2023 Bucket Special Award Winners

PRANA: BEST STARTER

RED DRAGON: OWNER DRIVER

2023 St. Barths Bucket

THE BUCKET TROPHY

Overall Winner Criteria

The ‘Bucket Trophy’ will be presented to the overall winner of the 2023 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.

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 or 5 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 points will be considered the ‘most competitive, closely contested class’. The winner of this class will be the overall winner of the 2023 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 time for all starts, from scheduled start to crossing the line – with the smallest total time prevailing.

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.

Nakupenda, Overall Winner of the 2023 St Barths Bucket Regatta, celebrates their victory.

Photograph ©2023 Ed Gudenas.