THE LARGEST SAILING RACE IN THE WORLD
Trieste, 1 - 12 October 2025
Trieste, 1 - 12 October 2025
Barcolana - News10.10.19
Barcolana -3: the Venezia Giulia Collio Cup at sea tomorrow
With three days left to the regatta, 1570 boats have registered for Barcolana. This morning’s calm sea and rain were strategic for some of the teams, who decided to go out to sea to test their boats on light wind
With three days left to the regatta, 1570 boats have registered for Barcolana. This morning’s calm sea and rain were strategic for some of the teams, who decided to go out to sea to test their boats on light wind. The weather agency Osmer Arpa has published the first weather reports with the weather forecast for the weekend: summer temperatures and light wind will characterize this weekend and will influence the tactitians’ decisions on loads and sails.
“We went out to test the lightest sails – said the members of the PortoPiccolo Tempus Fugit team – especially the big stern sail we didn’t use in the last edition. We sailed well and going out at sea provided us with very useful information for Sunday. We’re ready to race with our competitive spirit, our new sail is a powerful weapon.”
Also the Golfo di Trieste team went out to train this morning: “The weather forecast for Sunday 13 October – said their skipper, Francesca Clapcich – predicts light, almost non-existent wind: beyond doubt, this could give us an advantage, since our boat performs at its best in those conditions. The crew is light as well: hopefully the weather conditions will favour us, fingers crossed! We’ve been training since Wednesday to find the boat’s best trim, to know which sails to use, to make sensible decisions and to be quick and competitive right from the start. The coming days are fundamental, we’re all focused on our goal and we can’t wait to race this Sunday”.
In the meantime, last year’s winning team (captained by Furio and Gabriele Benussi with Lorenzo Bressani) will return their trophy back to the organizing committee in a special ceremony, scheduled for 5.30 pm. The crew hasn’t trained these days and will come back at sea tomorrow morning. “The last few days have been demanding – stated Furio Benussi – our goal is to hand the cup back to the organizing committee just for a few days and then keep it with us for another year”.
Regattas will be back tomorrow in Barcolana, with the second edition of Barcolana Invitational - Venezia Giulia Collio Cup. In its second edition, the Venezia Giulia Collio Cup is an invitational regatta raced aboard one-design J70s: the sailing club Società Velica di Barcola and Grignano (SVBG) invites the sailing clubs of the Gulf with the highest number of members participating in the Barcolana regatta to create a fair competition between clubs coming from the same sea and flying the same burgee.
The competition includes a series of qualifying regattas raced on very short windward-leeward courses, anticipating the “stadium racing” final regatta, which the public can enjoy from land, just a few steps from Piazza Unità, on 11 October at 6 pm. 12 teams will be racing this year: Società Nautica Pietas Julia (skipper Giuliano Chiandussi), Società Nautica Laguna (skipper Francesco Manzin), Società Triestina Sport del Mare (skipper Alan Travaglio), Società Triestina della Vela (skipper Andrea Savio), Società Velica Oscar Cosulich (skipper Alessandro Marega), TPK Sirena (skipper Robert De Lucia), Yacht Club Adriaco (skipper Martha Faraguna), Yacht Club Cupa (skipper Mirko Juretic), Diporto Nautico Sistiana (skipper Alberto Leghissa), Circolo della Vela Muggia (skipper Matija Succi), Società Nautica Grignano (skipper Nicoletta Rossi) and Società Velica di Barcola e Grignano (skipper Francesca Russo Cirillo).
Barcolana and the Collio area participated together with SVBG in the Round the Island Race, in Cowes (UK): Gialuz concluded – “a chance to show how sport and promotion can create important collaborations, a great advantage for the promotion of the products made in FVG.”
The sailing club Società Triestina della Vela (STV), winner of the VENEZIA GIULIA COLLIO CUP in the 2018 edition, is the one to beat. Last year, 10 crews raced in the regatta with a very light wind. STV arrived in first place, after a first and fourth place scored in the qualifying tests, followed by the Italian Naval League (division of Trieste) and Diporto Nautico Sistiana.
“We went out to test the lightest sails – said the members of the PortoPiccolo Tempus Fugit team – especially the big stern sail we didn’t use in the last edition. We sailed well and going out at sea provided us with very useful information for Sunday. We’re ready to race with our competitive spirit, our new sail is a powerful weapon.”
Also the Golfo di Trieste team went out to train this morning: “The weather forecast for Sunday 13 October – said their skipper, Francesca Clapcich – predicts light, almost non-existent wind: beyond doubt, this could give us an advantage, since our boat performs at its best in those conditions. The crew is light as well: hopefully the weather conditions will favour us, fingers crossed! We’ve been training since Wednesday to find the boat’s best trim, to know which sails to use, to make sensible decisions and to be quick and competitive right from the start. The coming days are fundamental, we’re all focused on our goal and we can’t wait to race this Sunday”.
In the meantime, last year’s winning team (captained by Furio and Gabriele Benussi with Lorenzo Bressani) will return their trophy back to the organizing committee in a special ceremony, scheduled for 5.30 pm. The crew hasn’t trained these days and will come back at sea tomorrow morning. “The last few days have been demanding – stated Furio Benussi – our goal is to hand the cup back to the organizing committee just for a few days and then keep it with us for another year”.
Regattas will be back tomorrow in Barcolana, with the second edition of Barcolana Invitational - Venezia Giulia Collio Cup. In its second edition, the Venezia Giulia Collio Cup is an invitational regatta raced aboard one-design J70s: the sailing club Società Velica di Barcola and Grignano (SVBG) invites the sailing clubs of the Gulf with the highest number of members participating in the Barcolana regatta to create a fair competition between clubs coming from the same sea and flying the same burgee.
The competition includes a series of qualifying regattas raced on very short windward-leeward courses, anticipating the “stadium racing” final regatta, which the public can enjoy from land, just a few steps from Piazza Unità, on 11 October at 6 pm. 12 teams will be racing this year: Società Nautica Pietas Julia (skipper Giuliano Chiandussi), Società Nautica Laguna (skipper Francesco Manzin), Società Triestina Sport del Mare (skipper Alan Travaglio), Società Triestina della Vela (skipper Andrea Savio), Società Velica Oscar Cosulich (skipper Alessandro Marega), TPK Sirena (skipper Robert De Lucia), Yacht Club Adriaco (skipper Martha Faraguna), Yacht Club Cupa (skipper Mirko Juretic), Diporto Nautico Sistiana (skipper Alberto Leghissa), Circolo della Vela Muggia (skipper Matija Succi), Società Nautica Grignano (skipper Nicoletta Rossi) and Società Velica di Barcola e Grignano (skipper Francesca Russo Cirillo).
Barcolana and the Collio area participated together with SVBG in the Round the Island Race, in Cowes (UK): Gialuz concluded – “a chance to show how sport and promotion can create important collaborations, a great advantage for the promotion of the products made in FVG.”
The sailing club Società Triestina della Vela (STV), winner of the VENEZIA GIULIA COLLIO CUP in the 2018 edition, is the one to beat. Last year, 10 crews raced in the regatta with a very light wind. STV arrived in first place, after a first and fourth place scored in the qualifying tests, followed by the Italian Naval League (division of Trieste) and Diporto Nautico Sistiana.
