EXCLUSIVE "I reveal the secrets of boat 2". This is Max Sirena, skipper of Luna Rossa

“We were happy with boat 1, this second hull is its evolution”.

Max Sirena, live from Auckland, reveals to us in the events area of Milano Yachting Week – The digital Boat Show all the secrets of Luna Rossa’s second hull AC75, with which the team will be on the water at the Prada Cup from December 17th and will try to win the America’s Cup.

The skipper and managing team director of Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli Team tells us about the boat in detail, with his usual irony: “In winter they all become builders, sailors, it’s the beauty of Italians”. And again: “I would have preferred to do the Cup with boat 1, if all the teams had also raced with the first boat”.

And: “It’s always a sailboat race!!! You can have the fastest boat but if you get the wrong board, sail adjustment, you’re screwed”.

Enjoy the nice and long interview.

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WHO IS MAX SIRENA

Born in 1971 in Rimini, Massimiliano “Max” Sirena is at his seventh participation in the America’s Cup. Of these he won the 33rd edition with BMW Oracle Racing in the role of wingspindle manager and the 35th with Emirates Team New Zealand in the Bermuda edition in 2017.

Max was skipper of the Extreme 40 Luna Rossa and winner of the Extreme Sailing Series championship in 2011.

With the Luna Rossa team he participated in the 2000 challenges, winning the Louis Vuitton Cup, and in 2003 and 2007 in the role of assistant bowman. He then became Skipper and Team Director of Luna Rossa in the campaign for the 34th America’s Cup, held in San Francisco in 2013.

Today, still in the role of Skipper and Team Director, he leads the Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli team in the challenge for the 36th America’s Cup to be held in Auckland in 2021.