And so I arrive in Malcesine in fine style, and the first order of business is finding my AirBnB. I call my hostess – Annie – and there she is on a yellow bike with a pink bag, waiting at a roundabout in the center of town. I squeeze into a sort-of-a-parking spot and she leads me to the apartment.
OMG it’s perfect
Right in the center of town with a beautiful view of the lake.
AirBnB is like a miracle, right?
Okay, next task … find Fraglia Vela Malcesine, the world famous sailing club which is hosting the 2021 International Moth Worlds (dum dum dum). Should be right up the road a bit …
Well looks like I found the right place … 🙂
I walked around a bit to explore – lots and lots and lots of Moths … but also there was one particular Moth I needed to find … mine!
Super intimidating to see all those boats and hear all those sailors working on them, speaking all different languages. Yikes this is serious.
Also pretty intimidating to look out at the water. It’s cloudy and dark and rainy and windy. They call this place the wind tunnel and looking to the North, you can see why. Well okay then.
Hmmm, what’s this … looks like a sort of super-Moth!
Oh look – there it is … my mighty steed for the week …
She’s beautiful. We had a nice conversation and I think we have reached an understanding. We are not going to win, but we are going to have a lot of fun together trying. And neither one of us is going to get hurt.
BTW this boat belongs to Luca Rizzotti, the President of the Italian Moth Association, who has graciously chartered her to me for the regatta. A perfect host 🙂 Thank you Luca!
One more note: if you look closely you can see, the Moth is covered by a Wasp cover (!) Luca joked this is like in Raiders of the Lost Ark when the Nazis put a swastika on the Ark’s crate, and God struck them down … let’s hope the Moth gods are sufficiently appeased!
Mothing Malcesine 