head of the Italian tax police, told journalists in Bergamo on Saturday.

The police operations were part of a coordinated drive by Western states to penalise wealthy Russians they say are linked to President Vladimir Putin.

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Separately, a superyacht reported to be owned by Russian businessman Roman Abramovich arrived in Montenegro's territorial waters on Saturday morning, according to a Reuters photographer.

A Finance Police officer boards the superyacht from Russian billionaire Andrey Igorevich Melnichenko which has been sequestered at the northern port of Trieste, Italy, March 12, 2022, in this screen grab taken from video, Finance Police/Handout via R (Finance Police/Handout via REUTERS / Reuters Photos)

The Solaris is one of a string of yachts owned by Chelsea Football Club owner Abramovich, according to reports in luxury goods publications SuperYachtFan, SuperYacht Times and Forbes.

The 140-metre (460-foot) vessel is moored off the luxury resort Porto Montenegro in the town of Tivat. The boat left Barcelona on Tuesday.

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Britain imposed sanctions on Abramovich on Thursday, freezing his assets and citing what it called his close relationship with Putin. Abramovich has denied having such ties.

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Italian Police Seize Russian Oligarch Andrey Melnichenko’s 468-Foot ‘Sailing Yacht A’

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Italy’s finance police seized one of the world’s most iconic sailing yachts, owned by a Russian oligarch. Andrey Melnichenko’s Sailing Yacht A , with an estimated value of $578 million, was impounded in dry dock at the Port of Trieste, according to a statement from the Guardia di Finanzia. Melninchenko was sanctioned by the European Union on March 9 as part of a group of Russian oligarchs who met with Russian President Vladimir Putin following its Ukraine invasion to discuss the potential economic impact of EU and American sanctions.

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Melnichenko owns the major fertilizer producer EuroChem Group and SUEK, a coal company. He also owns the 390-foot Motor Yacht A. A spokesperson said in a statement that Melnichenko has nothing to do with politics and that he has removed himself from the board of Eurochem and SUEK after the EU sanctioned him. “He has no relation to the tragic events in Ukraine. He has no political affiliations,” said the statement.

US intelligence officials have also said they are trying to link the Scheherazade , a $700 million superyacht in dry dock in Italy, to Putin. The New York Times reported that the US government has made no definite conclusions about the yacht’s ownership, but believe it could be owned by the Russian president. The yacht’s captain, Guy Bennett-Pearce, told the Times that Putin had no stake in the yacht, but declined to name the owner. Bennett-Pearce said he would provide Italian police with documents that divulged the owner’s name. The Italian Sea Group, which owns the shipyard where Scheherazade is dry docked, said that, based on “checks carried out by relevant authorities,” the yacht is “not attributable to the property of Russian President Vladimir Putin.”

Roman Abramovich, who owns Solaris. last week was placed on the UK sanctions list.  Courtesy of Lloyd Werft

Chelsea FC owner Roman Abramovich was also added to the UK sanctions list days after he announced the sale of the football club. Abramovich, who owns a string of supercars and several private jets, also owns the superyachts Solaris and Eclipse. Solaris is reportedly sailing towards Israel, where Abramovich has dual citizenship.

On March 3, France’s finance ministry said that it had impounded Amore Vero , a yacht owned by Igor Sechin, CEO of Russian oil giant Rosneft. The EU had sanctioned Sechin earlier that week, calling him one of Putin’s “most trusted and closest advisors, as well as his personal friend.” German authorities also detained the 512-foot superyacht Dilbar in Hamburg, owned by Alisher Usmanov. Reports said the crew was fired last week. On March 5, Italian authorities impounded two yachts, Lena and Lady M , owned by Gennady Timchenko and Alexei Mordashov, respectively.

On Friday, the US State Department placed Viktor Vekselberg on its sanctions list. Two of Vekeselberg’s luxury assets, an Airbus A319-115 jet and his yacht Tango , were identified as “blocked property.”

The superyacht Scheherazade was impounded in Italy during an investigation to uncover whether it is owned by Russian President Vladimir Putin.  Video Still/YT

The seizures have prompted the superyacht industry to distance itself from the oligarchs. Italian yacht builders Sanlorenzo and Azimut both released statements that they have limited exposure to Russian clients, and none are on the sanctions list. Heesen Yachts released a statement that two Russians sitting on its supervisory board of directors have resigned their positions. The builder said Heesen is 100-percent Dutch-owned company and that Pavel Sukhoruchkin and Pavel Novoselov had nothing to do with its day-to-day operations.

Ownership of many Russian yachts is often hidden by shell companies in tax havens like the Cayman Islands. They are not only hard to trace, but actually seizing and selling them could present a legal quagmire that could take years to resolve.

Some are wondering whether seizing the oligarchs’ private yachts and jets will work. “Sanctions are another example of the West doing what it does best, which is just throwing a lot of cash at the problem and hoping it gets solved,” Olga Chyzh, a professor of political science at the University of Toronto, told the Washington Post. “However sad they are to let go of their Western assets, oligarchs have even more to lose if Putin is no longer there to protect them.”

Eclipse is another yacht owned by Roman Abramovich.  Robb Report File

In the meantime, some oligarchs are taking their yachts to destinations like the Maldives , the Seychelles and Dubai, which have no extradition treaties with the US and EU. Dubai has become a favorite destination for Russian tourism and wealth.

Alex Finley, a former CIA officer, has been tracking the yachts from Barcelona. Using the hashtag “Yacht Watch,” she posts updates on Twitter for Russian-owned superyachts.

“For me, the yachts are a big, easily recognizable symbol of the more serious side of this [Russian invasion]: These are people who support a dictator, and have been supporting him in carrying out destabilization operations against democracy, while at the same time coming here and taking all the benefits of the exact same democracies they were destabilizing,” Finley told the Washington Post.

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2 years after being seized, the Russian oligarch’s $580 million megayacht which is even bigger than Jeff Bezos’ Koru left Trieste and sailed for Venice. Just so that it would not escape on the high seas the 469 feet long vessel was guarded by armed ships of the Italian forces.

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The 143 metre Nobiskrug superyacht Sailing Yacht A has been "arrested" in Trieste by local authorities following new economic sanctions by the European Union against Russia.

The news was confirmed on March 12 by Ferdinando Giugliano, media advisor to Italy’s prime minister, who announced that the Guardia di Finanza had boarded the vessel while it lay in a dry dock in the Port of Trieste.

The sail-assisted motor yacht was commissioned in 2011 by Russian industrialist Andrey Melnichenko, who was named by EU officials in the latest wave of economic sanctions targeting key players in the agricultural, pharmaceutical and telecommunications industries that provide significant revenue to the Russian Federation. 

However, Alex Andreev, a spokesman for Melnichenko, told BOAT International that the sanctions were "baseless" and "unjustified". "Andrey Melnichenko is an international self-made businessman, entrepreneur and investor in children's education. He has no relation to the tragic events in Ukraine. He has no political affiliations. There is no justification whatsoever for placing him on the EU sanctions list."

He added: "To draw a parallel between attending a meeting through membership in a business council, just as dozens of businesspeople from both Russia and Europe have done in the past, and undermining or threatening a country is absurd and nonsensical. We will be disputing these baseless and unjustified sanctions and believe that the rule of law and common sense will prevail."

Melnichenko is the founder of major fertiliser producer EuroChem Group as well as coal producer SUEK. On March 9 he resigned as a member of the board and non-executive director of both companies. Andreev confirmed that both EuroChem Group and SUEK are "100% privately owned and not affiliated with any government."

Sailing Yacht A is in the port undergoing planned improvement works on the boom of its forward mast and additional "fine-tuning to improve its navigation and save even more fuel, using the most innovative environmental technology developed for the vessel", the spokesman confirmed.

The news follows a handful of arrests in Europe that began with the confiscation of motor yacht Amore Vero in La Ciotat, followed by the arrest of motor yachts Lady M and Lena lying in Imperia and Sanremo respectively.

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It’s the largest boat race in the world, but what we’ve always love about Barcolana is the sheer anarchy of it. This yearly boat race boasts rickety two-man sail boats, professional yachts, and literally anything in between. Some take to the sea heavy with crew members and sponsorship in a serious attempt to win the race, others take a packed lunch (always a good idea if the wind drops and the race takes longer than expected) and a more leisurely approach. After the deafening starting cannon, seen from the hills above, the race resembles a disorganized swarm of tiny white sails migrating out to sea.

Details of the various events on offer for the  55th Barcolana , which runs from 29 September to the main race on Sunday October 8th at 10 AM, are provided  on Barcolana’s website. There will be stalls along the seafront and events all over the city, as this unique boat race is a celebration of the spirit of Trieste and its connection with the sea.

“Barcolana represents the spirit of our town,” SVBG president Mitja Gialuz told us. “The beauty of our regatta is that all boats can participate. Whether they’re rickety two-man sail boats, professional yachts, or literally anything in between. Organizing regatta in the past two years wasn’t easy. We went through with it in 2020 despite Covid, then had to cancel, for the first time in its history due to the Bora wind, taught us a lot that year: we forged an even stronger bond with our competitors and our public, and this has prepared us for new challenges. In 2021 the weather conditions were really harsh, yet we made the race happen anyway.  The 2022 was truly spectacular. We hope this 2023 regatta will be even better.”

“We’re ready for an extraordinary edition,” continued  SVBG President Mitja Gialuz , “which has been organized in synergy with local institutions, our presenting partner Generali, and the yacht clubs that contributed to designing this great event which allows us to promote the whole Friuli-Venezia Giulia region. Together we have built the Barcolana Crew, the largest crew in the world, which is about to arrive in Trieste. Many of the faces that make up the Barcolana Crew have already been the protagonists of our graphics and promotion of the event, and they bring to completion the sailors’ portraits project that was started last year by famous photographer Carlo Borlenghi.”

On the eve of the regatta, Barcolana55 and Trieste will welcome the winner of last year’s edition, the American yacht owner Wendy Schmidt , who will arrive on Saturday 7th October for the traditional ceremony of returning the Barcolana Cup and the Women in Sailing Cup, to be handed down to the new winner.

The calendar features over 250 events, including regattas and gatherings organised directly by the Barcolana , and initiatives by local associations and organisations who proposed their own activities in the bigger framework of the event. “ The calendar brings together the city in proposing activities open to everybody and dedicated to whoever will be in Trieste in the ten days of the event, ”  Gialuz  said.

Barcolana Young , the young sailors regatta, as well as  Barcolana by Night , a nighttime boat race (or perhaps more like a battle) on the eve of the main Barcolana regatta will be a sight to see!

There are several options for viewing the regatta, from strolling down to the seafront for a close-up view of the start, to climbing one of the many hills (Prosecco is a favorite, as it hangs over the starting point and offers unrivalled views, but hills such as San Luigi and San Giusto also provide beautiful, if more distant view). All hills can be reached by car and bus, although do check for road closures and bus  diversions  to make sure you’re not caught out. 

While you’re waiting, you can always take a walk by the sea to check out the sailing teams who will be racing this year, many of whom are moored along the seafront. The boats are already gathering, the water’s fine. Come enjoy a few days at the races!

Details of the various events on offer for the  55th Barcolana , which runs from 29 September to the main race on Sunday October 8th at 10.30 AM can be found on www.barcolana.it .

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