Maserati's Nautical Speedster Prepares For Atlantic Record -- Forbes
With his sunburned, deeply creased face and callus-encrusted hands, Giovanni Soldini looks distinctly out of place in downtown Manhattan as he waits in the shadows of the Battery Park skyscrapers for the weather patterns that will allow him to shove off in the 70-foot racing sailboat Maserati on a trans-Atlantic record attempt.
Soldini, 46, is leading the effort to put Maserati in the record books, not on the asphalt tracks where the Italian car maker once dominated top-level racing, but in the ocean. This week he and the rest of the boat’s eight-man crew were anxiously scanning marine weather forecasts to see if a cold front in the Atlantic would produce winds strong enough for them to shove off, perhaps Friday night, in search of a world record for distance covered in 24 hours.
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My Comment: 6 days and 17 hours is the record. I wish them luck.
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