Giancarlo Pedote is an Italian professional sailor born on 26 December 1975 in Florence, Italy.
[1] At the age of 14, he discovered windsurfing, then moved onto dinghy sailing starting in Hobie 16 catamaran he was also heavily into boxing.
In 2001, he graduated in philosophy from the University of Florence.
He is an instructor in windsurfing, dinghy sailing and catamaran sailing before he moved onto offshore sailing.
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