Delighted to be sent this picture of the cup for third in class in the 2017 Transadriatica race, especially since we were the smallest boat and the oldest crew.
Martin Walker received the cup for the race, which was actually last June, at the annual dinner last month of his club, Diporto Velico Veneziano. Spiuma is only 26 feet long and was in a class up to 36 feet and beat much larger yachts. In fact we worked so hard on the overnight spinnaker run back to Venice that several boats 8 or 9 feet longer only caught up with us near the finish when the wind had gone ahead and fallen very light. The crew was just the two of us.
A great weekend, with overnight races to Novigrad in Croatia and back, a dinner in Novigrad, and the next day a vineyard tour, before the second evening start. The pre-race gathering of the fleet in Venice’s Arsenale docks (where the old galleys were built and based) was an unforgettable experience.
Spiuma entering the Arsenale.
Spiuma is the smaller one. The Arsenale is normally banned for private boats. The pre-race prosecco flowed freely!
A dry dock for galleys inside the Arsenale.
tide by tide 