The Milanese engineer announced his participation in the very hard tour of the world alone without a stopover. Will be joined by Mapei
It was written in the already brilliant career that Ambrogio Beccaria, the best Italian ocean sailor of his generation (he is 34 years old) decided sooner or later to face the Vendée Globe, the very hard tour of the world alone without a stopover. It will do so in the next edition, with departure scheduled in November 2028, flanked by Mapei, a multinational who has long been alongside sport and follows the Milanese engineer for three years. Beccaria began to get noticed in the large high hill circuit with companies in the Mini 6.50 class, winning in 2019 the prestigious Mini Transat. Then he passed in 2022 to the Class 40, where he collected excellent results starting from the Route du Rhum. Now you climb level also with the boat which is an Imoca 60 class, the oceanic F.1 equipped with foil, which allow incredible speeds. His will be called “Allagrande Mapei”, to keep the “brand” born at the time of the first adventures. “It is thanks to the sailors of La Spezia who made fun of me when I was preparing the mini in the port: from Milanese, I was only answering” great “when they asked me how it was going. And they ended up greeting me regularly in the same way,” he recalls.
Beccaria at the Vendée Globe
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The starting point of the challenge is obviously the boat that is the one with which the Frenchman Thomas Ruyant won the Transat Jacques Vabre in 2023 and took part in the last Vendée Globe, closing Settimo. Supported by Ruyant himself, Beccaria will use the ex-vulnerable to “take his hand” on a class that is new to him. “I chose this revolutionary boat because it is very marine and it also manages to develop medium speed on the long distance. It is equipped with two pairs of foil and I can’t wait to test them both to understand the differences,” he explains. In July, the launch with the new vaguely Nerazzurri livery (not surprisingly is Inter fan) to Lorient which will be the technical base of the team made up of about twenty people, largely French. Then by the end of the year the first competitive tests: The Ocean Race Europe (departure on August 10), which is a sort of tour along the coasts of the middle continent with a stop in Genoa in early September, and the historic transatlantic “en double” transat café l’Or (departure 26 October), where we aim for success. “In 2023, on the same route, I won in the Class 40 and Ruyant in Imocas 60: we will do everything to repeat ourselves, since this time we compete together”, promises the Milanese sailor.
The Beccaria-Mapei partnership
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If Mapei has not revealed the precise budget for the operation that in any case requires millions of euros, on the other hand the company appears very involved in a project that – as in the Corde di Beccaria – provides for a lot of attention for the sustainability of the entire countryside and the safeguarding of the sea. “One of our goals is to raise awareness of the public on the environmental impact of many of our daily choices, telling how the seas change through the adventures on the boat,” he explains. Beccaria’s challenge at the Vendée Globe is not the only one for the Italian ocean sail. The ex-Olimpica Francesca Clapcich has announced her campaign for a few weeks, which will be used by Malizia-Seaexplorer. “I am happy, it’s a nice message for the whole movement: but we are already marked with two different teams that participated in the latest edition, so it makes no sense to collaborate.” It starts immediately with the concrete part of the countryside, changing the old boat to the needs and desires of the new skipper. “First, I’m putting his hand to the kitchen – underlines Ambrogio -: Thomas limited himself to a stove, I want to at least use a pressure cooker …”.
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