In case you missed the complete play by play of the race on Facebook over the weekend, here’s a recap of The Atlantic Cup.
Under the backdrop of the Manhattan Skyline, with over 100 spectators at the Thomson Reuters race start line, the Atlantic Cup presented by 11th Hour Racing took off in light conditions on Saturday, May 7th.
Team Dragon crossed the finish line at 9:23 p.m. ET Sunday, May 8 with an elapsed time of 30:48:44 to capture first in the off-shore leg of the Atlantic Cup. The race was a back and forth with five lead changes and the top three finishers completing the race within 1 hour 17 minutes of each other.
The Atlantic Cup’s offshore course took the fleet out of New York Harbor Saturday afternoon south to the only turning mark on the course at Barnegat Light and from the turn boats headed straight to Newport, RI. The start of the race was in light air and saw Team Cutlass cross the line first. Team Icarus took the False Hook Channel out of New York Harbor and was the only boat to do so and in taking that route they were able to get a jump on the competition and arrive at the turning mark off Barnegat Light first. However, after Team Icarus broke a halyard on their Code 0, they saw their lead dwindle and slowly the competition over took them. As daylight rose on Sunday morning, Team Cutlass/11th Hour Racing, Dragon and Toothface all followed a similar course and traded the lead throughout the morning. Team Icarus chose a more northern route and hugged the Long Island Coast, which ultimately proved to be costly and they fell further and further back from the fleet.
Attention now turns to the in-shore series, which will be held Saturday and Sunday May 14-15 in Newport, RI.
Courtesy of www.atlanticcup.org.
