Credit : Mark Lloyd
"For the first 80 hours of this race we were ripping along; towards the end we hit a few holes in the wind, but the net speed average was 15.7 knots across the Atlantic, which I think is going to prove a record in its own right--as a speed record for any transatlantic race. We feel pretty good about that.
"Kenny Read is about 100 miles behind us with his PUMA Team. The odds are he is probably going to win the race on corrected time, but we will see what happens over the next 15 hours, which is about the amount of time that we give them. We will keep a look out on the tracker, and we will see when the time expires, but just like politicians, we are not going to concede just yet.
"Flying along at 28 knots is an exhilarating experience but one that concentrates the mind. Rambler is a finely balanced machine and anything can go wrong and there are huge forces opposing each other. If those forces go out of balance, bad things can happen very quickly. But as I say this has been an exhilarating race, where we have been well out of sight of land, completely unsupported and in a high performance machine, which you are taking close to the edge, for a very long time--that is, without doubt, exhilarating.”
Rambler 100 crossed the finish line of the Transatlantic Race 2011 on Sunday 10th July at 16h 08m UTC.
The elapsed time for Rambler 100 was 6 days, 22 hours, 8 minutes, 2 seconds.
It has established a new record for the 2,975 nautical mile course from Newport, R.I. to Lizard Point, South Cornwall, U.K., which is to be ratified by the World Sailing Speed Record Council.
NEWS ALERT: PUMA Mar Mostro finish
PUMA Mar Mostro, skippered by Ken Read (Newport, RI.) crossed the finish line of the Transatlantic Race 2011 on Sunday 11th July at 05h 40m UTC.
PUMA Mar Mostro made a brief stop after crossing the finishing line at The Lizard, Cornwall, England before sailing straight to their training base in Lanzarote, Canary Islands to prepare for the 2011-12 Volvo Ocean Race.
From : Transatlantic Race
