62 years later the event is still going strong, and this weekend competitors will tackle an arduous 179.8 nm course from Cowes to Torquay and back.

The race will count as Round 5 of the 2023 UKOPRA Offshore Championship and will boast the biggest fleet of Class 1 boats (12) in the world.

Rob Lockyer’s Team 25 – Good Boy Vodka leads the championship with a 500-point advantage over Drew Langdon and Miles Jennings in Silverline.

For this race Lockyer will have his usual co-driver Scott Younger with him but has added 2 crew members from the US, Alex Pratt and Shane Franks.

Pratt the founder of Good Boy Vodka has raced in an MTI catamaran in the UIM Class 1 series this season, ironically with Jennings – His biggest rival this Sunday.

Entry lists, timings and other details can be found on https://cowestorquaycowes.co.uk/

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Drew Langdon and Miles Jennings

Class 1 was won by Drew Langdon and Miles Jennings driving Silverline, giving the veteran racers a 100% win and reliability rate this season.

Close behind were Rob Lockyer and Scott Younger in Team 25 Dragon while third in class were Gary Aldington and Tom Gardner.

Gary Aldington

It was Aldington’s dream to see offshore racing return to Falmouth and he had worked tirelessly to ensure that the Cornish town hosted a UKOPRA championship event again.

Class 1 Podium

Ornsby & MacGregor Racing were the sole finisher in Class 2 with Lee Ornsby, Ross MacGregor, Chris Drinkwater and Richard Saunders onboard.

Drive of the day came from Dennis Clemson who stopped to offer assistance to Class 1 boat On the Pull and then blitzed his Forgecraft hull in the rough.

Southampton Dry Stack

Clemson with co-driver Cameron Shields won Class 3C and the Cornish 100 trophy based on an index of performance algorithm created on the back of a Benson & Hedges packet.

• Photos courtesy of Malc Attrill
• Class 1&2 Results
• Class 3 Results
• The 2022 UKOPRA Offshore Championship was competed over 5 races held in Southampton, Poole, Hamble, Cowes and Falmouth
• Championship Results

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The pair from the West Country in England have won the event in 2018, 2019, 2021 and today using the same boat and engine combination.

They also set the course record speed last year, however, Langdon and Jennings encountered far more challenging conditions today and averaged 67.72 mph.

Team 25 Dragon – Rob Lockyer and Scott Younger

Finishing over 30 minutes later than Silverline were Team 25 Dragon (above) crewed by Rob Lockyer and Scott Younger.

Third was the veteran Cigarette hull, Dry Martini.

Dry Martini – Nigel Hopcroft, Michael Peet and Mike Bontoft

Nigel Hopcroft, Michael Peet and the man that keeps this machine in tip-top condition, Mike Bontoft were 23 minutes slower than Lockyer and Younger.

Uno Embassy finished fourth overall with Fugitive just 3 minutes behind.

Uno Embassy – Phil Morris, Gordon McMath, Jennifer Marsh and Chris Wright

Uno’s crew of Phil Morris, Gordon McMath, Jennifer Marsh and Chris Wright were ecstatic to finally start and finish a race in a season beset with issues.

Fugitive – Stuart Cureton and Francis Whitley

Stuart Cureton and Francis Whitley have an enviable reliability rate in this race and took the Class 2 honors in Fugitive with Lee Ornsby, Ross Macgregor and Chris Drinkwater second in their Mercury powered Spectre hull.

Seventh overall, averaging 42.46 mph and the final finisher was the Belgium team of Biretta Due (Thomas Vandamme, Jean Pierre Neels and Marijke D’hondt).

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