Monday, 28 June 2010
Shetland Round Britain & Ireland Yacht Race News Summary
Video from Marco Nannini's YouTube Channel with news clip from the BBC. Brief summary of the Class 40 top finishers with little clips of each boat, and the skippers. Good to see the BBC giving this event some coverage.
Friday, 25 June 2010
Closest Finish Ever in the RBANDI Yacht Race 2010
Source: James on the RBANDI website.
Results for the Open 40 class:
"After Solo took line honours at 13:07:02, she was quickly followed by Sungard (Marco Nannini & Paul Pegs) – 13:20:33, Fujifilm (Alex Bennet & Malcolm Dickinson) – 13:24:37, Phesheya Racing (Nick Leggatt & Pip Hutton-Squire) – 13:33:59 and Roaring Again (Hans Plas & Robin Verhoef) – 13:44:43. Less than 38 minutes separated the first five yachts after 2000 miles of testing conditions."
Check out the Shetland Round Britain and Ireland website for full details and have a look at the gallery of photos from the race too.
Results for the Open 40 class:
"After Solo took line honours at 13:07:02, she was quickly followed by Sungard (Marco Nannini & Paul Pegs) – 13:20:33, Fujifilm (Alex Bennet & Malcolm Dickinson) – 13:24:37, Phesheya Racing (Nick Leggatt & Pip Hutton-Squire) – 13:33:59 and Roaring Again (Hans Plas & Robin Verhoef) – 13:44:43. Less than 38 minutes separated the first five yachts after 2000 miles of testing conditions."
Check out the Shetland Round Britain and Ireland website for full details and have a look at the gallery of photos from the race too.
Tuesday, 22 June 2010
Class 40 Videos from Leg 4 of RBANDI
Marco Nannini & Paul Peggs - Class 40 SunGard Front Arena - First in Lowestoft in Leg 4 of RBI 2010
Taken from YouTube via marconannini channel — 21 June 2010 — Class 40 SunGard Front Arena takes first place in Lowestoft in the fourth leg of the Shetland Round Britain and Ireland Race. Video copyright Marco Nannini
BennettOceanRacing — 21 June 2010 — Alex Bennett and malcolm Dickinson onboard Fujifilm in Round Britain Race approaching Lowestoft. Video copyright Alex Bennett
[ Following Results are currently listed on the RBANDI website. Copyright Shetland Round Britain and Ireland Yacht Race 2010. All Rights Reserved.]
The last leg from Lowestoft to Plymouth will be very close and it's still possible that Alex and Malcolm might catch Sungard. Marco and Paul are putting in a formidable performance on the lead boat, Sungard Front Arena. We wish all the competitors the best of luck and fair winds for the final push to the finish.
Taken from YouTube via marconannini channel — 21 June 2010 — Class 40 SunGard Front Arena takes first place in Lowestoft in the fourth leg of the Shetland Round Britain and Ireland Race. Video copyright Marco Nannini
BennettOceanRacing — 21 June 2010 — Alex Bennett and malcolm Dickinson onboard Fujifilm in Round Britain Race approaching Lowestoft. Video copyright Alex Bennett
[ Following Results are currently listed on the RBANDI website. Copyright Shetland Round Britain and Ireland Yacht Race 2010. All Rights Reserved.]
Rankings at Lowestoft
Switch to results at:
Class 40
| Yacht | TCF | Finish Time | Elapsed Time | Corrected Time | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| These results are provisional | |||||
| Sungard Front Arena | 1.000 | 20 Jun at 18:32:19 | 8d 06:17:19 | 8d 06:17:19 | 1 |
| FujiFilm | 1.000 | 20 Jun at 21:01:05 | 8d 08:46:05 | 8d 08:46:05 | 2 |
| Solo | 1.000 | 20 Jun at 22:48:00 | 8d 10:33:00 | 8d 10:33:00 | 3 |
| Phesheya Racing | 1.000 | 20 Jun at 23:19:18 | 8d 11:04:18 | 8d 11:04:18 | 4 |
| Orca | 1.000 | 21 Jun at 05:41:00 | 8d 17:26:00 | 8d 17:26:00 | 5 |
| Roaring Forty | 1.000 | 21 Jun at 07:38:15 | 8d 19:23:15 | 8d 19:23:15 | 6 |
| sec.Hayai | 1.000 | 22 Jun at 04:40:42 | 9d 16:25:42 | 9d 16:25:42 | 7 |
| Spliff | 1.000 | Not yet declared at Lowestoft | |||
| Livewire | 1.000 | RETIRED | |||
The last leg from Lowestoft to Plymouth will be very close and it's still possible that Alex and Malcolm might catch Sungard. Marco and Paul are putting in a formidable performance on the lead boat, Sungard Front Arena. We wish all the competitors the best of luck and fair winds for the final push to the finish.
Friday, 18 June 2010
New video from onboard FujiFilm - At the mercy of the winds
The racing in the Class 40 fleet was excitingly close as the class leaders approached Lerwick. Fujifilm had raced in to the lead with fast downwind sailing from St.Kilda to Muckle Flagga, over taking both Phesheya Racing and Marco Nannini's yacht, Sungard. Fujifilm held on to her lead down the east coast of the Shetland Isles, but light air unfortunately caught Fujifilm just a few miles from the finish, and Sungard over took them and won the 3rd leg. Congratulations Marco & Paul!
We've posted 2 video clips, from BennettOceanRacing, of Alex Bennett and Malcolm Dickinson battling through the unpredictable and ever changing weather, from extremely heavy winds to no wind at all. Great drama and excitement is all part of the challenge of this race. Interesting film and commentary from Alex. Keep up the great work!
The 4th leg from Lerwick to Lowestoft begins this afternoon, Good Luck Everyone!
Video copyright Alex Bennett.
Check out Alex's Youtube Channel: BennettOceanRacing for more videos from the Round Britain and Ireland Yacht Race.
We've posted 2 video clips, from BennettOceanRacing, of Alex Bennett and Malcolm Dickinson battling through the unpredictable and ever changing weather, from extremely heavy winds to no wind at all. Great drama and excitement is all part of the challenge of this race. Interesting film and commentary from Alex. Keep up the great work!
The 4th leg from Lerwick to Lowestoft begins this afternoon, Good Luck Everyone!
Video copyright Alex Bennett.
Check out Alex's Youtube Channel: BennettOceanRacing for more videos from the Round Britain and Ireland Yacht Race.
Monday, 14 June 2010
The Shetland Round Britain and Ireland Yacht Race - Update
Alex Bennett and Malcolm Dickinson preparing to leave Kinsale prior to the re start of the Shetland Round Britain Race 2010. Check out the motivational messages written on the inside of the cabin "nothing lasts forever" & "never give up". You said it, lads!
Both Videos are from BennettOceanRacing YouTube Channel. Copyright Alex Bennett.
— 13 June 2010 — "Close racing onboard Fujifilm with Alex bennett during Leg 2 of the Shetland Round Britain Race. The duo of Alex and Malcolm Dickinson are sailing toward the Fastnet Rock having a close duel with several other Class 40's ." Videos copyright Alex Bennett -
Check out Alex's website and the Round Britain and Ireland site RBANDI. Fujifilm are in fourth position in the Open 40 Class.
[Source RBANDI Official Site] The class results at the 2nd compulsory stop over at Barra on the 12th of June are:
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The next leg got under way this morning, with leaders Phesheya, Sungard and Paradox starting the race to Lerwick.
marconannini YouTube Channel. Video Copyright Marco Nannini.
Check out Marco's YouTube Channel. There are several videos from the 2009 OSTAR, and some very interesting sailing videos and interviews definitely worth watching.
If you are interested in learning more about some of the top competitors, then take a minute to check out
Marco Nannini's blog. Marco is currently competing in the Open 40 yacht Class, co-skipper of Sungard Front Arena. Marco is blogging live from the race, and his latest blog entry is a great insight in to the race experience:
[Source MarcoNannini .Com - Text copyright Marco Nannini]
"SunGard Front Arena vs Phesheya Racing, the battle is on
We set off just over fours ago for the third leg of the Round Britain
and Ireland race, we are currently leading first overall, and will have
the challenging taskl of trying to keep ahead, with a challenging
weather forecast ahead, winds will die down to nothing later tonight
before swinging 180 degrees and filling in for was we expect to be an
awesome trilling spinnaker run to Lerwick in the Shetlands some 450
miles away, but first we have to got through the light wind band and
chase the new wind coming from the west.
When we woke up at 2 am a freezing northerly wind was blasting over
Castle Bay at 25 kts, with sleepy eyes we made our way to the start line
with the difficult call of whether to fly a spinnaker towards Barra
head.
The wind eased off a bit just before the start so we popped the
fractional kite and did a very decent, on-time crossing of the line...
the wind was anyhow gusty and it got quite exiciting on the way down,
speeds in excess of 14 knots, several narrowly avoided broaches (that's
when you lose control of the boat in strong winds and you are flattened
on one side in a mess of flapping sails)... Then hit by a gust we wiped
out, got things under control and decided to drop the kite to avoid any
damage and use mainsail and headsail to the headland... Meanwhile
Phesheya was tracking behind at great speeds, they saw us dropping the
kite but hung on, the wind actually eased off and they clearly were
better off with the kite up and by Barra head they had almost caught us
up... by the headland however we were ready to harden up towards St
Kilda and by the time they took the spinnaker down and hoisted their
headsail we had put again some space between us.
Now we are beating to windward to St Kilda, we are tracking along at
almost identical speeds and there's never more than a few hundred yards
between us and Phesheya, amazing! Although truth be told i think they
are catching up...
The wind is progressively expected to decrese as we beat towards St
Kilda then we'll have to face the ridge of light airs... Positions in
the fleet can greatly change in light winds so it will be certainly one
leg to follow!
The rest of the Class 40s started between 2.5 and 3.5 hours behind, the
margin we had gained on them in the second leg.
You can follow our progress on the excellent new race website at
www.rbandi.com"
You can read all about Marco and his sailing career on his website Marco Nannini
and Ireland race, we are currently leading first overall, and will have
the challenging taskl of trying to keep ahead, with a challenging
weather forecast ahead, winds will die down to nothing later tonight
before swinging 180 degrees and filling in for was we expect to be an
awesome trilling spinnaker run to Lerwick in the Shetlands some 450
miles away, but first we have to got through the light wind band and
chase the new wind coming from the west.
When we woke up at 2 am a freezing northerly wind was blasting over
Castle Bay at 25 kts, with sleepy eyes we made our way to the start line
with the difficult call of whether to fly a spinnaker towards Barra
head.
The wind eased off a bit just before the start so we popped the
fractional kite and did a very decent, on-time crossing of the line...
the wind was anyhow gusty and it got quite exiciting on the way down,
speeds in excess of 14 knots, several narrowly avoided broaches (that's
when you lose control of the boat in strong winds and you are flattened
on one side in a mess of flapping sails)... Then hit by a gust we wiped
out, got things under control and decided to drop the kite to avoid any
damage and use mainsail and headsail to the headland... Meanwhile
Phesheya was tracking behind at great speeds, they saw us dropping the
kite but hung on, the wind actually eased off and they clearly were
better off with the kite up and by Barra head they had almost caught us
up... by the headland however we were ready to harden up towards St
Kilda and by the time they took the spinnaker down and hoisted their
headsail we had put again some space between us.
Now we are beating to windward to St Kilda, we are tracking along at
almost identical speeds and there's never more than a few hundred yards
between us and Phesheya, amazing! Although truth be told i think they
are catching up...
The wind is progressively expected to decrese as we beat towards St
Kilda then we'll have to face the ridge of light airs... Positions in
the fleet can greatly change in light winds so it will be certainly one
leg to follow!
The rest of the Class 40s started between 2.5 and 3.5 hours behind, the
margin we had gained on them in the second leg.
You can follow our progress on the excellent new race website at
www.rbandi.com"
You can read all about Marco and his sailing career on his website Marco Nannini
Saturday, 12 June 2010
Check out the RC44 Class Association Championship Tour
Via the RC44ClassAssociation YouTube Channel. Copyright RC44 Class Association. All Rights Reserved.
— 11 June 2010 — Three seasons in one day in the RC 44 Copenhagen Cup
"Except for the summer, the teams involved in the RC 44 Copenhagen Cup had to deal with very varied conditions today. Strong and light wind, sun, rain, chop... Pieter Heerema's team No Way Back leads the provisional ranking ahead of Igor Lah's Ceeref and Torbjorn Tornqvist's Artemis..."
More on http://www.rc44.com
If you haven't checked out the RC44 website, then you must! These boats are amazing, check out the video that we've posted to see exactly what we're talking about.
{Text Source for the following article is from the RC44 Website}
[ "The objective of the Class is to develop a high level and entertaining racing program and to keep the absolute one design aspect of the RC44 by ensuring that all boats are as identical as possible in terms of construction, shape of hull and appendages, weight and weight distribution, deck layout and equipment, sail plan and performance.
“We wanted to include a degree of complexity so an owner can experience what a top-end race boat is like to sail, and it delivers on that”, explains Russell Coutts. “Yet we also wanted it to be easy to own – you can race this boat in summer and if you wish put it away relatively easily in winter.”
“While the RC44 have some distinctive America's Cup features, they are light-displacement, high performance racers and designed to sail with eight person crew, or for a professional match racing format they could be sailed by just six crew. When we started to formulate this concept I wanted to create a boat that would be exciting to sail downwind and powerful in light winds because most of the harbour and lake sailing is staged at lighter wind venues. I also wanted a boat that could be sailed short-handed with a deck layout incorporating many non-standard adjustments.
The trim tab on the keel was an example of that thinking, to reduce keel area and yet still achieve good upwind performance and maneuverability. It adds to the complexity of the boat, but the racing enthusiast will enjoy exploring the different tab angles and the resulting benefits in performance.”
With a powerful sail plan, the RC44 is intended strictly for racing, either match racing or day sailing fleet races. The boat is targeted at the day sailor who wishes to sail a high performance one-design class. It has no comforts for cruising, and with a big open cockpit, a fairly narrow beam and the huge sail plan it produces a lot of excitement. The philosophy was to create something special for the racing sailor – a bit like owning a sports car versus a 4-wheel drive!
The boat features a removable stern scoop with a two-piece mast, both developed to provide for easy transportation, assembly and winter storage.
The class rules and the construction of the boat are being tightly controlled to protect the one-design concept and reduce development costs for participants. For fleet racing it will be an owner driver class with strict limitations on the number of professional crew." ] Copyright RC44 Association 2010. All Rights Reserved.
Thursday, 10 June 2010
The New Shetland Round Britain & Ireland Yacht Race Website
Use this link to check out the excellent new website for this year's race
Shetland Round Britain & Ireland Yacht Race 2010
If you search Google, the old RWYC site comes up first. Use the new site, it's ace!
Shetland Round Britain & Ireland Yacht Race 2010
If you search Google, the old RWYC site comes up first. Use the new site, it's ace!
Wednesday, 9 June 2010
360 degree view of start of Round Britain and Ireland race
Really nice view of all the boats! Great 360 degree shot from on board the boat.
davidbowdler — 08 June 2010 — Nigel Colley and David Bowdler on Fastrak VII
Taken from the davidbowdler YouTube Channel. Copyright David Bowdler. All Rights Reserved. Check out David Bowdler's You Channel or the Fastrack Facebook page to see and learn more.
Searching YouTube for footage from the race is slim pickings, but occasionally we find something worth sharing. This is a great way to discover who the sailors are that are actually involved in the race, and it gives you a glimpse at the race from the competitor's perspective
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Fastrak...
davidbowdler — 08 June 2010 — Nigel Colley and David Bowdler on Fastrak VII
Taken from the davidbowdler YouTube Channel. Copyright David Bowdler. All Rights Reserved. Check out David Bowdler's You Channel or the Fastrack Facebook page to see and learn more.
Searching YouTube for footage from the race is slim pickings, but occasionally we find something worth sharing. This is a great way to discover who the sailors are that are actually involved in the race, and it gives you a glimpse at the race from the competitor's perspective
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Fastrak...
Tuesday, 8 June 2010
Race start: Shetland Round Britain & Ireland Race 2010
Via the LiaDitton YouTube Channel. Copyright Lia Ditton. All Rights Reserved.
"Plymouth, Sunday 6th June.
'Freebird,' the F31 Corsair led the way in the multihull class;
'Phesheya Racing' in the monohull class, taking the lead within the first hour from 'Fujifilm.'"
Thanks for uploading this video, Lia. It has been hard to find video footage from this year's race, so far, but it's a long race and we will keep searching!
www.Shetland.Org film about Round Britain Race 2010
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