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18ft Eeyore wins Round the Island Race
Light conditions proved the undoing of many Round the Island Race competitors, with only 257 out of 1,200 entrants finishing by the 10.30pm deadline.
The 100ft trimaran Actual Leader took 7hrs 33mins and 36secs to round the island for line honours, and Sir Peter Ogden’s Judel Vrolijk Mini Maxi Jethou was the fastest monohull at 9hrs 28secs. The race win and coveted Golden Roman Bowl was won by the smallest competing yacht – a bilge-keeled Alacrity 18 named Eeyore, skippered by Gurnard resident Jo Richards (pictured below, centre) with a time of 13hrs 36min and 31secs. “It was an interesting but long race,” said Richards, who is a prolific yacht designer and won Olympic bronze in 1984 in the Flying Dutchman class with Peter Allam. “We actually started at the opposite end of the line from the rest of the fleet which
