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The South Westerly Course And The Prevailing 12 Knot Mistral Produced A Wind Angle Of Ninety Degrees For The 1st Part Of The Race And 5 Boats Ran One Another Off To The Left Side Of The Course While The Resulting Winner Alan Woodward Stuck To The Rum Line With The Other 4 Yachts Of The Ten Matching Beneteau First 45's.
Croatia Yacht Rally 2011 meandered toward its conclusion in Dubrovnik last week with a race from Korcula to Mljet, a distance of just twelve miles.
The 'Pearl of the Adriatic ', situated on the Dalmatian coast, became an important Mediterranean sea power from the thirtheenth century onwards. Although seriously ruined by a quake in 1667, Dubrovnik managed to save its pretty Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque churches, priories, palaces and fountains. Damaged again in the 1990s by armed conflict, it's currently the focus of a major restoration program co-ordinated by UNESCO.
The 'Pearl of the Adriatic ', on the Dalmatian coast, was an important Mediterranean sea power from the thirtheenth century onwards. Although severely damaged by a quake in 1667, Dubrovnik managed to save its attractive Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque churches, monasteries, palaces and fountains.
Dubrovnik was founded in the first part of the seventh century by a bunch of refugees from Epidaurum, who established their settlement at the island and named it Laus. The Latin name Ragusa (Rausa), in use till the fifteenth century, originated from the rock (Lat. Lausa = rock). Opposite that location, at the foot of Srcic ; Mountain, the Slavs developed their own settlement under the name of Dubrovnik, derived from the Croatian word dubrava, meaning oak woods. When the channel that separated these 2 settlements was filled in the 12th century they were united. From the time of its corporation the town was under the protection of the Byzantine Empire ; after the 4th Crusade the city came under the sovereignty of Venice (1205-1358), and by the Deal of Zadar in 1358 it became part of the Hungarian-Croatian Dominion, when it was a republican free say reached its top in the fifteenth and 16th centuries. A commercial crisis in Mediterranean shipping and, more especially, a catastrophic earthquake on April 1667 that levelled the majority of the public buildings, wrecked the welfare of the Republic. This powerful earthquake came as a significant point in the city's development.
Dubrovnik is a remarkably well-preserved example of a late-medieval walled city, with a regular street layout. Among the exceptional medieval, Renaissance and Baroque monuments within the magnificent fortifications and the gigantic gates to the city are the Town Hall (now the Rector's Palace), dating from the eleventh century ; the Franciscan Monastery (completed in the 14th century, but now largely Baroque in appearance) with its imposing church ; the extensive Dominican Monastery ; the cathedral (reconstructed after the 1667 earthquake) ; the customs house (Sponza), the eclectic appearance of which reveals the proven fact that it is the work of several hands over many years ; and numerous other Baroque churches, such as that of St Blaise (guardian saint of the town).
The first International heritage preservation site consisted only of the defences and the intra-mural city. It was later extended to include the Pile medieval industrial suburb, a planned development of the fifteenth century, and the Lovrijenac Fortress, located on a cliff, which was likely started as early as the eleventh century, but owes its present appearance to the fifteenth and 16th centuries. Also included were the Lazarets, built in the early 17th century to house potential plague-carriers from abroad, the late 15th-century Kase moles, built to defend the port against south-easterly gales, and the Revelin Fortress, dating from 1449, which was built to command the town moat on its northwards side.
Six yachts finish in the same minute on the water!
The south westerly course and the present twelve knot mistral produced a wind angle of 90 degrees for the first part of the race and 5 boats ran one another off to the left side of the course while the eventual winner Alan Woodward stuck to the rum line with the other 4 yachts of the ten identical Beneteau First 45's. The fleet eventually came together as the finishing line approached and at the end 6 of the 10 yachts completed in the same minute on the water. The match racing hot shots filled the last 5 placings.
The post-race dinner at the Bourbon restaurant in Polace set the scene for a Roman style party, appropriate because Polace boasts the remains of a Roman villa.
The whole of the northern end of Mljet is a national park and the lay day was spent walking through the luxuriant pine forests that surround Lake Jezero.
The subsequent and last race was set on a course across to Kobas on the mainland but dawn broke on a glassy sea with very small chance of wind. Around 12 nonetheless , and to everyone's surprise, a twelve knot south easterly filled in around 1pm and the fleet worked across the passage on a flat sea in perfect summer conditions. Once more the fleet split and people who stayed to sea caught the yachts looking for non-existent lifts along the shore. After a run to the finish the yachts again completed in a 'heap'.
The wily Alan Woodward of the Royal Brighton Yacht Club stayed out of the match racing frays between Roger Hickman, Steve Barlow from the Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron and David Buckman from the Port Lincoln Yacht Club. Alan finally won the day on handicap from Alan Hare, a racing beginner who revelled in leading the famous Roger Hickman for a large part of the last race.
The final 2 nights at the opulent Dubrovnik Palace Hotel saw a steady wind down from an outstanding rally sailed in ideal conditions.
The 2012 Croatia Yacht Rally will be run by Mariner Sailing during the same two weeks of 2012 and will likely be augments by a new event in Croatia to the north of Split in the Kornati Islands. The Croatia Kornati Yacht Rally will be sailed in the first two weeks of September. Again a matched fleet of yachts will be used, all with battened mains, treble spreader rigs, folding propellers and deep keels. 3 double cabins will provide roomy accommodation and a fourth twin cabin will be offering storage for bag.
Details of the 2012 Croatia Yacht Rally are available online and details of the Croatia Kornati Yacht Rally will shortly be available, writes tagza.com.