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Record breaking Caribbean 600 win<\/p>\n
BY ADMIN \u2022 MARCH 26, 2018 \u2022 BREAKING NEWS, HOMEMOSAIC, RACING \u2022 COMMENTS OFF \u2022 162<\/p>\n
Credit: \u00a9 Tim Wright 2018\/RORC<\/p>\n
This season has proven to be one of the windiest Caribbean winters for many years. The 10th edition of this now classic 600-mile race around a string of iconic islands therefore proved to be the toughest yet. Competitors had to contend with mean wind speeds of 25-30 knots with frequent squalls, some of which brought gusts of well of 40 knots, along with four to five metre seas.<\/p>\n
Credit: \u00a9 Tim Wright 2018\/RORC<\/p>\n
The record fleet of 84 yachts set off from Antigua on February 19, but casualties started to mount within the first 12 hours. High profile retirements included Ludde Ingvall\u2019s 100ft supermaxi CQS, which suffered a technical breakdown. More seriously, Greg Slyngstad\u2019s\u00a0Bieker 53 catamaran, Fujin, capsized off Saba Rock. Fortunately, all eight crew were able to clamber onto the up-turned hull and two nearby competitors, Stephen Cucchiaro\u2019s Gunboat 60 Flow and Jens Kellinhusen\u2019s Ker 56 Varuna, stood by until rescue agencies were able to recover the crew safely.<\/p>\n
Credit: \u00a9 Tim Wright 2018\/RORC<\/p>\n
Less than half the fleet was able to complete the race, although two of the smallest boats were successful \u2013 Shaun Carroll\u2019s diminutive semi-foiling modified Sea Cart 30 trimaran Morticia, and Conor Fogerty\u2019s Sun Fast 3600 Bam. The latter is no stranger to heavy weather, having won the stormy 2017 OSTAR single-handed trans-Atlantic race on corrected time. He returned to Antigua at the end of the Caribbean 600 victorious in IRC Class 3 and in second place in CSA Class 2.<\/p>\n
Credit: \u00a9 Tim Wright 2018\/RORC<\/p>\n
George David\u2019s giant Rambler 88 screeched round the course in just 37 hours 41 minutes and 45 seconds, at an average speed of almost 16 knots. It was a stunning performance that earned him a hat trick of trophies \u2013 monohull line honours, first in IRC Class 0, and the best corrected time under the IRC rating rule. He also broke the race record, which he set himself six years earlier in his previous boat, Rambler 100.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe sailed a good race and didn\u2019t leave much out there,\u201d David said. \u201cNobody got hurt and we didn\u2019t break anything. I think it might come down to evolution in design. Six years ago, the conditions were similar, yet we are two and a half hours ahead of a 100ft boat. We made some modifications over the winter to Rambler 88. We draw 7 metres now and\u2026 it\u2019s lighter and livelier and gets up and goes quicker; boats just go faster.\u201d<\/p>\n
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