Privateer

Ron O’Hanley’s Cookson 50 Privateer has British sailor Ian Walker in the afterguard. Walker is a double Olympic silver medallist and Volvo Ocean Race winning skipper. As skipper of Volvo 70 Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing Walker’s team set the monohull record for the Cowes to Plymouth course for the Rolex Fastnet Race. Privateer has a very experienced offshore team including maxi legend Juggy Clougher who has also won the Whitbread’ on EF Language and raced on Pirates of the Caribbean in the Volvo Ocean Race 20050-06. Juggy has tasted victory on Rambler 100, Rambler 88, Comanche and Leopard 3, just to name a few. 

Sunrise IV

Tom Kneen’s Sunrise IV is a new JPK 1180 which has been developed from the knowledge learnt from winning the 2021 Rolex Fastnet Race. Along with Fastnet winner Kneen is his winning navigator Tom Cheney, plus the vast experience of Admiral’s Cup winner Eddie Warden Owen with Indulgence in 1989 and was also on Mumma Mia in 1995. Irish sailors on board include Olympian Maurice ‘Prof’ O’Connell and Figarist Kenny Rumball.