{"id":8704,"date":"2012-06-26T16:56:51","date_gmt":"2012-06-26T21:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/?p=8704"},"modified":"2014-06-27T03:32:24","modified_gmt":"2014-06-27T03:32:24","slug":"newport-to-bermuda-winners-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/2012\/06\/newport-to-bermuda-winners-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"Newport to Bermuda Winners Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No single boat \u2018wins\u2019 the Newport Bermuda Race, as the classic ocean race has five divisions<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/rambler.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-8705\" title=\"2012 Newport Bermuda Yacht Race - finish.  Dateline: 06:09:18 EDT June 17. Bermuda: George David\u00e2\u0080\u0099s 90ft maxi Rambler has smashed the 635 mile Newport Bermuda race record, clipping a massive 14 hours off the previous best time set 10 years ago by Roy Dis\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/rambler-300x217.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"217\" \/><\/a> and 16 classes. The 166 boats entered in 2012 raced for more than 100 trophies, including five major division trophies under the Offshore Racing Rule (ORR) system, and one major prize for IRC that combines most boats in the St. David\u2019s and Gibbs Hill Divisions that choose to be dual-scored. There was also one prize for the Spirit of Tradition Division.<\/p>\n<p>The St. David\u2019s Lighthouse is often regarded as the main trophy because that division is the largest with 93 boats, and because it carries on the founder&#8217;s\u00a0aim to get\u00a0amateurs sailing offshore in cruising-racing boats. But winning any division is worth bragging rights.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>St. David\u2019s Lighthouse Division for the St. David\u2019s Lighthouse Trophy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Carina<\/em>, the McCurdy &amp; Rhodes 48, sailed by Rives Potts (Westbrook CT), finished at 18:16:59 Monday. Her corrected time was 45:08:16. This division is for mostly amateur crews.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gibbs Hill Lighthouse Division for the Gibbs Hill Lighthouse Trophy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>George Sakellaris in the Reichel\/Pugh <em>Shockwave<\/em> (Boston MA) crossed the line third on elapsed at 8:55:25 on Sunday. She had a corrected time of 39:06:56.\u00a0This division allows full professional crews.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cruiser Division for the Carleton Mitchell Finesterre Trophy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Simon and Nancy De Pietro&#8217;s Briand 76 <em>Lilla <\/em> (Cork IRL) crossed the line at 7:17:13 on Tuesday. Her corrected time was 59:46:539. This division is for mostly amateur crews sailing cruising style boats.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Double-Handed Division for The Moxie Prize<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hewitt Gaynor\u2019s J120 <em>Mireille<\/em> (Mt. Sinai, NY) co-skippered by Jay Raymond (Whitefish Bay WI). <em>Mireille<\/em>\u2019s finished at 18:32:34 on Monday and her corrected time was 55:57:57. One professional is allowed, if that person is the owner.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Open Division for the Royal Mail Trophy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Michael D\u2019 Amelio (Hamilton. Bermuda) skipper of the Welborn 92 <em>Med Spirit.<\/em> She finished at 13:56:28 Sunday and her corrected time was 45:26:28. This division is for cant-keel boats with full professional crews allowed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Combined Gibbs Hill and St. David\u2019s Lighthouse Divisions for the IRC North Rock Beacon Trophy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>George Sakellaris in the Reichel\/Pugh <em>Shockwave<\/em> (Framingham MA) crossed the line third on elapsed time at 8:55:25 on Sunday. She had an IRC corrected time of 65:19:30. This prize allows for full professional crews and amateurs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Spirit of Tradition Division<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The War Baby Trophy for the winner of the division was presented to <em>Spirit of Bermuda<\/em> which finished at 23:20:17 Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>For all the final results visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bermudarace.com\/CompetitorsBoats\/2012Results\/tabid\/264\/Default.aspx\">www.bermudarace.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No single boat \u2018wins\u2019 the Newport Bermuda Race, as the classic ocean race has five divisions and 16 classes. The 166 boats entered in 2012 raced for more than 100 trophies, including five major division trophies under the Offshore Racing Rule (ORR) system, and one major prize for IRC that combines most boats in the St. David\u2019s and Gibbs Hill Divisions that choose to be dual-scored. There was also one prize for the Spirit of Tradition Division. The St. David\u2019s Lighthouse is often regarded as the main trophy because that division is the largest with 93 boats, and because it carries on the founder&#8217;s\u00a0aim to get\u00a0amateurs sailing offshore in cruising-racing boats. But winning any division is worth bragging rights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8704"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}