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Meet Pablo “Panic” Panichelli, coach for Team USA 🇺🇸 at the OptiOrange International Regatta in Spain.

Pablo Panichelli is from Argentina and has been coaching Optis since 1987. He trained some well known coaches in Opti, including Pepe Bettini, Pilo Rocha, Lucas Calabrese, Ramon Oliden & Fran Bellocchio among others. This will be his second time coaching Team USA. In his long career as an Argentinian National Coach he helped sailors achieve positive results including multiple gold, silver, and bronze medals at all IODA Events, from South Americans to North Americans, Europeans and Worlds.

Pablo worked for 4 years as a Pre-Olympic and Pre Panamerican-Games National Coach in Argentina, but considers the Optimist Class the best boat to teach his sailors to perform. He worked for the Argentinian and Peruvian Optimist Association, with the National & Development Teams, and he loves to join his colleagues every time the US National Development Team Head Coach calls him for a practice. Panic joined LISOT Team in 2009 to work together with Pepe Bettini. He studied Vet and Social Psychology, loves to spend time sailing, biking, and hiking with his son Manuel (25), and enjoys films and jazz music. Panic is looking forward to coaching at this event and sharing all these years of experience with the team.

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Maykel Alonso on LinkedIn: Join Maykel Alonso and Norman Sailing at Lake Garda – April 12–20, 2025! ⛵… Join Maykel Alonso and Norman Sailing at Lake Garda – April 12–20, 2025! ⛵ I’m excited to announce that I’ll be returning for my 8th year at the Lake Garda…

Registration for the 2025 Norman Sailing Garda Optimist and ILCA 4/6 Easter Meetings are now open! Visit https://www.normansailing.com/garda-easter-meeting for more info on event, coaches, schedule and team registration link 🇺🇸🇧🇷🇨🇦🇦🇺🇩🇰
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Lake Garda Meeting | Norman Sailing The International Optimist and ILCA Youth Meetings on Lake Garda, Italy are two of the most famous regattas in the world. Since its introduction 40 years ago, it has hosted thousands of sailors from all over the world. On April 29, 2018, the Guinness Book of World Records recognized it as the larges...

Prepariamoci a un 2025 ricchissimo di 𝒗𝒆𝒍𝒂 𝒈𝒊𝒐𝒗𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒍𝒆!
📆 Si parte già a 𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐳𝐨 con il 𝑻𝒓𝒐𝒇𝒆𝒐 𝑷𝒂𝒐𝒍𝒂 (Classi ILCA, 1-3 marzo), per iscrizioni: https://www.fragliavelariva.it/regate/carnival-race-trofeo-paola-ilca/ seguito dagli imperdibili appuntamenti per gli 𝐎𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐭: 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐡 𝐂𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐑𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐚 (7-9 marzo) per iscrizioni: https://www.fragliavelariva.it/regate/5th-youth-centenary-regatta/, 𝐒𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐭 𝐂𝐮𝐩 (12-13 aprile), per iscrizioni: https://www.fragliavelariva.it/regate/rothoblaas-sprint-cup/ e l'iconico 𝐌𝐞𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐝𝐞𝐥 𝐆𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐚 𝐎𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐭 (15-20 aprile), per iscrizioni: https://www.fragliavelariva.it/regate/43-lake-garda-meeting-optimist/ 🤩
🔗 Tutte le info sugli eventi e per le 𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐳𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐢 sono già disponibili sul nostro sito web https://www.fragliavelariva.it

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Get ready for a 2025 full of 𝒀𝒐𝒖𝒕𝒉 𝑺𝒂𝒊𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈!
📆 We begin in March with 𝑻𝒓𝒐𝒇𝒆𝒐 𝑷𝒂𝒐𝒍𝒂 (ILCA, 1-3 March), for registration: https://www.fragliavelariva.it/en/regattas/carnival-race-trofeo-paola-ilca/, followed by the races for the 𝐎𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐭 class: 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐡 𝐂𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐑𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐚 (7-9 March), for registration: https://www.fragliavelariva.it/en/regattas/5th-youth-centenary-regatta/ , 𝐒𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐭 𝐂𝐮𝐩 (12-13 April), for registration: https://www.fragliavelariva.it/en/regattas/rothoblaas-sprint-cup/ and the iconic 𝐋𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐆𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐚 𝐌𝐞𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐎𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐭 (15-20 April), for registration: https://www.fragliavelariva.it/en/regattas/43-lake-garda-meeting-optimist/ 🤩
🔗 All the info on the events and on 𝐫𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐲 𝐚𝐯𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 on our website https://www.fragliavelariva.it