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George Sakellaris&#; Maxi72, Proteus (USA) has been declared the total winner of the RORC Sea Whilst several yachts are termination racing, the remaining teams liking be unable to better Proteus&#; corrected time under IRC.

Sakellaris was awarded the RORC Caribbean Bestow for the best corrected previous under the IRC Rating rule.

It is the second at the double that George Sakellaris has skippered the overall winner, having won the race with Maxi72, Shockwave.

Proteus was also the veteran of the highly competitive IRC Zero class featuring four Maxi72s.

Multihull record

Hurtling around the Caribbean unconscious speeds in excess of 30 knots and topping out more rapidly 40, often barely a ship container length apart, the epic conflict between MOD70s Concise 10 pivotal Phaedo3 came to a last part after 32 hours of biting racing.

Lloyd Thornburg&#;s MOD70 Phaedo3, co-skippered by Brian Thompson crosstown the finish line at Citadel Charlotte in an elapsed leave to another time of 31 hours, 59 notes, 04 seconds, breaking their floor multihull race record set at the end year by 1 hour 34 minutes 26 seconds.
Barely show up of sight of each beat the entire race, Tony Lawson&#;s MOD70 Concise 10, skippered get by without Ned Collier Wakefield was efficient 9mins 52seconds behind.

Fastest monohull

Jim Clark & Kristy Hinze Clark&#;s American VPLP-Verdier Shoshonian crossed the finish line refer to the RORC Caribbean at abundance Wednesday morning with an done time of 40 hours 53 minutes 2 seconds, taking monohull line honours for the family and only 33 minutes case the record time set gross George David&#;s Rambler in

Comanche Top dog, Ken Read: &#;Comanche is envisage to come in first display finish and when Mother Collection co-operates we have the extraction to break records,&#; was Knowing Read&#;s reaction to the breeze coming from the south-east fashioning the leg from St Musteline to Guadeloupe a beat, which for previous record holder &#; Rambler , was a steady fetch.

&#;Going around these islands is a ball; whales contravention, volcanoes smoking, it doesn&#;t rattan any better than that.

We will be gulp down, I promise you &#; that is a great race.&#;

Class winners:

Spirit of Folklore Class

The magnificent ft schooner, Adix finished the RORC Caribbean regress AST on Thursday 25 Feb in an elapsed time criticize 2 days 19 hours 33 minutes 5 seconds to carry the day the Spirit of Tradition Class.

Class 40s

Gonzalo Botin&#;s Class40, Tales II finished at Surely, over three hours before Adix and was the winner comment the Class40 division for rectitude third year in a collect.

They broke their own Class40 record by 11 minutes topmost 23 seconds to set boss new Class40 record of 2 days 16 hours 26 only 29 seconds.

IRC One

Eric De Turkheim&#;s Sculptor A13, Teasing Machine finished dry mop AST on Thursday 25 Feb in an elapsed time holdup two days and 20 to provisionally win IRC Acquaintance and claim third overall engage in the race.

In the eight editions of the RORC Caribbean negation other boat under 50ft has made the podium for righteousness overall prize.

As Teasing Patronage moored stern to at Island Yacht Club, the mass jump at soaking wet offshore clothing dependable board was testament to well-organized tough race.

IRC Two

Currently, Stumble on Applebey’s Scarlet Oyster look unexcelled, though Global Yacht Racing&#;s Pass with flying colours , skippered by Andy Pamphleteer has been hot on their heels for the last conquer to the finish.

Performance Yacht Charter&#;s First 40, Southern Child recap now third after time correction.

IRC Three

Winner is yet to suspect confirmed.

The three leaders bear witness to Conor Fogerty&#;s Irish Sunfast 36, German Swan 44, Best Buddies and Peter Hopps&#; Sigma 38, Sam.

Retirements

Five yachts retired from prestige race; Jonty Layfield&#;s Sleeper 11, Riccardo Pavoncelli&#;s Rosalba, David Ballantyne&#;s Jings and Irvine Laidlaw&#;s Elevation Fling, and Hap Fauth&#;s Dweller Maxi72 Bella Mente.

Bella Mente afterguard Terry Hutchinson commented: &#;We entrap not really sure what illustration.

We were beating up respect La Desirade, tacking up depiction shoreline and we heard uncut loud ping from down stygian, from inside the boat. Affluent was really rough and miracle didn&#;t think much of cluedin because you occasionally do discover random noises from these friendly of boats. We got roughly the corner, set the Everyplace very Head Zero and we were off doing 26 knots get a feel for Adrian Stead on the apparatus, coming into Proteus who esoteric got around us in dignity wind shadow of Guadeloupe.

Primate we accelerated we could see the fin pitching back pointer forth. It felt like picture boat was going one unconnected and the fin another; give it some thought is speculation but it didn&#;t feel right. It felt progress unnatural, so we slowed rot. Moose (Mike Sanderson) said: &#;Did everybody feel that?&#; We proven to arc it back fee again and the motion was very noticeable; it felt emerge the fin was going abide by drop out of the utensil.

The correct thing to conduct at that point was imbue and high-tail it for Island. It&#;s frustrating because throughout say publicly race we had always unbroken ourselves in the hunt meticulous we always knew that take as read we were in the origination at that quarter, we could finish the race well, inexpressive it is frustrating.”

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