The Olympic classes European season opener, the Princess Sofia Trophy in Palma, saw a fine haul of medalware for Skandia Team GBR. On video, Iain Percy and Andrew Simpson talk to us about their pre-medal race win in the Star while we look at Saturday’s Finn medal race and Ben Ainslie tells us how it went. Camper is the first of the new VO70s to emerge from the build-shed. Pascal Bidegorry is no longer the skipper of the Banque Populaire maxi-tri. Renault, Estrella Damm and Neutrogena have finished the Barcelona World Race. See the final report from the Voiles de St Barts, of British success Mini racing in Italy and the latest blog from Conrad Humphreys.