PRESS RELEASE (3/25/2015)
Saturday, March 28,a Loano, to the 4 p.m., at Council Chamber in Doria Palace initiative will take place “Sailing in the Aegean.”, organized by the’UNITRE of Loano under the auspices of the Municipality of Loano.
Massimo Vecchietti, will recount the experience of sailing among the Aegean islands on his sailboat Patchouli. Through images and anecdotes, Vecchietti will lead those present into the culture, places and nature of the microcosm represented by the Aegean Sea, an area of the Mediterranean dominated by the Meltemi, an often impetuous wind that blows from June to September and conditions the life, navigation and climate of this geographical area.
Massimo Vecchietti's account and images are the prologue to a book nearing completion entitled “Head East. Patchouli II in the Aegean.”.
Massimo Vecchietti (born 1946), a Lombardy-born physician, from an early age developed a passion for sailing on a small “Dinghi” with which he and his father enjoyed Lake Como and Lake Maggiore.
In his youth he devoted himself to racing mobile dinghies by racing on a “470.” In 1978 he moved to Liguria for work and abandoned mobile dinghies to sail cruising boats, first with friends and then since 1990 on his own boats assisted by his wife Paola.
His first boat was a Grand Soleil 34 (Cantieri Del Pardo) with which he also resumed racing and sailing, during periods off work, in Corsica and Sardinia. The Grand Soleil was then replaced by the ORCA 43, a very challenging boat with which he sailed throughout the western Mediterranean; this was replaced in 2004 by a pure cruising boat, the AMEL Maramu 45 with which he began his experiences in the Ionian and Aegean.
In 2007, having stopped working, he devoted himself, again together with his wife Paola, to longer sailings. In 2010, after the loss of the Maramu, which had fallen from the landlocked vessel in a Greek shipyard, he purchased his current boat, a 16-meter AMEL Supermaramù, rigged as a Ketch (two masts) with which he currently sails mainly in the Aegean and along the Turkish coast.
