2014 Newport-Bermuda Race

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ORR results are here. Triple Lindy (Swan 44 MK2): 7th in Class (15) 33rd in Division (100) 54th ORR Overall (164) Top third position!  

Due to the enormous following of Triple Lindy’s adventures on the ocean, the websites have had to be upgraded to amazon.com standard. Apologies to the growing fan-base for Triple-Lindy and her heroic crew. webmaster

24HR Run: Monday 1330-Tues 1330= 132.3nm; avg speed of 5.25kts The final portion of this race is an endurance test to see if we can find wind and somehow get Triple Lindy to the finish. Monday afternoon we had enough wind to make some progress down track, and then things quieted down around midnight. Luckily there was some wind through the early hours of Tuesday, and the morning watch was able to take advantage of the conditions to log some…

24hr Run Saturday to Sunday 119.5nm= 4.98kts 24hr Run Sunday to Monday 180nm= 7.5kts The remainder of Sunday and into Monday has produced some solid sailing with the warm waters of the Gulf Stream and the low moving out from the coast providing the fuel for more consistent winds. We actually had to reef the main and carry the #2 jib, and experiment with the #3 jib before we settled into a steady routine of 7-9kt sailing.

Triple Lindy fans, we can’t see the actual data (because of our satellite phone bandwidth), but we understand there are great pictures from the start at below web link. http://www.muffyaldrich.com/2014/06/a-spinnaker-start-newport-bermuda-race.html

Friday to Saturday 24hr run: 156NM, or avg speed 6.5kts The Triple Lindy gang has been very busy trying out any combination of sails and wind angles to keep moving. In the early hours Saturday we still couldn’t find any appreciable breeze until 0500, when winds gradually filled in a little from ENE. During the mid-morning hours we were making the best speed for the day, until winds died around 1300.

Newport Bermuda 2014 is underway! We departed Newport Shipyard at 1100 this am, checked in with Race Committee, and proceeded down Narragansett Bay to the starting area. The crowds of boats (led, of course, by Triple Lindy’s cheering section onboard Scott Perrin’s “Scott Free”) were all interested in how the fleet would handle the light and variable winds at starting line. Our crew of 10 has been excited to get moving down the course.

19 June: we have all crew aboard for 2014 Newport Bermuda Race and are busy doing tacking drills off Brenton Reef (s of Newport) and instrument calibration.