Phaedo3 takes line honors at RORC Transatlantic Race

(December 3, 2016; Day 8, 0900 UTC) – Lloyd Thornburg’s American MOD70 Phaedo3 has taken Multihull Line Honours in the RORC Transatlantic Race for the second year running. The American MOD70 completed the course in 6 days 13 hours 39 minutes and 55 seconds.

Although the team was outside their race record set last year (5 days 22 hours 46 minutes 03 seconds), Phadeo3 is well ahead of their 2016 rivals, Giovanni Soldini’s Italian MOD70 Maserati, which is expected to finish the race on later night.

Team Phaedo for RORC Transatlantic Race:
Brian Thompson
Pete Cumming
Miles Seddon
Kelvin Trautman
Paul Allen
Henry Bomby
Fletcher Kennedy

Arriving under the cover of darkness, Lloyd Thornburg’s MOD70, Phaedo3 crosses the finish line of the RORC Transatlantic Race in Grenada to take Multihull Line Honours © RORC/Arthur Daniel

Despite the fatigue of seven days of Atlantic racing, morale is high aboard Giovanni Soldini’s Maserati Multi70 who has top Canarian sailors on board including Carlos Hernández and Oliver Herrera: “The whole team is enormously satisfied with the speeds logged during their race and the huge progress hailed by her successful ocean foiling,” says Soldini, who is using the race as a test bed for the multihulls new foiling set up. With 200 miles to the finish line, Maserati will be the next boat to complete the RORC Transatlantic Race later this evening.

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Background:
• The third RORC Transatlantic Race starts in Lanzarote on Saturday November 26, 2016 and the 2,995 nautical mile race runs through the Canary Islands before crossing the Atlantic to arrive in Grenada
• The race is run in association with the International Maxi Association (IMA)
• The winner of the RORC Transatlantic Race Trophy for best elapsed time under IRC in 2015 was Jean-Paul Riviere’s 100ft Finot-Conq. Nomad IV also won IRC overall and the IMA Trophy for monohull line honours. Nomad IV also set a new monohull record for the RORC Transatlantic Race: 10 days 07 hours 06 minutes and 59 seconds

Source: Louay Habib. RORC