Triple Jack - sails past Road Harbour - Click image to see complete galleryAfter numerous line honours in the Round Tortola Race since her arrival in the BVI in 1997, Triple Jack managed to claim overall victory on the fortieth anniversary of the Peg Legs Round Tortola Race held Saturday, November 21st, 2009. In conditions seemingly made for this trimaran, she circumnavigated Tortola in three hours, thirty-three minutes and twenty-seven seconds beating closest rival Jurakan, a Melges 32, by 42 minutes across the line.
With the wind blowing from the south-south-east, unheard of in its 40-year history according to race veteran Peter Haycraft, the fleet was predominantly able to sail directly to Beef Island and once on the north side reach directly to Soper’s Hole.
Clcik image to download PDF resultsOnce there, however, the lottery of the fickle winds played havoc with some competitors’ finish times but not Triple Jack’s - she “rattled through” in three painless tacks.
