Please select your home edition
Edition
Cyclops Marine 2023 November - LEADERBOARD

Women J/80s lead PalmaVela Regatta

by J/Boats 14 May 2022 18:23 BST 29 April - 8 May 2022
PalmaVela Regatta 2022 © PalmaVela

The Real Club Nautico de Palma yet again hosted a star-studded event in their home waters of the Bay of Palma over a four-day weekend.

The sailing off Palma Mallorca, Spain was simply stunning, with daily sea breezes, clear skies, comfortable temperatures, and nice big azure blue waves making the off-wind planing rides for the J/80 fleet lots of fun.

In the J/80 Class, it was Spain's double Olympic silver Medallist Natalia Vía-Dufresne and crew on DORSIA COVIRAN that convincingly won the class counting only podium finishes and five bullets out of nine races in their scoreline. Taking the silver medal was Helena Alegre's AGD DESAMIANTADOS crew also counting all podium finishes in eight of nine races. Rounding out the podium was Kristyn Gills' ALOJA having a similar finish tally as her women colleagues on the podium.

In the ORC handicap world, taking the silver on a tiebreaker in ORC 4 Division was Scott Beattie's J/97 JUST THE JOB from Great Britain. Losing that countback was Gabriele Pohlmann's J/99 MEERBLICK FUN from Germany.

Finally, in the ORC A2 division, Matias Gil's J/35 BLUE FLAG took the silver medal, while fellow J/sailor Toni Ensenat's J/92 JOLIE VOLIE ended up in the sixth position.

More information at www.palmavela.com

Related Articles

20th PalmaVela Overall
Galateia win again at PalmaVela… but only just David Leuschen and Chris Flowers' Wallycento Galateia won the Maxi class at PalmaVela for the third time in a row today in light winds on Palma Bay. Whilst last year's triumph was something of a whitewash, this time they were made to work all the way. Posted on 5 May
20th PalmaVela Day 3
Advantage Galateia as Maxi class goes into final light winds Sunday Five times America's Cup winning Kiwi sailing legend Murray Jones, the tactician on the Wally Cento Galateia wears only half a smile when he rails against the suggestion that, for them, PalmaVela is a mere warm up before the Maxi season. Posted on 4 May
20th PalmaVela Day 2
Classic Palma sea breeze day sees the event at full size As the giant PalmaVela multiclass regatta mustered all 12 classes which are competing at this 2024 edition of the Med's traditional curtain raiser, it was 'back to normal' Palma Bay at its spring best. Posted on 3 May
20th PalmaVela Day 1
Galateia returns to defend PalmaVela title with a perfect start At the 20th PalmaVela a breezy opening pair of windward-leeward races on the Bay of Palma saw the Wally Cento Galateia make a strong start to defending their IRC-IMA Maxi division title that they won last year with a perfect scoreline. Posted on 2 May
PalmaVela reaches 150 entries
2024, a year of top competition for Palma It is just under a month until the start of the Offshore Race, the first of three regattas to be organized, alongside the 52 Super Series, and PalmaVela, the multiclass event which stretches across ten days of competition. Posted on 29 Mar
The largest edition of PalmaVela to date
Over one hundred teams registered for the event Over one hundred teams and twenty nationalities have confirmed their participation in the twentieth edition of PalmaVela, to be held at the Real Club Náutico de Palma. Posted on 9 Mar
All set for the 19th edition of PalmaVela
Big boats alongside the small One Designs, reunited once again The event, organized by the Real Club Náutico de Palma is preparing to host a large multitudinous and extremely varied fleet including the big boats as well as smaller One Designs. Posted on 18 Apr 2023
PalmaVela 2022 overall
A Fistful of Firsts for Galateia 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. Posted on 8 May 2022
PalmaVela 2022 Day 3
Bay Of Palma delivers, Galateia imperious, Sunday showdowns beckon After a slow day Friday punctuated by a long wait for the breeze to reappear, the Bay of Palma returned to what might be considered 'normal service' today for the 100 boat field racing the penultimate day of Mallorca's PalmaVela regatta. Posted on 7 May 2022
PalmaVela 2022 Day 2
Galateia retains an unbeaten record The Wally Cento Galateia retains an unbeaten record at the 18th edition of PalmaVela and after three races leads the IRC-IMA Maxi fleet by six points with two days of racing to go. Posted on 6 May 2022