After three days of tough competition and equally tough partying the Royal Corinthian Yacht Club's Vice Admiral's Cup Regatta has been declared a huge success. The regatta was open to series production yachts with Class 1 being for 44-46 footers and Class 2 for 37-41 footers. The twelve boats racing in class one incorporated six Farr 45s, four Swan 45s and two DK46s whilst Class 2 was made up of six Farr 40s plus one Race1 Ker 11.3.

The aim was to provide an antidote to the high pressure and complexity of modern regattas and in keeping with that philosophy racing was run on a level-rating basis.

Racing got underway on Saturday 9 July in a gusty North Easterly of between 9 and 13 knots in warm but overcast conditions. With such closely matched fleets getting a good start, spotting the best lanes and picking the shifts were imperative.

Day two brought beautiful sunshine but a much lighter, less settled breeze and the boats went out into the Eastern Solent in search of what little wind there was. PRO Willie Sanderson and the RCYC's race management team did an excellent job to get in two races, but the wind finally gave out mid afternoon and the planned third race could not be started.

The final two races brought more difficult sailing as the gradient and sea breezes fought for supremacy.

The race committee was just able to get both fleets away on race seven before the 1330 start cut off, however, as the boats came down the first run the sea breeze finally began to win its battle and by the middle of the leg half were running and half beating. In recognition of the rapidly
deteriorating conditions a shorten course was signalled at the end of the first lap.

In the overall standings Class 1 went to Peter Morton and his Farr 45 Atomic, that was joined on Saturday by her new owner Tony Langley and Race1’s Philip Crebbin, by just one point from Keith Miller and the Swan 45 Crackerjack with the DK 46 of Chris Brown in third place. In Class 2 David Murrin and 2XL won overall and took the B&G Farr 40 UK Championship with Tony de Mulder's Victric second. The Race1 Ker 11.3 of Peter Rogers and Roger Duckworth took third overall whilst Annie & Nick Haigh's Too Steam was third in the B&G Farr 40 Championship and fourth overall. - Keith Miller, owner Swan 45 Crackerjack.

Atomic will now be managed and available for Charter through Race1.