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palma mallorca rain wind no wind and somme sun

Palma is the location for the Princess Sofia Olympic classes regatta.

I am coaching Laura Baldwin and we are making great progress on the goals and Laura has had some great individual race results and some excellent moments in the other races..

Palma is a real mixed bag of sailing conditions this year with day 1 and 2 with ramdom and variable winds coming and going so that we only had 2 races of the 4 scheduled.

Today was a great day for racing and the race officer did areally bad job, we had an ok race which he abandoned with 2 legs to go and then took 3 hrs to get another start away!! rediculous when all the sailors are freezing cold and tryingto saty focussed. Laura had a good day with 5th and 6th.

We have the cut for the Gold and Silver fleets this evening and then into finals racing and then medal race on Friday.

This weekend I am racing doing tactics on the Farr 45 "Fortis Ecxel" at the Red Funnel Regatta sailed from Cowes. The second picture is me steering Atomic the Farr 45 winning the Nationals a couple of years ago, so it will be a good feeling to get bnack into racing the Farr 45 to see if we have the old skills still.

All the best and hope to see plenty of you on the water this weekend!!