SAN FRANCISCO - It wasn't the first time an Italian had sailed from New York, around Cape Horn at the southern tip of South America, and into the San Francisco Bay. Most Italians in San Francisco have family stories of their great-grandfathers making the same arduous voyage a century and a half ago, and with much less fanfare. When Captain Giovanni Soldini and the crew of the VOR70 Maserati completed the same route this week, however, there was much to celebrate.

On Saturday, February 16th, at precisely 10:32 a.m., the single-hulled yacht sailed under the Golden Gate Bridge, and into history, as it broke the world record—not by seconds, minutes or even hours—but by over ten full days.The record-breaking voyage was completed in only 47 days, 42 minutes, and 29 seconds.

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Fonte: L'italo-Americano