J.P. Morgan Asset Management Round the Island Race 2010

Ten hours after the first gun was fired in the 2010 J.P. Morgan Asset Management Round the Island Race,  half of the 1754 entries had completed the 50-mile marathon.

The winner of the Gold Roman Bowl, the top prize in the Race for the first overall on corrected time in IRC-rated classes, was Nordic Bear a Nordic Folkboat owned and raced by Brian Appleyard from Huntingdon in Cambridgeshire. He came second in IRC overall in 2009. 

Francis Joyon's IDEC claimed outright line honours as first multihull home in 04. 24.05  and first monohull ICAP Leopard completed her lap of the Isle of Wight half an hour later (05.0.06)

In IRC 0 the J-Class Velsheda is the winner, with triple Olympic gold medallist Ben Ainslie second onboard J.P. Morgan Asset Management Prince's Trust, and the Swan Desperado in third.

First overall in IRC1 was Willem Wester's Grand Soleil 43 Antilope, ahead of the J/122 Jinja and Incognito. Antilope also heads up the IRC1A division, Incognito tops IRC1C, whilst IRC1B is led by Andy Iyer's Beneteau First 40.7 Portia.

David Mcleman's J/109 leads IRC2 and division 2B overall, with the Grand Soleil 37 Grand Slam topping IRC2A, the well travelled Dutch entry Winsome leading IRC2C, and Dave Cooke's Sigma 38 Monet first in IRC2D.

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