Global Ocean Race Leg 3 Prize Giving

Global Ocean Race Leg 3 Prize Giving in Punta del Este © Oliver Dewar

Held at the Conrad Hotel, Punta del Este, the Global Ocean Race (GOR) Leg 3 Prize Giving was organised by the Yacht Club Punta del Este and the Uruguay Ministry of Tourism. An evening during which the GOR committed to returning to Punta del Este for the 2013-14 GOR.

First award of the evening was the Felipe Cubillos Cape Horn Prize for the first GOR Class40 to round the infamous rock at the eastern limit of the Southern Ocean, named after the late Chilean yachtsman, philanthropist and competitor in the inaugural 2008-09 GOR, Felipe Cubillos Sigall (1962-2011). The trophy – a replica of the steel albatross statue by the Chilean sculptor, José Balcells, located on Horn Island – was presented by Luis Escobar and a team from Cofradía Náutica del Pacífico yacht club and the Desafío Levantemos Chile (Rise up Chile) charity of which Felipe Cubillos was an integral part. Felipe’s co-skipper in the 2008-09 GOR on Class40 Desafio Cabo de Hornos, José Muñoz, and his son, Felipe Cubillos Toro, presented the prizes. Having led the GOR fleet around Cape Horn after 24 days of racing through the Pacific with Cessna Citation, Conrad Colman accepted the award with Mark Blomfield standing in for Colman’s Leg 3 co-skipper, Adrian Kuttel.

Colman and Blomfield returned to the stage to collect two Luminox Colormark Watches for the bluQube 24-hour Run Prize having hit the highest average speed in Leg 3 with Cessna Citation at 296.4nm over 24, although this speed falls short of Colman’s Leg 2 24-hour run of 359nm.

More Luminox watches were awarded with South African skipper, Nick Leggatt, receiving an exclusive Luminox Yachting Countdown Timer for winning the Luminox Cape Horn Photo Competition with a vertigo-inducing masthead shot on board Phesheya-Racing.

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