Bertarelli – He’s Everywhere!
Among the many huge yachts taking up dockspace in Cabo San Lucas was Ernesto Bertarelli’s 155-ft Feadship motoryacht Vava. For those of you who don’t know, Bertarelli is the Swiss billionaire whose Alinghi syndicate won its second America’s Cup in a row last summer. Closer to home, he is also a renowned multihull sailor on Lake Geneva. And he visited San Francisco just a month ago to talk about plans for the next America’s Cup. It just seems like the guy is everywhere.
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Vava was his ‘mothership’ for both the Valencia and New Zealand Cup wars, and the Challenger of Record deals for both America’s Cup 2007 (Larry Ellison’s BMW Oracle, based out of the Golden Gate YC) and 2009 (Spain’s controversial ‘paper’ yacht club) were signed aboard.
Bertarelli was reportedly in Baja to participate in one of the larger billfish tournaments held annually out of Cabo.
Monohulls, multihulls, fishing, making money . . . all in all, Bertarelli is a man of many talents.