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Invictus Celebrates in Cowes

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Photo: Rick Tomlinson Invictus Squad: Andy Yeomans, Alex Mills, Andrew Cape, James Grant, Javi Ibanez, Justin Slattery, Martin Calmon, Matt Brushwood, Peter Greenhalgh, Robert Greenhalgh, Ruairidh Scott. FAST40+ Race Circuit, winning the FAST40+ Class at the Royal Ocean Racing Club Vice Admiral's Cup. Eleven teams took part from England, Germany, the Netherlands and Scotland. The intensi...
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Invictus takes Wild West Shoot-Out

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FAST40+ Race Circuit Round 1: RORC Vice Admiral's Cup Day Two The second day of racing in the Solent was held in solid breeze with Principle Race Officer, Stuart Childerley electing to send the fleet into the Western Solent for two 'round the cans' races. The breeze increased during the day. 12 knots from the southwest pumped up to 25 knots, and more in the squalls, for a full on foam up do...
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Eleven Up for Vice Admiral’s Cup

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The Vice Admiral’s Cup is the first scoring round of the 2017 FAST40+ Circuit. Eleven teams will be competing including last year’s FAST40+ Race Circuit winner, Peter Morton’s team, who will be racing for the first time this season. However Peter will not be racing the new Girls on Film, the Vice Admiral’s Cup was supposed to have marked the debut for Peter's brand new Carkeek 40 Mk3, Girls...
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Hitchhiker Spring Win

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FINAL FAST40+ Spring Regatta Hosted by the Royal Southern Yacht Club, the wind gods blew too hard on the second day resulting in racing abandoned for the last day, meaning that the results from the first day of racing stood for the regatta. Hitchhiker was declared winner of the FAST40+ Spring Regatta at a prize giving ceremony hosted by the Royal Southern Yacht Club. Stewart Whitehea...
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Hitchhiker Comes Out Fighting

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DAY ONE FAST40+ Spring Regatta DAY ONE Hosted by the Royal Southern Yacht Club, the first day of the FAST40+ Spring Regatta produced some highly competitive racing.Just a few weeks ago, Bas de Voogd's Hitchhiker was blown off its cradle and they were not sure if they would even make their debut in the class at the FAST40+ Spring Regatta, but it was the opposition that was blown away in t...
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Preview FAST40+ Spring Regatta

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The second event in a busy FAST40+ season will be the FAST40+ Spring Regatta, hosted by the Royal Southern Yacht Club. FAST40+ Race Director, Stuart Childerley, sets the scene for the event. “The RORC Easter Challenge saw some great racing and early signs to a competitive season ahead of us. We are expecting eight teams for the next event, the FAST40+ Spring Regatta. Three races are planned...
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Cloudy Bay sponsors the UK’s FAST40+ Class

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International award winning wine producer, Cloudy Bay, adds sponsorship of the growing FAST40+ Class UK circuit to its portfolio of sailing events to further bring to life its invitation to ‘Come Sail Away’. One of the newest and most exciting competitive keelboat racing classes in the UK for decades, the FAST40+ Class, will this year be competing for honours for the overall annual prize ‘C...
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RORC EASTER CHALLENGE FAST40+CLASS DAY 2 – SATURDAY 15TH APRIL

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Day Two of the RORC Easter Challenge saw another three races for the Fast40+ class in conditions that ranged from 10-17 knots. The day started with a round the cans downwind which was won by Invictus to build on their three victories from the 1st day, followed by Mark Rijkse's 42 South just a minute behind. Mike Bartholomew's South African flagged Tokoloshe took third, just three seconds behin...
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