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Malta rocks!
Just got back from Malta, covering the Rolex Middle Sea Race. What a fantastic place. Not much wind for the race – at least not until the big boats had finished, and then it started blowing a beautiful Force 4. Still, entries were at a record 68 and people seem to want to come back for more. I flew in the helicopter with legend photographer Carlo Borlenghi and legend-in-his-own-lunchtime cameraman Matt Conner and watched Alfa Romeo tearing through the fleet at a phenomenal rate (the smaller boats started first). The ability to make your wind – eg 5 knots boatspeed in 2 knots true wind – is pretty useful when the breeze is in short supply, but it wasn’t enough to break Zephyrus IV’s course record set in 2000. It’s incredible the record has stood so long in the… Read the rest