Irish Boats in The Mix In RORC's New Race As Phaedo3 Takes Line Honours

15th August 2016

Lloyd Thornburg’s Phaedo 3 at the Blaskets during the recent Round Ireland Record, which was celebrated at the National Yacht Club on Friday night. Today, Phaedo 3 rounded the equally rocky Ouessant off the west coast of Brittany, on her way to line honours in the new 400-mile RORC Cowes-Wolf Rock-Ouessant-St Malo Race. Credit: RORC

The new post-Cowes Week 400-mile RORC Cowes-Wolf Rock-Ushant Race, which started from the Solent on Saturday, saw the return fresh as daisies of Lloyd Thornburg and his crew writes W M Nixon. They’d flown in from Dublin after dinner at the National YC on Friday night, where they were honoured for their new Round Ireland Record with the MOD 70 Phaedo 3.

The celebration clearly hadn’t taken a feather out of them, as on Saturday they zoomed down the English Channel at the head of the fleet to round Wolf Rock off Cornwall. Then they headed south to negotiate the extremely tricky rounding of Ouessant with its many offlying rocks and tide rips, before sailing on along the equally rocky north coast of Brittany to St Malo. There, they took line honours from sister-ship Concise 10 (Ned Collier Wakefield) at 1618hrs this (Monday) afternoon, and it will be some time before anyone else is along to challenge them, for as of 1830hrs Monday, the next in line, Piet Vroon’s Tonnere 4, is still in the process of rounding Ouessant.

As for the main body of the fleet, they’re bundling up to round Wolf Rock, the group including Ireland’s Michael Boyd owner-skippered JPK 10.80 Audrey, 19th overall in IRC and third in IRC Class 3, and Conor Fogerty’s Sunfast 3600 Bam from Howth, 25th overall and fifth in Class 3.

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