The documentary film “Giovanni Soldini – My Around the World” arrives on Prime.

For fans of sailing and cinema, there is something new coming soon,exclusively from Tuesday, March 25, 2025 on Prime Video, the documentary film Giovanni Soldini – Il mio giro del mondo. Produced by Giovanni Cova, Matteo Rovere, Leonardo Godano, and Sydney Sibilia and written by Tommaso Franchini, Emanuele Cava, and Shadi Cioffi, the film chronicles the round-the-world voyage, in various stages, that the Milanese skipper made with the Mod 70 Maserati from 2022 to 2024, an electric-powered trimaran.

A film that we at the Sailing Newspaper saw come to life up close, as staff came to the editorial office for archival research on Soldini. It will talk about sailing and men, but also and especially about the environment, which will be the leitmotif of the documentary.

A spectacular and immersive production that took 16 months of filming by sea and land and a total of more than 2 years of work signed Greenland and QMI, in association with Medusa Film and made in collaboration with Prime Video. After No More Trouble by Tommaso Romanelli, another sailing-themed production still starring Giovanni Soldini.

Giovanni Soldini – My Round the World Tour

The approximately 100-minute docufilm, which also boasts original music penned by Mokadelic, is a diary for images amid breathtaking scenery and adrenaline-fueled competitions that recomposes Soldini’s journey day by day, through hardships and triumphs, and characterizing it as a true scientific mission in the name of environmental protection, under the auspices of the UN Decade of Marine Sciences for Sustainable Development 2021/2030, led by UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC): “UNESCO has made a call to civil society, where anyone with a boat or a ship can collaborate with the scientific community to gather information,” Soldinihimself recounts. “We follow routes outside commercial ones, so the data we collect can be very interesting to the scientific community to understand what is happening and how the ‘sea system’ works.”

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A goal that for the sailor, who has always been committed to the front line of sea advocacy, begins with his traveling companion: his ultralight trimaran, capable of “flying” over the waves at 40 knots of speed, developed to complete self-sufficiency thanks to an electric motor and solar panels, and equipped with Ocean Pack instrumentation, which makes it a true floating oceanographic laboratory, capable of measuring carbon dioxide, temperature, salinity and surface water connectivity.

Data collected and put at the service of the scientific community, which are even more valuable because Soldini is among the very few human beings who, in a context of great acceleration of climate change, in just 16 months visited all the major marine areas of the Planet, the most beautiful but also the most compromised, witnessing the state of health of the sea to sound the alarm about the effects of the environmental crisis that has seen the level of CO2 in the atmosphere more than double over the past 150 years, compared with a value that has remained roughly stable for 10,000 years, the loss of 70 percent of the world’s coral reefs, while conditions in the Mediterranean Sea are among the most critical on Earth to date.

Giovanni, what are you doing today?

On the ultra-secret project involving the Ferrari house and the Milanese sailor (born 1966), namely a 100-foot (30-meter) foil-equipped monohull built in Tuscany, we have the latest updates: “dockside rumors” indicate that the boat will be ready and finished in early 2026.

In recent years, Giovanni Soldini has specialized in trying to break records in the world’s major regattas/races. He is missing one, the most prestigious one, the Jules Verne Trophy. This challenge is nothing more than the prize for those who circumnavigate the world by sailing the fastest.

Soldini himself spoke of a “one-man boat” with very high technological content. Examples on the large scale are already there: the America’s Cup AC75s, the FlyingNikka deep-sea flying monohull. But 100 feet had not yet been reached. There is the Baltic 111, however, which is not full foiling. It will be very interesting to see how the project will combine speed and safety because there are already those who say, “Can you see a 100-foot full foiling rounding Cape Horn?”

Soldini’s new boat, according to rumors, is being built in a “secret” shed in Tombolo, the southernmost estate in the Migliarino – San Rossore – Massaciuccoli Park, crossed by the Navicelli Canal, in the province of Pisa.

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