The longest day of the summer came close to delivering the longest J.P.Morgan Asset Management Round the Island Race ever as winds ranging from zero knots to painfully light tested the patience of crews with high performance catamaran Team Richard Mille emerging as line honors winner with a time of almost nine hours.

Most of the 1,585 entries started the race around the Isle of Wight in around 3 knots and bright sunshine and as the hours went by, temperatures rose but wind speed dropped leaving hundreds of boats becalmed and a large proportion of the 16,000 crew desperately seeking ways of making their boats go faster or resorting to stretching out on deck to enjoy the sunny conditions.

The Farrier Trimaran’s dominated the MOCRA class, with 30 multihull sailboats entered the MOCRA Class, which was eventually won by ORIGAMI a Farrier 27 Trimaran. In total 1584 boats started the race, with 789 of them retiring after spending the day waiting for the winds to strengthen, included in these retiring boats were trimarans MAKANI a Corsair Trimaran C31 One Design and NITRIC a 2011 Corsair Dash 750.

Corsair’s very own South Germany dealer, Werner Stoltz, raced on a Corsair 28 CE named “Hikari”  who was joined by the ship’s owner, Berk Plathner. Read more about Werner’s RB&I story >>

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