Scarlet Oyster finished the RORC Transatlantic Race in an elapsed time of 15 days 7 hrs 30 mins 44 secs and after IRC time correction is second to Comanche by just over an hour. Scarlet Oyster is a minuscule 115 seconds ahead of David Collins’ Botin 52 Tala. Scarlet Oyster finished the RORC Transatlantic Race in an elapsed time of 15 days 7 hrs 30 mins 44 secs and after IRC time correction is second to Comanche by just over an hour. Scarlet Oyster is a minuscule 115 seconds ahead of David Collins’ Botin 52 Tala. “It is quite incredible that after over 3,000 miles of racing, three totally different boats from three different classes have an IRC time correction within one hour of each other!” exclaimed Scarlet Oyster’s Ross Applebey.

With Scarlet Oyster safely tied up in Camper & Nicholsons Port Louis Marina, Comanche’s skipper Mitch Booth phoned Ross Applebey for a ‘virtual hand-shake’:

“Well done on a great race!” commented Mitch Booth. “I hope we had you a bit worried!” retorted Ross Applebey. Mitch Booth replied: “There has been a lot of nail-biting, we have been glued to the tracker watching it. Hats off to you guys, a great effort and congratulations on your class win. You drove the boat like it was a short course. On Comanche we drove at that intensity for eight days and you did that for even longer, so Comanche gives you great credit. We look forward to lining up soon at the RORC Caribbean 600.”

“We are pretty happy,” commented Ross Applebey. “It was obviously close with Comanche and that had been playing on our minds for the second half of the race. We did all we could, so no regrets. The RORC have managed to put their own spin on a transat, with all sorts of weather and angles; it was a bit like a Fastnet! This race was more interesting because of that and we were constantly watching the clock, obsessively looking for speed. This was my 20th crossing but the first time I have done this event. One thing is for sure, it was a very competitive race, which was quite a challenge – that is what the Scarlet Oyster team want for yacht racing.”

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[Music]
[Applause]
oh hi mitch how are you
going
yeah hopefully we had you a bit worried
yeah you did actually now biting all day
it would have been
being glued to it watching it and
you know hats off to you guys a great
effort
very close and uh yeah congratulations
on the division win
thank you i was reading yesterday
reading yesterday your comments that
you're driving like like it's a short
course
chalkboard race
and uh yeah that was your fault
the same way
like that all i can do is uh
congratulate you for a huge effort
because
you know of course we drove our boat at
that intensity for uh
you know eight days and
you were driving for a few more days
have the same intensity
great credit well thank you very much
you know we were watching you guys the
whole way um it seemed you had your
share of the go slows as well so i think
it all evened out and then
we were very impressed with the start
line with your sort of low bmg downwind
at 23 knots mode that had us immediately
realized we're in trouble
yeah we'll go the red boats