The XV Easter Regatta in Vodice has come to an end after three days of exciting sailing. Up until the last race, the only one scheduled for Saturday, everything was still undecided. During the regatta winds favored the organizers, but the day started with strong bora causing the first start to be postponed. In a little while wind conditions improved and the racing kicked off in a mild northeasterly wind.  Wind direction and strength changed all the time brining out the best in the racing teams and offering interesting and exciting duels.  Karlo Kuret's Salona 42 yacht called All 4 One took the lead right at the start. At one point Bartul Mišura and his Teuta caught up with them, but with smooth sailing Kuret's team extended their lead and crossed the finishing line first controlling the Czech crew's Bohemia Express with whom they fought for the first place. Though with the same number of points, due to better score in the last regatta, Kuret's team won by a neck. The Slovak Quabremar came third.  In the second group we saw some great sailing from Krešimir Đakulović's Mareus and the win affirmed Mareus as the best in that group. The runner-up was Branko Ilijadica Rapo and the Slovak boat Brutal Fish came third. In the Open group Bojan Božić and his Vola Vola offered convincing sailing and took the lead leaving Split's Polet with Nikola Dešković at the helm behind.

The winner in the second Open group was 01 Express, whose crew in the last race successfully protested against Hvar Adventure and Rikard Kuhar's crew, making them disqualified from the race and causing them to loose the first place in their group.  Exciting duels on the last day of the regatta taking place in unsteady and extremely challenging weather conditions have shown once again that the Easter Regatta attracts a great turnout of supreme sailors from this part of Europe and the best prepared racing teams on the eve of the World Championship to take place on Cres in June are Karlo Kuret's crew and the Czech team with Richard Vojta at the helm of Bohemia Express. Also, the Easter Regatta is on the best way to regaining its glory and both the participants and spectators of the regatta organized by PBZ Leasing expressed their great delight and gratitude to the organizers for the efforts invested toward making it better every time. This year's event has shown that our best regatta has bright future ahead.

The artist Antun Mateš was born in Zagreb on November 23, 1945. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in the class of Professor M. Stančić.  For decades he has been referred to as the most Zagreb-inspired painter thanks to many vedute of Zagreb that show the intimate atmosphere of his memories of Zrinjevac and the Croatian National Theatre, uptown and downtown Zagreb and silhouettes of Tomislavac and Ilica painted in the sfumato style.

Today Antun Mateš deserves to be described as one of the most European, even worldly Croatia's modern painters thanks to his "Zagreb Walks" (one of the artist's six graphic art maps) he later complemented with "European Walks" comprising the beautiful vistas of Paris, London, Venice and other European and world metropolises.

When creating Mateš still uses traditional graphic techniques of deep print, limiting the number of copies, but welcomes new technologies as a good tool for spreading information about artistic happenings in the world and the way the people of today communicate.

He paints aquarelles and aquatints; themes are mostly landscapes and vedute - mostly of his hometown Zagreb and other Croatian towns and European and world cities.

With dim colours he translates the flickering ambiance of town streets, squares and parks. He is the author of several very successful and technically outstanding graphic art maps and by now his solo exhibitions have taken place at venues in Bjelovar, Zagreb, Karlovac, Melbourne, Split, Osijek and Mainz.