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Recent
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| Louis Vuitton
Trophy |
| Auckland New
Zealand |
| Photos by Howard
Wright. |
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| Louis Vuitton
Trophy |
| Auckland New
Zealand |
| Photos by Stefano
Gattini. |
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| RORC Caribbean
600 |
Photos by Carlo
Borlenghi
and Stefano Gattini. |
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XXVI Primo Cup
- Trophée
Credit Suisse |
| Photos by Stefano
Gattini and Bruno Cocozza. |
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| Alinghi, defender
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| 33rd America’s
Cup |
| Photos by Carlo
Borlenghi. |
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| Rolex Sydney
Hobart 2009. |
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SOLAS Big Boat
Challenge 2009. |
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China Cup 2009
by Carlo Borlenghi. |
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| Rolex Middle
Sea Race 2009. |
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| Maxi Yacht Rolex
Cup 2009. |
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| Rolex Fastnet
Race 2009. |
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| Brisbane to Keppel
Tropical Yacht
Race 2009. |
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| Audi Sydney to
Gold Coast Yacht Race 2009. |
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Audi Winter Series
Sydney Harbour 2009. |
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RORC Caribbean
600
Antigua
February 23-25, 2009.
Photographs by
Carlo Borlenghi
and Stefano Gattini. |
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Volvo Ocean Race
2008-2009. |
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61st Brisbane
to Gladstone
Yacht Race 2009. |
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Audi Sydney
Offshore Newcastle
Yacht Race 2009. |
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XXV Primo Cup
Trophée Credit Suisse
Montecarlo, Feb 5-15, 2009.
Photographs by
Carlo Borlenghi. |
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Louis Vuitton
Pacific Series
Auckland New Zealand,
Jan 24 - Feb 14, 2009.
Photographs by
Stefano Gattini. |
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| The 2008 Rolex
Sydney Hobart Yacht Race |
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| The 2008 SOLAS
Big Boat Challenge 2008. |
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| The 2008 Rolex
Trophy One Design Series |
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Sydney Short
Ocean
Racing Championship
November 29-30, 2008. |
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Rolex Middle
Sea Race 2008 Valletta, Malta.
October 18 - 25, 2008. |
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Maxi Yacht Rolex
Cup
Porto Cervo, Sardinia, Italy
September 1 - 6, 2008. |
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Sydney Gold Coast
Yacht Race 2008. |
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Giraglia Rolex
Cup 2008
Saint-Tropez France
Genova Italy
June 8 - 14, 2008. |
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Rolex Farr 40
Worlds 2008
Miami Beach, Florida |
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| Grand Banks Rendevzous,
Hawkesbury River NSW Australia 2008. |
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| Hi Fi adds IRC
overall to her line honours win |
| By the Rolex Media
Team. |
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Photos by Daniel
Forster for Rolex.
Edited by Peter Andrews. |
| April 5, 2010. |
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Fi (HKG) held off several strong challenges from two
TP52s’ for the IRC Overall win in the 2010 Rolex
China Sea Race. This was after the boat clinched the Line
Honours win yesterday morning. |
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John de Luna from Rolex Philippines and Neil Pryde with Hi Fi's crew
at the prizegiving for their overall and Line Honours win.
Photo © Daniel Forster / Rolex.
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Hi Fi,
which also took IRC Racing A division, held off rival Ray
Roberts’ Evolution Racing by less than two
hours. Roberts said that Evolution ‘parked
up’ two times on the first night and lost about 12
miles to Hi Fi. For the rest of the way down the
track, the boats would close up and then spread apart again.
Several hours behind Evolution and keeping the
pressure on all the way, was Geoff Hill’s Strewth (AUS),
which finished third overall. |
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Ray Roberts' TP52 Evolution Racing back at the start of
the Rolex China Sea Race 2010.
Photo © Daniel Forster / Rolex.
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Pryde was presented
with a Rolex Yacht-Master timepiece for his IRC Overall win,
which he generously handed over to Hi Fi crew member
Kevin Costin (Kos), who has managed Pryde’s racing
programme for the past 13 years.
Kos prepared Hi Fi for the Rolex China Sea Race
in 2008 when Hi Fi went on to win Line Honours,
but had to return to Australia for a prior racing commitment.
So this time, Pryde said if they won again, he’d
give Kos the watch.
"It was his threat, the whole race he had a photo of Hi
Fi crossing the finish line from last time in the cockpit," said
Costin. |
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Geoff Hill's TP52 Strewth just after the start of the Rolex
China Sea Race 2010.
Photo © Daniel Forster / Rolex.
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Ernest Echauz’ Subic
Centennial (PHI) won IRC Racing B division, holding
off a strong challenge from the Mills 41 Ambush.
Echauz sailed as navigator this year, with Vince Perez
as skipper.
While Subic is the only Philippine entry in the
race, Echauz is not just a local favourite. He is also
highly respected among other competitors, for his efforts
promoting youth sailing as President of the Philippine
Sailing Association. Echauz always includes young sailors
in his crew for both offshore races and around the buoys,
providing them with some great training under the coaching
of Australian Jamie Wilmot. |
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Neil Pryde presents the his Rolex Yacht-Master for IRC Overall to Hi
Fi's Boat Captain, Kevin Costen.
Photo © Daniel Forster / Rolex.
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Echauz revels
in this race, which finishes in his home waters. About the
conditions this year, he said, "It was very unique in
that there were very light winds on the first day, and strong
winds on Friday afternoon and Saturday. It was exciting in
the sense that you have to prepare your route and where you’re
going to have your landfall. It paid off in that we were
more east compared to the others in our division, so we were
able to get the land breeze earlier."
This race, Echauz traded skippering duties with Vince Perez
who was co-skipper with him in the 2008 Rolex China Sea
Race, when Subic Centennial won IRC Overall. Perez
said, "Having won last time, the pressure was for
us to come back. But we were downplaying our expectations
by saying ‘let’s just have a relaxing voyage’.
We enjoyed two full days of good winds and we thought we’d
have the hometown advantage knowing the local land breeze,
perhaps we arrived just a little bit late coming in!" |
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Ernesto T. Echauz' Sydney 46 Subic Centennial, after the
start of the Rolex China Sea Race 2010.
Photo © Daniel Forster / Rolex.
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Perez is chairman
of the Word Wildlife Fund, Philippines, which seems fitting
as he reflected on the natural beauty of sailing to the Philippines.
"It was very nice to see on the first day a couple of pilot
whales and a pair of hitchhiking swiftlets that tagged along
with us, which added a sort of side drama to the action of tacking
and changing course. Overall it was very pleasant, and I always
enjoy travelling with Judes (Echauz), talking about good books
and planning our next adventure."
In IRC Racing C, it was Anthony Root’s Red Kite
II that prevailed. Reflecting ot the 2009 San Fernando
Race where their boat won IRC Racing, Root said: "Last
year we beat our bodies. This year, we beat our brains.
This was a very tactical race." |
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Anthony Root's Archambault A40RC Red Kite II, after the
start of the of the Rolex China Sea Race 2010.
Photo © Daniel Forster / Rolex.
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"We always
planned to go north then come south, but we actually had
to do an ‘S’. Our plan was to stay high, but
we knew from the weather on Thursday night that a big surge
would come through. Our plan was just to bear off and go
with our max VMG with the surge. It was very frustrating
sitting around yesterday, and we caught a corridor of wind
and we were desperate to get to the land by dawn, but we
didn’t make it. We knew there would be no wind out
on the sea and we wanted the land breeze. So we had to struggle;
we would go along the coast and sail into each bay; there
was more wind in the bays than outside, so we scalloped our
way down the coast."
Jon Wardill’s Australian Maid (AUS) won
IRC Premier Cruising. This was Wardill’s fourth race
on Australian Maid, a boat he said: "is an
old, wooden boat, but still competitive. Long-distance
passage racing is where she traditionally does her best." |
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Jon Wardill’s Cassidy 55, Australian Maid, back where
it all started at the docks of the Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club.
Photo © Daniel Forster / Rolex.
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Dockside the
morning after a middle-of-the-night finish, Nicholas Mittendorf,
a crewman on board, talked about how Australian Maid came
out on top.
"The back end had a strategy of what to do, but always the
weather makes various changes and you’ve got to adjust
your strategy. Everyone is a mixture on the crew and everyone
came together and sailed well. The owner really enjoys these
passage races."
The mixture Mittendorf was referring to were his friends
from Darwin, other parts of Australia, and the Netherlands.
"The race itself presented a number of challenges, we tore
the mainsail and had to repair it at sea, and the steering chain
split pin broke, and that blew things apart for a short period
of time. So that put us behind and a little bit on edge about
our position in our division. But our plan was just keeping on
working hard and doing all the right things we could do and keeping
the pressure on, and staying in the areas where the wind was
worked, and we managed to come out ahead in our division." |
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Y. K. Szeto's Beneteau First 44.7 Cloud, arrives in Subic
Bay at the end of the Rolex China Sea Race 2010.
Photo © Daniel Forster / Rolex.
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"At times
there were a few ‘zeros’ coming up on the (wind
instrument) readings and that just added a bit of frustration
to the whole thing. But, it was just a matter of working
ones’ position out and doing the best one can with
the sail changes and to get moving again."
In the IRC Cruising division, at press time, only one boat,
Skipper CP Wong’s Tipsy Frenz (HKG), had
finished. So in that class, a winner is yet to be determined. |
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C. P. Wong's Centurion 45S Tipsy Frenz arrives in Subic
Bay, at the end of the Rolex China Sea Race 2010.
Photo © Daniel Forster / Rolex.
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Dream and Baringo have
retired and are motoring to Subic Bay. Eleven boats are still
racing with most due to finish through the night. The time
limit and cut-off provision for the race is 12:00 hrs, Tuesday
April 6, 2010.
An informal dockside presentation took place tonight at
the Subic Bay Yacht Club, for the first to third place
finishers of each division. The official Rolex China Sea
Race prizegiving will be held on Wednesday April 14 at
the Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club branch at Kellet Island,
Hong Kong. |
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Greg Kearns' Archambault A40RC Avant Garde arrives in Subic
Bay, at the end of the Rolex China Sea Race 2010.
Photo © Daniel Forster / Rolex.
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This year is
the 25th edition of the Rolex China Sea Race, which was first
run in 1962 and has been held every two years since then.
The 565 nautical mile race runs from the start in Victoria
Harbour in Hong Kong to Subic Bay in the Philippines. In
1972, it was officially recognised by the Royal Ocean Racing
Club and is now run under their prescriptions. The race has
continued to attract increased interest and serves to draw
the international yachting fraternity to Hong Kong and Southeast
Asia.
The Rolex China Sea Race joins other prestigious Rolex
sponsored events including the Rolex Farr 40 World Championship,
Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup, Rolex Swan Cup, Rolex Middle Sea
Race and the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race.
For more information about the Rolex China Sea Race 2010,
including results, please visit www.rhkyc.org.hk/rolexchinasearace.htm. |
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About Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club.
Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club (RHKYC) is one of the oldest sports clubs in Hong Kong and is proud of its rich, colourful history, which stretches back over 160 years of social and competitive sailing and rowing. The Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club organises a full calendar of local and international racing for both keeboats and dinghies, ranging from round-the-cans to Category 1 offshore races. The Club also provides sailing courses for members and non-members at various levels to nurture the development of sailing.
About Rolex.
Rolex, the largest single luxury watch brand in the world, is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland and was founded in 1908. The Company develops exclusive materials and processes to create watches of uncommon beauty and performance. All design and engineering functions are located in Geneva and ensure the highest levels of quality. Among the company’s innovations are the first waterproof watch case and the first self-winding wristwatch. Rolex was the first watchmaker to earn a chronometer certification for a wristwatch and holds the record for the greatest number of certified chronometer movements in the wristwatch category. |
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