Double bullet day for Vesper at IMA Maxi Europeans

After one offshore and two days of coastal racing, today the fleet competing out of Sorrento, Italy for the International Maxi Association’s Maxi European Championship were sent off on two windward-leeward courses on the Bay of Naples along the north coast of the Sorrentine Peninsula. Once again conditions were difficult with much cloud activity as well as the occasional monsoon-grade downpour, causing crews to rechristen the race’s otherwise magnificent host...

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After one offshore and two days of coastal racing, today the fleet competing out of Sorrento, Italy for the International...

While many were predicting the second day of inshore/coastal competition for the IMA Maxi European Championship would be cancelled due to the heinous conditions forecast and even an official storm warning issued because of an intense depression passing over Naples, in fact today provided some of the best competition and exhilarating racing yet.

With the wind blowing 15 knots, initially from the south (the opposite to yesterday), the course was set with a start area off the event’s...

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While many were predicting the second day of inshore/coastal competition for the IMA Maxi European Championship would be cancelled due to the heinous...

Scheduled for day two of the IMA Maxi Europeans’ inshore/coastal racing were two windward-leewards. After a delay out on the Bay of Naples, the wind finally built to 8-12 knots from the west. After one aborted start due to a wind shift and another for a general recall, racing for the 21 maxis eventually got underway at 1515 CEST.





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Wally Cento Galateia Win PalmaVela Maxi Class With A Fistful of Firsts



The Wally Cento Galateia won the IRC-IMA Maxi division at Mallorca’s big boat season opener PalmaVela with a perfect scoreline of six wins from six starts.

Victory in a final light-winds coastal race back-and-forth across the Bay of Palma maintained their perfect tally to win by eight points ahead of Andrea Recordati’s recently acquired Wally 93 Bullit. Second place today ensured...

GALATEIA AND NADIR, LEADERS OF AN UNBEATABLE START FOR PALMAVELA



The best bay of Palma has welcomed the classes that today have inaugurated the tests of the 18th PalmaVela. Sun, strong wind and waves have been the ingredients of a first day that has required the best of skills. Galateia reigns among the Great Lengths and the Spanish Nadir among the ClubSwan 42.





Today, Thursday, the 18th PalmaVela began in the bay of Palma with the...

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GALATEIA AND NADIR, LEADERS OF AN UNBEATABLE START FOR PALMAVELA



The best bay of Palma has welcomed the classes that today...

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Disaster for Highland Fling XI as Lyra wins her class at the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup

by James Boyd / International Maxi Association...

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For day two of inshore racing for the maxi boats at Rolex Capri Sailing Week it was extremely hard to decide one’s wardrobe;...