Heartbeat IV
Heartbeat IV has raced in many classic offshore races either side of the Atlantic. She is a Dufour 45e and originally based in Burnham-on-Crouch on the UK East Coast. She sailed with the East Anglian Offshore Racing Association and in events organised by the Royal Ocean Racing Club. Links to videos show Heartbeat IV and her predecessor Dufour 44 Heartbeat III underway; in the Pattinson Cup 2011; the Sunk Race 2011; the Thames Estuary Race 2011; the Walker Challenge Cup 2011. In the last few years Heartbeat IV has campaigned in a variety of long distance races away from the UK including in 2011 Heartbeat IV competed in the Rolex Middle Sea Race. Heartbeat IV completed the ARC 2012 coming 3rd in the RORC Racing Division A. She was placed 3rd in IRC Class 1 in the 2013 RORC Caribbean 600. Other videos of Heartbeat can be found by searching YouTube or Vimeo for ‘heartbeatoffshore’. She went to Newport, Rhode Island to do the 2014 Newport-Bermuda Race. Most of these races can be seen on Yellowbrick Tracker. She did the 2016 Caribbean 600 . She was first British boat home inaugural 2017 Antigua-Bermuda Race , was in Bermuda for the America’s Cup and the J-Class Regatta. She returned to Antigua via Tortola, British Virgin Islands after the hurricane season. She was in Nanny Cay for the 2018 BVI Spring Regatta and the new Full Moon Race. She was 2nd in the Full Moon Race. She returned to Antigua in June and is currently in Catamaran Harbour. You can follow her progress on Twitter @OffshoreHB and Instagram at ‘heartbeatoffshore’.
