22/05/2023
🥇💪🏿⛵️ vice admiral cup 2023
HP30 Class
After IRC time correction, the HP30 Class was the most competitive fleet at the RORC Vice Admiral’s Cup. In Race 1 the top five boats were just 41 seconds apart. In Race 2, 16 seconds separated the top three, and in the final race there was a tie after IRC time correction between Andrew Peake’s Resolute and Mako skippered by Geoff Poore. After three races, Malcolm Offord’s Fareast 28 Assassin leads by four points from Jamie Rankin’s Farr 280 Pandemonium. Andrew Peake’s Resolute is just 1.5 points behind Pandemonium in third. Malcolm Offord is a long standing competitor in the Cowes Etchells Fleet and has chartered Assassin to race in the HP30 Class. On board Assassin is Cowes Week Regatta Director, Laurence Mead.
“We had incredibly closing racing,” commented Assassin’s Laurence Mead. “Our objective in each race is to beat the other Fareast 28s and if we can do that we just have to wait and see if. We have beaten the bigger boats. The Fareast 28 is a really impressive boat; it’s fast and well built. Today we had super racing with good courses, an all-round awesome Solent day of boat racing. What is really impressive is Malcom Offord on the helm. Prior to this season, Malcolm has only really raced Etchells, and in his second weekend in an asymmetric lightweight boat, he is winning races.”
Photo credit RORC / Rick Tomlinson. photo. Copy courtesy of RORC / Louay Habib - thank you.
