FABIO BARBARANELLI'S DREAM STORY
The dream started in 1972
14.6.1972 - Newspaper "EL DIA" of Santa Cruz de Tenerife
In this picture Fabio explaining his travel program from Rome to Canary Islands in that year during a meeting in the newspaper "EL DIA" of Santa Cruz de Tenerife
![14.06.1972 - THE NEWSPAPER "EL DIA" OF SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE](https://image.jimcdn.com/app/cms/image/transf/dimension=566x1024:format=jpg/path/s680b69d2636aa262/image/i4cc6351d2cb6eaa6/version/1417260704/image.jpg)
16.1.1973 - Newspaper "EL DIA" of Santa Cruz de Tenerife
In October 1972 Federico Barbaranelli and his son Fabio with all the family have sailed together on board of the trimaran "ALBATROS" from Rome to Santa Cruz de Tenerife / Canary Islands.
![Picture of the family Barbaranelli taken from the newspaper "EL DIA" of Santa Cruz de Tenerife](https://image.jimcdn.com/app/cms/image/transf/dimension=566x1024:format=jpg/path/s680b69d2636aa262/image/ida816f7d5fd2b358/version/1417260705/image.jpg)
![1973 The family Barbaranelli in Tejina - Tenerife](https://image.jimcdn.com/app/cms/image/transf/dimension=300x1024:format=jpg/path/s680b69d2636aa262/image/i3fdecd1b3fa60f02/version/1301429758/image.jpg)
17.1.1973 - Newspaper "EL DIA" of Santa Cruz de Tenerife
In October 1972 Federico Barbaranelli and his son Fabio with all the family have sailed together on board of the trimaran "ALBATROS" from Rome to Santa Cruz de Tenerife / Canary Islands.
![17.01.1973 - THE NEWSPAPER "EL DIA" OF SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE](https://image.jimcdn.com/app/cms/image/transf/dimension=566x1024:format=jpg/path/s680b69d2636aa262/image/i64897c50cfed1ad0/version/1417260705/image.jpg)
October 1972 - The trimaran "ALBATROS" start sailing from Rome to Canary Islands
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The trimaran "ALBATROS" under storm in the area of the "Gulf of Lions" (South of France) between Sardinia and Minorca in 1972. During that storm the trimaran sank.
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The trimaran "ALBATROS" before sinking in the area of "Gulf of Lions" (South of France) in 1972 at - 40º 00' N / 6º 18' E - under 10/11 Beaufort.
!["Albatros" trimaran sank in October 1972](https://image.jimcdn.com/app/cms/image/transf/dimension=566x1024:format=jpg/path/s680b69d2636aa262/image/i142bd7aac46d882b/version/1417260706/image.jpg)
![Thor Staerke Captain certificate - 21.10.1972](https://image.jimcdn.com/app/cms/image/transf/dimension=566x10000:format=jpg/path/s680b69d2636aa262/image/icb81544384ffb48b/version/1417261359/image.jpg)
![Letter from M/S Thor Staerke - 24.10.1972](https://image.jimcdn.com/app/cms/image/transf/dimension=567x10000:format=jpg/path/s680b69d2636aa262/image/i19412022db80cbe7/version/1417261280/image.jpg)
![Albatros IIº - 21.8.1989 - Barbaranelli's brothers](https://image.jimcdn.com/app/cms/image/transf/dimension=566x1024:format=jpg/path/s680b69d2636aa262/image/i8bbc48b600ef9eb0/version/1417261165/image.jpg)
FEDERICO BARBARANELLI
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Federico Barbaranelli was the original
promoter of the trip to the Canary Islands
in 1972 with the trimaran "ALBATROS".
Unfortunately he died in 2008.
His son Fabio Barbaranelli followed his
father's footsteps and restructured the
gulet "FEDERICA" in Turkey in 2004 launching in 2009.
THE GULET " FEDERICA" - BIRTH OF THE PROJECT
2004 / SUMMER - Meeting in Côte d'Azur
![Fabio Barbaranelli with Federico Barbaranelli and Marta Bioletto (Angelo Bioletto's daughter)](https://image.jimcdn.com/app/cms/image/transf/dimension=566x1024:format=jpg/path/s680b69d2636aa262/image/i1ab77d132f686289/version/1417260707/image.jpg)
![Federico Barbaranelli and his son Fabio studying the rebuilding plans of the gulet FEDERICA](https://image.jimcdn.com/app/cms/image/transf/dimension=566x10000:format=jpg/path/s680b69d2636aa262/image/i80078ac8013e3ad7/version/1417260707/image.jpg)
![Federico Barbaranelli with his son and FEDERICA's Gibraltar flag](https://image.jimcdn.com/app/cms/image/transf/dimension=566x1024:format=jpg/path/s680b69d2636aa262/image/i1e2d3d07e60ad5c8/version/1417260708/image.jpg)
2009 Sailing program from Bodrum (Turkey) to Crete (Greece)
![Federica gulet - Greece 2009](https://image.jimcdn.com/app/cms/image/transf/dimension=566x1024:format=jpg/path/s680b69d2636aa262/image/i1ed21241831e4520/version/1417260708/image.jpg)