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Transatlantic Race 2011
6 days and 22 hours for Rambler 100 across the Atlantic
lundi 11 juillet 2011 –
Rambler 100 skipper George David (Hartford, Conn.) spoke of his satisfaction after taking line honors in the Transatlantic Race 2011, just minutes after crossing the finish line at The Lizard, Cornwall, U.K.
“It was really nice to see David Aisher (Rear Commodore Yachting of the Royal Yacht Squadron) greet us on the line with some Cornish pastries and some champagne and beer. We feel pretty good ; it was a remarkably fast time.
"For the first 80 hours of this race we were ripping along ; towards the end we hit a few holes in the wind, but the net speed average was 15.7 knots across the Atlantic, which I think is going to prove a record Record #sailingrecord in its own right—as a speed record Record #sailingrecord for any transatlantic race. We feel pretty good about that.
"Kenny Read is about 100 miles behind us with his PUMA Team. The odds are he is probably going to win the race on corrected time, but we will see what happens over the next 15 hours, which is about the amount of time that we give them. We will keep a look out on the tracker, and we will see when the time expires, but just like politicians, we are not going to concede just yet.
"Flying along at 28 knots is an exhilarating experience but one that concentrates the mind. Rambler is a finely balanced machine and anything can go wrong and there are huge forces opposing each other. If those forces go out of balance, bad things can happen very quickly. But as I say this has been an exhilarating race, where we have been well out of sight of land, completely unsupported and in a high performance machine, which you are taking close to the edge, for a very long time—that is, without doubt, exhilarating.”
Press info www.transatlanticrace.com
Voir en ligne : Photo(s) Mark Lloyd / www.lloydimages.com
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