On the basis of provisional results posted late Tuesday, Puma's Ken Read and crew appear to be the winners on corrected time of the Newport to Bermuda Race. This was the first race of the Puma branded Volvo 70 yacht Il Mostro, which set an elapsed time of 69 hours, 33 minutes and 24 seconds and a corrected time of 61 hours, two minutes and 51 seconds to top the Open Division's leaderboard on corrected time. Il Mostro's corrected time was over an hour ahead of Ian Henderson's Privateer, a Cookson 50.
Speedboat, the Juan K 99 footer built by Cookson, was the first to the dock, taking line honours, but corrected out with a time of 64 hours, 42 minutes and 56 seconds to take third place in the Open Division. Joe Harris, a veteran of nine Newport Bermuda races, came fourth in Gryphon Solo, an Open 50 preparing for the Portimao Global Ocean Race in October.
Clayton Deutsch and his New England tribe on Chippewa look set to come out on top once again. After winning the IRC-2 Division of the New York YC Annual Regatta and leading the Onion Patch Series going into the Newport Bermuda Race, Chippewa, a Swan 68, topped the other 12 boats in Class 9 of the St David's Lighthouse Division. Her corrected time was 69hrs, 45mins, 24secs. Jim Madden's new J65, Brand New Day has been at the RBYC dock for the afternoon and sits in 2nd place with a corrected time of 73hrs, 22mins 23secs.
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