Son Sam and father Andrew Hall of Pwllheli won the ISORA 2025 Championship at the final hurdle in September with their Lombard 46 Pata Negra. But for the RORC East-West Transatlantic Race 2026, they put their hopes on their attractive vintage J/125 down-wind sled Jackknife, perhaps reckoning it was a case of horses for courses in hopefully brisk Trade Winds from aft of the beam. Whatever the reason, it paid off, as Jackknife in Antigua was twice on the podium, as Class Winner and Third Overall.

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Jackknife has completed the RORC Transatlantic Race in 11 days, 13hrs, 6 mins, 22 sec having raced for 3,022 miles.

🏆1st in Class
🏆 3rd Overall

Congratulatoions to the team:

Andrew and Sam Hall, Thomas Tudor, Nick Butterworth, and Chris Jones from Pwllheli Sailing Club joined by Mark Bolger (Cork) and Fabio Galea (Malta).

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Pwllheli based Jackknife will start the 3,000 miles RORC Transatlantic race on Sunday 11th January at 12.30hrs.

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Andrew and Sam Hall, Thomas Tudor, Nick Butterworth, and Chris Jones from Pwllheli Sailing Club are joined by Mark Bolger (Cork) and Fabio Galea (Malta). We wish them fair winds and a safe, fast race.

The race can be followed on the YB Tracker - use this link -

https://rorctransatlantic.rorc.org/tracking

The race starts from Lanzarote's capital Arrecife. All boats must round a turning mark off Puerto Calero before heading into the Atlantic Ocean and westwards then to Antigua.

The fleet is composed of cutting-edge monohulls, high-performance multihulls, performance cruisers and smaller offshore racers. Crew representing 19 nations from around the world will be racing with a wide range of goals, targets and ambitions.

I am sure that many of us will be following their every move with great interest.

The Jackknife team relaxing at the GalaDinner before the big adventure.