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-- Race Day 1 Article -- Rosebud/Team DYT
is First to finish, takes First in Class and Fleet and wins the
special prize of a Rolex Submariner watch
Rosebud/Team DYT Ties for First,
Finishes Second on Tiebreaker in NYYC Annual
Regatta
With fog shrouding the first part of Friday’s 19-mile
Around the Island Race, Artie Means (San Diego, Calif.),
navigator aboard Tom and Dottie Hill’s Puerto Rican entry
Titan 15, had his work cut out for him. 'We were short-tacking up
the southern side of Conanicut Island and I could see land on my
instruments but the crew couldn’t see anything, even when
we only had 40 seconds left before reaching shore.' The new
Reichel-Pugh 75, which recently won the Storm Trysail
Club’s Block Island Race and is counting this as only its
'second race out of the box,' won on corrected time and was
first-to-finish with an elapsed time of just over one hour and 51
minutes, beating out by one minute the Custom 90-foot maxi
Rambler, owned by George David (Hartford, CT). Though
Friday’s race was an optional, separately-scored
competition, it foreshadowed Titan’s coming battle with
Roger Sturgeon’s (Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.) Rosebud/Team DYT
(which corrected out to second over Rambler’s third in the
distance race) in weekend buoy racing that would determine Annual
Regatta winners
After Saturday’s two races, Titan was tied on points for
first with Rosebud/Team DYT, known for excelling in heavier
winds, which topped out at 14 for the regatta. Sunday’s two
races in their IRC Class 1 presented mainly light air, which
allowed Titan to confirm a slight advantage and take the regatta,
though only by virtue of tie-breaking rules.
"Every dog has its day and even when it’s not your day you
race as hard as you can," said Sturgeon. "We have pretty
dissimilar boats but we were close in that we traded places (two
firsts and two seconds for each)."
Rosebud/Team DYT at the start of the Fort Lauderdale to
Charleston Race 2009
Rosebud/Team DYT Sets New Record
in 2009 Fort Lauderdale to Charleston Race
4/13/09 - Charleston, S.C. -- In a fitting re-birth of the
venerable Fort Lauderdale to Charleston Race, Roger Sturgeon's
STP65 Rosebud/Team DYT (Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.) crossed the finish
line just before 10 p.m. on April 10, to break the 35-year-old
race record set in 1974 by Ralph Ryder's C&C 66 Phantom and set a
new standard for the modern running of this event. Eleven boats
started the 408-nautical mile offshore race at 2:00pm on April 8,
just outside of Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale and finished
outside of Charleston Harbor, South Carolina. Although
Rosebud/Team DYT clocked in at 1 day:7 hours:52 minutes: 49
seconds, on corrected time under IRC rules it finished second
overall by less than nine seconds to Teamwork, the J/122 owned by
Robin Team (Lexington, N.C.). Full results are posted on the
event website www.fortlauderdalecharlestonrace.org.
"We left a lot of room for other boats to break the (new)
record," said Sturgeon of his boat's 90-minute improvement on the
1974 record. "This should be great encouragement for others to do
this race and go for the record. The Gulf Stream is so important;
when there was zero wind we were still going three knots with the
current. Learning Gulf Stream tactics is ongoing, but it plays a
huge role. For example, do you go into Charleston early? You do
all your routing ahead of time, but you pick timing for wind
changes and if early or late, then you need to make small
adjustments."
The Rosebud/Team DYT crew enjoys a much deserved case of Red
Stripe at the docks
Line Honors Goes to Roger
Sturgeon's Rosebud/Team DYT
2/9/09 - Montego Bay, Jamaica – Rosebud/Team DYT
crossed the Montego Bay finish line at 01:33:35 this morning
missing the race record by just over one hour. Even though they
did not get that last bit of breeze or shift to finish before
00:30, their achievement is amazing given the conditions. The
weather for the first third of the race was far from record
setting and for her to make up the time in the bottom half of the
course was a great accomplishment.
Too Close to
Call
2/8/09 - Can Rosebud/Team DYT Beat the Record? -
Montego Bay, Jamaica - It could be close. With less than 90
nm to go the main question is - will the breeze hold? The trade
winds typically shut down after sunset. Also, the last few miles
before the finish are notorious for light air from a reverse land
breeze. The Montego Bay Yacht Club finishing team will be heading
out in a few hours to be on station for the next few days.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Barby MacGowan, Media Pro Int'l, 401-849-0220,
barby.macgowan@mediapronewport.com or Catalina Bujor, Dockwise
Yacht Transport, 954-525-8707, catalina@dockwise-yt.com
DYT and Rosebud Racing Renew
Partnership
Safe and Efficient Yacht Transport is Top Priority for
Racing Team
FT. LAUDERDALE, FLA. (Feb. 5, 2009) – It’s a match
made in heaven—the partnership between Rosebud Racing, the
STP65 team that has been making headlines since its launch in
2007, and Dockwise Yacht Transport (DYT), the world's leading
yacht logistics company with its own fleet of semisubmersible
ships. Last April, the two entities merged philosophically in
purpose and physically transformed Roger Sturgeon’s (Ft.
Lauderdale, Fla.) Farr-designed STP65 Rosebud into Rosebud/Team
DYT, replete with a re-branded hull and sails that left no doubt
about DYT’s commitment to keeping the boat on schedule and
in the spotlight as it traveled the world.
Winning the New York Yacht Club’s (NYYC) Race Week at
Newport presented by Rolex and the Storm Trysail Club’s
Block Island Race, Rosebud/Team DYT also took 2008 trophies in
the Newport Bermuda Race, the NYYC Annual Regatta Sponsored by
Rolex, the Royal Malta Yacht Club’s Rolex Middle Sea Race
and the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda’s Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup.
It then rang in the New Year by winning the Ft. Lauderdale to Key
West Race and taking second at Acura Key West Race Week. It
recently renewed its relationship with DYT for another year and
plans to next conquer the Pineapple Cup Montego Bay Race. A
Spring/Summer schedule on the East Coast has Rosebud/Team DYT
competing in the Fort Lauderdale to Charleston Race, the NYYC
Annual Regatta and the Storm Trysail Club’s Block Island
Race Week presented by Rolex. The boat will then go to the United
Kingdom with the goal of topping off its season with victory at
Skandia Cowes Week and the Royal Ocean Racing Club’s Rolex
Fastnet Race in August.
“Rosebud/Team DYT, while it travels the world, creates a
buzz on the docks at some of the sport’s most notable
events,” said DYT President and CEO Clemens van der Werf.
“The buzz is not only about the team’s performance
but also about how the team transports its precious cargo safely
and efficiently to each venue, especially over long distances
when the boat is best not delivered on its own bottom. We
couldn’t be happier with the representation they give us
and the enthusiasm they show for Dockwise Yacht Transport’s
services.”
Van der Werf noted that it is the personal interaction with
DYT’s loading masters that help make captains and owners of
sailing and fishing vessels—from 24 to over 200 feet in
length--confident in every DYT voyage. DYT operates four
semi-submersible yacht carriers, including the new 687.5-foot
(209 meter) Yacht Express, which takes regular runs between Ft.
Lauderdale and Genoa, Italy. The float-on/float off process that
is unique to these ships alleviates worries about wear and tear
on the boat.
“Rosebud/Team DYT will be sailing this season with a new
main and spinnaker that will show our allegiance to DYT,”
said Rosebud Racing Managing Director David Cardinali, “but
our commitment to DYT as a sponsor is deeper than a logo on a
sail. We are genuinely interested in getting the DYT message out
to the sailing community because the company is unmatched in its
capabilities and professionalism.”
More about DYT
Headquartered in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, DYT is a wholly owned
subsidiary of Dockwise Ltd. (Hamilton, Bermuda), the global
leader in maritime transports and installation. Since its maiden
voyage in 1987, the company has transported over 9,000 motor and
sailing yachts to various destinations around the globe, offering
owners and charterers safe and easy access to many of the
world’s premier cruising grounds.
For more information, visit http://www.yacht-transport.com or
contact Catalina Bujor, Dockwise Yacht Transport, 954-525-8707,
pr@dockwise-yt.com.
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