The South Westerly Course And The Prevailing 12 Knot Mistral Produced A wind Angle Of 90 Degrees For The 1st Part Of The Race And 5 Boats Ran Each other Off To The Left Side Of The Course While The Resulting Winner Alan Woodward Stuck To The Rum Line With The Other Four Yachts Of The 10 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 12 miles.

The ‘Pearl of the Adriatic ‘, situated on the Dalmatian coast, became an important Mediterranean sea power from the thirtheenth century onwards. Though seriously ruined by a tremor in 1667, Dubrovnik managed to preserve its beautiful Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque churches, monasteries, 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 a vital Mediterranean sea power from the thirtheenth century onwards. Though severely spoilt by a tremor in 1667, Dubrovnik managed to preserve its beautiful Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque churches, priories, palaces and fountains.

Dubrovnik was founded in the first half of the 7th century by a group of refugees from Epidaurum, who established their settlement at the island and named it Laus. The Latin name Ragusa (Rausa), in use till the 15th 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, obtained from the Croatian word dubrava, that means oak woods. When the channel that separated these two 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 Treaty of Zadar in 1358 it became part of the Hungarian-Croatian Dominion, when it was actually a republican free say reached its top in the 15th and 16th centuries. An economic crisis in Mediterranean shipping and, more especially, a catastrophic earthquake on Apr 1667 that levelled the majority of the general public buildings, annihilated the well-being of the Republic. This powerful earthquake came as a turning 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 enormous gates to the city are the Town Hall (now the Rector’s Palace), dating from the eleventh century ; the Franciscan Monastery (finished in the 14th century, but now mostly Baroque in appearance) with its imposing church ; the in depth Dominican Monastery ; the cathedral (reconstructed after the 1667 earthquake) ; the customs house (Sponza), the eclectic appearance of which unearths the fact that it is the work of a few hands over many years ; and several other Baroque churches, such as that of St Blaise (patron saint of the town).

The original World Heritage site consisted only of the defences and the intra-mural city. It was later extended to incorporate the Pile medieval industrial suburb, a planned development of the 15th century, and the Lovrijenac Fortress, found on a cliff, which was likely started as early as the eleventh century, but owes its present appearance to the 15th 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 storms, and the Revelin Fortress, dating from 1449, which was built to command the town moat on its northern side.

6 yachts finish in the same minute on the water!

The south westerly course and the prevailing 12 knot mistral produced a wind angle of 90 degrees for the first part of the race and 5 boats ran each other off to the left side of the course while the resultant winner Alan Woodward stuck to the rum line with the other 4 yachts of the 10 matching Beneteau First 45′s. The fleet eventually came together as the finishing line approached and in the final analysis 6 of the ten yachts finished in the same minute on the water. The match racing hot shots filled the last 5 placings.

The post-race dinner at the Bourbon cafe in Polace set the scene for a Roman style party, acceptable because Polace boasts the remains of a Roman villa.
All of the northern end of Mljet is a countrywide park and the lay day was spent walking through the luxuriant pine forests that surround Lake Jezero.

The next and last race was set on a course across to Kobas on the mainland but dawn broke on a glassy sea with awfully no chance of wind. Around 12 nevertheless , and to everyone’s surprise, a 12 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 those who stayed to sea caught the yachts looking for non-existent lifts along the shore. After a run to the finish the yachts again finished in a ‘heap’.

The machiavellian 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 novice who revelled in leading the famous Roger Hickman for a large part of the last race.

The final two nights at the luxurious Dubrovnik Palace Hotel saw a gentle wind down from an impressive rally sailed in perfect conditions.
The 2012 Croatia Yacht Rally will be run by Mariner Boating in the same two weeks of 2012 and should be enhances 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 1st 2 weeks of Sep. Again a matched fleet of yachts will be used, all with battened mains, triple spreader rigs, folding propellers and deep keels. Three double cabins will supply roomy accommodation and a fourth twin cabin will be offering storage for luggage.

Details of the 2012 Croatia Yacht Rally are available on the internet and details of the Croatia Kornati Yacht Rally will shortly be available, writes tagza.com.
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