Raider Smashes Chessie Racing's Bermuda Ocean Race Record

Raider has set a new Bermuda Ocean Race record:
3 days, 13 hours,18 minutes, 58 seconds (85:18:58)

Raider, a custom S & S 48 skippered by David Ross of Annapolis, set a new record time for the BOR, smashing the record set by Chessie Racing in 2006 by 45 minutes. Raider’s navigator isTarry Lomax, of Annapolis. In order to establish a new record time for the race, Raider, a custom S&S 48 would have had to average more than 8 knots of speed since the race began last Friday at 2:05 PM.

Pursuit and Heron finished yesterday and Molto Bene, Renaissance, Integrity, TRPXPS, Dirigo, and Renewal have finished over night. As of this morning, Indigo is 30 nm out followed by Solstice and Razor's Edge. Air Mail returned safely to the Chesapeake Bay and was entering Little Creek at 0810 AM. The rest of the fleet is spread out to 300 nm with 10-15 knot SW winds.

The BOR starts in Annapolis, covers 752 miles, and takes the competitors down the Chesapeake Bay, out into the Atlantic Ocean at Norfolk, across the Gulf Stream, and through the Sargasso Sea to Bermuda.

Report by Andy Uroskie, auroskie@aol.com, (410) 849-8523.

 

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