Offshore cruising in a sudden pop‑up thunderstorm is anything but predictable—one moment the sea rolls steady, the next a wall of wind barrels down, whipping the rigging and heeling the boat hard over as spray leaps across the deck. Rain lashes sideways, stinging skin and soaking everything in seconds, until I can’t tell what’s seawater and what’s sky. The storm seems to come from nowhere, fierce and messy, leaving me braced against the wheel, drenched and blinking through the chaos, riding it out until the burst of fury suddenly eases as quickly as it arrived.

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The Bay of Palma delivered in full measure today, with 15 to 20 knots of breeze turbo-charging racing at the 2023 Superyacht Cup Palma across the entire shimmering blue arena on New Zealand Race Day.

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See the Frauscher 1414 Demon - winner of the 2016 Best of Boats Award and nominated for the 2017 European Powerboat of the Year Award driving on lake Traunsee. Music: Parov Stelar - I Need L.O.V.E from the album 'The Demon Diaries' Courtesy of Etage Noir Recording

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