According to him, the win Replica Patek Philippe required lots of skill and perseverance and the team had to bring their best game in order to be competitive.Commenting on the results, he said that the racing was extremely competitive, which was proved by the fact that the boats were within 50 feet of each other at the end of the race.The winning team was decided by a complex formula which took into consideration the time it took to cover each mile.The race was very close, with Vela Veloce beating its nearest competitor, Steve Benjamin aboard the Tripp 41 Robotic Oncology, by 13/100th of a second.Steve Benjamin winner of the IRC Class 3 said that they had been trying to win the competition for the last five years and it was only this year they had managed to post a win in the IRC 3 Class.According to the skipper, they were always in the hunt for a good finish right from the beginning of the competition.
During the course of its win, Vela VeloceReplica Patek Philippe notched four first places and two seconds.George Sakellaris’s Captivity came second, 10 points behind the winner.The third position was taken by the 55 footer Sforzando, which took the final day’s honor.Rick Lyall’s Storm was declared the winner in the IRC Class 5, beating Bill Sweetser’s J/109 Rush and Robert Schwartz’s Nordlys in a closely competed race.According to the Rick Lyall, the victory was made possible because of the hard work and planning put in by the crew.