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Perfect playground (magnificent toys)


ClubSwan Racing has enjoyed a vintage season of racing this year, not just in its core one-design classes but in ORC handicap racing too


W 56 SEAHORSE


hen Leonardo Ferragamo acquired Nautor Swan back in 1998 he did so with a clear vision of the journey he wanted the


Finnish firm to embark on. Though already a long-standing Swan 51 owner, the potential contribution of the successful Italian fashion entrepreneur was not perhaps immediately apparent. It was soon to become so. With an instinctive understanding of the


critical importance of bringing branding, marketing, customer engagement and quality products together on an international platform, Ferragamo's success in rebuilding and reinvigorating the Swan brand is now self-evident. In recent years a significant component


of that platform has been ClubSwan Racing which has played a central role in the evolution of the Swan family and community — a fact most recently demonstrated at the conclusion of the highly successful 2023 season. Racing sailors from 25 countries came


together in Scarlino for a double finale in the form of the Swan One Design Worlds


and the first ever Swan Med Regatta - The Tuscany Challenge for Rating yachts, the two events held in tandem in mid-October 2023. It proved a suitably enthralling end to


a highly successful 2023 season that had begun back in April at the Swan Croatia Challenge, with the ClubSwan 36 fleet blowing off the winter cobwebs in the sparkling waters off Split. Giangiacomo Serena di Lapigio's Monaco-flagged G Spot put down an early marker that she might prove to be one of the boats to beat with a win at the season opener. May saw a gathering


of the full ClubSwan Racing clan with the radical 36s joined by the innovative ClubSwan 50s — both testament to the impact of designer Juan Kouyoumdjian on the Swan line — and the ClubSwan 42 class in Villasimius on Sardinia's dramatic southeast coast. The same dynamic one-design trio of


classes reunited again in Sardinia the followingmonth, this time at the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda in Porto Cervo, for


The Nations Trophy. Strong breezes around the archipelago saw some spectacular sailing conditions, with Italy claiming the title thanks to the performance of two of the ClubSwan 50s — Andrea Lacorte's Vitamina and Cuordileone helmed by Leonardo Ferragamo. Palma was the next stop at the end of


‘ClubSwan 42s won both ORC1 and ORC2 at the Copa del Rey’


July for the classic Copa del Rey MAPFRE regatta with the ClubSwan 50s and ClubSwan 42s each having their own class while a large contingent of Swan's performance cruisers opted for the Rating fleets. It says a lot for the inherent pace and versatility of Swan's production line yachts that


ClubSwan 42s won the ORC 1 and ORC 2 classes, with Javier Sanz and Christian Plump's Palibex-Elena Nova claiming victory ahead of the TP52 Aifos skippered by Spain's King Don Felipe in ORC 1. ClubSwan Racing then displayed its


versatility by holding two new European championships at different venues. The ClubSwan 50s were hosted by the Club Maritimo de Mahon at a brand-new venue


CLUBSWAN RACING/STUDIO BORLENGHI


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