The WSSR Council announces the establishment of a new World Record
Record: Sydney to Auckland
Yacht: “Team Australia” ORMA 60
Name: Sean Langman AUS and 5 crew.
Dates:.16th to the 18th October 2013.
Start time: 01;09;58 UTC on 16;10;13
Finish time: 20;12;43 UTC on 18;10;13
Elapsed time: 2 days 19 hours 2 minutes and 45 seconds
Distance: 1265 NM
Average speed: 18.87kts
Comments: A Benchmark will have been set during the 1997/8 Volvo Race which certainly will have been slower than this claim. At present we have been unable to establish this crossing time.
John Reed
Secretary to the WSSR Council