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The second racing day, 2 may, of Gaastra PalmaVela gave the best of itself. Today IRC, ORC, Classic and Vintage fleets, besides the one design classes Soto 40, J80, Flying Fifteen and Dragon joined the competition. "Magic Blue" is leading the Wally class while "Rán V" maintains the leadership in the Mini Maxi fleet. "Phoenix" is on top of the IRC class while in the one design divisions "Bigamist", "Bribon Movistar", “Gecko" and "Aphrodite" had an excellent performance and they are leaders of their respective classes after winning of each and every one of the races sailed. The day began gray and with very unstable wind, so at 10h00 CET the Race Committee hoisted the postponement flag. It was not until 12h30 hours that the boats started docking out, although the Race Committee didn’t give the first starting signal until after 15h00. Then all classes started racing divided into three race courses.

Magic Blue" completed in just over an hour

Today IRC, ORC, Classic

The Wally fleet had their first start at 15h15 CET. Ahead of them, there was a distance of over 10 miles which "Magic Blue" completed in just over an hour. Behind it, "Magic Carpet Cubed" and "J One" crossed the finish line completing the podium of this leg. With these results, the overall positions changed and "Magic Blue" is standing leader. Antonio Cacace and Sergio Lottini were unwilling to give up not one mile on the second race of the day. Thomas Bscher’s "Open Season" with Mike Atkinson at the helm won this race almost a minute ahead of Jean-Charles Decaux’s "J One" and with Piers Richardson as skipper. "Magic Blue" added his second podium of the day and fourth in the regatta, which established him in the first place of the overall podium with a threepoint lead on "Magic Carpet Cubed", who was second today. From there on, there was a close fight for third place between "J One", which is now third, followed closely by "Open Season", "Ryokan 2", "Galma" and "Tango G". Six points separate them in their particular fight to at least win third place of the Gaastra PalmaVela

"Rán V" unrivalled

Niklas Zennstrom’s "Rán V" is giving people something to talk about on the Bay of Palma. With two more victories today the Swedes are still leading ahead of "Robertissima" who is second, and "Alegre", third overall in Gaastra PalmaVela. But it wasn’t easy in the race course for "Rán V". During the first race it held a hard head-to -head with "Jethou" and “Alegre”, and the three boats crossed the finish line within just 43 seconds. And if the first race of the day was hard, Niklas Zennstrom did not know what awaited him during the second race, when Roberto Tomasini Grinover’s "Robertissima" pushed and hit the gas, crossing the finish line just five seconds after the Swedes. Behind them, "Alegre" showed its claws and added another podium, placing him just one point behind silver and tied with Sir Peter Ogden’s "Jethou".

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Marc de Antonio and Sofia Bertrand’s "Bribon Movistar" started strongly in the Gaastra PalmaVela. The team was unmatched: took the victory of all and each one of the races held, three of them. "Bribon Movistar" leads the J80 fleet followed by José Carlos Frau’s "Bufete Frau" and Sebastian Allebrodt’s "Mnemonic". "Gecko" commands the Flying Fifteen fleet Michael Clough’s "Gecko" gave a whole demonstration in the Mediterranean waters and the British crew won all three races sailed today, which gives him the undisputed lead in its class in the Gaastra PalmaVela. Behind him are Spanish Vincent Harris’ "Flyinghigh" skippered by Patrick Harris and David Barber’s "Fine Fettle", tied on points with Irish "Olive Oyl", who will seek to reach the podium of the emblematic Mediterranean race.

Quotes of the day

Javier de la Plaza, crew onboard TP52 "Phoenix", leader in IRC We are very happy to make our debut with a first place. Definitely, we couldn’t have a better start. So far we have been able to sail for only ten days and us getting to meet each other as a crew, besides knowing the boat, which is giving us a very good feeling. It's a great opportunity to prepare ahead of our next race where we will only compete against other TP52. Vasco Vascotto, tactician onboard "Robertissima III", second in Mini Maxi We didn’t have a very good first race today. We broke a spinnaker, but we improved in the second race. Anyway, we are happy to be second overall because we are sailing on a new boat for our team and for the owner and skipper [Roberto Tomasini]. We have to keep in mind that our new boat is much bigger than the last one, more than double. [About the leader "Rán"] "Rán’s" main rival is "Rán" itself. It has an excellent crew, which has been sailing together for a long time, and a great boat too. We are delighted to sail against them and trying to make it harder for them.

Following the scheduled program, the Dragon class completed three races and Robin Hennesy’s "Aphrodite" leads the regatta in its class after winning all three races sailed today. Behind the boat from the R.C.N.Palma, Robert Holthuizen’s "Dragonera" is hard on "Aphrodite’s" heels and is only a point behind the gold while Carlos Carbajal’s "Young Tiger" completes the provisional podium. "Enterprise" and "Samurai", lead the Vintage and Classic fleets The Vintage fleet heard their starting signal just before 15h30. They had ahead of them a coastal race of over 15 miles around the bay of Palma. The winner, Albert Kusak’s "Entreprise", completed the race course after sailing for more than two hours. The boat from the R.C.N. Palma leads the provisional overall ahead of Mikael Creach’s "Moonbeam IV" and Tim Liesenhpoff’s "Mariga" third overall. In the Classic fleet, Luigi Pavese’s "Samurai" leads after winning the coastal race to Anton de Llano Balcells’ "Margarita Estalindalamar", second on the finish line, and over third today Eduardo Jardon’s "Rosendo". Tomorrow lateen sail and disabled come into play Thanks to the Lateen Sail and Disabled, tomorrow Saturday, we will finally see in the four race areas on the bay of Palma, the 17 classes competing in the Gaastra PalmaVela 2014.

Traditionally Palma wanted to give a prehistoric origins, which archeology has not been corroborated. The truth is that the city was officially founded by the Romans as 123 BC, at the hands of the Roman general Quintus Caecilius Metellus. The San Roque street and the street of the General Survey were the old shafts and decumanus thistle city and its intersection were the forum, the nerve center of the Roman city. Therefore, this area corresponds to the current first city Almudaina neighborhood, which was fortified. It retains a door of this wall: the Almudaina street. The period between the V and IX is known by historians as the dark ages. However, from this period have documented the arrival of a Jewish community in Mallorca, Palma remained so over successive periods in the history of the city. In 902 the Balearic Islands were incorporated into the Umayyad Emirate of C贸rdoba. At first Andalusian society occupied the Roman city, which now took the name of Madina Mayurqa. In the tenth century the city was equipped with a hydraulic network from the channeling of water from a source (the source of the Villa), six kilometers from the city walls. Also built a palace inside the Almudaina. A significant population increase, prompting the growth of the city beyond the Roman walls. For this reason, in the early eleventh century ran an ambitious project that widened considerably around the city and a new wall. This new city corresponds to what is now called Old Town. In 1114 came the Pisan raid that destroyed much of the city. However, Medina Mayurqa rebuilt until in 1229 the troops of King James I conquered Mallorca. The conquest of the island by the king of Aragon means a before and after in the history of Mallorca and, by extension, of the Balearic Islands. It is from 1229, with the creation of the Kingdom of Majorca, when the foundations of the current Mallorcan society: religion, culture, institutions, customs, language ... Medina Mayurqa renamed the city of Mallorca.

In 1249 the island was organized from a large town called college. The executive authorities of the new government were called jurors. Already in the fourteenth century, the jurors enjoyed an advisory council that eventually became the Great and General Council. During the Middle Ages and the modern age Mallorca city grew slowly within their own walls. The assault on the Jewish quarter of 1391, the harassment of farmers during the Revolt of 1450 foreign and 1521 Germania, in which farmers and artisans were made with the power of the Kingdom, are the most notable warlike events, which can be add specific episodes of clashes between different factions-what we now call clan struggles. In 1715 the troops of Philip V Bourbon entered the city, the jurors who had declared in favor of the Archduke Charles. This caused the adoption of Decree of Nueva Planta, under which civil institutions disappeared since 1229 had created the Kingdom of Mallorca. It will recover the ancient name of Palma, which replaced the city of Mallorca. Administratively the city was organized from Castilian model. It created the city of Palma, which inherited the house of the Jury and the Great and General Council, with its furniture, of which especially the picture gallery of the illustrious sons of Mallorca. During the French War (1804-1814) scenario Mallorca was not any battlefield, however this does not mean that live outside. Palma became a refuge for many Spaniards. The city was filled with people from all walks Despite this sudden increase in population, continued to grow intramural Palma. Just as Santa Catalina suburbs or extended Molinar sheepishly. Not until 1900 that approved the Plan Calvet Palma urbanism, from which the city widened far beyond its defensive walls. In 1902 he began the demolition of the walls, which began to widen the city, a process that dramatically interrupted only during the unhappy years of the Civil War. By the early fifties of last century developed the tourism industry hard and became the first engi-

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ne of the island's economy. When the late seventies recovers the democratic system in Spain, Palma and tourist capital is undergoing a process of modernization and re-produce significant urban growth that has stretched to almost the first decade of the century.