Hi,

I just wanted to express a huge thank you for everyone following this regatta here at the JRA. I feel more than honoured that you kept up with Ilvy's race, during this 35 hours 39 minutes and 37 seconds marathon.

As it is not a handycap race, Ilvy keeps her 54th place out of 64. Regarding my limited regatta experience, a lot of other participants being highly experienced regatta sailors, all those expensive and fast yachts in the race, Ilvy's almost 50 year old, heavy cruising hull - I think that is a very good placement!

So much for now, I'll try to put a short article together about this race for the next magazine issue. 

Thanks again for being with me. Reading your posts here in the forum while helming really was a huge motivation push! (and thanks to the junk rig I was able to read while racing :-P )

Cheers,

Paul

I agree with Kevin and Greame too.

I also agree with Arne about the low response to this event…

I think that racing is a very good way not only to test solutions but also to gain visibility.
Paul is greatly contributing to the development and promotion of the junk rig.

Congratulation Paul!

Anonymous wrote:

Just look at the crazy things happening when they pass through 

what was happening then?  Did the back group get entirely becalmed?  If so, very unlucky, but Ilvy held its own through the long beat south then really did well as they went onto the reach.

Paul’s approach to everything is really impressive:  he make his plans, then finds a way to test his work against competition or with data.  Thanks and congratulations to him!!

Bonjour Paul

I suppose that it is a handicap race. If so, how did you get a handicap and what is the value in comparaison of the same boat with a bermudien riging ?

Eric

Ilvy has crossed the line some 15 minutes ago. She had advanced through the 11-boat group since Lillebelt Sound, and won it...

I bow to the dust...

Arne