The Fastnet Race is a biennial offshore yacht race organized by the Royal Ocean Racing Club (RORC) of the United Kingdom with the assistance of the Royal Yacht Squadron in Cowes and the City of Cherbourg in France.
The race is named after the Fastnet Rock off southern Ireland, which the race course rounds. Along with Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race and the Newport-Bermuda Race, it is considered one of the classic big offshore races with each distance approximately 625 nautical miles (719 mi; 1,158 km), testing both inshore and offshore skills, boat and crew preparation and speed potential. From its inception, the Fastnet Race has proven highly influential in the growth of offshore racing and remains closely linked to advances in yacht design, sailing technique and safety equipment.
The Fastnet Race has been sponsored by the Swiss watch manufacturing company Rolex since 2001. The Race prize is known as the Fastnet Challenge Cup.
The race's main focus is on monohull handicap racing, which is presently conducted under the Royal Ocean Racing Club's own IRC Rating Rule, which is awarded the overall trophy. However, the race has recently opened to more classes, including multihulls and providing one design class starts for the Volvo Ocean Race Class, IMOCA 60 and Class40. It has also seen an increase in participation in double-handed racing.
The FastnetRace is a biennial offshore yacht race organized by the Royal Ocean Racing Club (RORC) of the United Kingdom with the assistance of the Royal...
971°W / 50.550; -6.971 The 1979 FastnetRace was the 28th Royal Ocean Racing Club's FastnetRace, a yachting race held generally every two years since...
Bought by Evelyn George Martin in 1923 she was refitted and won the first FastnetRace from seven starters in August 1925. In 1927 Martin sold Jolie Brise,...
between Wales and Ireland Fastnet (netball), a variation of the rules of netball used primarily in the World Netball Series FastnetRace, one of the four or...
Fastnet Lighthouse is a 54-metre-tall (177 ft) lighthouse situated on the remote Fastnet Rock in the Atlantic Ocean. It is the most southerly point of...
French and Adrian Kuttel finished 3rd in the 2015 edition of the Rolex Fastnetrace. The team crossed the finish line in Plymouth on 20 August 2015 at 00:27:10...
Herrmann to sail in the FastnetRace. Starting at Cowes, moving up to Ireland and then back down to Devonshire, they finished the race in third place. Casiraghi...
Offshore Sailor Wolfgang Gerz (GER) 2023 The Ocean Race 2023 Route du Rhum RORC Caribbean 600 FastnetRace Sydney to Hobart "World Sailing - Events". Retrieved...
Bon made public his desire to race again. During a touring break in August 2005, Le Bon again raced Drum in the FastnetRace, borrowing the vessel from her...
ballast. The formula came into being after the 1979 Fastnetrace in England where a storm shredded the race fleet. The Cruising Club of America (CCA) put together...
regular appearances at most of the great races such as the Fastnet, Sydney-Hobart, Bermuda Race, and their own private series of regattas in the Mediterranean...
largest Maxi yacht in the fleet. Along with the Newport-Bermuda Race and the FastnetRace, it is considered one of the classic big offshore races with each...
yachts named Skorpis race competitively winning the ClubSwan 50 World Championship and taking line honour in the 2021 FastnetRace sailing his ClubSwan...
the only yacht in the small boat class to finish the disastrous 1979 Fastnetrace, in which 15 people died. Production by the Jeremy Rogers boatyard ceased...
and 2014 Bol d'Or Mirabaud and, with her team Spindrift Racing, the FastnetRace in 2013. In the same year, she and her team also broke the record for...
Holmatro talentboat he won the Cowes Week (twice), the FastnetRace, the Channel Race, the Round Gotland Race and was best boat at the 2005 Commodores' Cup. Horrevoets...
archaeology and anthropology. While in university, she competed in the FastnetRace, a yacht race organised by the Royal Ocean Racing Club. Lady Charlotte works...
UFO 34s performed effectively in both races, winning class IV in the Fastnetrace and retiring without incident in the Sydney to Hobart. Unidentified Flying...
events, such as the Olympic Games, Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race, the America's Cup, or the FastnetRace. The worst weather conditions are usually encountered...
(17 m) wooden yacht, Argyll, which he races at regattas, including the FastnetRace. He and Jo are keen gardeners, and he discussed their extensive garden...
Yacht Club (KNS), from Oslo to Horten via Færder lighthouse. The FastnetRace Figawi Race, Hyannis, Massachusetts Fowey Royal Regatta, Fowey Cornwall annually...
in 1993, and the National Sailing Hall of Fame in 2011. In the 1979 Fastnetrace, in a storm that killed 15 participants, he skippered the S&S-designed...
street artist Cleon Peterson. The Maxi won the 48th edition of the Rolex FastnetRace in August 2019, breaking the record set in 2011 by Loïck Peyron (Banque...
the Royal Bermuda Yacht Club. Along with Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race and the FastnetRace, it is considered one of the classic big offshore races with each...
part in the FastnetRace of 1979, and became the subject of a book entitled "Left for Dead: The Untold Story of the Tragic 1979 Fastnet Disaster". Although...
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