Princess Sofia Regatta

Day 1 brought us some breeze! 15-20knts off-shore shifty and gusty definitely made for some interesting racing! 3 solid results and keeping the mast in the sky made for an amazing start to the regatta.

A complete change of conditions for day 2- 6-8knts offshore, slight chop. To put a 2^nd of the scorecard in a 6-8ish day was really cool. After little training in light winds, we were really pleased to score a 2^nd. It gave us confidence in ourselves for our feel and problem solving in this condition. It then picked up to 15knts for the second race of the day. Unfortunately, we had a swim in this race and finished 20^th.  Next up, gold fleet racing!

The washing machine had been turned on for day 3 with 15-17knts. 4 races planned, it was going to be a big day out. We scored a 4,3,13,8 with plenty of points left out on the water due to our boat handling not being quite there yet for the correct racing winning decisions. A great day on the water.

A challenging day 4 for us. Late to the racecourse after a postponement saw us lacking information and not being confident on our boat set up. A 15^th and a 5^th put us in 8^thoverall making the medal race. Unfortunately, due to a protest after a port ww mark approach, we were disqualified from the last race, dropping us to 11^th overall and missing out on the medal race.

A disappointing end to the week after some great racing but we learnt a lot and we were very happy with our progress throughout.

A good review came out of Palma, with the main takeaway being boathandling to work on. A very promising first event for us, giving us a lot of motivation going forwards.