Cape Arrow moral winner of St Barth Bucket 2013

Today "Les Gazelle de mer" class gave the best story of the event.

After the first two races, Cape Arrow, Visione and P2, were all tied with six points going into today's race: a "Wrong Way Around" race of 24.5 nm.

Francesco De Angelis' clever tactic was well responding against Unfurled, which was our direct competitor of this final race: Cape Arrow leaded the fleet for almost the first half of the race.

Ph. Carlo Borlenghi/Sea Way

The first place overall was just few miles in front of us, when a silly but fatal damage to the Genoa, forced us to dramatically slow down our run to the podium!

The bitter taste of our final forth place is nothing if compared to the performance and results gained by Cape Arrow during these two weeks, both at Loro Piana Caribbean Superyacht Regatta and here at St Barth.

Ph. Carlo Borlenghi/Sea Way

Now it is time to turn page, set the boat to welcome our next customers for the last charter of the season and then to leave the Caribbean for the Med.

A racing and charter summer season is waiting for us and we are really looking forward to sharing Cape Arrow's performance and comfort with new guests.

See you all,

Cape Arrow crew

Waiting for the overall results

The race just finished: third place after Unfurled and Rebecca. Let's wait for the results after two races. Yesterday, Unfurled did not well... Maybe some good news will come! 

Fingers crossed! 

Day n° 2 : ready to start

St. Barth, day n° 2, 10:15 a.m.

Under an annoying raining, which is hopefully going to stop soon, Cape Arrow is leaving the dock for the 27 nm race "Not So Wiggley Course"  Long version.

Our departure time is scheduled  at 12:33:00

Follow us!

Good start :III place in the "Gazelles de Mer" class!

Today, first day of race!

Course n. 2 "Around the island - medium" of approx 20 miles was chosen to unveil the St Barth Bucket Race 2013.

Cape Arrow and the other "Mademoiselles, Gazelles e Grand dames de mer" raced pushed by light breezes around St Barth island leaving to port side  Ile de Boulanger, Ile Pelè and Ile Fourchue.

We are very satisfied about our perfomance which is reflected by a good third place, just two seconds after P2 and by our elapsed time close to those of larger yachts such as Zefira and Lady B.

Tomorrow "Not so wiggle course" is scheduled. A much more technical course out of islands to the North West of St Barth. We will have to work and trim a lot, but day n° 2 will be a promise of fun and strong competition.

Today evening: dock party and fleet open house.

Welcome onboard of Cape Arrow!

Lying in St. Barth

Here we are, just arrived in the wonderful frame of St Barth Island! A puffy white clouds parade through a clear blue sky and a warm balmy breeze make our presence here really nice and agreeable.

Unfortunately Loro Piana Superyacht Trophy has been cancelled by the race committee, so we'll have to wait until the next year edition to join this amazing adventure!

In the meanwhile we are now getting ready for the Bucket Regatta, which is a very good chance for us to refine and improve our Virgin Gorda performance...!

Tomorrow we will register the boat and start the first training session..the race is supposed to begin on Friday 29th, at 11:00 a.m (local time).

For further information please visit the "Notice of race" on the event website or by clicking on the following link:

http://www.bucketregattas.com/stbarths/announcement.html

Stay tuned!

Moving to St Barth

After almost a week spent in Virgin Gorda at YCCS for the Loro Piana Caribbean Superyacht Regatta, we are now getting ready for the Loro Piana Superyacht Trophy, which will take us to the nearby St Barth Island.

About 100 miles of pure adrenaline sailing are waiting for us; both the boat and the crew are ready and galvanized by the recent results and we hope to do our best!

The time for the first signal is scheduled at 10.00 a.m and you can truck us online on the dedicated page of this blog!

We hope you'll join us in this really new charming adventure!

Loro Piana Final Result: Cape Arrow rencked II in Class A

As forecasted, today the wind was lighter, about 11-13 knods, and course n° 8 (Virgin Gorda circumnavigation clock wise) was decided for the third and last day of race.

Profs crew and guests (we had some press onboard and some special guests of Loro Piana) were all excited for the competition. Few points separated us, the first 3 classified, so the games were still open.

We finished second, an absolutely satisfactory result, fighting to gain any precious seconds

Photo by Superyacht Media

On Monday we will leave for the Feder race, the new race organized by Loro Piana from Virgin Gorda to St Barth. A good opportunity to make the delivery of the boat for the Bucket Race more excited.

Now we look forward to confirming our good performance also at the St Barth Bucket Race.

So,  see you there!