Round the Island Yacht Race 2024

That's looking like some fun out there. Hopefully they all keep a stiff upper lip.

Looks like they were all powering along with reefs in the mainsail and a storm jib, very hard going, but good luck to them.

Some over canvassed and rounding up and out of control as a result.

Woww

How many masts were lost?

Great race for sail makers

Definitely made the right call to withdraw. Out of the 900+ entries only 154 finished. Looking on the AIS most of those who retired got as far as the Needles and sensibly turned around. Getting minor repairs to a performance sail can run in to many £100s. Most of the boats who attempted the race, reported significant damage. For me if you have winds in F7 gusting 8, sure you can get round, but it wont be fun and not really fair to expect people to rescue you if you have a problem. The X-Yacht (X43?) GB2647R would have likely incurred some damage with the uncontrolled Gybe. Strange that they didn't use a preventer in those conditions, maybe nobody wanted to go out to rig it up.

persumably sea state will flattened off a lot once round the point ,that gybe was certainly not actually catastrophic - it might have been if they hadn't rounded up the other side of it .

Should have been called off. Idiot organisers

Wow. This looks seriously stronger than another video I saw! Well done all who were at sea.
Moreso than they chose to do so ! ...

Blimey thats almost a Lee shore... RNLI on a shout?

Some NEED to deduce Who Puts there lives in danger 5 people on RNLI boat have families to WHO WILL PROVIDEFOR THE RNLI PEOPLES FAMILIESIF THE WORSTSHOULD HAPPED,to rescue those who's boat is not up to force 7/8seas and a crew with limited skills to know when it's bad weather just a thought is all

Most of these boats are over canvassed.

What island?

I thought it was great because they had a strong tail wind, then I realised they were surfing.

Very disappointed.

survival mode.

Queue up Christopher Cross

Wow that's crazy rough

Wow! Sporty indeed....

There is a point where leaving the dock stops being 'a competitive adventure ' and becomes foolhardy.

Death wish

My compliments to the guy on Consilium who hooked up the whisker pole. Brave dude. Or dudess.

Some queens of drama here!Actually less accidents than usual,the experienced ones made it round safely and those who were not confident wisely decided not to leave the Solent.All good

Must have been at least one boat who tried to get a kite up? There's always someone who's brave or cocky no matter the wind

Lot of inexperienced so called yachties
out there I've spliced the main brace of Cape horn in a hurricane don't think they would have been able

We made it round , fantastic time surfing at 16 knots down the back of the island, finished first in our division too ... Epic race for us , would 100% do it again

Madlads - nr 5610 is sending it without a reef 😂😂

Nope

Perfect conditions! Can't believe that so many turned back, or that the ISC cancelled some classes! We've done RTI many times over the last 5 decades and never turned back yet, even when undertaken in similar conditions in a 'Catch 22' - and finished! Excellent fun!

Most of them look pretty uncomfortable.

bit windy out there ...

Who won o.a.?

The modern rig does not seem particularly well adapted to these conditions. They seem to have too large a jib either over-canvassed or semi furled and setting badly. Would they not do better with an inner forestay on which you could set a small staysail or storm jib ?

I did my day skipper ticket a couple of months ago and one of the guys in the boat was doing his competent crew so he could do the race. I wonder if he made it to the start line

Why have the main up, and a dangerous boom to kill people in those conditions? You meander more, so you're not doing better vmg.

Never get sea sick but watching them that day , wow ! Great footage.

Why does it always blow a bastard on the day of the RtIYR? Everyone I've been on has been a nightmare.