Photo finish
Thursday August 16th 2007, Author: James Boyd, Location: United Kingdom

As the board here in the Rolex Fastnet Race media centre in Plymouth shows there have been a number of other arrivals over the course today. After a bit of a gap this morning, so Gery Trentesaux's Beneteau 47.7 and Rolex Commodores' Cup winner Courrier de Coeur arrived at 11:00:19.
Literally just crossed the line is Peter Harding's brand new Miranda Merron-skippered Open 40 40 Degrees which was four seconds short of beating Rob Bottomley's First 47.7 Pacific Interiors Sailplane to 26th place on the water.
Earlier Miranda Merron wrote:
Having rounded the Fastnet Rock yesterday, we have been enjoying the downwind conditions - and every so often passing a boat going upwind on its way to the Rock, delighted that we have got that bit out of the way. We took the spinnaker down in 30+ knots at dusk, since the seaway was getting difficult, and while various crewmembers were doing their utmost to keep breaking the 20 knot speed barrier, there are many more miles of racing this season. So a bit of boat preservation during the night (shooting stars etc, very occasional water over the deck, HUGE improvement on previous two nights!). We passed the Scillies before dawn, and now are heading towards Lizard. The chat on board occasionally touches on beer...more later. X Miranda
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