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NEW PROJECTS, NEW CHALLENGES

What I consider essential in our sport and in tuning boats and sails is knowledge, the chance to run tests in races; comparing with other skippers is the most important help there is.

Taking part in national and international regattas, competing at a high level is a huge help for developing your equipment and for refining your boat’s set-up, because only when you push to the top level do you get key feedback.

What I especially love is being on the race courses, gaining experience and gathering as much information as possible, not only about my boat, but about everything around me.

I’m also very interested in new things; I really enjoy trying new classes, new challenges. Lately I’ve focused on the DF65 and DF95, which have intrigued me quite a lot, and also—pushed by friends—on the AC120, all classes that have given me great satisfaction.

As for accessories, everything you find for sale on our site are products tested on my boats, tried and tried again; only when we are sure of the quality and reliability do we offer it to the public.

MARBLEHEAD CLASS

The Marblehead is one of the fastest, most technical and advanced classes in radio-controlled sailing, it is a high-tech class, where every detail matters and where the sails play a key role in the boat’s overall balance.

For me Marblehead is not only a benchmark class, but the class I started with and on which I built the most important part of my sporting and design experience.

After an initial phase of my career in the ’90s and early 2000s, in the last ten years I’ve gone back to attending race courses regularly, with the same passion and luckily with the same results too.

I returned to racing at a good level thanks to a Tramontane, a somewhat dated boat, but extremely elegant and high-performing, and after a series of changes to rig and sails, performance increased even further, allowing me to race on equal terms with newer boats like the Grunge or the Niou-Niou.

Three national regattas won in two years, a fine fifth place at the 2024 Italian Championship, and an excellent seventh place in the Nations Cup 2024 out of 113 competitors.

After reluctantly leaving my beloved Tramontane I moved to a brand-new Niou-Niou , which after a difficult start, then proved to be one of the best boats I’ve ever had.

Here too a lot of work on trim, but above all extensive research on sail sections, which allowed me to make a huge leap forward compared to my rivals.

With the Niou-Niou we also brought home three national regattas in two years, came close to the top ten at the World Championship, became Italian runners-up and won the Italian leg of the Nations Cup in Ponte Caffaro in 2026.

DF95 CLASS

The DF95 is a boat I got into recently, intrigued by its simplicity, but I was pleasantly surprised by the excellent performance, and by the overall balance.

It’s a very light boat and it needs to be trimmed in a particular way, especially upwind, while it’s super fun down wind, you can gain many places if sailed well, but also lose just as many at the first distraction.

The boats come out of an assembly box, they’re meant to be practically identical, so the big differences come from the settings, as far as the sails are concerned, even if the room to adjust is quite limited, with a few small tweaks you can improve something compared to the official sails.

I also started racing DF95s this season, and I have to say we got off on the right foot, taking home the 2026 National Championship on the first try, which means we already have a solid starting base; now all that’s left is to raise the bar and try some tests in international regattas too, where the level of the opponents and their experience increases.

DF65 CLASS

The DragonForce 65 (DF65) is a very popular radio-controlled racing sailboat in model yachting, designed as an easy-to-use “one-design” boat that is also competitive in racing settings.

· The class is restricted (all models are almost identical), which means races are based mainly on the skipper’s skills rather than on technical modifications to the boat.

The DF65 is ideal as an entry-level boat for competitive model yachting, thanks to its balance of performance, low cost and international spread.

As with the DF95, in this case too I was pleasantly surprised by the boat’s performance; it’s great fun even in strong wind—doing a few tacks with the small rigs in 50 knots of bora is a blast.

I have never tried official races with these models, but we still did excellent tests with friends from Slovenia, where a nice group of enthusiasts is forming in Izola, and with another group from Trieste; the goal is to kick off sporting activity also with this small but very interesting class.

IACC CLASS 120

The AC120 class is a category of radio-controlled sailboats inspired by America’s Cup yachts, built to a 1:20 scale (about 120 cm). It blends realism, performance and technique, offering an exciting racing experience for model-making and sport-sailing enthusiasts.

A class that saw a period of strong growth some years ago, it is now showing renewed signs of increasing interest and is expanding again.

Fast and fun boats, thrilling races both fleet and match-race, we started producing dedicated sails a couple of years ago, launching a great project together with our friend Enrico Meneghello, and we immediately managed to place our sails in 1st and 2nd place at the national championship in both 2024 and 2025.

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