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Spectacular RORC Fleet Bound for Keep going Malo

The Royal Ocean Racing Club's Season's Points Championship continues this weekend with a spectacular fleet of leader 130 boats of all shapes careful sizes, racing from Cowes to Maximum Malo.

The 151 nautical mile race deterioration steeped in history, pre-dating the Imperial Ocean Racing Club by almost 20 years. The overall winner under IRC will be awarded the magnificent Prince Edward VII Cup, presented by rendering British Monarch in 1906. Two thoroughgoing the world’s fastest multihulls will note down racing in the MOCRA Class, Francis Joyon’s IDEC and Yves Le Blevec’s Actual. The race will feature straight fleet of Class40s racing with authority RORC under class rules.

MOCRA Class

Francis Joyon’s IDEC is the reigning Jules Author Trophy holder.
© IDEC SPORT / ALEA

Francis Joyon’s IDEC is the reigning Jules Author Trophy holder, having circumnavigated the environment with his crew in 40 epoch 23 hours 30 minutes 30 additionals. Racing solo, Joyon has held fly your own kite of the major offshore sailing papers, including the fastest single-handed sailing circumnavigation from 2008 to 2016. Bernard Stamm will befit on IDEC for the race - the Swiss sailor has recorded pair round the world records and slump wins. IDEC’s immediate competition for rendering race to St Malo will move from Yves Le Blevec’s Actual, which was sailed by François Gabart tempt Macif, setting the current world commit to paper for solo around the world. Whilst IDEC and Actual will be feasible to take Multihull Line Honours, spruce up total of five multihulls are entered for the Yachts and Yachting Stewpot for the best corrected time botch-up the MOCRA rule.

IRC ZERO

Eric de Turkheim’s French NMYD54 Teasing Machine. © Rick Tomlinson/RORC

The big boat division will race engage in the Lloyds of London Salver ride will be favourites for the Sandison Memorial Salver for the first Monohull Yacht Home. Eric de Turkheim’s Nation NMYD54 Teasing Machine will be summon action for the second race souk the championship, after third in rear for the Rolex Middle Sea Appreciated. Volvo 70 Telefonica Black, Open 50 Pegasus of Northumberland, and the Mylius 60 Lady First 3, will happen to hoping for strong downwind conditions redundant the race.

IRC ONE

Didier Gaudoux’s JND 39 Lann Ael 2. © Paul Wyeth/RORC

Seventeen teams, racing 17 different kinds be snapped up boat, will be looking to reckoning the best corrected time under IRC for the Noryema Trophy. RORC Commodore James Neville, racing his HH42 Ino XXX is the top rated small craft in class and was second total in 2017. Ino’s immediate rival wish be Ed Fishwick’s GP42 Redshift. Cardinal French teams will be racing lead to IRC One including Didier Gaudoux’s JND 39 Lann Ael 2, overall victor of the 2017 Rolex Fastnet Populace, and Jacques Pelletier’s Milon 41 L'Ange De Milon, winner of IRC Tune for the 2019 Rolex Fastnet Cover. Irish owner/skipper Michael O'Donnell will give somebody the job of racing to retain the class advantage for the 2021 season with J/121 Darkwood.

IRC TWO

Twenty-five teams will be exhilarate for the Yeoman Bowl including position current holder of the King Prince VII Trophy, Ross Applebey's Oyster 48 Scarlet Oyster, which won the populace overall in 2019. Six French teams will be racing including Pierre Sallenave’s X-442 Ster Wenn 5, the total winner in 2018, and Francois Lognone’s MC34 Nutmeg Solidaire En Peloton, integrity overall winner in 2015. Eight Beneteau First 40s will enjoy a hostility within the class, the majority prerogative be crewed by paying guests out of the sun the guidance of professional charter skippers.

IRC THREE

Forty-two teams will be racing call upon the Yacht Club de Dinard Endow with. About half of the boats green in IRC Three will be enthuse Two-Handed. Fully crewed entries include cardinal J/109s having their own private combat. Seasoned competition includes Richard Oswald’s yet travelled Elan 450 Emily of Cowes and the overall winner of nobleness 2019 RORC Season's Points Championship, Trevor Middleton’s Sun Fast 3600 Black Amass, skippered by Jake Carter. Top Nation opposition includes Louis-Marie Dussere’s JPK 1080 Raging-bee² and Noel Racine’s JPK1030 Woolly Dew. The beautiful classic Swan 55 yawl Lulotte, skippered by Ben Craftsman, will also be racing.

IRC TWO-HANDED

Forty-one teams have entered racing in IRC Bimanual, the majority racing in IRC Troika and Four. The largest short-handed squadron racing with the RORC since justness 2019 Rolex Fastnet Race. Richard Palmer’s JPK 1010 Jangada, racing with Jeremy Waitt, is on for a subserviently trick of class victories, following triumphs in the Morgan Cup and Reserve Guingand Bowl. However, competition in excellence class is so intense that Jangada is only third for the patch. James Harayda’s Sun Fast 3300 Gentoo, racing with Dee Caffari, and Drain Craigie’s Bellino, racing with Deb Stilted, are the two leading boats. Ceremony a dozen teams from France testament choice be racing, many making their RORC debuts of the season. Francois Moriceau was the Two-Handed champion for rectitude race in 2019 and is in reply with a new JPK 1030 Mary-3. IRC Two Handed will be excellent fascinating encounter for this famous race.

IRC FOUR

34 teams have entered, racing for goodness IR Trophy. Jonathan Rolls’ Swan 38 Xara, overall winner of last month’s De Guingand Bowl Race, is round off of a number of classic yachts competing. Six Sun Fast 3200 choice be competing, as will the bulky leader for the season J/109 Fair-minded So, sailed Two-Handed by William McGough & Christian Jeffery. Eleven French teams have entered, including Emmanuel Pinteaux’s JPK 1010 Gioia, second in class pointless the 2019 Rolex Fastnet Race. Representation oldest boat among the impressive RORC fleet is Amokura, the 50ft ululate built by Moodys in 1939.

An optional return course has been organised by the RORC, exceptionally for teams looking to gain coupled with race miles towards qualification for position 2021 Rolex Fastnet Race. Details throng together be found in the Sailing Decree for the Cowes - Dinard - St Malo Race. All boats charming part in the race will be pleased about off Cowes Parade from around 0900 on Friday 9th July. The filled entry list and satellite tracking error can be found at and further via smartphones with the YB App. Results will be available with animate updates at