Rosebud renamed 'Rosebud Racing/Team DYT'

by Media Pro Int'l on 29 Apr 2008 Dockwise Yacht Transport (DYT), the world's leading yacht logistics company with its own fleet of semi-submersible ships, has announced that 'Rosebud Racing' has joined forces with the company to become 'Rosebud Racing/Team DYT'.

The Farr-designed 'Rosebud' was launched in June 2007 as the world's first STP65, a 'box-rule' collaboration between the Storm Trysail Club and the TransPacific Yacht Club. Owned by Roger Sturgeon of Ft, Lauderdale, Fla., it has set the racing world on fire with its recent performances, including winning the overall IRC handicap title in the famed Rolex Sydney Hobart Race at the end of 2007.

In that race, Sturgeon also became the first American in 30 years to take overall regatta honors, joining only two other Americans who can make the same claim: Jim Kilroy's Kialoa III* in 1977 and Ted Turner's American Eagle in 1972.

'The Rosebud campaign has had an exhilarating journey, and the future will prove even more remarkable,' said Sturgeon, adding that Rosebud Racing/Team DYT will use DYT services for shipping the team's prized race boat to race destinations around the world. 'There is no better way to get to our far-off race destinations than using the Dockwise Yacht Transport service. The company has a magnificent staff of service managers and loading masters to help us with scheduling and, most important, the safe transport of our yacht.'

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 Racing/Team DYT is the perfect ambassador for the segment of our personalized customer service that devotes itself to getting race boats to their regattas around the world,' said DYT President Clemens van der Werf. 'For instance, the DYT voyage scheduled in August from Newport, R.I. to Sardinia, Italy, will get Rosebud and other racing yachts to the Mediterranean in time for the racing season there.'

Rosebud will sport its new Team DYT sail and hull graphics when it competes in New England this summer at Block Island Race, the New York Yacht Club Annual Regatta presented by Rolex, the Newport to Bermuda Race (which was won by Sturgeon's previous *Rosebud*, a TP52, in 2004), the Edgartown Yacht Club Round the Island Race, and the New York Yacht Club Race Week at Newport presented by Rolex. After it crosses the Atlantic with DYT's help, it will compete in the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup (Sardinia, Italy) in September and the Rolex Middle Sea Races (Malta) in October, before heading back with other sailboats on a DYT ship to Ft. Lauderdale at the end of October.

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