From today, two students of the Mascalzone Latino Sailing School who left Naples yesterday with an instructor are in the States to take part in the second edition of the PIB Sailing Championship. Conceived in collaboration with the Italian Consulate in Boston, the sailing event confirms international collaboration between various clubs which, in Massachusetts, are similar to and have inspired the founding principles of the Mascalzone Latino social project.
The Professionisti Italiani a Boston again reunited the clubs most active in social activities in their magnificent city: Courageous Sailing (the most similar to ours, because it mostly offers courses to socially handicapped kids), the MIT Sailing Pavillon and the Community Boating Center.
This year too the racing programme saw three days of sporting activity in the three prestige clubs, each of which would make available a different kind of boat. Race and training courses that were always different, where our young athletes Salvio Pistone and Laura Canzanella, accompanied by the expert instructor Antonio Dell’Omo Beneduce, could experience different conditions they weren’t used to, like the currents on the river in front of the headquarters of the famous MIT or on the sea, in the bay where the Courageous has its base. The non-stop programme for the young Mascalzones on transfer, after their arrival yesterday evening, was for a Sunday of orientation, with a trip outside the city with the kind families offering hospitality, followed by a day of training and dinner at Euno, an Italian restaurant and partner in the event. Then five key days of training and races, another excursion with our American posts, and Saturday 28th and Sunday 29th June the prizegiving ceremony and refreshments at the MIT Pavilion.
As last year, the Mascalzone Latino Sailing School thanks the partners who make this important experience possible, it’s fundamental for the training but also for the gratification of the kids involved, chosen on the basis of their school and sailing performance. The event was made possible by the founders of PIB and partners: Sauces’nLove, Scarpetta, the Euno restaurant, while the travel agency Ricky World, as in 2013, kindly provided the air tickets from Naples to the United States.