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Croatia Yacht Rally 2011 Meandered Toward Its Conclusion In Dubrovnik Last Week With A Race From Korcula To Mljet, A Distance Of Just Twelve Miles.

Croatia Yacht Rally 2011 meandered toward its conclusion in Dubrovnik last week with a race from Korcula to Mljet, a distance of just 12 miles.

The 'Pearl of the Adriatic ', positioned on the Dalmatian coast, became a vital Mediterranean sea power from the 13th century onwards. Though seriously spoiled by a quake in 1667, Dubrovnik managed to preserve its lovely Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque churches, priories, palaces and fountains. Damaged again in the 1990s by armed conflict, it's currently the focus of a major restoration program co-ordinated by UNESCO.

The 'Pearl of the Adriatic ', on the Dalmatian coast, was a vital Mediterranean sea power from the 13th century onwards. Though severely spoilt by a quake in 1667, Dubrovnik managed to preserve its pretty Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque churches, monasteries, palaces and fountains.

Dubrovnik was founded in the 1st half of the 7th century by a group of refugees from Epidaurum, who established their settlement at the island and named it Laus. The Latin name Ragusa (Rausa), in use until the fifteenth century, originated from the rock (Lat. Lausa = rock). Opposite that location, at the foot of Srcic ; Mountain, the Slavs developed their own settlement using the moniker of Dubrovnik, gleaned from the Croatian word dubrava, meaning oak woods. When the channel that separated these two settlements was filled in the 12th century they were united. From the time of its establishment the city was under the protection of the Byzantine Empire ; after the Fourth Crusade the city came under the sovereignty of Venice (1205-1358), and by the Deal of Zadar in 1358 it became part of the Hungarian-Croatian Kingdom, when it was a republican free state that reached its top in the fifteenth and 16th centuries. A business crisis in Mediterranean shipping and, more particularly, a catastrophic quake on April 1667 that levelled almost all of the public buildings, wrecked the contentment of the Republic. This dynamic quake came as a turning point in the city's development.

Dubrovnik is an exceptionally well-preserved example of a late-medieval walled city, with a regular street layout. Among the exceptional medieval, Renaissance and Baroque monuments in the magnificent fortifications and the monumental gates to the city are the Town Hall (now the Rector's Palace), dating from the eleventh century ; the Franciscan Monastery (completed in the 14th century, but now mostly Baroque in appearance) with its imposing church ; the extensive Dominican Monastery ; the cathedral (reconstructed after the 1667 quake) ; the customs house (Sponza), the eclectic appearance of which unearths the indisputable fact that it is the work of a few hands over many years ; and numerous other Baroque churches, for example that of St Blaise (guardian saint of the city).

The original International heritage preservation site consisted solely of the defences and the intra-mural city. It was later extended to incorporate the Pile medieval industrial suburb, a planned development of the fifteenth century, and the Lovrijenac Fortress, located on a cliff, which was probably started as early as the eleventh century, but owes its present appearance to the fifteenth and 16th centuries. Also included were the Lazarets, built in the early 17th century to house potential plague-carriers from abroad, the late 15th-century Kase moles, built to offer protection to the port against south-easterly gales, and the Revelin Fortress, dating from 1449, which was built to command the city moat on its northwards side.

Six yachts finish in the same minute on the water!

The south westerly course and the current 12 knot mistral produced a wind angle of 90 degrees for the 1st part of the race and 5 boats ran each other off to the left side of the course while the ensuing winner Alan Woodward stuck to the rum line with the other four yachts of the 10 identical Beneteau First 45's. The fleet ultimately came together as the finishing line approached and at the end six of the 10 yachts finished in the same minute on the water. The match racing hot shots filled the last 5 placings.

The post-race dinner at the Scotch eaterie in Polace set the scene for a Roman style party, appropriate because Polace boasts the remains of a Roman villa.
The whole of the northerly end of Mljet is a national park and the lay day was spent walking thru the luxurious pine forests that surround Lake Jezero.

The following and last race was set on a course across to Kobas on the mainland but dawn broke on a glassy sea with awfully small chance of wind. Around 12 , however , and to everyone's surprise, a twelve knot south easterly filled in around 1pm and the fleet worked across the passage on a flat sea in perfect summer conditions. Once again the fleet split and people who stayed to sea caught the yachts seeking non-existent lifts along the shore. After a run to the finish the yachts again finished in a 'heap'.

The cunning Alan Woodward of the Royal Brighton Yacht Club stayed out of the match racing frays between Roger Hickman, Steve Barlow from the Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron and David Buckman from the Port Lincoln Yacht Club. Alan eventually won the day on handicap from Alan Hare, a racing novice who basked in leading the famous Roger Hickman for a big part of the last race.

The final two nights at the sumptuous Dubrovnik Palace Hotel saw a gradual wind down from an outstanding rally sailed in ideal circumstances.
The 2012 Croatia Yacht Rally will be run by Mariner Boating during the same two weeks of 2012 and will likely be augments by a new event in Croatia to the north of Split in the Kornati Islands. The Croatia Kornati Yacht Rally will be sailed in the first 14 days of September. Again a matched fleet of yachts will be used, all with battened mains, treble spreader rigs, folding propellers and deep keels. Three double cabins will supply spacious accommodation and a fourth twin cabin will be offering storage for luggage.

Details of the 2012 Croatia Yacht Rally are available online and details of the Croatia Kornati Yacht Rally will shortly be available, writes tagza.com.

A Bay Breeze: A Novel Exploring the Concepts of Faith and Free Will $13.5 Everyday billions of people wake up thinking that a god is watching over them as they freely make choices in their lives. Dr. Alan Kosciol, noted neurobiologist, once believed that to be true. But years of research have turned his notion of gods, faith and free will upside down. In this novel, Dr. Kosciol embarks on a visiting lecture series where he debates the concepts of spirituality and free choice. Returning to his alma mater, Alan finds himself face to face with Robert, his deeply religious brother, and Lori, a lost, but not forgotten, love. All three are united through a series of events that centers on a bioterrorist action that has potentially devastating consequences. However, an underlying theme revolving around the age-old debate of nature versus nurture, and of free will versus predestination, seeps into every page.A Bay Breeze is not simply another novel about human behavior. From the first page, the reader will begin to question not only the characters' actions, but their own beliefs about gods, good and evil, and predestination. One cannot leave this experience without examining their own foundational beliefs in a god.... and wondering if they really have a free will to choose, or are they simply slaves to their own biochemistry.

A Bay Breeze: A Novel Exploring the Concepts of Faith and Free Will $3.99 Everyday billions of people wake up thinking that a god is watching over them as they freely make choices in their lives. Dr. Alan Kosciol, noted neurobiologist, once believed that to be true. But years of research have turned his notion of gods, faith and free will upside down. In this novel, Dr. Kosciol embarks on a visiting lecture series where he debates the concepts of spirituality and free choice. Returning to his alma mater, Alan finds himself face to face with Robert, his deeply religious brother, and Lori, a lost, but not forgotten, love. All three are united through a series of events that centers on a bioterrorist action that has potentially devastating consequences. However, an underlying theme revolving around the age-old debate of nature versus nurture, and of free will versus predestination, seeps into every page.A Bay Breeze is not simply another novel about human behavior. From the first page, the reader will begin to question not only the characters' actions, but their own beliefs about gods, good and evil, and predestination. One cannot leave this experience without examining their own foundational beliefs in a god.... and wondering if they really have a free will to choose, or are they simply slaves to their own biochemistry.