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Final entry list and news of boat draw for Volkswagen Touareg King of Cowes

The Volkswagen Touareg King of Cowes regatta takes place on Friday 1 August and will provide a spectacular opening to Skandia Cowes Week 2008 as the individual class winners from the preceding year go head to head in identical Laser SB3s to find the ultimate Volkswagen Touareg King of Cowes.

The boats for the event are provided by volunteer owners from the Laser SB3 Class and for this year's event thirty-three owners have stepped forward to make their boats available.

In order to first select the thirty-two Laser SB3s that will compete in the competition, and then pair them with the class winners for the competition a series of public draws will take place from 10am on Friday 13 June at Volkswagen's UK headquarters in Milton Keynes. You can track the draw results as they happen live at www.kingofcowes.com.

The Skandia Cowes Week 2007 Class Winners confirmed to take part in the Volkswagen Touareg King of Cowes 2008 are:-

Class	Boat Name	Helm
1720	La Licorne	Mark Greenway
Daring	Dauntless	Giles Peckham
Dragon	Princess Jalina	David Palmer
Etchells	Arbitrator	Graham Bailey
Flying Fifteen	Men Behaving Badly	Rupert Mander
Hunter 707	The Ant Hill Mob	Russell Mead
Laser SB3	Musto	Glenn Bourke
RS Elite	Eclipse	Ian Andrew
RSK6	Courageous	Richard Talbot
Sportsboat Rating	Abstension II	Kevin Downer
Seaview Mermaid	Sheen	Noel & Richard Dobbs
Solent Sunbeam	Daisy	Michael Moss
Sonar	Bertie	Simon Barter
Squib	Firecracker Too	Andrew Porteous
Swallow	Skua	Harry Roome
Victory	Zinnia	John Tremlette
XOD	Swallow	Simon Russell
Contessa 32	Drumbeat	Steve Johnson
J109	Shiva	Matthew Boyle
IRC 0	ICAP Leopard	Chris Sherlock
IRC 1	Flash Glove	Colm Barrington
IRC 2	WISC	Glynn Williams
IRC 3	Holmatro	Simon Anink
IRC 4	Amey Love Shack	Tim Spalding
IRC 5	Alvine Jacobite	Alistair Evans
IRC 6	Fatjax	Iain Kirkpatrick
IRC 7	Earls Court Boatshow	Adam Gosling
IRC 8	Mikado	Michael Briggs
IRC 9	Madelaine	Edward Donald
J-Sprit	Mojo	Jill Stevenson
Multihulls	Buzz	Philip Cotton
Sunfast 37	Deloitte	Steven Anderson

The thirty-three Laser SB3s entering the draw to host the Class Winners are:-

Nat	SailNo	BoatName	Name
GBR	3146	Bathstore.com	Tim Cork
GBR	3212	Darling Associates	Chris Darling
GBR	3053	Earls Court Boat Show	Geoff Carveth
GBR	3106	I Maximus	David Brown
GBR	3131	It's Playtime!	Tom Kiddle
GBR	3036	Never Say Never	Jeremy Thorp
GBR	3010	Sbeed	Toby Litton
GBR	3075	Striptease	Emma Henderson-Williams
GBR	3031	Team Maclaren	Catherine Summerhayes
GBR	TBA	Carjack	Craig Burlton
GBR	3173	Virtual Human Resources	Danny Brooks
AUS	3269	Champagne Blond	Daniel Geoghegan
GBR	3012	Barbarian	Ben Sturges
GBR	3465	3 Sad Old Blokes	Jerry Hill
GBR	3044	Liftingsafety.co.uk	David Atkinson
GBR	3080	Millgate Homes	Nick Jackson
NED	3289	Twerk	Martin Lossie
GBR	3304	Sail Army	Alex Tucker
GBR	3215	Sail Navy	Joe Henry
GBR	3079	Excuse Me Gents	Ann Jackson
GBR	3134	Team Touareg	Jono Shelly
GBR	3153	Helly Hansen	Guy Jackson
GBR	3047	Go Hard Or Go Home	Pieter Heyn
GBR	3163	Joules Argo II	Alec Russell
GBR	3037	Selden Seen	Russell Peters
GBR	3166	-	Giles Peckham
GBR	TBA	Chilli Chaser	Ian Southworth & Nigel Smith
GBR	TBA	Yachts & Yachting	Mark Jardine
GBR	3309	Ohzone	David Bates
GBR	3169	Wosterstock	Luke Wooster
GBR	3019	Ribidium	Sam Cook
GBR	3032	Rumbleflurg	Ian Schenkle
GBR	3039	-	Steve McLean

The draws will be supervised by external adjudicators and will be recorded on video to ensure complete fairness. The video will be published on the event website shortly after the draw.

The all up weight limit for crews is 270kg meaning that some boats will sail with three crew and others with four. The crew in each boat will include the Class Winner as helmsman and the Laser SB3 owner or his representative as first crewmember and the additional crew members are appointed by the Class Winner in consultation with the owner.

With fantastic prizes including a Volkswagen Touareg, a Mark Warner activity holiday, a Laser XD dinghy, a Bug dinghy by LaserPerformance and the Nexus Marine "Most Passionate Performance Award" as well as the title Volkswagen Touareg King of Cowes at stake the competition at this year's event is expected to be hotter than ever.