Falmouth Harbour, Antigua – Under the bluest of blue skies and with the easterly trade winds established early and often, the 16 classes of yachts in Sanford Antigua Sailing Week enjoyed classic Caribbean conditions today during the third day of competition in the 40th running of this annual festival of sailboat racing.
And with three days of racing now completed, the cream is rising to the crop as the leaders in many divisions are beginning to separate themselves from the field.
In what has to be considered a major surprise, in the second of two windward/leeward contests off Willoughby Bay for the Division A racing fleet, the Cookson 50 Chieftain – sailed by an Irish crew skippered by Gerard O’Rourke – corrected out to first place in the Racing I class ahead of the Volvo 70 ABN AMRO ONE, handing the round-the-world race winner its first setback in what’s believed to have been an undefeated spring of racing in the Caribbean. ABN AMRO ONE still tops the leader board in the class, but Chieftain is making noise with a string of outstanding performances.
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