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RACE FOUR – Peter Island to Nanny Cay
T e regatta ended on a high note back at Nanny Cay with Class winners in the Pantaenius Cup race also securing the overall honours. Chris and Susan Shea sailed a masterful race on their Oyster 72 Magrathea to save their time over Class 1 rivals, Mariusz Koper’s Katharsis II and Stuart Smith and Barry Cooper’s Oyster 82 Oceana, while David and Tamsin Kidwell’s Oyster 435 Twice Eleven repeated the previous day’s victory in Class 2.
T e course set the fl eet on a stiff beat up the Sir Francis Drake Channel to round Ginger Island before running down behind Cooper and Salt Islands and reach between Dead Chest and Peter Island to fi nish off Nanny Cay.
Magrathea was fi rst to reach the Ginger Island turning point, just ahead of Robin and Carla Stoop’s Oyster 82 Rivendell, leaving the Oceana crew pinching dangerously high in their dirty air to just squeeze round the steep cliff face. Katharsis was fourth round but fi rst to get their spinnaker drawing and managed to cut inside Oceana. Magrathea chose to pole out their headsail instead, and taking a more direct downwind route across to Peter Island, kept their lead until Katharsis and Oceana could start to make their chutes pay on the tighter reach to the fi nish.
Leſt :
Chris & Susan Shea’s Oyster 72, Magrathea
Above right: Party at Bitter End Yacht Club
Above leſt : Mark Howard’s Oyster 56, Amanzi
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T is race also served to show how versatile these Oyster yachts are, for the Oyster 655, Black Pearl, which had suff ered a mainsail furling breakdown at the start of the regatta, powered to windward under headsail alone to round Ginger Island ahead of all her 655 rivals. T ey were not as fast downwind, but that didn’t matter. Boat and crew, which included
Oyster Project Manager, Julian Weatherill as a guest on board, had made their point.
T e Class II fl eet had an equally exciting race with Mark Howard and his crew on the Oyster 56 Amanzi fi nishing seven seconds ahead of Vincent Bloem’s Windfl ower. But neither could save their time against the Kidwell’s Twice Eleven, which proved to be the most successful yacht in the fl eet.
T e series ended with a prize giving and lobster dinner back at the Peg Leg restaurant at Nanny Cay that continued on into the early hours as crews swapped stories and discussed ways to circumvent the volcanic cloud that had paralysed all fl ights across the Atlantic. For some, it would be another two weeks before they got home, but as the news reports showed, there were not many places in the world that could compete with this Caribbean island paradise to be stranded.
And, whilst some yachts would be exploring the Caribbean or venturing into the Pacifi c, many owners had already booked their places for Oyster’s European regatta to be hosted at the glamorous Yacht Club Costa Smeralda in Porto Cervo, Sardinia in September.
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