After two days wiped out due to high wind limits, the thoroughbred competitors entered in the GBR Nationals, or Britnats, as the Aussies call it, where starting to get rather twitchy. But on day 3, Weymouth finally delivered, albeit with a few jellyfish the size of...
With all of the variables that go with yacht racing: the crew, the competition and obviously the weather, each race is totally different. This year, for us, the lack of competition for Concise 10 detracted from the Fastnet Race. On the other hand, our crew...
Watch Concise 10 take overall line honours in the 2017 Rolex Fastnet Race. Finishing with an elapsed time of 42 hours and 55 minutes, Concise 10 finished over 200 miles ahead of the next boat....
The 50 odd mile Round the Island Race has been a prominent feature throughout the Team Concise MOD 70 program. It was the first race we did hours after taking delivery of the new beast two years ago. Over the past two years we had...
Watch Concise 10 breaking the 2017 Round the Island race. The team completed a 2 hour - 22 minute - 23 second lap, breaking the previous record set last year by sister ship Phaedo....
On Monday the 28th Nov, Concise 10 left Hamble (with Ned, Tom Dawson, Martin Watts, Jonny Malbon and Tim Rogers on board) for a rather quick/ windy downwind blast out of the channel, across Biscay to Vigo in northern Spain. [caption id="attachment_16990" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Concise 10,...
Incredible race that had it all. Gutted to have missed this one in the last minutes but sometimes in sailing, well...
We knew this was going to be a good race. Last years 2015 edition of the RORC Caribbean 600 marked the rushed debut for Lloyd Thornburgs third Phaedo, the ex Foncia MOD70 now in spectacular green and chrome livery and named Phaedo3. They had packed...
Well that was intense. 12 hard fought for seconds for the win. In idyllic conditions, Tony Lawsons MOD 70 Ms. Barbados blasted across the finish line in Carlisle Bay in front of the Barbados cruising club to smash the Round Barbados race record by over two hours...
While Concise 2, with Pip and Pippa on board, gallently plugged south towards Brazil, Tony Lawson and Ned Collier Wakefield were at a press call at World Travel Market (London Excel ) for as part of the Ms Barbados promotion. Ned presented Minister of Tourism,...