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Florida sailing

December 20, 2011 By Bella Mente Leave a Comment

The team has been plenty busy over the last couple of weeks. We all met up in Palm Beach, FL for a couple of days of sailing and idea exchanges for the new boat. Hap has chartered a TP 52 for Key West. We will be sailing Origin’s old boat. We trained on the boat for 3 days and were supposed to race over the weekend in Palm Beach. Unfortunately, the weather did not cooperate and we were not able to race over the weekend.
The 3 days of practice took place in some good breeze and waves and were able to work through quite a few things. It was nice to get the team back together and sailing again. We are all looking forward to racing in Key West. There will be a fleet of 8 52s so it will be some good racing.
The new boat is coming along nicely. Pirate and Rob O have been working hard to nail down lots of the details. The rig is also being constructed at the same time so Pirate is carrying double duty.

Doogie

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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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