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3 May 2017


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поздравления kenza!!!
GOOD ONYA Kipper1258!! GOOD ONYA Dingo!
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This four race series has required our sailors and administrators to re-think routings and courses around the world and that has probably been a good thing.

The first leg down to Uruguay in South America was not so different to a normal round-the-world course but on the second leg from South America to New Zealand racers were offered the opportunity to use the Magellan passage to avoid the Horn. Some did so successfully, shortening their course, putting them upwind on the bash to North Island New Zealand but encountering lighter winds on the inshore passage.

The third leg from Auckland to Cape Town was an unashamed thrash to windward with the Great Circle route encouraging all to consider hugging the Antarctic coast for one third of the leg. To avoid this boredom, which could have attracted some adverse comment, two island rounding marks were introduced which served to draw the fleet north and to restart the race. Although criticised by some, it rejuvenated the race by offering options from these islands in to Cape Town.

The final leg from Cape Town to Lisbon required the fleet to round Fernando de Noronha off Brazil and thus send the fleet potentially across the two high pressure zones in the South and North Atlantic. In the event only the South Atlantic high played ball whilst the North Atlantic saw a ridge of high pressure form off Portugal with a mass of yachts waiting for the ridge to collapse before triggering a 200 mile sprint to the finish after a 6000 mile race. In the end some thirty-four yachts finished within the first hour and hundred and twenty-four yachts finished within twenty-four hours.

The Series is considered to have been a success with a clear winner of Kenza and a tie on points for second place between Kipper and Dingo with Kipper awarded second on a countback.

As a set of solid Ocean races, and thus at the core of SOL racing, a re-run of this series is a distinct possibility in a few years’ time, once we have finished and recovered from going around the world the normal way starting in October 2017.

Richard Hardcastle / Go4iT Chair – SRC

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