MacIntosh Newport Bermuda Saturday (Day 2)

Overnight was very uneventful flying full main and asym chute in 12-15 knots of breeze.

We split up in two groups

• Luca
• Me 
• Heather

• Derek
• Kris
• Carl

Durk floated between the two shifts

Shifts were four hours long.  Luca and I split the driving up on the hour.

As soon as our shift was over, it was zoom down below for a sleep.  Wanted to keep our energy up for the later days.

At 10:15, we hoisted the Asym to get the boat moving. 
In the waves, the sail was collapsing and SNAPPING back into trim.
On one of the snaps, the entire clew blew out.
TWS was only 22 knots.
Sorry, no photos.

Here are some screenshots from the Yellowbrick race tracker:

Most boats were west of the rumline as we were planning.

Wind swung to the north, so we were able to hoist the 1.5oz symmetric cute and drive it down back towards the rumline:

Notice how we left the #3 up to prevent a spin wrap when the spin would collapse in the waves.

13:45
TWS 15 knots
TWA 130
BSP 7.5 knots

Leftover waves made it difficult to set a sail!
The chute constantly collapsing and filling.
You had to steer down/up each wave to maintain speed.
VERY difficult helming.

Saturday afternoon, we noticed that the top batten had poked out of it batten pocket.
We could not send anyone up in a bosun's chair as it was too wavy.
Also mean that we could not gybe to get closer to the rumline.

We thought also about dropping the main and attempting repair but the batten cleared itself and fell into Davey Jones Locker.

Wind also built to over 20 knots, so we took the chute down,  gybed, and hoisted the jib top reacher.

Nice Rainbow!

This is as deep as we could take the sail combination before the main would blanket the foresail.

Much easier to keep set in the waves as it has a heavier cloth.

118 miles to the first waypoint.
We were coving the miles (8 knot average is almost 200miles a day!)

Notice how the SOG from the GPS is more than the boat speed; we were started to enter the gulf stream and getting a 0.5 push.

Notice the Sea Temp number here: this would climb as we entered the gulf stream.

Another moonrise:

We stayed with this sail combination until first light.

At this point, the race leader was just finishing!

Argo is a custom 70ft trimaran

HAMILTON, Bermuda — Jason Carroll of New York City and the crew of the MOD70 Argo outran every elapsed-time record associated with the Newport Bermuda Race when they completed the 52nd edition Saturday night local time.

Argo’s elapsed time of 33 hours, 0 minutes, 9 seconds is more than 30 hours faster than Carroll’s Gunboat 62 Elvis set in the first multihull division in the 2018 Bermuda Race. It is also 1:42:42 faster than the 100-foot monohull Comanche’s Open Division mark of 34:42:53, set in the 2016 race.

And it’s more than 6½ hours faster than Rambler 90’s mark of 39 hours, 39 minutes, which earned owner George David the Schooner Mistress Trophy in 2012 for fastest elapsed time by a monohull in the race's four major divisions.

Argo is the first-ever Saturday night finisher in the history of the storied Bermuda Race, co-organized by the Cruising Club of America and the Royal Bermuda Yacht Club.