Ting a Ling wins 2024 edition of Nanny Cay Round Tortola Race
Ting a Ling, skippered by Nathan Haycraft, emerged the overall winner in the sailing event held in near-perfect conditions, with the wind from the east-south-east in the low teens, although the north shore threw up some challenges and a meaty squall made its presence felt in the multihull fleet, reaching the front runners as they were rounding Beef Island.
Fools Gold takes Line Honours
The monohull fleet started at 09:35 with the line set off the outer marina peninsular. All five boats got away cleanly, heading up the channel to race around Tortola in an anti-clockwise direction. One hour later, the multihull fleet started.
Line Honours went to Nacra 20 Fools Gold with Sam Talbot at the helm. They achieved their goal and completed their lap of Tortola in 3 hours, 14 minutes and 13 seconds but were not part of the overall rankings.
Airgasm3 finishes early!
Barney Crook with his new Corsair 31, Airgasm3 flew across the finish line just before 2:00 pm with Chris Haycraft’s Ting a Ling2 team chasing hard and finishing just over 7 minutes later.
The last tri home was Ting a Ling, skippered by Nathan Haycraft so the question was.. had they done enough to beat the bigger boats ahead of them? All of them completed the circuit in less than four hours and ultimately it was the smallest of them all, Ting a Ling who claimed the victory, finishing 19 minutes and 58 seconds ahead of Ting a Ling2 on corrected time.
The first monohull home was Hotel California from St Croix, finishing in four hours, 33 minutes and 4 seconds. Next in was Walter Keenan’s Beneteau first 40 Libertas who would be the overall winner in the monohull class. Third home but also finishing ahead of Hotel California was Nanito II sailed by the BVI Yacht Sales team. Sun Odyssey 380 Calypso Express with Robin Tattersall on the helm came in fourth and Sean Laming’s Namaste was fifth.
Results
Multihull
Position. Boat name, boat type - skipper - corrected time
1. Ting a Ling, Corsair 27 - Nathan Haycraft - 3:22:52
2. Ting a Ling2, Corsair 31 - Chris Haycraft - 3:42:50
3. Airgasm3, Corsair 31 - Barney Crook - 3:45:20
4. Triple Jack, Kelsall 47 - Richard Wooldridge - 4:00:28
Monohull
1. Libertas, Beneteau first 40 - Walter Keenan - 4:10:50
2. Nanito II, Beneteau First 47.7 - BVI Yacht Sales - 4:27:54
3. Hotel California, Santa Cruz 72 - Steve Schmidt - 4:41:48
4. Calypso Express, Sun Odyssey 380 - Robin Tattersall - 5:03:57
5. Namaste, Jenneau 54 DS - Sean Laming - 5:13:58
Line Honours: Fools Gold, Nacra20 - Sam Talbot - Elapsed time 3 hours, 14 minutes and 13 seconds
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