Pete Cooke, Torvar Mirsky and Charles Philip Nankin finish the weekend on 10 points to take victory. CAPA wins Sunday’s only race and climbs to second overall, ahead of EASY. The Race Committee completes four races despite the fading breeze limiting the fleet’s opportunities to race.
DID YOU LIKE THIS CONTENT? WELL... YOU HAVE ALL OF OUR FULL PROGRAMS HERE!The opening event of the X Puerto Portals Dragon Winter Series went down to the final leg. With the overall standings still open and just one race scheduled for the final day, Meteor Racing confirmed its place as the fleet’s most consistent team. Capa took the day’s win to climb to second overall, while Easy completed the podium.
Racing began earlier than planned. The Club de Regatas Puerto Portals Race Committee brought forward the day’s schedule after identifying the early morning as the best opportunity to race. The warning signal had been scheduled for 10:00, but the pressure of a decisive day was already evident on the start line. Two general recalls were required before the fleet got away at 10:23 on the third attempt, under the black-flag rule. Under this rule, any boat identified in the triangle bounded by the ends of the start line and the first mark during the minute before the start is disqualified without a hearing.
The valid start was made in a flat sea with around eight knots of north-easterly breeze, allowing the fleet to begin a windward-leeward race off Puerto Portals, in the waters of Calvià. However, the breeze dropped below six knots in less than half an hour. The Race Committee responded by adjusting the course and its bearings to complete the race, but the wind continued to fade and there was no longer a sufficient window to sail a second race. A fifth race would have brought the fleet closer to the six scheduled for the event.
Capa’s win reshuffled the provisional podium. The boat sailed by Carlos Carbajal, with Marc O’Connor and Carlos Ruigomez as crew, began Sunday in third place and moved up to second after winning the day’s race. Easy, also in contention for the overall win, finished third.
Meteor Racing defended its lead with a second-place finish in the final race. Pete Cooke, Torvar Mirsky and Charles Philip Nankin started the day with a five-point advantage and delivered a solid, consistent performance. They finished on 10 points to claim victory at the season’s opening event.
For Torvar Mirsky, a member of the Meteor Racing crew and a regular competitor in the Puerto Portals Dragon Winter Series since its third edition, taking part in the tenth edition has special significance. Sailing a classic wooden Dragon built in 1963 makes the experience even more exciting and allows the three crew members to enjoy racing in a different way, they explain. The team has capped the opening event with victory and plans to compete in the remaining Winter Series events, as well as the X Mediterranean Cup in March.
Clear skies and almost springlike sunshine accompanied a day when finding and making the most of the breeze was part of the challenge. With one race completed on Friday, two on Saturday and one more on Sunday, the Race Committee brought the weekend to a close with four races, adapting the schedule and course to changing weather conditions.
The opening event of this tenth edition brought together 16 boats and more than 50 sailors from eight countries in Palma Bay and the waters off Calvià. The fleet sails Dragons, a one-design keelboat class designed by Johan Anker in 1929 that retains its international appeal almost a century later. The 8.90-metre boats are usually sailed by three crew, and modern fibreglass boats compete alongside classic wooden Dragons in the same fleet.
Ashore, the hospitality area at the Club de Regatas Puerto Portals, next to the Race Office, once again provided a meeting point for the crews. The social side of the event is an integral part of a competition that brings an international fleet together in Mallorca.
Three more Winter Series events will take place between December and February, followed by the X Mediterranean Cup, scheduled for 11–14 March 2027. Last March, Puerto Portals hosted the Yanmar Dragon Gold Cup, which attracted 65 boats from 17 countries. These events have helped establish Mallorca as a leading destination for the Dragon class and strengthen its position on the international winter sailing calendar.
More than 400 people take part in the third event of the Consell de Mallorca’s water bike circuitAll to play for as the opening event of the X Puerto Portals Dragon Winter Series reaches its final 
