Statement of the ORS Int. re the time of ORCA's arrival.
February 14th 2008

Until now you could see on our website that ORS Int. recorded arrival time of ORCA
 to Barbados as 14:00GMT (10:00 local time) with a note t.b.c.

ORS Int. can/does accept 14:00GMT (10:00 am local time) as an approximate time of their landing, and is not putting under any doubt the fact of landing on Carlysle beach.

But acceptance of this time as a precise arrival time would mean that the previous record for team of Four, set by the first Ocean Four Queensgate in 2004, has been beaten by ORCA by four minutes.

Roy Finlay, the Captain of ORCA wrote to ORS Int.:
''I cannot substantiate my time with the degree of accuracy you understandably require
 due to technical equipment failure",
so it was mutually agreed that being as Queensgate's time has an official status and the team did have a tracking devise,
and ORCA's time was not officially recorded and the team did not have a tracking devise,
we consider Queensgate's record unbeaten and put ORCA's arrival time in the second place after Queensgate, adding symbolically 14 minutes to the stated crossing time to make it 10 minute longer than that of Queensgate.

So the time of ORCA's arrival is now recorded as
January 20th 2008 14:14GMT
and the crossing time - 36 days 1h 9min