SAILING NEWS
News 18
Racers raise more than £80,000 for good
ROCK STEADY Chernikeeff 2 racing round The Needles at the Round the Island Race AND THEY’RE OFF: The fleet get under way on a glorious day in
Island’s charity
THE prizegiving for the JPMorgan Asset
PICTURES: Rich Page/OnEdition
Management Round the Island Race took place at the
Cowes home of the Island Sailing Club, organisers of win. Like the Grand National it’s full of fences and
the event since 1931, on Sunday 24th June. The hurdles.
Solent was certainly a quieter scene than the previous “I’ve been the bridesmaid at the wedding, as runner
day when a record 1,603 boats, varying in size from up, in the past but my advice to all of you is to keep
100 down to 20 feet, made it round the course. going. One day it will be your day. I’m proud to be
Opening the proceedings, Campbell Fleming from receiving this trophy from Shirley, such an outstand-
title sponsors JPMorgan Asset Management had some ing sailor, and wish her and all our sailing team every
excellent news of another record. Over £80,000 had success in the next Olympics.”
been raised for charity through the event, the main For the 150 members of the Island Sailing Club
beneficiaries being Breast Cancer Care, MacMillan race management team, race day had been a long one
Cancer Support, Prostate Research Campaign UK and - up at 3am in readiness for the opening cannon to be
The Ellen MacArthur Trust. fired by broadcaster Alan Titchmarsh at 5am. First to
Shirley Robertson presented the trophies. She had finish was Dame Ellen MacArthur racing a new high-
been racing aboard Team Volvo for life, a J/80 sports- tech multihull Extreme 40. She crossed the line just
boat, and amused the winners by admitting even dou- after 0818 hours, completing the course in 4 hours 6
ble Olympic gold medallists can make mistakes. minutes 3 seconds but, despite hitting 29 knots boat
She said: “The race was supposed to be non-stop, speed after The Needles, she was outside the current
but we did stop – going aground on Ryde Sands. Still, record set in 2001 by French skipper Francis Joyon of
at least we managed to get off, unlike Nick who had 3 hours 8 minutes 29 seconds.
to be towed. If any of you can tell me how to win this Property developer Mike Slade racing his brand
race, I’d really like to know!” new Farr designed canting keel ICAP Leopard took
Fellow Olympian Nick Rogers had also been com- line honours in the monohulls and was just 17 minutes
peting in a J/80. 25 seconds off the record he set himself in 2001 of 4
The top trophies went to south coast sailors. Mark hours 5 minutes 40 seconds. The Seacart 30 Buzz
Taylor from West Sussex won the Silver Gilt Roman (Philip Cotton) was the fourth boat back and took the
Bowl, sailing Marbella a 50 year old SCOD design. Golden Miller Challenge Cup as top GP/MOCRA
He beat 674 yachts in the ISC Rating System multihull.
Division. Jonny Malbon in Artemis Ocean Racing won the
The Gold Roman Bowl went to Edward Donald Lombard Trophy for the Open 60 class with Dee
from Winchester who topped the 590-strong IRC Caffari’s Aviva second. Sir Robin-Knox Johnston suf-
Division for regular racers in his Folkboat Madelaine. fered an injury to his arm and handed the helm of his
Thanking the Island Sailing Club and sponsors he Open 60 to Robin Aisher, Admiral of the Island
SHIRLEY ROBERTSON: I’d really like to know how to win this race!’
said: “This race is unique and it’s a great honour to Sailing Club.
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