Tibor Pallay of Portugal took the only race possible in further light winds on Day 3 of the 2026 Finn European Masters on the Mar Menor in Spain.
Filipe Silva remains in the overall lead for the third consecutive day with Valerian Lebrun now only three points behind in second. Laurent Hay is up to third and Nick Craig is fourth.
Race 4 finally got away after some delay and two false starts in 5-7 knots of an offshore shifty breeze that left many leading sailors deep in the fleet.
Simon Percival GBR, got the first beat right to lead around from Brazil’s Pedro Lodovici and Peter Peet, from the Netherlands.
Lebrun rounded fourth and had the lead at the gate, splitting marks with Pallay, who made gains up the second beat to lead around the top.
By now the wind was dropping fast and it was a painful run to the finish. Pallay extended nicely for the win with Lebrun crossing second. Allen Burrell GBR, made gains upwind and downwind to cross third, with Percival just behind in fourth.
Other GBR Allen Burrell 21st and Lawrence Crispen 26th, and Simon Percival 29th.
Leading Results after 4 races (118 entries)
1st POR 21 Filipe SILVA 25 pts
2nd FRA 111 Valerian LEBRUN 28 pts
3rd FRA 75 Laurent HAY 35 pts
4th GBR 790 Nick CRAIG 37 pts
5th NED 148 Peter PEET 43 pts
6th ESP 161 Miguel FERNÁNDEZ VASCO 46 pts
7th HUN 5 Tibor PALLAY 62 pts
8th ESP 7 David TEROL ALBALADEJO 64 pts
9th HUN 180 Gergely GERENCSER 64 pts
10th SUI 7 Christoph BURGER 65 pts
Full results available here . . .