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With Cowes resident, Brian Thompson as skipper, as he was for the Round the Island record, Lloyd Thornburg’s American MOD70 Phaedo3 took Multihull Line Honours for the second year running.
This American MOD70 completed the course in six days 13 hours, 39 minutes and 55 seconds. Although the team was outside their own race record set last year (five days, 22 hours, 46 minutes, three seconds).
Phadeo3 was well ahead of their 2016 rivals, Giovanni Soldini’s Italian MOD70 Maserati, which crossed the finish line on Saturday afternoon, completing the RORC Transatlantic Race and their first ocean race in the MOD70 in seven days, eight hours, 44 minutes and 23 seconds, taking second place in the Multihull division.
Brian Thompson, spoke on arrival at Camper & Nicholsons Port Louis Marina, Grenada,
“Friday evening and we’ve just arrived into Grenada at the finish of the RORC Transatlantic Race from Lanzarote. We’ve sprayed ourselves with Champagne, given Pablo (Pete Cumming) a birthday cake and now we are going to settle down for some late dinner in St George’s. It’s great to be here; the tree frogs are singing out, the reggae music is blasting out and we are very happy to be here.
“We had a great last day in the race with 15-17 knot tradewinds; quite gentle, clear skies and then as we approached Grenada, a beautiful crescent moon and Venus setting in the west in front of us. We arrived three or four hours after sunset and it was a very, very good arrival. There were lots of people to welcome us on the dock.
“Thanks a lot to RORC and to the Calero family in Lanzarote, and to the team at Camper & Nicholsons here in Grenada. We are looking forward to welcoming Maserati in later today, and then we are off up to Antigua. Next stop: the RORC Caribbean 600. It’s been a great race.”
Taking the Multihull line honours, Team Phaedo was awarded the Multihull Trophy as winners of the Multihull Class by Andrew McIrvine, Secretary General of the IMA and Admiral of the Royal Ocean Racing Club. Andrew is often seen in Cowes when sailing there on board his own yacht La Reponse.
This was the third RORC Transatlantic Race. It started in Lanzarote on Saturday 26th November and the 2,865 nautical mile race ran through the Canary Islands before crossing the Atlantic to arrive in Grenada.
Image: © RORC/Arthur Daniel.
