Il mare d'Inferno - Disavventure di un velista eretico

Matteo Rinaldi

ISBN 9788899283018, Digital Index Publisher, Modena 2015

and on all Italian stores

 

 

Matteo Rinaldi is publicly a trainer of spoken and written communication but secretly a writer. He dreams of being discovered after his death because fame, success and wealth terrify him more than a bad crew during a spring outing.

Today he gives the public his collection, revised and enriched (or impoverished, depending on your taste) of writings on sailing published over many years of blogging. Since no one would ever dream of interviewing him about it, he has done it alone. With the same results he has on the boat.

Rinaldi, why a book about sailing? There are already some very beautiful ones. And above all: the authors are true sailors. You are not even worthy of the derogatory title of "freshwater sailor".

In fact, it is the first book written by a mediocre sailor, a landlubber, a Sunday navigator. Incapable even of passing the test for the license without limits.

If I go further than 12 miles from the coast they arrest me like any other smuggler.

So what's the point?

He has it. For a people of saints and navigators, who are anything but saints and navigators, there is a need for a book that makes things clear: this is how we navigate, not Soldini and D'Alì.

You even made it rhyme.

And there's more: I'm not a saint at all. I make fun of this world, even if I like it. In the country where Schettino explains the management of panic at the university, I can easily talk about the management of seasickness, of murderous crews and hallucinatory moorings.

 

Index

Chapter 1 - This is Commander Schettino speaking: welcome on board

1. A Book Adrift
2. A people of saints and navigators. With engines

Chapter 2 - In the Sailing Tunnel. How to Become a Sailor

1. I'm just doing it to try.
2. The first hole. In the water
3. The overdose: the nautical license

Chapter 3 - Eight Good Reasons to Hate Sailing and Sailors

1. From Atrox to Ciak we turn: the names of the boats
2. The art of inferior design: boat interiors
3. From the illegal construction sites of the mafia: the catwalks
4. George Orwell is among us: the newspeak of magazines
5. Worse than love sickness: seasickness
6. Grumpy and Freemasons: The Wrong Attitudes
7. The Spider's Sail: The Eternal Unforeseen Problem

You calm down, I feel like laughing.
Do the simplest thing.
Trust someone you don’t know: your boat.

8. Sex War and Sex on a Boat: The Sailor's 5 FAQs

1. Do you go barefoot or with shoes on when sailing?
2. Can you make love on a sailing boat?
3. In a sailing boat, is a woman worth as much as a man?
4. Can you live on a sailing boat?
5. Can you die on a sailing boat?

Chapter 4 - Sailing only for hire: the real journey does not involve ownership

1. It won't be an adventure
2. The reasons for renting: leaving is a bit of a pain
3. How much does it cost me to go along the coast?
4. So sailing is not worth it: more than charter, Cartier

Chapter 5 - Voyages, Mirages and Moorings. Twelve Excursions to Forget

1. The Solitude of the Masturbating Sailor
2. Without knots you don't enjoy
3. A quiet weekend sailing with fear
4. Joke with the infantry, leave the racers alone
5. Chronicle of a shipwreck foretold
6. January in the lagoon
7. Sailors drifting on Lake Fimon
8. The eye of the lake
9. I'll give you the Team building
10. The routes of the living dead
11. The Mystery of the Lagoon
12. Nights in sailing pants

Chapter 6 - Crossings Sideways. Seven Journeys to Remember

1. Adriatic, the most practical record
2. The Three Days of Jocondor
The ideal sailor's bag: the ingredients:
3. Dalmatia fills me up
4. Ventotene is better than Pelè
5. The Adriatic is my viaticum
6. Timona you, mona
7. Bruises in the Egadi

Chapter 7 - A solon at the salon: a stroll among the fairs

1. Paris is well worth a try
2. The real Venice boat show
3. Ideal salon for ideal sailors

Chapter 8 - Sailing from the Enemy's Perspective: The Professionals

1. More flying than sailing: Gabriele Olivo and the Volvo Ocean Race
2. The sailor who conquers: Giovanni Soldini and textbook navigation
7 Soldini gems

What are the ideal characteristics of a sailing boat for an enthusiast?
What accessories are essential on a boat?
How should sailing schools work to make good sailors?
How do you best manage navigation in difficult times?
Is it true that you always need a thousand eyes on a boat?
Is fear an enemy to be feared?
Is a tiller or wheel steering better?