Mini Palma-Melilla: Optimum and Red Hot Mini Pepper win the first stage

The prototype Optimum, tripulated by Mateo Le Calvic and Arthur Meurse, has been the absolute winner of the first stage of the Palma- Melilla-Palma race. Secondly, in the category of serial ships, the Hot Mini Pepper Network has arrived, a team made up of the Italians Nicolo Gamenara and Giacomo Nicchitta, followed closely by the Douze Etolies, by Victor Le Roy and Paul Antonie Jacopy. The competition, organized by the Real Club Náutico de Palma and the Real Club Marítimo de Melilla, is reserved for boats of the Mini class 6.50. The fleet left Palma last Saturday, and the tour has been marked by a mixture of favourable bearing winds and calm areas. This has caused the so-called accordion effect, where the most advanced ships have been temporarily reached by the stragglers when the wind pressure was decreasing at certain points of the journey.

The crossing has left the island of Cabrera for starboard and the island of Alboran for port, with a strict prohibition of entry into Algerian territorial waters. The race, which covers a total of 1,000 miles, will resume next Saturday, November 16, with the return to Palma.

This race is noticeable for the classification of the Mini Transat 2025, a goal that motivates almost all participants. Among the Spanish teams, the first crew to cross the arrival line has been that formed by Tomas Ruiz and Carlos Manera (second in the Mini Transat 2023) on board the Suricate, reaching the fourth position in its class. In the rest of the Spanish fleet, Ramón Ribera and Juan María Adriozola in the Amuitz Sames Company have arrived tenths, Joan Trenchs and Witolp Malecki in the Pachamama have been eleventh, Miguel Rondón and Marc Claramunt in the Kristina II, Duodecimos, and Hugo Ramón with Aleix Sellés have ended in the thirteenth position.

From 15 to 17 November the inaugural event of the 2024-2025 season of the Mediterranean fleet of J70 in Spain will be held in the waters of the Catalan capital... will be the first of five that will be held monthly until the month of March 2025... it is designed with a general classification in which all the sleeves disputed, with a discard every 6 tests, and also each monthly event has its independent classification. The days of race are always from Friday to Sunday and sometimes, there are training on Thursday.

The Barcelona Winter Series is organized by the Real Club Nautico of Barcelona and has a strong international character as they come to compete teams from various European countries as well as the local Mediterranean fleet with ships from Palma, Denia and Barcelona. A total of 27 teams from 11 different nations had already been written at the end of this edition: United Kingdom, Germany, Portugal, Netherlands, France, Switzerland, Denmark, Sweden, Hungary, Austria and of course Spain.

The current advocate of the winter title of Barcelona is the hang Teng-Hnos. Berga, patronized by Jorge Martínez Doreeste. The second podium of the last season was occupied by the Noticia de Luis M. Cabiedes, while the third square was for the canaries of the HSN Sailing Team. with Luis Martínez to the cane.