ull blooded racing yachts are generally designed with one sole purpose – and that is to win. So when the Commodore of the RORC approaches you and asks for a boat that will win the 50th edition of the Fastnet Race, the pressure is on. Yet. The boat is a 45 footer with which Neville hopes to build on his second place in IRC overall in his heavily modified HH42 in the 2021 edition of the Fastnet. Neville turned to Carkeek after noting his the success of his designs on the Fast 40+ and 52 fleets and gave him carte blanche to design a boat optimised for coastal and offshore racing but still capable of turning it on over a shorter inshore course when required. The boat has been built by Carrington Boats, taking up 15,000 man hours to build from the keel up.
