Rives Potts' Carina, a McCurdy & Rhodes 48 built in 1969, won Class Three and the 103-boat St. David's Lighthouse ORR Division as the Newport-Bermuda Race prizes were handed out by Governor Richard Sir Richard Gozney and others at Government House on Saturday night.

Carina took home 11 awards, capped by the coveted St. David's Lighthouse Trophy, a spectacular 16-inch tall silver keeper, and won a host of other perpetual trophies and first-in-class medallion.

The lighthouse trophy, first awarded in 1954 to Dan Strohmeier and Malay, is a silver scale model replica of the light that warns mariners of the reefs along Bermuda's South Shore. The trophy actually has a working light.

Carina's navigator, Patricia Young, was the first woman to win the George Mixter Trophy as the navigator of a lighthouse winner. In the navigator's forum held last Thursday she said that she was surprised to see how smooth her course looked on iBoattrack, the technology that allows those on shore to track the progress of the race boats.

Carina had stayed east of her competition, picked up seven squalls in the Gulf Stream, all with favourable winds and jumped out to a 60-mile lead over the next boat in their class.

Potts also took first in Class Three under IRC and won the North Rock Beacon Trophy, a silver replica of the old North Rock Tower, for first place in the 100-boat IRC group of sailors who chose to be dual scored.

After accepting the Lighthouse Trophy, Potts pointed out that Carina had won the race twice before (1970 and 1982) under original owner, Dick Nye. He invited the many Carina alumni still sailing Newport to Bermuda to the stage to join his family-filled crew to celebrate this victory. Included in the group was CCA commodore Sheila McCurdy, whose father had designed Carina.

Sir Geoffrey Mulcahy's Noonmark VI won Class Nine and the 13-boat Gibbs Hill Lighthouse ORR Division. His keeper is a silver scale model of Bermuda's tallest lighthouse on Gibbs Hill. The trophy was the first lighthouse trophy awarded once in 1946 to Howard Fuller and Gesture and then re-introduced in 2006 as the prize for professional sailors division.

Neal Finnegan's Clover III, won Class 13 and the 38-boat Cruiser Division. Finnegan won the Carleton Mitchell Finisterre Trophy and his keeper is a half model of Mitchell's yacht that holds the record three-in-a-row winning streak.

Bermuda resident Mark Watson's Genuine Risk won first in Class 16 and the Open Division's Royal Mail Trophy while Jason Richter and Robert Fischer won Class 14 and the Weld and Moxie prizes for first place in the 26-boat Double Handed Division in the J35 Paladin.

In his welcoming remarks, Royal Bermuda Yacht Club commodore Peter Shrubb said, "Look at some of the facts of the race . . . you can sail it with two people, you can sail it with 26 of your closest friends, you can sail it in a cozy 33-footer or a cavernous 100-footer, you can sail a 41-year old boat like Carina and win or you can sail a shiny new boat."

"You can sail this race 23 times like Jim Bishop or for the first time like Richard Stevenson," he continued. "You sail to Bermuda with your dad at the age of 12 like Billy Jenkins or at the age of 94 like Arent van Heyningen

"Young, old, big, small, modern, antique, rich, poor, novice ocean racer or old sea dog. It really doesn't matter. It's all incredible, racing to Bermuda. It's priceless. The memories will last forever."

In all 113 trophies and prizes were handed out on Saturday night. A special award was given to race chairman Bjorn Johnson.

A complete list of race results and prizewinners is posted on www.bermudarace.com