Dragon European Championship 2021

Dragons head to Puerto Portals for delayed European Championship

Mallorca’s glamorous Puerto Portals resort on Palma Bay has become a popular venue for Dragon regattas in recent years. With its superb facilities, great sailing waters, outstanding hospitality offerings, wonderful weather and wide range of accommodation it really is the perfect regatta location.

The team in Puerto Portals was all set to welcome the International Dragons for their European Championship in April 2020 when Covid-19 struck and they were forced to cancel the event. For months no sailing was possible and the only evidence that there was to have been a Dragon championship at all was a long line of Dragons parked on their trailers, sadly awaiting the return of their owners.

Following discussion with the IDA, it was agreed that the European Championship would be postponed for 12 months. In the intervening period the world’s scientists have worked miracles and created vaccines for Covid-19 which are being rolled out as this article is written, so there is hope on the horizon of a return to at least some level of normality by the spring of 2021. The team in Portals is therefore now ready and waiting to welcome the International Dragon sailors from 12 to 16 April 2021 for their much anticipated and long-awaited European Championship.

With racing on the Bay of Palma and the outstanding pre and post sailing hospitality ashore that we have come the expect from Puerto Portals, the event promises to be a marvellous return to full championship racing and a delightful chance for the International Dragon family to come together to rekindle their friendships and celebrate their mutual love of this wonderful class for the first time in many months. Full details of the regatta are at www.crpuertoportals.com