Scuola Italia In Vela
A school different from the others where you can learn to go to sea by taking lessons immediately on a boat, because you can only understand the wind by gaining experience, a philosophy that has distinguished the Ricci family.
".. dear guys you have to learn to know the wind if you want to sail, it's the main thing. And to make friends you have to learn to feel it. How? With the uncovered parts of your body: face, hair, arms, legs , your ears. The secret is all there. Your skin will listen to the wind and you will learn to follow the right trajectories, like this, naturally. "
(Cino Ricci, captain of Azzurra)
"There are many variables in sailing boats and the emotional aspect is also fundamental: the swaying of the sea, the gusts of wind that tilt the boat make you lose the sense of balance: but you have to learn to think in the midst of these conditions. The sailboat made sitting in a classroom is not real, and for this reason as soon as the emotion takes over all the notions you forget them in a moment. It is the sea and the wind that teach you how to take a sailboat ".
(Franco Ricci, skipper instructor sailor)