Monday 27th October 2003
Last year Timoneer won the DoyleVela SuperYacht Regatta here in Palma so we returned to defend the Trophy over three races on 9th through 11th October. Unfortunately the wind was fairly light and got progressively worse so we did not do as well as we had hoped, ending up 6th overall out of 11 boats. However the race is more about having fun and on that score we did extremely well. The whole regatta was very well run with a strong emphasis on the social side of sailing and was remarkably successful. Hope we can make it back next year! Sunday morning saw a few hangovers after the black tie ball and prize giving the night before, but we nevertheless set off on a short cruise around the spectacular coast of Mallorca. We are now back in Palma and will set off for the Caribbean in late November when we will again resume the daily passage reports.