David miles has changed boats – again! – and after a few sucessful test races, is now working to bring Heaven Sent back to glory.  So far, she’s been stripped, and is almost ready for a fresh coat of paint.

Meanwhile, Francisco has been taking it easy in the garden.

 22 May – mid-Spring Regatta – Pollença

As there’d been some time since our last outing, we set up an impromptu mid-Spring Regatta. As only a few boats could get there, we decided not to make too much effort for ourselves and met at a start line created between one of the moored boats and a buoy next to it.

Courses were around the large yellow buoys on the opposite side of the harbour, and we sailed 2 races. With a fair breeze around force 3, we had many interesting battles, especially between Fiscardo and Dragonfly where the lead changed many times.

However, in the end Dragonfly won both races, with Fiscardo second and Triffid third. A good fun day’s practice!

5 June – Trofeo Formentor – Pollença

Trofeo Formentor saw a smaller fleet turn out, with five boats making it to the start. Nevertheless, it was an exciting and frustrating day! The weather gurus had promised a north-easterly force 5 – which we did get for a bit. For the rest of the time, it was varying wildly between north and east, and anything between force 0 and 5.

In the first race we did have reasonably constant conditions. Karin and Michael in Dragonfly led for the first half of the race, only to be passed by Pilar and Rafa in Martini, to took the lead and win. Meanwhile Steve and David in Wight Flyer missed a mark and had to sail back, which dropped them to third.

As the second race started, so did the wind games. Nevertheless, Pilar and Rafa read the shifts well, and again took a win. ffuga came second, passing Dragonfly whose spinnaker fell in the water, pushing them down to third. Wight Flyer has worse luck, a broken spinnaker block forcing them to retire.

The wind became more frustrating in race three with wild wind shifts and calm spots, so much so that Dragonfly gave up to make sure they got back to the harbour before dark. Finally, Martini struggled round to came out on top, with ffuga second again.

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By Stephen Babbage

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