At the Istituto Italiano di Cultura in New York the participation of the Amerigo Vespucci at the Sail4th 250 Tall Ships Parade was a way to tell also the celebrations for the 250 years of independence of the United States. The evening, hosted on Monday, June 15 and moderated by the director of the Istituto Claudio Pagliara, has seen in the center the ship school of the Navy, that will return in fact to New York to parade in the port together with other heel ship coming from different countries.
The heel ship, which in Italian are called a high-board ship, would be the big sailboats – frigates or ships – and they owe their name to the fact that, thanks to the trees that support the sails, these ships develop above all in height. Today the heel ship are mostly ships-museo or ships-school, like the Amerigo Vespucci of the Italian Navy, but they always recall a great charm, due to their obviously historical nature and to the substantial difference with the ships of today.
In connection he intervened the commander of the Amerigo Vespucci, Captain of Vascello Nicasio Falica, who explained the sense of the journey and the role of the ship as ambassador of Italy in the world. In the hall were present Chris O’Brien, president and vice chairman of Sail4th 250, and Giosetta Capriati, president of Giosetta Consultants Inc., who remembered his personal connection with Vespucci: he had climbed on board for the first time in 1976, during the celebrations of the American Bicentenary. Fifty years later, the ship returns for another major national event in the United States.
One of the most appreciated moments was the unveiling of the model of the Amerigo Vespucci donated to the Institute by Joanna Romersa, widow of Michael B. Smith, who had assembled it starting from a Mantua kit in scale 1:84.
Sail4th 250 provides a route from the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge to the Statue of Liberty, to the Hudson and the George Washington Bridge.
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