Bordeau 60 Palma rally

Written by Eva Dallo. Translation: Marco Benevento. Issue Nº 48

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Meeting of the big ones

Who says that a comfortable cruiser can not be a good racing boat? The Bordeaux 60 Palma Rally is a good example of it, a race organised by its yard, CNB, that brought together in Mallorca half of the Bordeaux 60 produced so far during two days of inshore racing. This confirmed the regatta qualities of one of the most spacious and comfortable cruisers in that length: in fact the latest winners of the ARC and the JP Morgan Round the Island Race have been Bordeaux 60.

It’s nine o’clock in the morning, and skippers are gathered around the tables at Flanigan, one of the restaurants along the docks of Puerto Portals in Portals Nous, Mallorca. Whoever is talking speaks English, but dragging an “r” that does not come out, in fact, he is French, just as part of those listening, among whom there were also English, Scottish, Italian, Spanish, Swiss and Germans. Even a Lebanese crew was expected, which at the end did not make it. There was no sign of wind at all, but the sun was scorching hot, but the race committee, a true believer in the llebeig, Mallorca thermal wind, decided not to raise the postponement flag.
This image, which could be of any official race, is in fact the one of a race that has just started, much more familiar, but with the same yachting spirit: the first Bordeaux 60 Palma Rally. A meeting organised by Construction Navale Bordeaux for the owners of the one that become the apple of their eye, the Bordeaux 60, a 60 footer sailboat launched in September 2007, of which fifteen units have been produced. Seven of them attended the meeting in Puerto Portals, an event aiming to create a “Bordeaux 60 family” but that, judging by the fondness and the racing mood that they displayed, could be defined as a fleet. The Bordeaux 60 fleet.