Many thanks to the Round the Island media team for this final report from the 2010 JP Morgan Asset Management Round the Island Race. Ed
Sunday dawned bright, warm and sunny as hundreds of competitors from the 79th edition of the J.P. Morgan Asset Management Round the Island Race headed for the Island Sailing Club (ISC) to the event prizegiving to be honoured with their gold and silverware spoils after a superbly successful J.P. Morgan Asset Management Round the Island Race on Saturday.
The race is being regarded by Organisers, Sponsors, Race Partners and the all-important 1700+ competitors as one of the most successful on record.
Yesterday morning’s prizegiving was introduced and MC’d by ISC Sailing Secretary Chris Thomas who welcomed onto the stage the Commodore Bill Pimlott, Roger Thompson, UK Head of J.P. Morgan Asset Management and one of the world’s best offshore racing sailors, Mike Golding OBE.
High spirits
Everyone was in excellent spirits and the tables were groaning under the stunning array of trophies, salvers, Nautica Watches and Old Pulteney Whisky!
The Commodore made special mention of the small army of volunteers and the ISC teams who help to pull this event together each year. Roger Thompson highlighted how much J.P. Morgan Asset Management enjoys working with the Island Sailing Club and said that this great event just keeps going from strength to strength.
Trophies galore
Roger and Mike Golding handed out the trophies to some very proud competitors including the winner of this year’s Gold Roman Bowl, Brian Appleyard and his crew on the Nordic Folkboat Nordic Bear.
To wind up the proceedings, Brian took the microphone to thank the ISC for organising another great race and J.P. Morgan Asset Management for their continuing sponsorship Brian also paid tribute to whoever it is ‘up there’ who organised a great course and great weather yesterday!
Full results available online
The full 2010 Results for individual classes and the list of trophy winners is available in the 2010 Results Book
Some of the notable highlights from this year’s Race include:
Overall
GOLD ROMAN BOWL & JPMAM SALVER – First Overall IRC
GBR731 NORDIC BEAR Brian Appleyard
SILVER ROMAN BOWL & JPMAM SALVER – Second Overall IRC
FGBR707 MADELAINE Madelaine and Isobella Donald
SILVER GILT ROMAN BOWL & JPMAM SALVER – First Overall ISC Rating System
K771 TWILIGHT Patrick Moreton
FIDELIS TROPHY – Second Overall ISC Rating System
GBR5119 MIN-O-DIN
John Langdon, Luke Yeates, Simon Eveleigh, Steve Pearson
Line honours
OBSERVER TROPHY & JPMAM SALVER – First Monohull to finish
GBR1R ICAP LEOPARD Mike Slade
FREEDOM CHALLENGE BOWL – First GP/MOCRA Multihull to finish
17 IDEC
CONRAD RITBLAT TROPHY & JPMAM SALVER – First IRC to finish
GBR1R ICAP LEOPARD Mike Slade
LLOYDS BANK TROPHY – First ISC Rating System boat to finish
GBR2016 OSPREY Mr Nickolas Imregi
Other highlights
RAYMARINE RIR YOUNG SAILOR TROPHY
GBR9027T POCKET ROCKET Matt Ponsford
JPMORGAN ASSET MGMNT FAMILY TROPHY – First family boat
GBR9585T PICKLE Jeremy & Max Vines
New for 2010
TENACITY TROPHY – Last boat to finish within the time limit
GBR2421L PROHOR
Next year’s Round the Island Race takes place on Saturday June 25th. Importantly this will be the 80th Anniversary Race and the organisers are anticipating a record entry.
Full results and the Race Progress news from this year are on the Race website
Image: © Used with the kind permission of Patrick Eden: The crew of the 2010 Gold Roman Bowl winner ‘Nordic Bear’, flanked by Roger Thompson, and right, Mike Golding
