Yachts & Yachting magazine

MAKING THE SWITCH

The Fast40+ circuit is one of the great success stories of recent times. It attracts some of the best professionals and amateurs to race alongside each other in the Solent on souped-up 40-footers steered by their passionate owners.

Ed Fishwick has been owner of a successful Sunfast 3600 for the past few seasons, competing at the top end of the IRC 3 division around the Solent and in RORC Channel races. Having looked across at the close boat-for-boat competition going on in the Fast40+ scene, he decided to buy one for himself. The man in charge of Fishwick’s campaign is Nick Cherry, an experienced keelboat racer best known for having done the hard yards for a number of years on the singlehanded Figaro offshore circuit in France.

THE RIGHT BOAT

Fishwick and Cherry identified the battle-hardened boat, Jubilee, as an ideal

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