Pindar's Ocean Racing History:
Sept 1995 Global Challenge 1995-1996, Pindar supported Challenge 67 'Concert'
Nov 1999 Transat Jacques Vabre 1999, Emma Richards & Miranda Merron win Class 2 aboard (on Pete Goss's 'Aqua Quorum')
June 2000 Europe 1 New Man Star (Plymouth to Rhode Island, USA), Emma Richards wins single handed Class 2 (on Pete Goss' 'Aqua Quorum')
August 2000 Round Britain and Ireland Race, Emma Richards & Miranda Merron win 50 foot class (on Pete Goss' 'Aqua Quorum')
Sept 2000 Global Challenge 2000-2001, Pindar supported both Challenge 72s 'Spirit of Hong Kong' and winners 'LG Flatron'
July 2001 EDS Atlantic Challenge 2001, Helena Darvelid skippers an all female crew aboard Open 60 'AlphaGraphics'
Nov 2001 Transat Jacques Vabre 2001, Emma Richards & Miki Von Koskull finish 9th, aboard 60 ft multihull 'Pindar Systems'
Sept 2002 Around Alone 2002-2003, Emma Richards becomes first British woman and youngest competitor aboard Open 60 'Pindar' (formerly Josh Hall's 'Gartmore')
October 2002 Emma Richards becomes first woman ever to complete a singlehanded west to east crossing in a monohull aboard Open 60 'Pindar' (formerly Josh Hall's 'Gartmore')
June 2003 Pindar purchase 18 month old Owen-Clarke design Open 60, formerly 'Hexagon' renamed 'Pindar AlphaGraphics'. The yacht is campaigned over the following three years:
Nov 2003 Transat Jacques Vabre 2003, Emma Richards & Mike Sanderson
May 2004 'The Transat' 2004, Mike Sanderson finishes 3rd overall
Sept 2004 Global Challenge 2004-2005, 'Pindar' Challenge 72
August 2005 Fastnet Race, 5th Open 60
August 2005 Celebrity Pro-Am Round the Island Race, Cowes Week, 1st place
April 2006 Guadeloupe - Antigua Race, 1st place
April 2006 Rolex Antigua Sailing Week
June 2006 Newport - Bermuda Race
April 2007 Stanford Antigua Sailing Week - Pindar's Volvo 60
July 2007 Pindar's first ever new build Open 60 is launched in New Zealand
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