This week, for the third year running, the important partnership between the Mascalzone Latino Sailing School and the most socially active clubs in Boston was renewed. The important United States university centre confirmed its faith in the Neapolitan club, again inviting a delegation of two kids and an adult to take part in the PIB Sailing Championship, a regatta sailed for the first time in 2013 designed to make the most of collaboration and discussion among clubs heavily engaged in helping socially distressed young people.
The baptism of this initiative enjoyed enough visibility to be entered in the large calendar of activities planned for the year of Italian culture in the states, which from coast-to-coast promoted and highlighted the best of the cultural, scientific and productive heritage of Italy in the world.
The merit of making this appointment happen and keeping it alive goes as always to the Professionisti Italiani a Boston group, in collaboration with the local Italian Consulate, who involved the MIT Sailing Pavillon, the Community Boating Center and Courageous Sailing right from the first edition. Of the three, the latter is the sailing club most similar in values to the Mascalzone Latino Sailing School: it began operating a few years earlier and deals mainly with kids with social problems and often also adults.
In Boston for this 2015 edition with two kids born in 2001 and 2002, Giulio La Motta and Lorenzo Angrisano, to good students and Laser sailors who for years have given satisfaction to the Mascalzone Latino Sailing School. For them this is obviously a great voyage to reward their commitment and serious approach to sailing, without neglecting schoolwork. Accompanying them, for the first time, was Sailing School director Antonietta De Falco.
The week of the PIB Sailing Championship, held this year in July and not June, was according to tradition a rotation among the clubs. The three organising clubs host the regattas in turn. After a warmup on Monday, Tuesday began at the MIT Sailing Center and Wednesday at Courageous Sailing, both times at 5:30 PM: the late start will allow the kids to get used to boats they are not used to using in Naples. Friday will see the end of racing with a regatta at the Community Boating at 10 AM. Saturday afternoon the prizegiving ceremony at the Mit Pavillon, attended by Consul General Nicola De Santis.
The 2015 transfer was made possible by the founders of the PIB and their partners: Frank A. Facella’s Danforth Dental and the Mast Restaurant.