RHSP 2012 nearing completion - one division still to come

Competitors continued to arrive at Saint-Pierre all day and three of the four divisions in the race are almost complete.

Following the early results from IRC covered in an earlier post, PHR-1 has top three finishers at the dock.  Number one is Helm's Deep, with skipper Mike Sutton arriving just twenty minutes after the first boat across the finish line.  Second place in PHR-1 is Starfire, skipper Andrew Boswell of BBYC and third place Harrier, RNSYS skipper Evan Petley-Jones.

Four of six PHR-2 boats are now in.  Grant Gordon's Vagrant from the Dartmouth Yacht Club is in the
number one position, followed by two RNSYS boats - Mike Archibald's Glenesk in number two and Judy Robertson and Steve Kempton's Semper Vivens in third position after handicapping.

One fascinating detail of this year's race - two of the PHR-2 boats have the best times on the results board once the rating system kicks in.   Grant Gordon's corrected time in his Morgan 366 Vagrant is just under two minutes faster than the corrected time of the line honors winner, Saint-Pierre en Bessin.  And Mike Archibald's Tartan 3700, Glenesk is also faster, by about 25 sec. on corrected time.

None of the non-spinnaker division boats has arrived in Saint-Pierre as of the 2100 hr transponder check in.

Watch the results page (look on the left hand side menu) here on the RHSP website for the 2012 official results as calculated by RHSP director, Richard Hinterhoeller.