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28 May 2026


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GRATULACJE WRmirekd !!!
FELICITATIONS YANN !! GEFELICITEERD bonknhoot !

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Our third race of our Magical Mediterranean series was another buddy-up with a famous real-life race across Italy's sometimes breathless, beautiful Tyrrhenian Sea, the Regata dell’Accademia Navale. We had raced it online for the first time last year, and all that entered knew (or should have known) that it was likely to be a terrifically tricky test, with big swings in forecast from one watch to the next. The course was essentially the same as last year, excepting that a mark offshore Sardinia's Porto Cervo had been replaced by some rocks slightly further south and out to sea - il Scogli di Mortoriotto. Now, online we didn't mind that, in fact we preferred it, as we much prefer going the wrong side of a waypoint and then hitting the rocks for a perhaps prolonged BBQ, than missing the waypoint altogether and then careening on for hours before discovering we need to go back. But in real life - rounding some unlit rocks in maybe the middle of the night - temerari, amici!

But then, less than 24 hours before the start, it wasn't going to be the same course as before, after all. Very light winds were being forecast for the passage across to Sardinia, and so the City of Livorno in co-operation with the city's yacht clubs and the Italian Navy decided to reverse the course and send the fleet down to Capri first, which online we naturally followed. It can be seen in the filmclip under the filmstrip closing off this blog, that this caused some - in confusion - to head off for Sardinia anyway, but more confusion was to follow under Capri, as the complicated sequence of three waypoints to get around a buoy off the south shore of the island had been reversed logically as well, and thus the buoy now had to be approached from under shore instead of from the sea. Unfortunately our filmclip (an experimental resurrection of a feature previously managed by old SOLers kenza, then bimmer and lastly calmxy) does not illustrate this detail well.

Allora, when our online fleet finally rounded Sardinia's Mortoriotto rocks for a last long beat back to Livorno, YANN had a lead of 0.3nm on WRmirekd (Yin) when on foot of another weather update, they spilt tacks; Yin carrying on along the Corsican coast, YANN heading for Italy. When they came together again, YANN and Yin had switched to Yin and YANN. Such is fate! Commiserations YANN. Congratulations Yin (WRmirekd).

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