Reichel Pugh continues to set records and win on a global scale. And we’re not done yet.
Reichel/Pugh Yacht Design is acknowledged as the preeminent yacht design studio in the world having compiled one of the most impressive records of race wins and record settings ever. Leveraging the latest state of the art technology and constantly evolving our designs through experience, while creating advanced composite structures, has allowed Reichel/Pugh designs to win many of the world’s most prestigious yachting events including the America’s Cup, the Maxi World Championships, TP52 World Championships, the Fastnet Race, the Bermuda Race, the Giraglia Race and the Sydney-Hobart race. Reichel/Pugh designs have taken line honors in nine Sydney-Hobart races while taking overall corrected time fleet honors in four of them.
30+ Racer Results:
40' CHUTZPAH – Bruce Taylor’s Reichel/Pugh designed 40’ Chutzpah, built by Hart Marine, was crowned the IRC Overall Winner in the 33rd Sydney Gold Coast Yacht Race.
50+ Racer Results:
50' STAGHOUND – Alec Oberschmidt’s Reichel/Pugh-designed 50′ Staghound won the PHRF B division at the 2018 Long Point Race Week.
63’ VOODOO – Rolex Sydney-Hobart 3rd Overall, 1st IRC Div 1, 3rd ORCi Overall, 1st ORCi Division 2.
66’ WILD OATS X – Rolex Sydney-Hobart 2nd Overall, 2nd IRC Div 0, 2nd ORCi Overall, 2nd ORCi Division 1.
66’ ALIVE – Rolex Sydney-Hobart 1st Overall, 1st IRC Div 0, 1st ORCi Overall, 1st ORCi Division 1.
Maxi Results:
86' SPIRIT OF PORTOPICCOLO – Canting keel 86’ Spirit of Portopiccolo, formerly the Morning Glory, was overall winner of the 50th Barcolana Regatta with a record 2,689 boats on the starting line.
Melges 24 Results:
MELGES 24 Full Circle – Robert Britton’s Full Circle and his local team from the Royal Victoria Yacht Club comprising Graham Harney, Jose Grandizo, Liam Welgan-Gunn and Reid Cannon took first place in the Corinthian Division at the 2018 Melges World Champions.
MELGES 24 Altea – Italian Andrea Racchelli’s Altea and his crew Filippo Togni, Gaudenzio Bomni, Matteo Ramian, Michele Gregoratto are the 2018 Melges World Champions.
One Design Results:
MELGES 24 Full Circle – Robert Britton’s Full Circle and his local team from the Royal Victoria Yacht Club comprising Graham Harney, Jose Grandizo, Liam Welgan-Gunn and Reid Cannon took first place in the Corinthian Division at the 2018 Melges World Champions.
MELGES 24 Altea – Italian Andrea Racchelli’s Altea and his crew Filippo Togni, Gaudenzio Bomni, Matteo Ramian, Michele Gregoratto are the 2018 Melges World Champions.
Super Maxi Results:
100' BLACK JACK – Congratulations to Black Jack Yachting (Reichel/Pugh 100) for slicing 3.5 hours off the previous record by setting a new course time of 00:16:53:57 in the historic 70th edition of the race. The Brisbane to Gladstone is a 308nm race held annually on Good Friday and is hosted by the Queensland Cruising Yacht Club.
100' WILD OATS XI – 2nd on Elapsed Time in the 33rd Sydney Gold Coast Yacht Race
The two Reichel/Pugh designed and McConaghy Boats-built 100’ Canting Keel Super Maxi battled for Line Honours in the 33rd Sydney Gold Coast Yacht Race with Peter Harburg’s Black Jack beating the Oatley Family’s Wild Oats XI (a six-time Sydney Gold Coast Yacht Race line honours winner) by just under two minutes. Both yachts were able to best the other two maxis Comanche and Infotrack after a tight back and forth race along the 384 nautical mile course.
100' BLACK JACK – Line Honours in the 33rd Sydney Gold Coast Yacht Race
The two Reichel/Pugh designed and McConaghy Boats-built 100’ Canting Keel Super Maxi battled for Line Honours in the 33rd Sydney Gold Coast Yacht Race with Peter Harburg’s Black Jack beating the Oatley Family’s Wild Oats XI (a six-time Sydney Gold Coast Yacht Race line honours winner) by just under two minutes. Both yachts were able to best the other two maxis Comanche and Infotrack after a tight back and forth race along the 384 nautical mile course.
100’ BLACK JACK – Rolex Sydney-Hobart 2nd in Line Honors, 4th ORCi Overall, 3rd ORCi Division 1.
100' WILD OATS XI – Rolex Sydney-Hobart 1st to Finish, 6th ORCi Overall, 4th ORCi Division
Superyacht Results:
68' CLAUDE 2 – Dr. Hasso Plattner and his team took the overall win (and PHRF A division win) for the second year in a row at the 2018 Long Point Race Week aboard their Reichel/Pugh-designed and engineered / Baltic-built 68’ Performance Cruiser Claude 2.
RP130 MY SONG – Pier Luigi Loro Piana’s 130′ Supermaxi MY SONG finished the 2018 RORC Transatlantic Race on December 4th at 17:47:11 UTC taking Monohull Line Honours. The Baltic 130 owned by Pier Luigi Loro Piana, a member of the International Maxi Association (IMA), has also set a new Monohull Race Record after completing the 3,000 mile race between Lanzarote and Grenada in an elapsed time of 10 days 5 hrs 47 mins 11 secs, shaving 1hr 19mins 48 secs off the previous monohull race record set in the 2015 race by Jean-Paul Riviere’s French Finot-Conq 100, Nomad IV.