Sea, Sail & Surf news600 nm Offshore Race | Antigua
14th RORC Caribbean 600 : Pyewacket 70 announced Overall Winner
vendredi 24 février 2023 –
Pyewacket 70 Crew : Ben Mitchell, Peter Isler, Tony Mutter, Brad Jackson, Brian Janney, Daryl Wislang, David Tank, Jan Majer, Mark Callahan, Matt Mialik, Robbie Kane, Rodney Daniel, Tristan Louwrens.
“We are super-excited about winning overall,” commented skipper Ben Mitchell. “With Pyewacket 70 we don’t go into these races necessarily thinking that a corrected time win is our goal, we go for Line Honours and potentially to set a new record Record #sailingrecord . So, when a handicap win comes that is fantastic and we are excited that we were able to achieve that.
“The Caribbean has been a popular destination for American sailors for a long time, but the hard core Southern Californian racers do not come here that often,” continued Ben Mitchell. “When you come here you realise how beautiful this course is, with fabulous wind conditions combined with warm water and weather. It’s a fantastic race area. As we saw with Wizard and now with Pyewacket 70, the Volvo 70s are well heeled for this course, which has plenty of windy reaching conditions.”
“For me personally, I feel very fortunate,” continued Ben Mitchell. “I am very lucky to be put in the position by Roy (Pat Disney) with the support of Robbie Haines. This win is right up there with the biggest victories and Pyewacket has had a lot of success with the programme. In recent years the RORC Caribbean 600 victory is right up there with our record Record #sailingrecord in the Cabo Race. This is a great course, but it is also very tricky. In Southern California we are more use to point-to-point distance races. The course designers were definitely using their imagination when they came up with the RORC Caribbean 600.”
Pyewacket 70 joins an impressive list of overall winners from the United States ; Warrior Won, Wizard, Rambler 88, Bella Mente, Shockwave, Privateer, and Rambler 100.
Louay Habib
RORC CARIBBEAN 600 TROPHY - IRC OVERALL : (Best corrected time under IRC)
- 2022 - Christopher Sheehan, Warrior Won, Pac52 (USA)
- 2020 - Tilmar Hansen, Outsider, TP52 (GER)
- 2019 - David and Peter Askew, Wizard, Volvo 70 (USA)
- 2018 - George David, Rambler 88, Maxi (USA)
- 2017 - Hap Fauth, Bella Mente, JV72 (USA)
- 2016 - George Sakellaris, Maxi 72, Proteus (USA)
- 2015 - Hap Fauth, JV72, Bella Mente (USA)
- 2014 - George Sakellaris, RP72, Shockwave (USA)
- 2013 - Ron O’Hanley, Privateer, Cookson 50 (USA)
- 2012 - Niklas Zennström’s JV72, Rán (GBR)
- 2011 - George David, Rambler 100, JK 100 (USA)
- 2010 - Karl C L Kwok, Beau Geste, Farr 80 (HKG)
- 2009 - Adrian Lee, Lee Overlay Partners, Cookson 50 (IRL)
RACE RECORDS :
- Multihull record (2022) : Jason Carroll, MOD70, Argo (USA) - 29 hours, 48 mins, 44 secs (I day 5 hrs 48 mins 44 secs)
- Monohull record (2018) : George David, Rambler 88, Maxi (USA) - 37 hours, 41 minutes, 45 seconds (1 day 13 hrs 41 mins 45 secs)
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