French sailor Didier Gaudoux has been confirmed as the overall winner of the 2017 Rolex Fastnet Race, sailing a near perfect race in his JND39 Lann Ael 2. His crew’s performance embodies the skill and determination of the many Corinthian crew in this race – he races with his eldest daughter, Coralie, son Thomas, and friends, including Figaro specialist Fred Duthil.

Guadoux’s victory was part of a dominant performance by French sailors this year. Seven of the  ten classes were won by French crews – eight, if you include the win among the Volvo 65s by Chinese entry Dongfeng Racing, which is skippered by Frenchman Charles Caudrelier.

Lan Ael 2 was designed working alongside naval architect Bernard Nivelt and launched 18 months ago but Gaudoux confesses it has taken time and modifications to realise its full potential.

“It was really difficult. We had to make a lot of changes,” he admits. “We had to have a lot of perseverance.

Didier Gaudoux, overall winner of the Rolex Fastnet Race 2017 receives the winner’s trophy from Michael Boyd, commodore of the RORC

Gaudoux is a lifelong sailor who did his first RORC races in 1978 at the age of 20. He says that this boat was designed from the outset for offshore racing and particularly with the Fastnet Race in mind.

“You have to be a bit lucky with the weather to win but I am very proud to have designed a boat with Bernard Nivelt to win the Fastnet. This has been my target for the past 20 years, but I never expected to win overall.

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“Yes it is job done. But the spirit is important. I don’t want to win with ten professionals aboard. What is important for me is to keep the same guys for years and to build confidence between us. We had a lot of solidarity and a lot of pleasure.”

Among the other winners were double-handers Pascal and Alexis Loison racing their JPK 10.10 Night and Day. The father and son team are already a legend in this race. In 2013, they became the first ever crew to win their class and the Fastnet Race overall.

Trophy and Rolex watch for the winner of the 2017 Rolex Fastnet Race

PROVISIONAL RESULTS:

IRC Z: 1. Privateer – Cookson 50, Ron O’Hanley (USA); 2. Lady Mariposa – Ker 46, Daniel Hardy (GBR); 3. Bretagne Telecom – Mach 45, Nicolas Groleau (FRA)

IRC 1: 1. Lann Ael 2 – JND 39, Didier Gaudoux (FRA); 2. Pata Negra – Lombard 46, Hermann de Graaf (NED); 3. Ino XXX – HH42, James Neville (GBR)

IRC 2: 1. Pintia – J/133, Gilles Fournier / Corinne Migraine (FRA); 2. Lisa – First 44.7, Michael Boyd (IRE); 3. Elke – First 40, Frans and Carla Rodenburg (NED)

IRC 3: 1. Dream Pearls – JPK 10.80, Arnaud Delamare and Eric Mordret (FRA); 2. Timeline – JPK 10.80, Marc Alperovitch (FRA); 3. Bellino – Sun Fast 3600, Rob Craigie (GBR)

IRC 4: 1. Night and Day – JPK 10.10, Pascal & Alexis Loison (FRA); 2. Foggy Dew – JPK 10.10 (FRA), Noel Racine; 3. Cocody – JPK 10.10, Richard Fromentin (FRA)

IRC Two-Handed: 1. Night and Day – JPK 10.10, Pascal Loison (FRA); 2. Ajeto! – J/122e, Robin Verhoef and John van der Starre (NED); 3. Bellino – Sun Fast 3600, Rob Craigie and Deb Fish (GBR)

VO65: 1. Dongfeng Race Team (CHN) – Charles Caudrelier; 2. MAPFRE (ESP) – Xabi Fernandez; 3. Team Brunel (NED) – Bouwe Bekking

IMOCA 60: 1. SMA – Paul Meilhat/Gwenole Gahinet (FRA); 2. StMichel-Virbac – Jean-Pierre Dick/ /Yann Eliès (FRA); 3. Malizia – Yacht Club de Monaco – Boris Herrmann/Pierre Casiraghi (MON)

Class40: 1. V and B – Maxime Sorel (FRA); 2. Imerys – Phil Sharp (GBR); 3. Campagne de France – Halvard Mabire (FRA) and Miranda Merron (GBR)

MOCRA Multihulls: 1. Concise 10 – MOD 70 trimaran, Tony Lawson (GBR); 2. R-six – HH66 catamaran, Robert Szustkowski (POL); 3. Hissy Fit – Dazcat 1495, Simon Baker (GBR)

Report by Elaine Bunting, Editor of Yachting World

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10 August

Another Rolex Fastnet Race entrant has been rescued off the coast of west Cork in Ireland.

Baltimore RNLI went to the aid of 13 crew on board a 45-foot yacht in the early hours of yesterday morning (9 August).

The skipper had contacted the Irish Coast Guard at around 2am after the vessel lost its rigging.

The yacht was 26 miles south east of Baltimore, west Cork.

On arrival at the scene just after 3.30am, the lifeboat crew found that the rod rigging on the vessel was still standing.

However, part of the outer rigging had failed and the mast was in danger of coming down.

The crew of the yacht informed the lifeboat crew that their fuel had been contaminated, and they were running on a small container of spare fuel which they estimated would only give them an hour’s motoring time.

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Conditions at the time were choppy with a north westerly force 4 wind and 1-1.5 metre swell.

The crew on the yacht agreed that a tow would be best, so while the lifeboat stood by, they secured the rig as best they could.

As soon as the lifeboat sent over the tow line, the engine of the yacht cut out.

The tow was established and the lifeboat started to bring the yacht back to Baltimore.

During the tow, due to the unstable nature of the mast, the lifeboat crew advised everyone to stay below deck in case the mast came down.

The lifeboat towed the casualty vessel to the fishing pier in Baltimore Harbour, arriving at 10am.

Speaking following the callout, Baltimore RNLI’s coxswain, Kieran Cotter, said: “Thankfully the rigging held and the experienced crew aboard the yacht managed to do the best that they could do to avoid injury and to secure and preserve the yacht’s rig under difficult circumstances”.

9 August

The crew of a 40-foot yacht competing in the Fastnet Race are now safely in Courtmacsherry inner harbour in Ireland after the vessel dismasted in the early hours of this morning.

The dismasted yacht. Credit: Courtmacsherry RNLI

The Courtmacsherry Harbour RNLI Lifeboat was called out just after 3.20am to assist the 10 people on board.

The yacht was approaching the famous Fastnet Rock when it dismasted, around 20 kilometres off Galley Head in west Cork.

The lifeboat crew found the yacht in the darkness, established a line and then proceeded to tow the vessel at a slow pace into harbour.

The boats arrived around 8am.

There are no reports of any injuries on board the disabled yacht.

Weather conditions at the time were reporting as force 3-4 north-west wind.

The identity of the yacht and the crew is not known at this time.

7 August

Royal Cork David Kenefick’s class 40 yacht lost its mast due to gear failure during the Fastnet Race, the helmsman told Afloat.ie .

The crew have however managed to get the mast back onto the boat, but they had to retire the vessel in Weymouth.

It’s a disappointing turnout for Kenefick who in July ranked 31st in the Gold fleet at the 2017 Garda Moth Worlds in Lake Garda, Italy.

4 August

Alex Thomson will be racing in his local playground this weekend when he competes in his 10th Rolex Fastnet Race which kicks off on Sunday, 6 August.

He will be battling it out against the other boats as they leave Cowes to race the 605-nautical miles around the Fastnet Rock before finishing at Plymouth.

Thomson said: “I’m excited to be back racing this weekend in the Fastnet and it’s great to see a good turnout of IMOCA boats on the start line, with some new competitors on the circuit. It’s fantastic for the sport to see so many boats on the water.”

Racing onboard his record breaking HUGO BOSS IMOCA 60, Thomson will be joined onboard by Irish sailor Nicholas O’Leary. As a young talent in short-handed ocean racing, O’Leary has ambitions to race in the Vendee Globe himself in the future and is looking forward to gaining experience racing with Thomson onboard HUGO BOSS.

The race, which is held every two years, has seen record take up for the 2017 edition.

Fastnet Rock. Credit: Rolex Fastnet Race

Thomson, who earlier this year came second in the gruelling 2016-17 Vendée Globe, will no doubt be looking to improve on the time set by Fastnet’s last winners in the IMOCA 60 class.

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2004 Vendée Globe winner Vincent Riou and America’s Cup helmsman Sebastien Col on PRB set a time of 3d 0h 9’ 53’’ when they crossed the finish line at 12:19:53 BST on 19 August 2015.

The pair managed to claw back the lead set by SMA, the former MACIF – winner of the 2012 Vendée Globe and the IMOCA 60 class in the 2013 Rolex Fastnet Race – after it rounded the Fastnet Rock first.

However, SMA was forced to retire when it missed the Bishop Rock mark of the course.

The 2017 Rolex Fastnet Race, which is organised by the Royal Ocean Racing Club (RORC) in Cowes, starts on Saturday, 6 August.

For this edition, RORC has relaxed the limit of a maximum monohull length of 100ft (30.48m), following interest from a number of superyacht owners and skippers wishing to take part in the classic offshore race.

In the last Rolex Fastnet Race, there were two monohulls at this upper limit of 100-foot: Mike Slade’s British Farr 100, Leopard, who was competing in his 5th consecutive race, and from the United States Jim and Kristy Hinze Clark’s Maxi, Comanche.

Mike Slade’s British Farr 100, Leopard

The 100ft Comanche was the fastest monohull finisher in 2015, but narrowly missed the chance to break Ian Walker’s VO70’s 2011 monohull race record of 42 hours 39 minutes.

When the entry list opened on 9 January, spaces sold out faster than a Rolling Stones farewell concert. The 340 boat limit reached, incredibly, in just 4 minutes and 24 seconds.

And this figure excludes the non-IRC fleets which will include a giant international turn out of Class40s and significantly, will be the first occasion the eight VO65s, set to compete in this year’s Volvo Ocean Race, will line up in anger.

When the Rolex Fastnet Race set sails from Cowes, close to 400 boats will make up the combined IRC and non-IRC fleets – the largest ever entry in the race’s 92 year history and a significant step-up from 356 in the last race.

Meanwhile,  some of the world’s most prominent grand maxis will be competing in the main IRC fleet.

The longest is the Judel Vrolijk 115 Super Maxi, Nikata, while Ludde Ingvall is bringing his radical DSS-equipped 100 footer CQS all the way from Australia.

One of the race favourites will certainly be George David’s Rambler 88, that just missed out on line honours in 2015.

The 2017 Rolex Fastnet Race sets sail from the Royal Yacht Squadron line to the north of Cowes at 1200 BST on 6 August.

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Line honours in one of the lightest wind Rolex Fastnet Races in recent years were claimed at dawn yesterday morning (8 August) by Ned Collier-Wakefield and the crew of MOD70 Concise 10.

The big trimaran shaped a lonely course at the head of fleet, unchallenged by any yachts of her speed. The light winds and upwind course right to the Fastnet Rock meant the record of 32h set by 130ft trimaran Banque Populaire V was always going to be unattainable. Concise 10 crossed the finish line in an elapsed time of 42h 55m.

The crew sailed a storming long upwind leg beating all the way up to Land’s End and across the Celtic Sea, defying preconceptions that multihulls are not upwind boats.

Concise 10 was the first round the Fastnet Rock on 7 August. Credit: ROLEX/Kurt Arrigo

Owner Tony Lawson commented: “Everyone thinks multihulls can’t go to weather, but we led three state of the art monohulls around the Rock by about 100 miles and we led them into Plymouth by 200 miles. So if you want to go fast you have to get yourself a multihull!”

Ned Collier Wakefield explained that, upwind to the Rock, the boat was typically making 21 knots at 50°.

“The MOD70 is an amazing machine. Every time we go out we still come back smiling.”

MOD70, Concise 10, crosses the finish line of the Rolex Fastnet Race in Plymouth. Credit: ROLEX/Carlo Borlenghi

Among the crew were Paul Larsen, the world’s fastest sailor (who sailed Vestas Sailrocket 2 at 65.45 knots average over 500m in 2012) and Finn Gold medallist and Land Rover BAR crew Giles Scott, sailing his first offshore race.

“It was really good,” said Scott. “Upwind, it felt like a long way out to the Fastnet, although I know a lot of the fleet have still got to go through all of that. On the turn round, when we started ripping downwind, Land’s End didn’t feel that far away at all. The fastest speed I saw was 36 knots.”

Rambler 88 taking the monohull line honours.Credit: Carlo Borlenghi/Rolex

American George David’s Rambler 88 took the monohull line honours.

The silver maxi crossed the finish line off Plymouth breakwater at 22:14:21 BST yesterday (8 August) in a time of 2 days 9 hours 34 minutes and 21 seconds.

This was more than six hours faster than they had managed in 2015, but was well outside of the monohull race record of 1 day 18 hours and 39 minutes, set in 2011 by the Ian Walker-skippered VO70, Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing.

“This was our fourth (Fastnet) race,” said George David upon his arrival in Plymouth Yacht Haven.

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“We have had two that were fairly windy and one with no wind, two years ago, and this one with decent wind but a tough windward-leeward course. 360 miles upwind is a challenge and it is cold, but it is okay. We sailed well and we did a good race. We’ll see what happens,” commented David, who almost lost his life in the 2011 Rolex Fastnet Race when the keel of his Rambler 100 maxi broke.

David and four of his crew were washed overboard and away from their boat. Wearing their full red sailing suits and bright yellow inflatable life-vests, the five linked arms and formed a circle until the crew of Team Phaedo, who had joined in the search, found them via their global positioning system devices.

The remaining 16 crew of the Rambler 100 managed to climb onto the upturned hull, waiting for several hours until they were rescued by the Baltimore RNLI.

Among the Volvo 65s, which are competing in the race’s Leg Zero, it was a thrilling finish, with China’s Dongfeng Race Team taking line honours just 56 seconds ahead of MAPFRE in the early hours of this morning (9 August).

Dongfeng lead in Leg Zero, Rolex Fastnet Race. Credit: Jeremie Lecaudey/Volvo Ocean Race

Victory for Charles Caudrelier’s team keeps it tight at the top of Leg Zero qualifying for the Volvo Ocean Race – and heralds an epic battle to come when the race around the world begins from Alicante on 22 October.

MAPFRE and Dongfeng had the best start back in Cowes on Sunday, stayed close all the way around the race course and finally finished just metres from each other after fighting all the way to finish line off the Plymouth breakwater.

Dongfeng crossed the line at 04:18:10 local time, with MAPFRE following shortly afterwards at 04:19:06.

Volvo Ocean 65s in the Rolex Fastnet Race:

1. Dongfeng Race Team: 2 days 15 hours 38 minutes 10 seconds
2. MAPFRE: 2 days 15 hours 39 minutes 06 seconds
3. Team Brunel: 2 days 15 hours 45 minutes 47 seconds
4. team AkzoNobel: 2 days 15 hours 52 minutes 40 seconds
5. Vestas 11th Hour Racing: 2 days 16 hours 09 minutes 11 seconds
6. Sun Hung Kai/Scallywag: 2 days 16 hours 13 minutes 53 seconds
7. Turn the Tide on Plastic: 2 days 16 hours 17 minutes 32 seconds

There are two more races to go in the Leg Zero series of qualifiers. On Thursday, the fleet will race from Plymouth to Saint-Malo in France.

After a non-scoring Pro-Am Race on Saturday, the teams will complete the series with a race from Saint-Malo to Lisbon, starting on Sunday.

While an overall Leg Zero winner will be declared, based on equal scoring for each of the four stages, no points will be carried forward to the Volvo Ocean Race itself.

Report by Elaine Bunting of Yachting World and Katy Stickland of YBW.com

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A perfect summer Solent sea breeze gave the 368-strong fleet in the Rolex Fastnet Race a picture perfect start today. In winds of 15-20 knots the fleet began the beat westwards with a strong ebb tide.

This is the largest fleet since the race began in 1925. Some 2,700 crew are taking part in the race from Cowes on the Isle of Wight out to the Fastnet Rock lighthouse off south-west Ireland and back to Plymouth.

The big multihulls such as the MOD70 trimaran Concise 10 were the first away from the Royal Yacht Squadron line. Despite the windward course, Concise passed the first tidal gate at Portland Bill only four hours later.

The multihulls were followed by non-IRC classes including nine double-handed IMOCA 60s including Alex Thomson and Irishman Nicholas O’Leary on Hugo Boss, Tanguy de Lamotte and Sam Davies on Initiatives Coeur and JP Dick and Yann Eliès on St Michel-Virbac.

These three yachts all have foils, but are joined by other non-foil equipped IMOCA 60s such as Paul Meilhat and Gwenole Gahinet aboard SMA which will have an advantage on the upwind march to the Fastnet Rock as they are more weatherly. The question is whether the faster downwind speed of the foil-borne IMOCA will be enough to catch or overhaul them – yesterday Sam Davies predicted it would be.

The largest yacht in the fleet is the Baltic 115 Nikata. Far from a stripped out cruiser, this performance carbon composite superyacht is light but comparatively comfortable.

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The Fastnet is also the so-called Leg 0 for the Volvo Ocean Race VO65s. Some of the teams, such as David Witt’s Scallywag and Dee Caffari’s Turn the Tide on Plastic are quite late to going and are on a catch up with more established teams such as Dongfeng Racing and MAPFRE.

For updates on the race see www.rolexfastnetrace.com and regular updates and video from the race course on the Yachting World Facebook page.

Rambler 88, Sail No: USA 25555, Class: IRC Zero, Owner: George David, Type: Canting Keel Sloop

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The Rolex Fastnet Race makes for a spectacular start, followed by 600-miles worth of tight, tough competition. Here’s how to follow the 2017 Fastnet and keep up-to-date with all the action…

WATCH THE START
The race starts from one of world’s most famous yachting locations: the Royal Yacht Squadron in Cowes on the Isle of Wight on Sunday, 6 August 2017.

Fastnet TV will cover the entire start sequence live. It will be streamed online from wwww.rolexfastnetrace.com and www.879fm.uk and on RORC Facebook live with expert commentary of the build up and for the entire start sequence, right through to the fleet leaving the Solent.

Spectators watch the fleet set out from Cowes. Kurt Arrigo/Rolex

Fastnet Radio will be broadcasting on the Cowes Radio frequency 87.7FM on start day, Sunday 6 August, and simulcast with Fastnet Radio in Plymouth on 87.9FM.

There will also be a podcast from the skippers’ briefing, held on Saturday 5 August.

The start sequence begins at 1100 (BST) for the 48th edition. The multihulls go off first, followed by the IMOCA 60s and Class 40s.

1100 Multihull
1110 IMOCA 60 and Class40
1120 IRC 4
1140 IRC 3
1200 IRC 2
1220 IRC 1
1240 IRC Zero & VO65

Hurst Castle on the mainland can offer a great vantage point of the race start and boats leaving the Solent. Photo: Kurt Arrigo/Rolex Fastnet Race

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FROM THE SHORE

The best vantage points of the start will be along Cowes Green and Egypt Esplanade on the Isle of Wight.

The live Fastnet Radio commentary will also be broadcast from speakers along Cowes Parade and The Green.

As the fleet funnels out of the Solent there will also be a good chance to see the yachts from Yarmouth on the Isle of Wight, and Hurst Castle on the mainland. Further along the coast Anvil Point, St Alban’s Head, and Portland Bill should each give a good view of the race on its outbound leg.

FOLLOW ONLINE

Yachting World magazine will be covering the race from Cowes to Plymouth, with news, insight from the skippers, and video updates on our dedicated Rolex Fastnet Race page.

Event organisers RORC have a dedicated Rolex Fastnet Race minisite where you can find the latest images and positions of the fleet, blogs from the boats, web updates and daily updates. 

RACE TRACKER

You can follow the Rolex Fastnet Race online with the fleet tracker. Yellowbrick trackers are fitted to every yacht so you can see each boat’s position along the course.

View by class or select your favourites to follow friends and family, check out their boat speed and weather conditions in real time.

VIRTUAL RACE

Armchair sailors will be able to test their skills on the same course as competitors in the 2017 Rolex Fastnet Race by playing the Virtual Fastnet Race. Details on the race minisite shortly.

Article by Helen Fretter at Yachting World

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Entry into the 2017 Rolex Fastnet Race has surpassed expectations in record-breaking time, with the 340-boat limit reached in just 4 minutes and 24 seconds of registration opening.

The biennial 603-nautical mile race is organised by the Royal Ocean Racing Club (RORC).

“The take-up of entries for the 2017 Rolex Fastnet Race has been incredible. We expected to better the time it took to reach the limit in the last race of 24 minutes, but this is amazing,” explained RORC Racing’s Nick Elliott.

“It just exemplifies how sought after the places in the race are and confirms that it is a real sporting institution; one which every sailor wants to tick off their personal ‘bucket list’,” he stated.

The 47th edition of the Rolex Fastnet Race will start in the Solent from Cowes, Isle of Wight, on Sunday 6 August, finishing in Plymouth via the Fastnet Rock, the symbol of the race, located off the southern coast of Ireland.

“Seven boats raced in the first race in 1925 and the founding members of the RORC and its flagship event would have been in awe of their creation with 340 boats signing up so quickly today (9 January 2017),” continued Elliot.

“With all this interest, we expect a record-sized fleet to start from the Royal Yacht Squadron line, making the Rolex Fastnet Race by far the largest of the world’s classic 600-mile offshore races, in terms of participation. One not to be missed,” he added.

The First 40, Lancelot II was the first boat to enter the race, signing up just 12 seconds after the online entry system opened.

The next four boats entered shortly after: Arthur Logic, Pelgrim, Jolly Jack Tar and Moana.

Entries from 28 different nations have signed up and include; Great Britain, France (who have dominated the event in the recent years), Netherlands, Germany and USA, with an entry from Korea as well as from Australia and New Zealand.

The race has attracted the usual diverse fleet of yachts, from beautiful classics to some of the world’s fastest racing machines – and everything in between, racing in IRC or selected offshore classes such as IMOCA60, VOR65, Class40 and MOCRA Multihull.

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