RORC Commodore James Neville skippering his HH42 ‘Ino XXX’ established the Round Antigua IRCRecord time beating race favourites Rán by 3 minutes on corrected time.

James Neville was delighted when he found out that Ino XXX had won overall and provisionally set a new IRC Record for the race. “What a day for it; couldn’t get much better than that!,” smiled RORC Commodore James Neville. “With the A4 up and the jib inside it, we topped out at 27 knots of boat speed. We only broached once and that was to clear some weed off the rudder!” joked James. “We had some good sail choices, especially as the wind speed was at times over 20, but also down to 12 knots and we saw close to 30 knots in some rain squalls. Daguet was just in front of us for most of the race and when we were three-sail reaching at 17 knots we were closing in on them. We had some minor damage but you expect that in those sort of conditions. Now we have two days to get ready for the RORC Caribbean 600.”