One week ago we received this e-mail from Ernesto Bertarelli, Alinghi owner and 2003 and 2007 America’s Cup winner:
Hello,
I am contacting you on behalf of Mr Bertarelli - Mr Bertarelli has been informed that SUI 91 and SUI 100, built by Mr Begozzi, were currently defending the Mini ACC Boat Cup and he would like to send him a small present.
Could you please provide me with Mr Begozzi’s postal address?
Thank you very much in advance,
Best regards,
C. Lanz
C. Lanz
Bemido SA
Av. G.-M. 31-33
1202 Geneva
Switzerland
c.l.@bemido.com
www.alinghi.com
After that we have been contacted by a personal friend of Bertarelli, Giuseppe. He told that Bertarelli uses for fun a IOM but He is unhappy and when He discovered our boats has been enthusiastic, He appreciated their beauty and their performances, and the Cup rules: Round Robin, Challengers Cup and Final IACC120 Cup, as the real AC. Giuseppe wanted personally test in water IACC120 boats, so last week end We met him in our regatta field near Rome, and He tested the two Alinghi boats, defender of IACC120 Cup. He has been entusiastic and told us that the boats have the same behavoir of real AC boats. After that Giuseppe wants two new IACC120 boats for him! It is nice that even billionaires are normal people who enjoyAC 120’s as much as we do at a much lower cost than real AC big boat campaign!
Yesterday I received the gift, a enormous and wonderful book, finely bound, with embossed the Alinghi mainsail. In the packageI found also a private mail to me from Bertarelli. At the first page of the book Bertarelli wrote a giant autograph. The book contains thousand beautiful pictures of 10 years of Alinghi victories in the America’s Cup. It is a great honor for me to receive this gift!
