Bay Shore sailor finishes trans-Atlantic race

The last of the three sailboats with Long Islanders aboard crossed the finish line in the Transatlantic Race 2011 early Saturday.

The last boat was the 42-foot Jacqueline IV, owned by Rob Forman of Bay Shore. Jacqueline IV finished in 19 days, 21 hours and 29 minutes with a corrected time of 20 days, 5 hours and 36 minutes taking into account the handicap system to account for different boat speeds. That put the yacht in 3rd place out of the five entries in its class and 17th overall in the fleet of 30 boats.

The other two boats with local crew members that completed the 3,423-mile competition from Newport, R.I., to southwest England on Friday were the 65-foot U.S. Merchant Marine Academy's yacht Vanquish, with a crew of young sailors that includes Huntington Bay's Kaity Storck, and the 40-foot Dragon, with a crew of two including East Northport's Rob Windsor.

The first finisher, Rambler 100, crossed last Sunday after 6 days, 22 hours and 8 minutes. Vanquish was in the same Class One for the fastest yachts, under a speed handicapping system called IRC.

Vanquish had a time of 11 days, 9 hours and 25 minutes. After handicaps for differences in boat speed were counted, Rambler 100 was in second place after Puma's Mar Mostro. Vanquish was the fifth of six boats in the class and sixth overall in the fleet.

Dragon was one of two entries in the IRC Class Four of smaller boats. It finished second in its class in 15 days, 10 hours and 53 minutes and remained in second place in the class with the corrected time. It was 15th overall in the fleet.

Concise 2, skippered by Ned Collier-Wakefield of Oxford, England, won the battle of the Class 40s over Dragon, owned and co-skippered by Mike Hennessy of Mystic, Conn., by crossing the finish line just 29 minutes ahead.

The boats left Newport in three staggered starts. The finish was at Lizard Point, near Cornwall.