THERACIN New England well represented in transatlantic sailing contest Next summer’s Transatlantic Race 2011, from Newport, R.I., to the Lizard west of Plymouth, England, had by the end of 2010 attracted 14 entries and seven provisional ones, with the deadline to enter Feb. 28. New England will be well represented in the fleet. Dr. Huntington Sheldon, of Shelburne, Vt., will be sailing Zaraffa, the Reichel Pugh 66-footer in which he won the 2003 North Atlantic Challenge from Newport to Cuxhaven, Germany, with a course time of 13 days, 15 hours, 7 minutes and 28 seconds. George David, of Hartford, Conn., will sail Rambler 100, a new Rambler for David, being a renamed Speedboat, the canting keel IRC 100 designed by Juan Kouyoumdjian. Rives Potts, of Essex, Conn., the newly nominated rear commodore of the New York Yacht Club, will race Carina, a 48-foot sloop designed by McCurdy & Rhodes and launched in 1969 for Dick and Richard Nye and winner of the 1972 transatlantic. Potts acquired Carina in 1995, and this boat has sailed in 19 Bermuda Races, more than any other boat. She won the St. David’s Lighthouse trophy in 1970 and 1982, and last year, Potts and Carina won it for a third time. The TR 2011 is for racing, racing/cruising and classic yachts with a minimum length overall of 40 feet. Hosted by the New York Yacht Club, the Royal Yacht Squadron, the Royal Ocean Racing Club, and the Storm Trysail Club, the TR 2011 races a rhumb line of 2,975 miles, and will feature three staggered starts from June 26 to July 3. FMI: www.transatlanticrace.com. 44 Points East Midwinter 2011
Tenacious’ 1979 Fastnet crew Aw The Storm Trysail Club’s charitable educational foundation, the Storm Trysail Foundation (STF), has awarded Ted Turner and his 19-man crew of Tenacious − winner of the infamous galebattered 1979 Fastnet Race − with its new Storm Trysail Foundation Award. Crewmembers are Peter Bowker, Richard Collins, Courtney Jenkins, Gary Jobson, Duby Joslin, Jim Mattingly, Rives Potts, Jane Potts, Tom Relyea, Rick Rodoreda, John Samama, Greg Shires, Bud Sutherland, Bobby Symonette (deceased), R.E. “Teddy” Turner IV, George Varga, Steve Ward, and TENACIOUS, continued on Page 46 editor@pointseast.com