Rosebud Racing Joins Team DYT

CONTACT: Barby MacGowan, Media Pro Int'l, 401-849-0220, barby.macgowan@mediapronewport.com or Catalina Bujor, Dockwise Yacht Transport, 954-525-8707, catalina@dockwise-yt.com
Rosebud Racing Joins Team DYT
Dockwise Yacht Transport will be Carrier of Choice for High-Profile Racing Team
FT. LAUDERDALE, FLA. (April 28, 2008) -- Dockwise Yacht Transport (DYT), the world's leading yacht logistics company with its own fleet of semi-submersible ships, has announced that Rosebud Racing has joined forces with the company to become Rosebud Racing/Team DYT. The Farr-designed Rosebud was launched in June 2007 as the world's first STP65, a "box-rule" collaboration between the Storm Trysail Club and the TransPacific Yacht Club. Owned by Roger Sturgeon of Ft, Lauderdale, Fla., it has set the racing world on fire with its recent performances, including winning the overall IRC handicap title in the famed Rolex Sydney Hobart Race at the end of 2007. In that race, Sturgeon also became the first American in 30 years to take overall regatta honors, joining only two other Americans who can make the same claim: Jim Kilroy (Kialoa III in 1977) and Ted Turner (American Eagle in 1972).
"The Rosebud campaign has had an exhilarating journey, and the future will prove even more remarkable," said Sturgeon, adding that Rosebud Racing/Team DYT will use DYT services for shipping the team's prized race boat to race destinations around the world. "There is no better way to get to our far-off race destinations than using the Dockwise Yacht Transport service. The company has a magnificent staff of service managers and loading masters to help us with scheduling and, most important, the safe transport of our yacht."
DYT operates four semi-submersible yacht carriers, including the new 687.5-foot (209 meter) Yacht Express, which takes regular runs between Ft. Lauderdale and Genoa, Italy. The float-on/float off process that is unique to these ships alleviates worries about wear and tear on the boat.
"Rosebud Racing/Team DYT is the perfect ambassador for the segment of our personalized customer service that devotes itself to getting race boats to their regattas around the world," said DYT President Clemens van der Werf. "For instance, the DYT voyage scheduled in August from Newport, R.I. to Sardinia, Italy, will get Rosebud and other racing yachts to the Mediterranean in time for the racing season there."
Rosebud
will sport its new Team DYT sail and hull graphics when it competes in New England this summer at Block Island Race, the New York Yacht Club Annual Regatta presented by Rolex, the Newport to Bermuda Race (which was won by Sturgeon's previous Rosebud, a TP52, in 2004), the Edgartown Yacht Club Round the Island Race, and the New York Yacht Club Race Week at Newport presented by Rolex. After it crosses the Atlantic with DYT's help, it will compete in the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup (Sardinia, Italy) in September and the Rolex Middle Sea Races (Malta) in October, before heading back with other sailboats on a DYT ship to Ft. Lauderdale at the end of October.

A designer of computer software and a member of Lauderdale Yacht Club as well as Hyannis Yacht Club in Massachusetts, Sturgeon is joined on the crew of Rosebud Racing/Team DYT by his wife Isobel and noteworthy international sailors.
More about DYT
Headquartered in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, DYT is a wholly owned subsidiary of Dockwise Ltd. (Hamilton, Bermuda), the global leader in maritime transports and installation. Since its maiden voyage in 1987, the company has transported over 9,000 motor and sailing yachts to various destinations around the globe, offering owners and charterers safe and easy access to many of the world’s premier cruising grounds.
In addition to its conservation partnership with The Billfish Foundation, the only non-profit organization dedicated solely to conserving and enhancing billfish populations around the world, DYT is also partnered with the International SeaKeepers Society. Its newest ship, Yacht Express, is outfitted with the modular SeaKeeper 1000TM ocean and meteorological monitoring system, which samples, measures, records and transmits critical measures of ocean health--salinity, temperature, oxygen and pollution, among others--to various scientific and public communities across the globe.
Along with area representatives around the world, DYT has additional operating offices in Italy, France, Martinique and Newport (R.I.). A partnership with BBC Chartering and Logistics also allows DYT to manage safe lift-on/lift-off service aboard BBC's fleet of 140 cargo vessels worldwide. The service is for clients who need additional scheduling flexibility or the ability to get to a destination not normally serviced by DYT's semi-submersible ships.
For more information, visit http://www.yacht-transport.com or contact Catalina Bujor, Dockwise Yacht Transport, 954-525-8707, pr@dockwise-yt.com.

STORM TRYSAIL TRANSPAC 65 CLASS

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STORM TRYSAIL TRANSPAC 65 CLASS
And Moneypenny Makes Two
LARCHMONT, N.Y. (April 22, 2008) – The newest STP65, Moneypenny, designed by Reichel/Pugh and built by McConaghy's Boat Yard in Australia, was launched the second week of April and has tested in Sydney Harbor with "fine results," according to its owner Jim Swartz (San Francisco, Calif.). "It feels very nimble," he grinned, clearly pleased that the rocket ship performance conceptualized in the development of the STP65 Box Rule looks to be as much a reality for him as it has been for Roger Sturgeon (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.), who now has a season's worth of trophies to add to his shelf since the June 2007 launching of the first STP65, the Farr-designed Rosebud.
"It's going to be really exciting," said Swartz about his coming match-up with Rosebud this summer in Newport, R.I., when the boats will participate in the New York Yacht Club Annual Regatta presented by Rolex before setting off in the famously testing Newport to Bermuda Race. "There are a lot of people around the world watching this closely," he added, explaining that the STP65 rule and class, jointly developed by the Storm Trysail Club and the Transpacific Yacht Club, will transfer to an owner's association for administration once there are five boats built.
The third boat due to launch is Udo Schutz's (Selters, Germany) Container, which is under construction at Knierim Boatyard in Kiel, Germany. As of March, the hull and most of the interior structure had been finished, and the lamination of the deck had started. Container should be delivered to its owner by the end of June, with the first race scheduled to be Spain's Copa del Rey regatta in late July.
"We have big shoes to fill," said Swartz about the trail he, Sturgeon and Schutz are blazing for up to a half-dozen other owners who are rumored to be considering building STP65s. "This is about not only being competitive offshore against other purpose-built IRC boats of similar size (the Judel-Vrolijk 66' Numbers and the soon-to-be launched Reichel Pugh 69 Belle Mente come to mind), but also something more--a boat that can sail inshore as well, in a strong one-design class without becoming obsolete after a few years."
According to the class web site, the Box Rule's "speed producing facets, such as construction, length, displacement, draft, VCG and sail area, are controlled," which means that as the class grows, the STP65s can begin racing within the box without time allowance, effectively as one-designs.
Swartz has plenty of experience in one-design sailing, having successfully campaigned a Melges 32 in addition to his Swan 601, also named Moneypenny. With the STP65 class stipulating an Owner/Category1 Driver, Swartz most assuredly will be at the helm of the STP65 Moneypenny. He also will continue to sail with many of his long-time crew from the Swan 601, including such notable names as Gavin Brady, Paul Cayard, Ken Keefe, Kimo Worthington, Mike Toppa, Mark Rudiger, Ben Beer, Matt Ciesicki, Larry Miliak and John von Schwarz. In addition, a number of veterans from the BMW Oracle America's Cup team have signed on, including David Blanchfield, David Brooke, Rodney Daniel, Jamie Gale and John Ziskind.

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