Even though more than thirty racing sailboats participated in this year’s Rolex Farr 40 World Championship in Porto Cervo, Sardinia . Barking Mad, owned by north American Jim Richardson, was the one that took the trophy home. The yachts were identical according to their design, they featured a four professional crew with five to six amateur sailors mans each.
Aboard the Alpha Romeo II (Neville Crichton’s Reich Pugh 100) with a crew of sixteen, Ainslie (known as Godensailor), sailed 2.255 nautical miles during five days, fourteen hours, thirty minutes and 20 seconds braking the Transpacific Yacht Race record by a day.. Ainsle sported Corum’s Admiral’s Cup Tides watch to cross the finish line so as to become Corum ambassador and America
Hublot and the Mediterranean circuit
Hublot sponsored the Real Club Nautico regattas in the Mediterranean that, for the first time, featured a variety of boat classes. Palma Vela saw, this year, two houndred sailboats in all participated in the events named after Hublot timepieces (King Power, Big Bang or Classic Fusion). The winners in each category received a Hublot wristwatch engraved “Hublot Palma Vela 2009”
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