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THREE CHEERS FOR THE ROUND THE ISLAND RACE!
Sunday dawned bright, warm and sunny as hundreds of competitors from the 79th edition of the J.P. Morgan Asset Management Round the Island Race headed for the Island Sailing Club (ISC) to the event prizegiving to be honoured with their gold and silverware spoils after a superbly successful J.P. Morgan Asset Management Round the Island [...]
ROUND THE ISLAND RACE ENDS ON A BUOYANT NOTE
Everyone is celebrating this year’s Race as being one of the most successful on record. Not only did the weather gods play fair, the racing was extremely close throughout the day proven by the tight finishes in most classes and the competitors came ashore happy and proud of their efforts whether first in class or [...]
GOLD ROMAN BOWL WINNER IS NORDIC BEAR
Ten hours since the first gun was fired in the 2010 J.P. Morgan Asset Management Round the Island Race, and finishing yachts are streaming into Cowes with half of the 1754 entries having completed the 50-mile marathon.
Unusually we have the winner of the Gold Roman Bowl, the top prize in the Race for the first [...]
RTI: CURRENT RECORD HOLDERS TAKE LINE HONOURS
The two existing course record holders in the J.P. Morgan Asset Management Round the Island Race have again triumphed today as IDEC, the multihull driven by Francis Joyon crossed the finish line at 09.34.05 – so her rounding was in 04.24.05 (her course record still stands at 3.08.29). She was closely followed by the four [...]
Round the Island Race: FIRST NEWS BULLETIN 0730
Britain’s favourite yacht race, the J.P. Morgan Asset Management Round the Island Race has started. It’s the 79th edition of this great event, the fourth largest participation sporting event in the UK. Thirteen classes ranging from grand prix high tech boats such as ICAP Leopard and IDEC to a 20ft Jo Richards design started from [...]
J.P. MORGAN ASSET MANAGEMENT ROUND THE ISLAND RACE STARTS TOMORROW
The last few entries before the closing deadline were always going to be an interesting bunch writes Peta Stuart-Hunt
Ben Ainslie, Shirley Robertson and Paul Goodison – all Olympic Gold medallists, all sailing stars and all in Cowes for the J.P. Morgan Asset Management Round the Island Race starting – and finishing – tomorrow, Saturday 19th [...]
Team GAC Pindar enter Round the Island Race
Team GAC Pindar’s Extreme 40, will join a total of 1,754 entries in this weekend’s J.P.Morgan Asset Management Round the Island Race, which begins in Cowes, on Saturday, June 19.
The prestigious, annual, 50 nautical mile event around the Isle of Wight, has been contested since 1931 and is one of the [...]
Round the Island Race, Latest Entry News
Peta Stuart-Hunt has one last sweep through this year’s entries with six days to go and the final entry number standing at 1754
With just a few days to ‘the off’ at the J.P. Morgan Asset Management Round the Island Race on Saturday 19th June, the excitement and anticipation is palpable! The [...]
