Rare Bird Sailing Team

Rare Bird Sailing Team brings together sailors from Italy, Slovenia and Croatia. This international crew gives boat a soul, and teamwork achieves results. Its unique structure proves that the desire for a result knows no borders.

Team members are recruited from the best skiff sailors, which already have polished their sailing skills in our Sailing Center.

Brothers Giovanni and Roberto Tironi lead the Team. They sail professionally for over 20 years, and have competed in various classes and categories, from offshore regattas in the Mediterranean to the European Cup on the Olympic 49er class and the Boss.

Team manages to competes with it's own boat Amor, as well as at various monotype regattas.

Amor

Amor 56''is an offshore racing sailboat, entirely made of carbon composites. The world famous Studio Vallicelli developed ideas of brothers Tironi into design that was constructed in 2000. in shipyard Se.Ri.Gi. in Aquileia. Carbon hull was manufactured in Soleri Composites (Riviera di Rimini, Gaia Legend, Esimit Europe, Anyway True).

Aesthetically clean lines cleverly hide all its brutality, which leaves the competition far behind immediately after the start. More than 650m2 sail downwind can develop a speed over 25 knots.

The ships first performance was the Barcolana 2001. Since then, the boat has performed in 4-5 races annually, and has always placed among the top 4 overall. It is a regular guest on Barcolana and Mrduja, Croatia Cup, Viska regatta and Fiumanka.

Technical data: Length: 16.45 m Width: 5.10 m Draft 3.5/2.3 m Weight: 9500 kg Ballast: 3000 kg Water ballast: 800 kg Motor: Volvo, 78 ks Water tank: l 500 Fuel tank: l 270 Cabins: 4 Bath: 2

Sail plan: J: 8.90 P: 21.8 E. 8.75 Main sail: 127m2 Genoa: 85 m2 Code 0: 120m2 Gennaker 450 m

Croatia Cup

May 27.-28. 2011.

Punat - Kornat - Galun - Punat (Kvarnerić)

Since 1984 in May of each year the traditional regatta "Croatia cup" is taking place at Punat. This year it will be the 27th regatta.

Liburnijska regatta

June 09.-10. 2011.

Zadar - Rijeka

Fiumanka 2011.

June 10.-12. 2011.

Rijeka - Omišalj - Rijeka

In addition to the traditional international regatta Fiumanka (June 11th) and Press Fiumanka (10th - 11th of June), this year its second edition will have the Rotary Regatta (10th - 11th of June), Liburnijska Regatta (9th and 10th of June, Zadar - Rijeka ), Fiumanka Classic, traditional build regatta (10th - 11th of June) and Virtual Fiumanka (June 10th). The second edition of the race Skipper Fiumanka is moved to Sunday (June 12th) for the winners of the groups have a chance for a real battle to win, and the organizers more time to prepare the winners ceremony.

Fiumanka this year sailed into three categories and three routes. Traditional build regatta is sailing up to the mark in front of Porto Baroš, FAMILY cruisers to the mark near Kostrena while REGATTA cruisers after the mark near Kostrena continues to sail to the mark in front of Omisalj ... and they all meat back at the finnish line in the port of Rijeka.

ORC World Cup

June 18.-25. 2011.

Cres

An impressive 70 entries have already registered to compete at the 2011 ORC International World Championship, to be held on the island of Cres in Croatia over 18-25 June 2011, and more are signing up each week.

Currently 12 nations are being represented at this event, with most of these entries hailing from the Adriatic countries of Italy, Croatia, and Slovenia. However, there are also teams coming from Austria, the Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary, Portugal, Russia, Slovakia, Great Britain, and the USA, making this suitable as this year’s only ISAF-sanctioned World Championship for offshore sailing.

Mrduja

September 24.-25. 2011.

Split - Mrduja - Split

The legendary dispute between the people of Brač and Šolta as to whom Mrduja islet belonged was solved in October 1927 by making Mrduja an oasis of sports friendship for all those fond of the sea, boats and islands.

To make this year's 80th anniversary Mrdujska race remained even more memorable, the organizer, Y.C. Labud decided to give each participant for the memory of this anniversary a plaque which will be engraved with the name of the yacht, the name of the helmsman and crew that will perform.

This is definitely a race that always satisfy all of its participants, causing them to return often. Moreover they are all ambassadors to their stories invite new participants.

Barcolana

October 09. 2011.

Trieste

The Barcolana regatta or Autumn Cup (Coppa d'Autunno), named after the village of Barcola, is a historical european sailing race born in 1969 thanks to the Società Velica di Barcola e Grignano of Trieste. It takes place annually in the Gulf of Trieste, every second Sunday in October and is one of the largest sailing races in the world with over 2000 participants.

Racing Charter

Experience real power-sailing on board of Amor, one of the fastest racing cruisers at Adriatic. Get on the grinder and show all your strength. As we develop more than 600m2 of sails downwind, you will feel the speed building up. Fifteen knots, 20... and competition is left behind.

Take advantage of this unique possibility and sail out with Rare Bird Sailing Team. Join us! Show your best, and help us bring that trophy home.

Four places in crew availiable for each event!

Date	Race	Price
27.-28.05.2011.	Croatia Cup	500€/person
09.-10.06.2011.	Liburnijska regata
12.06.2011.	Fiumanka