Newport-Bermuda Race - Team Sinn Fein goes for a 3rd Lighthouse

2:56 PM Mon 7 Jun 2010 GMT

'2006 Newport Bermuda Race start - Newport RI.

'Sinn Fein' (Cal 40 - Peter S Rebovich Sr - Metuchen - NJ)' Barry Pickthall/PPL &copy Click Here to view large photo

The Newport Bermuda Race is hard enough to win once, But twice? In 46 races since 1906, just three yachts have won the major prize, - the St David's Lighthouse Trophy - at least two times. A pair of these won consecutive races - Carleton Mitchell's fabled Finisterre in 1956-60 and, in the two most recent races in 2006 and 2008, Peter S. Rebovich's Sinn Fein, from New Jersey's Rariton Yacht Club. Rebovich and his usual crew will be back again this year with the gleam of a third St. David's Lighthouse Trophy in their eyes. How does this 45-year ...

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