The idea has already started. Create a practically free sailing school (a minimum registration fee will probably be required) in the name of “Beatrice”, the 16-meter Sangermani donated to the Municipality of Imperia by the entrepreneur Diana Bracco, so as to also train the crew with whom let it race in the vintage Sails meeting. And make it live.
The project was enriched with a few more details on the sidelines of the delivery of the San Leonardo – Città d’Imperia 2021 Awards, which went to Francesco Profumo, the president of the Compagnia San Paolo, who will be the architect of the restoration of Villa Grock, and to Diana Bracco , who in fact donated to the city and its young people the yacht that had belonged to her husband, Roberto De Silva, and to the Fratelli Merano company. “Diana Bracco has announced that she will finance the course for all the young people of Imperia, to make them great sailors on sailing ships and to set sail on our seas”, said the mayor Claudio Scajola. Here, the official.
The course, therefore. It will probably be open to children from Imperia aged between 16 and 22, not necessarily enrolled in the Nautical Institute and who do not already practice sailing at a competitive level. An invitation to take part in the initiative has been sent to the two city sailing clubs, the Imperia Yacht Club and the Porto Maurizio Yacht Club, confirms the Councilor for Culture Marcella Roggero. “We should leave early next year. We think of theoretical lessons, from meteorology to cartography, from maneuvers to regatta tactics, to be held in the Naval Museum and then, when the season turns to the good, to practical lessons. There are already several boats that can be used, while waiting to complete some safety works on the Beatrice ”, says Roggero.
The goal is to train an enlarged crew for the Sangermani donated to the city, which has the Municipality and therefore by extension the mayor as owner, so as to ensure the necessary care for the boat, its maintenance and its participation in the Vele d ‘ epoch and any other sailing events. To go to sea, in short.