Yachting World

Fastnet Race finish to move to France

In a radical change to one of the oldest offshore races, the Royal Ocean Racing Club (RORC) has confirmed that the next two editions of the Rolex Fastnet Race will finish in the French port of Cherbourg instead of Plymouth.

This is the first time since its inception in 1925 that the course of the biennial 608-mile offshore from Cowes to Plymouth

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