The 69F Class was founded on June 7, 2021. The whole fleet counts on 28 boats, they are in Europe and Asia. The Class is aware it does not respond to the 7 boats per 4 continents requires by World Sailing, but 69F business plan is different, as different was the concept at its birth. The idea is to have moving fleets owned by the managing company, for a sustainable and lasting concept and to be able to reach good racing fleet number early in the boat life. Like 69F has proudly been doing since the very start.

2019 was the year during which 69F has been tested on water and had gone through final adjustment, while the rules were being written by Marco Mercuriali and Miguel Allen, our pillars for the on water umpiring.

In 2020, we held four test events, mainly on lake Garda. 51 teams tried the boat at those test events and we can proudly say that 90% of them confirmed their preference and were back in 2021, some for the Persico 69F Cup and some for the Youth Foiling Gold Cup.

51 teams in 2020 – 4 TEST events

During this time plenty of top-level professional sailors helped adjusting the boat, like Olympic Champions Santiago Lange, Ruggero Tita, and America’s Cup sailors like Francesco Bruni. They all loved the experience and gave 69F Team important feedback to put in place both for boat handling and the format.

SEASON 1

45 teams in 2021 – 12 events (YFGC, 69F Cup, PRO Cup)

SEASON 2

45 teams in 2022 – 19 events (YFGC, 69F Cup Europe, 69F Cup USA, 69F US Select Series)

SEASON 3

41 teams in 2023 – 13 events (YFGC, WFGC, 69F Cup Europe, 69F US Select Series)

SEASON 4

20 teams in 2024 – 6 events (YFGC, 69F Cup)

The 69F Cup is open to everyone, you can attend with your own boat or rent one provided by 69F and prepared by 69F shore team, Boat owners, charterers, amateurs, pro-sailors meet here without age and gender restrictions. Five events during which racing is organized using sustainable and state-of-the-art technology both on water and ashore. Social events throughout the week. 69F shore team is always available for support. From the overall ranking, the rankings for the youth, women, and pro-am divisions will be extrapolated and prizes will be awarded to the top ranked teams.

The 69F Youth is aimed at sailors under the age of 26 with a woman onboard – but often there are only female teams. At the Youth the boats can be provided by 69F and prepared by the 69F shore team, and the winner is the best on the water, playing on an equal field where only sailing talent and the athletes’ skills matters. The Youth has been a huge success since the very first regatta, as the Persico 69F truly embodies what young sailors are looking for: foiling, speed, adrenaline, and tight competition.

The 69F Women is the first international event created for women only with no age limits. Teams are made up of three or four sailors racing on the 69Fs. If desired, the boats can be provided by the OA, in which case the teams will find them ready to sail and maintenance is operated by the 69F shore team. The inaugural event took place in 2023 featuring 10 crews from 9 countries and 3 continents. Among the participants were 16 Olympians, 6 Olympic medalists, and at least 4 teams currently competing in the Puig Women’s America’s Cup.

The 69F Owner driver is reserved for owner-drivers who are assisted by professional sailors in order to improve their foiling skills and compete on equal footing with the best teams in the 69F Class. If desired, the boats can be provided by the OA, in which case the teams will find them ready to sail and maintenance is operated by the 69F shore team.

In 2021 a PRO Cup took place in Palermo, Italy, an invitational challenge reserved to Pro sailors, where athletes from the Olympics and America’s Cup challenged each other on the boats provided by 69F. The experiment was a success.

THE FLEETS

69F owns ten boats. Available for the Pay-per-Play formula to easy the access to newcomers and to respond to sustainability matters linked to building the boats and moving the boats around the globe.

In Europe there are ten privately owned boats and eight in Asia.

69F global project’s goal is to have local fleets around the world in which we can recreate the same business model as we now have in Europe. A 1:3 ratio between privately owned boats and Coming Solutions’s fleet, will allow competitive and participated circuits in a much more sustainable way. Both for the environment and for the sailors. The boat is a state-of-the-art design and technology machine, in full carbon, able to foil at just seven knots, it is much easier for an owner or a sailing team to put together a budget to charter their spot for the season, rather than adventuring in an expensive, and in some cases, unknown foiling project. The purchase of the vessel can follow a season or more of good sailing.