This hugely popular race around the Isle of Wight, England, this year saw 1117 entries. The video shows the yachts passing Hurst Castle with a fairly strong wind from the south west to contend with.
A strong westerly current was flowing and skippers would not want to be carried over parts of The Shingles, a long finger of pebbles of variable depth/drying height which stretches along the west side of the ship channel from the far side of the N E Shingles buoy seen in the video down to, and beyond, the Needles.
With many retirements and a few disqualifications, 914 yachts completed the course before the limit time of 10.30pm.
See also my RTIR video and pair of videos from the Fastnet Race last year.
Sail numbers featured in this video include:
GBR 22118 L
GBR 1544 R
GBR 1665
GBR 4896 R
GBR 8912 R
GBR 1428 R
GBR 2587 L
GBR 809 M
GBR 1415 R
GBR 9355 T
GBR 2289 L
GBR 3759 L
GBR 6779 R
GBR 69 R
GBR 8871 R - Tall Ships Youth Trust, Challenger 1
GBR 9356 T
GBR 5194 L
GBR 112 N
GBR 9356 T
GBR 6070 L
GBR 8728 T
N1 - Nomad
GBR 5258 L
CK 318 - Alberta
GBR 9034 R
GBR 9548
GBR 5379 L
GBR 1446 R
N23 - Bojar
GBR 1334 L
GBR 5000
2856 - Polly Agatha
22 - Letty
GBR 1379 R
GBR 2646 L
GBR 3387 L
379 - Maresta
495 - Corisande
GBR 4536 L
GBR 2364 L