20 January 2012
Marco Nannini links his GOR campaign to Multiple Sclerosis
Despite the lack of a title sponsor, Marco Nannini’s Akilaria Class40, Financial Crisis, is the most heavily-branded entry in the double-handed, round-the-world, Global Ocean Race (GOR). The Italian sailor and his Spanish co-skipper, Hugo Ramon, have completed two legs of the GOR and reached the halfway point in Wellington, New Zealand, running the racing campaign on personal funding and donations collected while the duo are at sea and in-port.
During the GOR’s Leg 2 from Cape Town, South Africa, to Wellington an online donation received by Nannini and Ramon has led directly to some extra branding on their Class40’s hull and a strong link to the Wellington Multiple Sclerosis Society; one of 18 regional societies throughout New Zealand which endeavours to look after the needs of people with multiple sclerosis and other allied neurological diseases. Marco Nannini explains the story: “As many of the people who follow my blog already know, during Leg 2 of the Global Ocean Race I received a kind donation to my racing budget from someone whose wife suffers from Multiple Sclerosis,” explains the 33 year-old skipper.
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BT Boats Kiwi40FC Bodacious Dream test sailing in Wellington Harbour. See the gallery here.
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