MedCup

Caixa Galicia leads the Regatta Breitling Illes Balearia after three difficult races in light sea breeze conditions on the Bay of Palma, out from Puerto Portales today. With Roberto Bermudez de Castro steering and John Kostecki calling the tactics, the new Botin Carkeek design showed pace across the wind range, between 5-11 knots, but it was sharp starting and equally acute tactics which gave Caixa Galicia back to back wins from the first two races and a solid fourth to lead the 24 boat regatta by three points from Eamon Conneely's Irish flagged Patches. Patches 2,4,3 for the day keeps them five points clear of Peter de Ridder's Valle Romano Mean Machine which won the third race. The breeze built to just on 10 knots for the second race and faded for the third race, late in the day, when it became more unsettled and fickle. Caixa and Artemis had a minor collision during a crossing in the middle of the second race and both boats are in the yard this evening for repairs.

Breitling MedCup TP52 Circuit, Regata Breitling-Illes Balears, Puerto Portals, Mallorca. Day 1: after three races:
1 CxG Corporacion, Caixa Galicia (V Torado, ESP-Botin Carkeek 2007) 6 pts
2 Patches (E Conneely, IRL-Reichel Pugh 2007) 9 pts
3 Valle Romano Mean Machine (P de Ridder, MON- Judel Vrolijk 2006) 14pts