Too Close for Comfort in La Regatta della Sensa

photo credit: Valerie Cogan

The big race today on the lagoon was the America's Cup, of which there will be no lack of coverage. But before that there was the Regatta della Sensa--part of the festivities marking Venice's annual "marriage to the sea"--which (as the above photo shows) turned out to have at least as much drama as the race between those big high tech catamarans.