Patrick Gifford writes: It is with great sadness that I am writing about of the recent death of Monique Hayles. I first met Monique in Hong Kong in 1972. By that time, as this photograph shows, she was already an accomplished Dragon crew. This photo shows her crewing on the foredeck of her father’s Dragon …
Hugo Stenbeck’s Sophie Racing, helmed by Bernardo Freitas and crewed by Martin Westerdahl and Lars Linger, has won the Dragon Grand Prix European Cup Finals after a day of intense competition on the Bay of Palma. The opening day’s four qualifying fleet races had seen ten teams move forward into the final day of competition. …
On the opening day of the Dragon Grand Prix European Cup Finals 2019, Olympic 470 Gold Medallist Evgenii Braslavets, crewed by Sergey Pugachev, Sergey Timokhov and Oleksandr Myrchuk, claimed the golden ticket which will allow him to leapfrog past the Quarter and Semi Finals straight through to the Finals. Over the course of four Grade …
The Dragon Grand Prix Spain participants remained ashore on the final day of the regatta. Strong winds, above 30 knots, and a big swell with waves of more than two meters in the race area off Puerto Portals, made it impossible to run the last day of racing. The Club de Regatas Puerto Portals Race …
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Samokhin Gunning For Heerema Going Into Final Day of Dragon Grand Prix Spain The third day of the Dragon Grand Prix Spain started with an AP flag due to heavy rain and an absence of wind. At noon, the Race Committee went out to check the conditions in the regatta area, and after almost an hour …
The Dragon Grand Prix Spain off Puerto Portals, Mallorca, produced a splendid second day of racing thanks to a generous if shifty north wind that did not stop blowing in the nearly five hours in which the fleet of 44 teams from 12 countries were competing. The first race of the day, the third of [...]
11 November 2019 – The fourth and final event of the Dragon European Grand Prix circuit, the Dragon Grand Prix Spain hosted by the Club de Regatas Puerto Portals, began today in the Bay of Palma (Mallorca) with two exciting races in northerly winds. After overnight thunderstorms, the day dawned cloudy and everything pointed towards [...]
All images, courtesy of Elena Razina, can be found here: Photo album
The top 3 teams FRA 391 Jean Breger 2nd, FRA 420 Stephane Baseden 1st, FRA 207 Fred Gourlaouen 3rd… 16 crews took part last weekend at this year’s edition (32nd) of the Drag’s Cup on lake Cazaux. All fleets from France were represented : Deauville, Douarnenez, La Baule, Arcachon and Mediterranean Perfect sailing conditions with [...]