#RolexFastnetRace #IRCrating
One of the most successful British small boats in recent years is undoubtedly Richard Palmer’s JPK 1010 Jangada (GBR).
RORC Yacht of the Year for 2020 and 2022, plus the overall RORC Season’s Points Champion last year and overall winner of both the RORC Transatlantic Race and Sevenstar Round Britain & Ireland Race. In the past, Richard has raced the boat with two highly experienced short-handed sailors; Jeremy Waitt and Rupert Holmes. However, for this year’s Rolex Fastnet Race Richard will race alongside his daughter Sophie; the pair last raced together in the AZAB Race.
#RolexFastnetRace #IRCrating
One of the most successful British small boats in recent years is undoubtedly Richard Palmer’s JPK 1010 Jangada (GBR).
RORC Yacht of the Year for 2020 and 2022, plus the overall RORC Season’s Points Champion last year and overall winner of both the RORC Transatlantic Race and Sevenstar Round Britain & Ireland Race. In the past, Richard has raced the boat with two highly experienced short-handed sailors; Jeremy Waitt and Rupert Holmes. However, for this year’s Rolex Fastnet Race Richard will race alongside his daughter Sophie; the pair last raced together in the AZAB Race.
#RolexFastnetRace #IRCrating
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00:00 (upbeat music)
00:02 - I've started 10 Fastnets and finished eight of them.
00:17 - This will be my first one, so looking forward to it.
00:19 Think you got the first boat when I was about eight or nine?
00:22 And we did-- - 2006.
00:23 - Yeah, 2006.
00:25 We did a lot of cruising together,
00:27 and neither mum or my brother were that interested
00:29 in going sailing, so it was always you and me
00:32 going out, going sailing.
00:34 I've loved sailing with you and learning from you.
00:36 So yeah, it's a dynamic that works really well,
00:39 so I really enjoy it.
00:41 Yeah, we've sort of done a lot of sailing together,
00:42 and since then I've said that I wanna do racing.
00:45 We did a lot of racing together.
00:47 And then you came back from round Britain Island,
00:49 and you went, "Sophie, would you like to do
00:51 "the Fastnet next year?"
00:52 And I went, "Yes."
00:54 - Yes, Sophie and I are no stranger
00:55 to racing double-handed together.
00:58 And after a full season last year,
01:00 with a full RORC season,
01:02 I was looking to do something different.
01:04 I was just conscious I hadn't sailed
01:05 with Sophie at all last year.
01:06 Why don't we have a go, family team?
01:08 - Yeah.
01:10 - It's not part of a bigger series campaign,
01:11 so we can just go out and enjoy the race
01:13 and make the most of it.
01:15 - I'll let you do the navigation,
01:16 let you do the technical side of it mostly.
01:20 And then, yeah, it works pretty well.
01:22 I sort of, if I'm not sure, I'll always ask you,
01:24 and you've got the knowledge and the experience.
01:26 But then, when you're down asleep,
01:28 it's sort of my time to do what I want to do on the boat
01:31 and see how fast I can get it going.
01:33 So, yeah, it's really good fun.
01:34 And I really enjoy that sort of being able to do
01:38 what I want to do on the boat
01:39 and not having six other people sat there going,
01:41 "Are you sure that's the right thing to do?"
01:44 So yeah, instead it's just you,
01:45 which tends to go pretty well.
01:47 Pretty much everyone you talk to is like,
01:52 "I want to do a Fastnet this year, I want to do this."
01:54 - The fleet is very competitive,
01:56 especially with the double-handed fleets as well.
01:58 So it's a very close racing.
02:00 You've got headlands, tides, weather, all the complexities.
02:05 - All the challenges that it brings with it.
02:07 Seeing the Fastnet rock, going around the lighthouse
02:09 and going, "Oh, that's what Dad's been doing
02:11 all these years."
02:12 (laughing)
02:14 - It'll probably be dark and misty.
02:16 - Yeah, that's what you usually say.
02:17 (laughing)
02:20 (upbeat music)
02:22 (wind whooshing)
02:25 [BLANK_AUDIO]