On August 6 with the organization of the best world club, the RORC, a luxury event in the British Solent

The record road at the legendary Rolex Fastnet Race that organizes the mythical Royal Ocean Racing Club... 390 ships! when we are three months from the start of the competition, of which 338 will sail with the IRC time compensation system. The remaining 52 will compete monetypes: Class 40, IMOCA 60, Volvo Ocean 65 and Grand Prix class. No less than 25 countries will meet in the British Solent: from the max- multicascos to the fastest monocascos in the world, not excluding the cruises that will form most of the different IRC classes, in terms of number. On the day of this gigantic heavy sailing event, 6 and August, with a very important UK participation contributing 58% of the registration, which means that the remaining 42% will be from the other 24 countries.

France has dominated in the last editions of the Rolex Fastnet Race, both the IRC and the rest of the divisions and is the second power in number of ships with 13% of the fleet... follow the Netherlands with 7%, Germany with 5% and the Republic of Ireland with 4%. It is also necessary to highlight the tremendous effort of Australia's wide representation, with a boat between the really spectacular fleet that has been "extended to 100 feet in length..." it is the former "Whitbread Round the World Race" of Finland... looks like a ship of the future. Another powerful one will be the design of Judel & Vrolijk who patrons Rupert Henry, the "Chinese Whisper..." or the "Kialoa II" a 73-foot super-elegant S & S that took the legendary Jim Kilroy from 1963 to 1973, when he won nothing less than the Transpac and the Sydney- Hobart... We are facing a real luxury edition of a Fastnet that wants to revive its moments of maximum glory.