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Powerboating to success around the Island PHOTOS
Off the Isle of Wight, Good Boy Vodka smashed the Round the Island speed record, winning the opening race of the UKOPRA Offshore Powerboat Championship, on Saturday, May 18.
Britain's Rob Lockyer and Tim Linden, from America, finished in just 30 minutes and 18 seconds, in their 47ft Outerlimits Hull - an average speed of 118.04 mph.
The previous record was unbroken since 2005, when Chris Parsonage managed an average speed of 111mph.
Twenty powerboats enjoyed flat conditions for their near 52 nautical mile course.
C92 Lovely Jubbly Bubbly (Image: Anthony Hadaway)
1-25 Good Boy Vodka, with Thunderstreak behind (Image: Malc Attrill)
Second place went to Falmouth's Double Trouble, while Laa Laa took third, with Southampton-based racing driver Dean Stoneman at the helm.
Oceanus Racing VT took line honours in the new offshore Class of 1L, and Class 2's went to the first Poole-based catamaran Assagai.
For the Isle of Wight, debutants and UKOPRA's youngest ever drivers, were Baylan Blanks and Harry Pink, from Bembridge, who won in Class 3B, with a Phantom 19G race hull called Motorvated Racing.
The Isle of Wight's Mango, which came second to Thunderstreak (Image: Sienna Anderson)
The Isle of Wight's Thunderstreak, which won its class (Image: Sienna Anderson)
There were Class 3 wins for: Jason Field and Tom Trotman in KMO Racing and Lovely Jubbly Bubbly's Chris and Jamie Owens.
The Isle of Wight's Thunderstreak won Class 3E, after battling it out with fellow Islanders, Mango Crazy.
Next up is a classic offshore course, around Poole Bay and The Needles, on Sunday, June 16, a day after sailing's Round the Island Race.
1-88 Double Trouble, with competitors on its tail (Image: Anthony Hadaway)
