The overall victory was attributed to the JPK 11.80 Courrier Recommandé (a French Team) and then mysteriously changed to the First 45 Elusive 2 (a Malta team) without any explanation.
The JPK was already leading the race on the previous check points and according to the final classification the elapsed time difference between the First, that arrived first, and the JPK was 87 minutes, but if we check the tracker we will see that in fact the JPK arrived only 48 minutes later.
The JPK 11.80 being an IRC5 started the race 10 minutes before the First 45, that is an IRC4, so the real elapsed time difference should be about 58m (according to the tracker) and not 87 minutes as it is given on the final results.
EDIT: The situation was finally explained by the organization: several boats inverted course to help the trimaran Blackwater that had lost the mast and Elusive 2 one of them. They should have explained that from the beginning as well as announcing what was the redress time (they did not).
https://www.rolexmiddlesearace.com/news/5db1d91d938b040000b69893?year=2019&month=October&fbclid=IwAR2NU1OFdG7EFW8BOnHcyTcqLqwKaMotvDSjx1aXh3zbQXPturmf3ENIz0g#
EDIT: The situation was finally explained by the organization: several boats inverted course to help the trimaran Blackwater that had lost the mast and Elusive 2 one of them. They should have explained that from the beginning as well as announcing what was the redress time (they did not).
https://www.rolexmiddlesearace.com/news/5db1d91d938b040000b69893?year=2019&month=October&fbclid=IwAR2NU1OFdG7EFW8BOnHcyTcqLqwKaMotvDSjx1aXh3zbQXPturmf3ENIz0g#
a sad page in the history of regattas
ReplyDeleteElusive 2, the First 45 is probably the rightful winner of the race it is the organization that did not acted as they should announcing first Courrier Recommandé as winner and later without any public explanation, announcing Elusive 2 as winner.
ReplyDeleteThe explanation only come several hours later and it was not clear because they never said how much time they had taken to Elusive 2 as redress. We can see on the tracker that Elusive 2 inverted course to go to the aid of the trimaran that had lost the mast and we can see that they lost about 27m 30s.
But Elusive 2 has arrived before Courrier Recomamndé and certainly they said immediately to the organization that they where going to ask for a redress so why announce Courrier Recommandé as a winner with a redress demand pending, one that could easily change the winner?
https://www.rolexmiddlesearace.com/news/5db178d830f9290000897c63?year=2019&month=#
https://www.rolexmiddlesearace.com/news/5db1b910baafc800001c64e4?year=2019&month=#
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