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Home / 2015 AAM Cowes Week / Cowes Week: Yachting World Features Bella

Cowes Week: Yachting World Features Bella

August 10, 2015 By Bella Mente Leave a Comment

Today, Bella Mente Racing had Yachting World’s Toby Hodges onboard  for the team’s final training session before the big boat series at Cowes Week, which kicks off tomorrow and runs through Thursday. Read an excerpt from the feature below. The full article is available at http://www.yachtingworld.com/cowes-week/sailing-aboard-the-72ft-mini-maxi-bella-mente-one-of-the-fastest-yachts-at-cowes-week-2015-66637

Sailing aboard the 72ft mini maxi Bella Mente, one of the fastest yachts at Cowes Week 2015

The Solent can look relatively small from the deck of a 72ft grand prix racing yacht, as I found at during a practise race at Cowes Week 2015. A sail aboard Bella Mente proved the ideal opportunity to discover why the growing mini maxi fleet is so exciting…

Owner/Driver Hap Fauth at the wheel with Terry Hutchinson calling tactics (Credit Yachting World)

Yachting World documents Cowes Week training session onboard Bella Mente (Credit Yachting World)

Navigator Ian ‘Soapy’ Moore and strategist Ado Stead (Credit Yachting World)

For other notable features on the team throughout the years, visit our “In the Press” section on the website

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The original Bella Mente Racing campaign kicked off in 2006 with Key West Race Week, and since then owner and skipper Hap Fauth has had three additional racing yachts in the program.

Launched in September of 2018, the current Bella Mente is a Maxi 72 designed by Botin Partners in Spain and built by New England Boatworks in Rhode Island.

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