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REGION GUADELOUPE TAKES LINE HONOURS IN CARIBBEAN RORC 600
Wednesday 24th February 2010

 

Photo Courtesy RORC Caribbean 600/Tim Wright

Claude Thelier & John Burnie’s ORMA 60 trimaran, Region Guadeloupe, finish
RORC Caribbean 600 on Wednesday 24th February 18:49 03

ELAPSED TIME: 2 Days 5 Hours 59 Min 03 Seconds

John Burnie, skipper of Region Guadeloupe spoke dockside in Falmouth
Harbour. “This year’s race was more difficult in many respects, especially
tactically because of the wind coming from the South. In 2009 we rarely
deviated from the rhumb line but in this race we were constantly having to
alter course to avoid wind shadow from islands and areas devoid of wind. We
got caught in the wind shadow of St.Kitts and Beau Geste caught us up, we
were swapping gybes with them for some time before they too hit a quiet
patch and we wriggled free”.

Probably the biggest example of how tactical this race has been was the fact
Region Gaudeloupe actually went west of Montserrat on the way down to
Guadeloupe, navigator Nick Lykiardopulo explains why.

“There were so many areas of no wind along the route to Guadeloupe that we
decided to go far west, almost 90 miles west of the rhumb line. We had also
decided that we were going to go wide of Guadeloupe and going far west gave
us a better angle of aproach which really paid off for us.”

ORMA 60, Region Guadeloupe crew:

*Claude Thelier, John Burnie , Nick Lykiardopulo, Olivier Moal, Julian
Spier, Mark Stevens, Stephane Squarcioni, James Pascall***

You can track the yachts and read the messages that are coming in by
accessing the Tracker Page or the Boat Blogs page on the official RORC
Caribbean 600 web site.

www.caribbean600.rorc.org

 

Photo Courtesy RORC Caribbean 600/Tim Wright


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