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The South Westerly Course And The Existing Twelve Knot Mistral Produced A Wind Angle Of 90 Degrees For The 1st Part Of The Race And Five Boats Ran Each other Off To The Left Side Of The Course While The Eventual Winner Alan Woodward Stuck To The Rum Line With The Other Four Yachts Of The 10 Identical 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 ', located on the Dalmatian coast, became an important Mediterranean sea power from the thirtheenth century onwards. Although severely damaged by a tremor in 1667, Dubrovnik managed to preserve its lovely 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 programme co-ordinated by UNESCO.
The 'Pearl of the Adriatic ', on the Dalmatian coast, was a very important Mediterranean sea power from the thirtheenth century onwards. Although severely spoilt by a tremor in 1667, Dubrovnik managed to preserve its beautiful Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque churches, monasteries, palaces and fountains.
Dubrovnik was set up in the first part of the 7 th 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 until 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, which 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 establishment the town was under the protection of the Byzantine Empire ; after the Fourth Crusade the town came under the sovereignty of Venice (1205-1358), and by the Deal of Zadar in 1358 it became part of the Hungarian-Croatian Kingdom, when it was effectively a republican free state that reached its top in the fifteenth and 16th centuries. A business crisis in Mediterranean shipping and, more especially, a disastrous tremor on April 1667 that levelled the majority of the public buildings, wrecked the welfare of the Republic. This dynamic tremor came as a significant point in the city's development.
Dubrovnik is an exceptionally well-preserved example of a late-medieval walled town, with a regular street layout. Among the outstanding medieval, Renaissance and Baroque monuments in the impressive fortifications and the monumental gates to the town 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 intensive Dominican Monastery ; the cathedral (reconstructed after the 1667 tremor) ; the customs house (Sponza), the eclectic appearance of which unearths the proven fact that it's the work of several hands over many years ; and a number of other Baroque churches,eg that of St Blaise (patron saint of the town).
The first Global heritage preservation site consisted solely of the defences and the intra-mural town. It was later extended to include the Pile medieval commercial suburb, a planned development of the 15th century, and the Lovrijenac Fortress, found on a cliff, which was doubtless begun 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 offer protection to the port against south-easterly storms, and the Revelin Fortress, dating from 1449, which was built to order the town moat on its northwards side.
Six yachts finish in the same minute on the water!
The south westerly course and the present 12 knot mistral produced a wind angle of ninety degrees for the first part of the race and five 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 10 matching Beneteau First 45's. The fleet at last came together as the finishing line approached and at the end six of the ten yachts completed in the same minute on the water. The match racing hot shots filled the last five placings.
The post-race dinner at the Bourbon restaurant in Polace set the scene for a Roman style party, acceptable because Polace boasts the remains of a Roman villa.
All of the northerly end of Mljet is a national park and the lay day was spent walking thru 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 very no chance of wind. Around 12 nevertheless , and to everybody'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 again 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 eventually won the day on handicap from Alan Hare, a racing beginner who basked in leading the famous Roger Hickman for a big part of the last race.
The final two nights at the sumptuous Dubrovnik Palace Hotel saw a gradual wind down from an excellent rally sailed in ideal conditions.
The 2012 Croatia Yacht Rally will be run by Mariner Boating in the same 14 days of 2012 and will 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 14 days 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 provide spacious accommodation and a 4th twin cabin will be offering storage for bag.
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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