The "Maserati" has arrived in London today, Friday, February 23, at 13: 00, 20 minutes and 26 seconds, so it gets a five-day lead over the current record

The "Maserati" Multi 70 has crossed the London line, after 36 days, 2 hours, 38 minutes and 2 seconds of navigation. The trimaran, in which Alex Pella sails, has won the record of the "Tea Route," with a five-day advantage, with respect to the "Gitana 13." The "Maserati" left Hong Kong on January 18 and has gone over 13,000 nautical miles, turning around the world, passing through the Cape of Good Hope.

The aim of the crew of the "Maserati" composed, by the Italian Giovanni Soldini, the two Spanish, Alex Pella and Oliver Herrera, the Italian Guido Broggi and the French, Sébastien Audane, was to make the tour between 30 and 35 days. "I've nailed it," Alex Pella said once in a while. I should have bet on something. I did an estimate for the distance, average speed, weather conditions and the "Gitana 13" chrono. We have come very fast to the equator in the Atlantic, our path, up there has been almost perfect. But later on very slow and with a path many times away from the direct course. All right, because I think you can get down, and we leave the door open for others to come and try. "

Maserati: objective achieved

La Ruta del Té, is a legendary and historic route, started by the Spanish expedition of Elcano, in 1522, from Seville to the Philippines. The Hong Kong- London record runs the route followed by the clipper that transported tea from China to England in the second half of the 19th century. Cilebre was the Great Tea Race of 1866 that faced the five most modern and fast clipper of the time. The race had a great media impact and concluded in a very exciting way with the first three competitors going up the River Thames with the same tide and docking in the docks of London with a few hours of difference, after 99 days of navigation.

20 / 02 / 2018: "Maserati" which smells like record on the Tea Route, is expected in London on Friday

"Our dating from the Atlantic is being slow, sinuous and possibly hard on the stretch of the Gulf of Vizcaya and the Channel of the Mancha," said Alex Pella of the "Maserati," trying to beat the record of the "Tea Road"

The "Maserati" has been sailing for 32 days, since he left Hong Kong on January 18 and an advantage of 1.407 nautical miles, with respect to the current "Gitana 13," the record holder. They are expected to arrive in London next Friday morning, so they would get it with a five-day lead. "We are aware of this situation and even though the last few days are going to make us very long, because of conditions and hunger; since we go very fair of food, we have the record within our reach"Pella says.

08 / 02 / 2018: After 23 days the "Maserati" continues with record chrono of the Hong Kong- London Singladura

The crossing of the "Maserati" Ecuador will be atypical, as it will be made very east

After 23 days of navigation and 1,847 nautical miles of advantage over the current record of the "Route of Tea," the trimaran "Maserati," in which the Spanish, Alex Pella, is sailing, is approaching the crossing of Ecuador. "The heat begins to rise as we approach Ecuador. We are going to make a somewhat atypical crossing; since we will cross it very, very east. Almost on the coast of Liberia and Sierra Leone. By our position, it is the best option, however, we will have to be careful as the area is full of small fishing and pirates who go out to look for life at sea," says Alex Pella.

The Spanish navigator has also told that it is an area with little traffic, "The most frequent are the immense high-rise fishing, which fish in the sub-Saharan bank. Yesterday we crossed with two more than 80 meters, clad and to the layer, in the middle of nowhere. They usually fish two or three months, until they fill their 60-meter freezer, they unload it in Cape Verde or in countries with little catch control, they load fuel and food, they change crew and they return to the farm. And so repeatedly, until the catches fall and then they go to another area of the planet.".

04 / 02 / 2018: "Maserati" reaches the Cape of Good Hope 30 knots to London

The "Maserati" is in the middle of its journey, after having reached the Cape of Good Hope

"Maserati" has already reached the Cape of Good Hope, in Sudráfica, just half the route of the Tea Route. ""This is a very important point for us, as we have made almost half the route and we are almost five days ahead of the "Gitana 13"Alex Pella said in a video.

Giovanni Soldini, Alex Pella, Guido Broggi, Oliver Herrera and Sébastien Audane, the crew of the "Maserati," go 655 nautical miles ahead of the record, when they have sailed 16 days and 4 hours... "Maserati" has passed the Cape of Good Hope at almost 30 knots of speed.

This is a very important moment, as they now know that the time they have used to make half the route has been optimal... they are now on a north road to the coast of Africa, where the next important step will be Ecuador.

01 / 02 / 2018: The "Maserati" already caresses the passage through the Cape of Good Hope in its navigation to London

The "Maserati," in which the Spanish Alex Pella sails, is at the edge of the four o'clock Thursday afternoon about 200 miles from the Cape of Good Hope and with an advantage of about 500 miles ahead of the current record of the Tea Route. "We have made great progress in the last two weeks, with a complicated exit from the China Sea and a variable Indian... yesterday we had a small difficulty with one front and we have another one in front of us... now we are in a transition area, with little wind and with a great desire to reach the tip of South Africa and enter the Atlantic once again. For the moment, the boat is perfect, after the problem with the rudder we solved quickly. And we are all looking forward to this challenge."The Spanish was informing us early this morning.

30 / 01 / 2018: "Maserati" repairs his rudder broken to 2000 miles from the Cape of Good Hope

In the next few days, the crew expects to face difficult weather conditions... waiting for the passage of a cold front associated with a depression that could be violent, with winds of 40 knots... the "Maserati" is located about 2,000 miles east of Cape of Good Hope, to get the record of the Tea Route, must cross the Queen Elizabeth II bridge over the Thames River in London, before the first of March

The "Maserati" crew took advantage of the calm of the day to quickly replace the starboard rudder that had been broken. "We had a collision on our starboard rudder with an unidentified floating object. Result, rudder ripped from curd. At the time we proceeded to remove the piece of fuse that was hooked and we marched without a rudder; for because of the waves it was impossible to install the rudder of respect that, luckily, we have on board... al get into the calm, we get to stop the ship completely and proceed to install the new. The operation has been a success, it will have taken us about 30 minutes. We also take advantage to make part of the usual checks of the ship, which are usually carried out in the calm... now we have the Cape of Good Hope about three days ahead and the ship in perfect conditions "Pella pointed out.

23 / 01 / 2018: "Maserati" has to reach London in less than 41 days... if you want to beat the record

According to Alex Pella, the "Maserati" has already been 510 miles ahead of the historical record.

After more than four days of navigation the "Maserati" Multi 70, it is already 510 miles ahead of the current record of the Tea Route, which runs over 13,000 miles, turning around the world, from Hong Kong to London. "We continue to sail in this incredible sea of China. This is a real slalom between islands, rocks, merchant and fishing with its fishing gear, which are not always well marked. Very distracted in terms of pure navigation it refers, although it is not always simple" Alex Pella comments.

The team "Maserati" formed by Giovanni Soldini, Guido Broggi, Alex Pella, Oliver Herrera Pérez and Sébastien Audigane, crossed Ecuador after four days of navigation, the mapping indicates that they sailed the first 1,408 miles of the theoretical route at an average speed of 16.2 knots. On the ground, they actually sailed 1,635 miles at an average speed of 18.9 knots, winning an advantage of 468 miles over the reference time established by Lionel Lemonchois, pattern of "Gitana 13."

La Ruta del Té, is a historic route, started by the Spanish expedition from Elcano, in 1522, from Seville to the Philippines. The Hong Kong- London record runs the route followed by the clipper that transported tea from China to England in the second half of the 19th century. Cilebre was the Great Tea Race of 1866 that faced the five most modern and fast clipper of the time. The race had a great media impact and concluded in a very exciting way with the first three competitors going up the River Thames with the same tide and docking in the docks of London with a few hours of difference, after 99 days of navigation.

18 / 01 / 2018: "Maserati" with Alex Pella begins the challenge of beating the record Hong Kong- London

The "Maserati," in which Alex Pella sails, has just left Hong Kong to try to beat the record of the Tea Route

The "Maserati" Multi 70, in which the Spanish Alex Pella sails, has come out today to try to beat the Hong Kong- London record. The famous Tea Route, this mythical race runs over 13,000 miles, turning around the world, passing through the Cape of Good Hope. To do so, they must do so in less than 41 days. "I am very excited about this new challenge. The current record is made by my good friend Lionel Lemonchois, on board the" Gitana 13... let's see if we're lucky with the weather chains all along and we can beat it. ", point Alex Pella.

On board the "Maserati" are five crew members, the patron, the Italian Giovanni Soldini, two Spanish, Alex Pella and Oliver Herrera, the Italian Guido Broggi and the French, Sébastien Audane... the aim of the team is to make the tour between 30 and 35 days. The singlature has started with north-east winds, which is a fast angle of the ship... ahead they have 3000 miles by the China Sea, with a lot of navigation work, as there are many obstacles of small islands, rocks and traffic of merchant ships and pekers.