Note from Strother - among the crew blending four families - were FBYC Members Rives Potts and his two sons, Allen and Walker, Will Crump and his wife Marie Klok Crump and his sister Cyane Crump (all three FBYC members) and Marie's brother Thomas Klok, who has frequently sailed at FBYC.

Just rec'd the following from Cyane --- "Strother - thanks so much for cheering us on. Yesterday was a stressful day as we sweated out the other boat's finishes. This was really a great experience and I am so excited for Rives. Cyane"

Carina has won the St. David’s Lighthouse Division in the 2010 Newport Bermuda Race. Owned and sailed by Rives Potts (Westbrook, CT) with a crew blending four families, Carina is the 46th winner of the race’s top trophy in the 104-year history of the race.
By John Rousmaniere

A 48-foot sloop designed by McCurdy & Rhodes, she won on corrected time under the Offshore Racing Rule by the very large margin of 3 hours, 35 minutes over Gregory B. Manning’s Sarah (Warwick, RI). In third place, seven minutes behind Sarah, was Belle Aurore, a Cal 40 owned by R. Douglas Jurrius (Easton, MD). 

Carina, winner of two Bermuda Races 40 years apart
As of 5 AM EDT Wednesday, 28 boats in the 183-boat fleet were still on the race course. This is the third largest Newport Bermuda Race since it was founded in 1906. The St. David’s Lighthouse Division, for amateur crews, is the largest of the race’s five divisions, with 103 boats this year.

Carina’s chances for winning looked good but hardly certain when she finished the race at dawn Tuesday. Her chief challenge came from Belle Aurore and three other boats in Class 1, the small-boat class. Any of them could save their time and elbow Carina off the victory podium should she finish by about 7 PM.  Many sailors at the Royal Bermuda Yacht Club and elsewhere spent much of Tuesday following the quartet’s progress on the online iBoattrack tracker .  In the end, nobody was able to save their time on Carina.

Third place Belle Aurore in drying-out mode. Somewhere in there three sailors are sleeping off the long haul.

Those four smaller boats still did well. Belle Aurore won Class 1 and took third place in the St. David’s Lighthouse Division. Two other Cal 40s, Peter Rebovich’s two-time defending champion Sinn Fein (Metuchen, NJ) and Bill Leroy’s Gone with the Wind (Tiburon, CA), took second in the class and seventh in the division, and third in class and eighth in the division, respectively. The fourth boat, David G. Dickerson’s Peterson 38 Lindy, was fourth in class and 20th in the division.

Almost empty on Tuesday morning, the RBYC marina is now packed with 125 boats with some room to spare for the late finishers. Carina also won the North Rock Beacon Trophy as the top boat under the IRC Rule, with a margin of nearly four hours over Gracie, a custom 69-footer owned by Stephen and Simon Frank (Darien and Rowayton CT).  Gracie was also designed by McCurdy & Rhodes. Third under IRC was Arbella, a First 44.7 owned by James Shaughnessy (Greenwich, CT).