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Rounding England in light breeze.. It’s still a tight race but just 600 nm to go!

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Atlantic Anniversary Regatta: Ready to go! 3500nm from Bermuda to Hamburg and interesting conditions. Follow us on this channel for frequent updates and the Yellowbrick tracker for positions!

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Time for records In dreamlike conditions of 18 to 24 knots of breeze we were able to increase our 24h run record of 441 nm set in the Pacific Cup 2016 to 465 nm in the first 24 hours of the Antigua Bermuda Race 2018! Moreover the race record of 3 days 20 hours got smashed by 2 boats. It was the Volvo 70 Warrior who set a new bench mark of 2 days 18 hours 32 minutes, breaking the previous record. But it is us with about 4 hours more on elapsed time to take the IRC overall win in this extraordinary offshore race. With this time we also beat the previous race record by round about 20 hours. We are happy with this result and Looping forward to the RORC Transatlantic Race 2018 to Hamburg in early July.

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Just a little update:

Finished this morning after a great and fast race!

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It’s time to leave! Follow us on Yellowbrick or on: https://www.antiguabermuda.com Fingers crossed!

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Just a few impressions from today‘s training for the Antigua Bermuda Race 2018!

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It’s lifting time.

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Thanks to Tim Wright for this awesome footage!

copyright Tim Wright / RORC /photoaction.com

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After a quick, wild and wet race we finished today at 1620 UTC the RORC Caribbean 600 Race 2018. Stay here for more details and pictures tomorrow.

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Caribbean 600 is waiting for us and it promises to be a fast race with up to 30 knots. Boat and crew are ready for take-off!

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No way back. Good race to everybody!

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The beast is hungry! Stay here for updates during the race..

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Packing light

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Ready for Boxing Day

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Awakening of the beast...

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On the way to Bass Strait

The yacht arrived in Australia and is on a truck to our Sydney base. The preparatory team is about to fly over and start to get everything ready. The rest of the race team arrives the weekend before the start for some training runs. Watch this space for news before, during and after the race...