The mighty monohull Vento Di Sardegna stormed across the
finish line at Newport Rhode Island USA with the delighted, ecstatic and
exhausted Italian skipper Andrea Mura at the helm to claim victory in
the Royal Western Yacht Club’s 2013 edition of the Original Singlehanded
Trans-Alantic Race, OSTAR. The threat of rain clouds and fading light could not dampen Mura’s
joy at clinching his second Trans Atlantic victory in successive years
to record the unique double of Two-Star (two handed) and OSTAR (solo)
back to back. The official time keepers stationed on the finish line at Castle
Hill, Race Director David Southwood of the RWYC and Norman Bailey of the
host Newport Yacht Club recorded Mura’s finish time at 22:12 UTC (18:12
local time) to give an elapsed time for the three thousand mile solo
epic of 17 days 10 hrs 22 minutes at an average speed of around 7 knots.
Mura had regained the lead from Roger Langevin in the trimaran Branec IV ten
days ago when 1600 miles out and stretched his advantage to 150 miles
last Sunday when the first named storm of the 2013 hurricane season,
aptly also named ‘Andrea’, slowed the front runners south of
Newfoundland. The Frenchman tried every move possible to close the gap,
often sailing close to the coast of Nova Scotia in search of a
favourable slant in the breeze but Mura using all his stamina and
experience covered all the moves and kept the door firmly closed.
Langevin is expected in Newport on Friday afternoon. Photos and a video interview with Andrea will be uploaded soon!
Bravissimo Andrea !!
(da www.ostar.rwyc.org/)
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