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Reasons to go racing

• Written by Graeme Beeson

No wonder the Oyster Palma Regatta is so often oversubscribed. A great learning experience, a brilliant party, a steppingstone to far horizons, an essential networking event and a whole lot more…

Among the boats lined up along the dock outside the Real Club Náutico de Palma, not one had been designed purely for racing. Yet as the 30-strong fleet turned the weather marks during the four days of racing to head downwind, the number and speed of spinnaker sets said it all when it came to judging just how competitively owners and crews were taking the Oyster Palma Regatta.

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