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RACE TWO – To Bitter End Yacht Club Virgin Gorda


It was just as well that the series got off to such a brilliant start, for Race 2 for the Pelagos Yachts’ Cup did not follow form. T e only crew to really cash in as fortunes waxed and waned with the wind was Samantha Simmonds and her team aboard the Oyster 55 Ostrika, the oldest yacht in the fl eet.


Samantha, a London based fi nancial lawyer, had already quit her city career some months before to sail the seven seas and had only bought Ostrika six weeks prior to the regatta, but ended the day believing the wind gods were well and truly on her side.


Midge Verplank and his crew on the local Oyster 82 Sundowner of Tortola, by contrast, could only wonder what heinous crime one of their number must have done for them to be dealt such bad luck. Not only were they leſt gasping for air at the start, as the opposing northerly and southerly airstreams tried to outsmart each other, but these doldrums-like conditions doggedly followed them on whatever tack they chose. Other crews took the judgment that a swim and leisurely lunch anchored off Spring Bay was the more profi table option, but the Sundowner crew battled on like gamblers down on their luck, hoping for a change in fortunes. T is dogged perseverance fi nally got them to within a shout of the fi nish, but just as the beers were about to break out, the wind gods turned off the fan once more, to leave Sundowner to driſt so cruelly past the wrong side of the mark.


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