One Last Record in 2015

Lloyd Thornburg’s MOD70 Phaedo3 broke one last record in 2015 by setting a new time of 1 hour and 5 minutes for rounding the Caribbean island of St. Barth on New Year’s Eve. With a maximum speed of 39 knots and rarely going below 30 knots downwind, the trimaran won the coveted cup for the St. Barth New Year’s Eve Parade. The accumulation of this year’s results has placed Thornburg in the running for US Sailing’s Rolex Yachtsman of the Year award.

Reflecting on his amazing season, Thornburg says, "I think we were crazier than we thought we were." Now the team is prepping Phaedo3 to be even faster in 2016.

• Antigua to Newport: 3 days, 5 hours, 54 minutes, 49 seconds
• Fastnet Original Course: 27h 42m 29s
• Plymouth to La Rochelle: 14h 5m 27s
• Cowes to Dinard: 4h 49m 51s

New course records set:

• RORC Caribbean 600 2015: 33h 35m 30s
• Heineken Race Week 2015 (around St. Maarten long course): 2h 7m 24s
• Official Around St. Maarten record: 1h 30m 19s
• Les Voiles de St. Barth Regatta (long race): 1h 53m 35s
• Guadeloupe to Antigua: 1h 27m 0s
• Around Antigua: 3h 26m 9s
• Around Redonda: 5h 18m 58s
• Around Jamestown, Rhode Island: 56m 33s

Fastest elapsed times:

• 2015 Transatlantic Race: 7d 2h 4m
• RORC Transatlantic Race: 5d 22h 46m
• Rolex Middle Sea Race: 2d 11h 29m

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