2022 Special Award Winners

SONNY III: The WOLTER HUISMAN MEMORIAL AWARD is given to the yacht that has competed in the true spirit of the event.

VIJONARA: OWNER DRIVER awarded to an outstanding owner who does an outstanding job the helm during the race

HETARIOS: BEST STARTER recognizes the yacht that has executes the closest start over the course of the regatta.

2022 St. Barths Bucket

THE BUCKET TROPHY

Overall Winner Criteria

The Bucket Stewards collaborated in 2016 to establish new criteria for the coveted Bucket Trophy. With the racing format having changed, the emphasis is now directed to class racing. This provided an opportunity to reestablish a quantitative criterion for the overall winner of the St Barths Bucket.

The ‘Bucket Trophy’ will be presented to the overall winner of the 2022 St Barths Bucket. Yachts eligible for this prestigious award will be superyachts (30.5 meter LOA or more) with three or more yachts in class, which prevail in their class for the races scheduled from Friday – Sunday (18-20 March).

The class with smallest series point differential between first and third place finishers will receive 1 point, with each class in succession receiving 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 points. Additionally, the class with the smallest overall time differential (total time/total distance for all races) between the first and third place finishers will receive one point, with each class in succession receiving one additional point as above.

The above-mentioned points will be added together for the overall competitive class score. The class with the lowest number of points will be considered the ‘most competitive, closely contested class’. The winner of this class will be the overall winner of the 2022 edition of the St Barths Bucket. Formulas and the 2019 Bucket Regatta results using this overall criterion are available here.

Should there be a tie, the class winner with the most yachts in class wins. In the event the tie remains unbroken, starting prowess will determine the overall winner with total corrected time for all starts, from scheduled start to crossing the line – with the smallest total time prevailing (formula for corrected start times at the 2019 Bucket Regatta is available here).

Photograph by Ed Gudenas.