Day 2 of the 2015 Rolex Fastnet Race. The leading yachts have passed the halfway point of the 603-nm offshore race with the front-running multihulls rounding the race’s emblematic turning point – the Fastnet rock. The fastest monohulls are in close pursuit, while the majority of the fleet is engaged in a real tactical contest …
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Different options around the Scilly Isles have been put to effect today at the front of the Royal Ocean Racing Club’s Rolex Fastnet Race with the leaders taking three significantly different routes, hoping to make the best of the complex Celtic Sea weather on the 150 mile leg northwest to the Fastnet Rock off southwestern …
Brooklin Boatyard’s recently launched (June 15, 2015) FOGGY wins the Opera House Cup Regatta, in 10-12knt southwesterlies. The 72′ German Frers designed FOGGY, with her towering 104′ red carbon fiber mast, carbon fiber black sails, 19,000 lbs carbon foil keel drawing 12.5′, was first to finish, and was fast enough to win, on corrected time, …
Progress overnight in the Rolex Fastnet Race has been better than expected with the majority of the fleet having been lured out into the middle of the Channel following the temptation of stronger winds. At 0800 this morning the leading multihulls had passed Land’s End and were tackling the south side of the Traffic Separation …
Giant crowds packed the Cowes and Western Solent shoreline this afternoon as a record-sized fleet of 356 set off on the 90th anniversary Rolex Fastnet Race, organised by the Royal Ocean Racing Club. With a complete lack of wind in the central Solent, the boats ghosted across the start line starting their 600 miles voyage …