2022 racing season at Yacht Club Isole di Toscana
by Yacht Club Isole di Toscana February 9 15:00 UTC
March 25-27, 2022
Melges 20 Sailing Series Scarlino © Melges Europe / ZGN
The Yacht Club Isole di Toscana is preparing to face a new intense sailing season: from March to October there will be many events that will see different classes of one-design boats and some of the most prestigious dinghies in the world compete in the waters from the Maremma.
Attention to the environment and the commitment to organize eco-sustainable events have for years been the essential prerequisite for the activity of the Scarlino Association, in close collaboration with Marina di Scarlino and the Resort.
“A season like the one we are about to welcome confirms the value of the synergy between the Yacht Club Isole di Toscana, the Municipality of Scarlino, the Scarlino Yacht Service shipyard and the Marina di Scarlino with its Resort. We are convinced that the sport of sailing – explains the general manager of Marina di Scarlino Stefan Neuhaus – represents a central element for local economic development and for the growth of qualified international tourist flows.The challenge becomes more exciting every year, welcoming excellent sailing tours.”
The Yacht Club’s regatta year will begin with a weekend dedicated to Swan One Design (March 25-27), during which around twenty crews between ClubSwan 50 and ClubSwan 36 will test their technical skills in the gulf, in front of the Marina di Scarlino, to prepare for The Nations League 2022 circuit, which will see its start in the same waters, as it has already happened in 2021.
The calendar will continue with the first stage of the Melges World League, which this year will see the two classes Melges 14 and Melges 20 united in a single event from April 7 to 10, a period during which flotillas of sailors from all over the Europe will arrive in Scarlino. Forty boats are expected, divided into two classes.
To close the month of April one of the two key events of the season, the Swan Tuscany Challenge from 26 to 30, an event of the Nations League circuit, which for the fourth consecutive time has chosen the waters of this magnificent Gulf of Maremma. The three classes ClubSwan 50, Swan 45 and ClubSwan 36 will attract more than 30 crews to the Marina di Scarlino, lining up the most famous sailors in the world on the starting line.
May, on the other hand, will see the center of gravity shift to Olympic sailing, with the Europa Cup ILCA (May 12-15), an event that will literally see the Gulf of Follonica fill with sails, given that more than 300 boats are expected. The logistical commitment will be intensive, but with the collaboration of the two local clubs, Club Nautico Follonica and GDV LNI Follonica, an organizational machine that has already been tested on several occasions will be adopted.
To close the first act of the season, a highly coveted test and event: the National Flying Dutchman Championship (June 17/19).
During the summer, the Yacht Club will take care of organizing sailing school activities for young people from the territory and tourists, integrating the tourist offer in the name of sport and leisure, while respecting the environment.
The gulf will be in the spotlight again in September, and the 2022 program could not end better than with an event on the coveted 52 Super Series circuit, once again a very welcome return.
The extraordinary TP52 boats, a class in which owners and sailors of the highest level line up, will compete in the penultimate stage of the circuit from September 26 to October 1, offering an unmissable spectacle and a fine end to the season.
The Yacht Club Isole di Toscana can benefit from the support of the Municipality of Scarlino, Marina di Scarlino, Scarlino Yacht Service and Resort Baia Scarlino.
“As a local authority – says the mayor of Scarlino Francesca Travison – we can only thank the Yacht Club Isole di Toscana for the commitment it dedicates every year to the organization of high-level sporting events, and much more.The activity carried out by the club also extends to other areas, I am thinking of the tourist offer and the dissemination of sailing, which are also very important for our territory. has been created in recent years bodes well for the future: when the public and private sectors work together, the results arrive and affect the entire local economy.”
To support the Club’s season, the consolidated relationship with the company of excellence Rigoni di Asiago, with whom the passion for quality, the sea, the environment and clean energy are shared values.
