星期四 [ 2010-1-7 10:21:43 | watches1013 ]   Dutch courage in Rolex Fastnet There could have been no more worthy handicap winner of England's famous Fastnet Race this year than the Dutch yachtsman Piet Vroon in his blue-hulled Lutra 52, Tonnere de Breskens. This was Vroon's 20th participation in the biennial 603-nautical mile race down the English Channel, which sets off from Cowes to round the Fastnet Rock off the south-west tip of Ireland, returning to finish at Plymouth. This significant Fastnet Race was sponsored for the first time since its inception in 1925, and as a result Vroon won the Rolex Yachtmaster Chronometers and the Fastnet Challenge Trophy under IRC rating, as well as the IRM prize -- the Fastnet Rock Trophy. Montega Replica Watches The race attracted some 350 starters, including four Volvo Ocean 60s, a line-up of conventional maxis and several big multi-hulls, with the event again providing testing conditions -- a hard beat to windward down the Channel to Land's End followed by a close reach to Fastnet Vacheron Constantin Replica Watches Rock, with thick fog and light conditions dogging the progress of the monohull fleet back to Plymouth. The French 60-foot trimaran, Eure et Loire, with Olympic medallist Rodney Pattisson on board, sailed the course in one day, 18 hours and 19 minutes -- two hours outside the record -- before the wind died and the fog shrouded the Cornish coastline. The first maxi to finish was the black-hulled Reichel/ Pugh 90, Stealth, owned by Fiat boss Gianni Agneli, with a star-studded crew that included two-time Rolex Yachtsman of the Year Kenny Read and Whitbread veteran Paul Standbridge. In a close race for second place Ludde lngvall's Nicorette, the 2000 Telstra Sydney to Hobart Race line honours winner, just beat Dr Hasso Plattner's Morning Glory (the former Sydney-based Shockwave), while Team News Corp finished first out of the Volvo Ocean 60s. Other articles:http://www.faldw.cn/Blog/View/?485 http://www.goodbh.com/Blog/View/?383 浏览(220) | 回复(0) |