The spectacular American Maxi72 "Bella Minte," first to get to Antigua

Last time of the Caribbean 600 RORC in Antigua... the expected battle between the Maxi72 "Bella Minte" armed by Hap Fauth, and George Sakellaris's "Proteus" was up to what was expected from these two spectacular sailing machines. In the end, the tremendous rhythm of the "Bella Minte" that carried out up to seven changes in the cane and nothing less that it counted 85 changes of candles, attached to 30 knots speed points, caused victory for the maxi of Hap Fauth. In the end there was only 14 minutes between the two ships.

The second to cross the line of arrival, the "Proteus..." did it 14 minutes after the "Bella Minte"

Hap Fauth, who was immensely happy, declared only to cross the arrival line:"We are very happy, we achieved our goal, the crew has fought 120% or more... amazing... We are delighted to have won... we had a 500-mile particular race with Proteus... it cost us a lot to double them because they have been a very hard, very good rival... so our victory, has even more merit."

21 / 02 / 2017: spectacular start of the RORC Caribbean 600 race in Antigua

Spectacular start of the Caribbean 600 RORC that began in Antigua with the participation of 80 ships of the very first level, which has a tour of 600 nautical miles through Caribbean waters. The race is organized by the legendary Antigua Yacht Club and by director of competition to Nick Ellior who is the director of the RORC race. The splendid wind conditions at the beginning of the race, with a quartered struggle between the 70 MOD... among which he first started the "Maserati" of Giovanni Soldini, being reached and later overcome after the first miles, by the "Phaedo 3" patrolled by Lloyd Thornburg,

The atmosphere is indescribable in Antigua... in this image the Tulip crew

Among the monocasque real-time rule of the "Rambler 88" armed by George David, which however does not dominate in compensated time, for in IRC the command is for the time being for George Sakellaris's "Proteus," ahead of Hap Fauth's "Bella Mind" and the so-called "Rambler 88." It is hard to fight between the Vor 70 "SFS II" by Lionel Pean and the two maxis 72s "Proteus" and "Green Island," a struggle that is inclined in the beginning in favor of "Proteus." In the Class40, "Ph-orty" by Peter Harding, "Earendil" by Catherine Pourre and "Campagne de France" by Halvard Mabire, they lead the category.

For the legendary Eddie Warder Owen, executive director of the Royal Ocean Racing Club, the fleet has an unparalleled quality... there is a lot of pressure among the patterns to place itself at the head of the fleet... the Caribbean 600 goes year by year to year and it is already a whole international reference

You can follow the development of the Caribbean 600 RORC on this link.

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