Wednesday’s Distance Race report, as written from the Copa del Rey website: (http://www.prensarcnp.es/copa10/noticias/0031_uk.php)

The compensated time classes (IRC and RI) faced today’s traditional coastal race, a thirty miles long course which scored double, in twelve to fifteen knots wind which shifted from the southwesterly to the easterly. From the start, the fleet headed to an offset mark, from which they sailed downwind towards the first bottom mark, and from there to the variable windward one. The first scoring mark was placed next to Illetes, and, from there, a beat took them to the Isle of Sech, where the second scoring mark had been set, then back to Sech, and straight to the finish line.

The IRC A delivered few novelties in an eventful day which resulted in two broken spinnakers, those of “Ran” and “Bellamente”. The first stretch was for the giant of the fleet, “Ran”, what allowed her to comfortably control the rest of the race. Nikklas Zenstromm’s giant couldn’t manage to get away from Andy Soriano’s “Alegre” though, which passed the Judel & Vrolijk designed 72 footer at the finish line after times were compensated, thus holding to the lead in the IRC A division, which covers the Mini Maxi class. Ran’s today’s good performance places him in the second place thus displacing Container to the third position. “Bella Mente” could only manage a second and two fourth places, and is now out of the podium positions.