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'Traditional' Newport Bermuda Race line honours for Juniors on High Noon

by Talbot Wilson 21 Jun 2016 10:21 PDT 21 June 2016

High Noon has captured 'Traditional' line honours in the combined St David's & Gibbs Hill Lighthouse Divisions in the 2016 Newport Bermuda Race. This is an amazing accomplishment for the Young American Junior Big Boat Sailing Team from American Yacht Club (Rye, NY). They sailed High Noon, a Tripp 41 on loan from US Merchant Marine Academy Sailing Foundation, across the finish line at 9:07:05 EDT.

High Noon was the second boat in the fleet to finish overall. Comanche, Jim and Kristy Hinze Clark's 100-footer, smashed the Open record when she finished at 4:22:53 EDT on Sunday breaking the elapsed time record with a professional crew. High Noon sailed in the St. David's Lighthouse Division, Class 10 with a mostly amateur crew of seven young sailors ranging in age from 15 to 18 along with three adults. She is the second smallest boat to take line honours... smallest was Thomas Fleming Days 38 footer Tamerlane.

"This Bermuda Race was the culmination of at least three years of work by these juniors," said Peter Becker, one of the project's leaders. "First they did overnight distance races, then weekend races, and then they looked for opportunities to sail offshore."

High Noon is in line to win the St. David's Lighthouse for the best corrected time in her division and four other major prizes, at least, including the first Stephens Brothers Youth Division Prize.

Virtual spectators can watch the race unfold as their favourite yachts, skippers, or crewmembers in this 635-mile ocean classic tack and gybe their way through the Gulf Stream and hunt for the wind in the 'happy valley' north of Bermuda. All boats in the 2016 fleet will be tracked by YB satellite trackers as live as it can be on Pantaenius Race Tracking — www.pantaenius.com/NBRtracking - your link to all the action in the race. Reports are delayed by 4 hours to maintain fairness in the competition.

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