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Dubois half tonner Alchemist sinks during Round the Island – video

• Helen Fretter
• July 5, 2016

RNLI action-cam video of the Dubois half tonner Alchemist sinking rapidly east of the Needles iduring this year's Round the Island Race

The Mudeford RNLI inshore lifeboat crew shot dramatic footage of the sinking of Alchemist during last Saturday’s JP Morgan Asset Management Round the Island Race.

Alchemist , a 1977 Dubois-designed Half Tonner, was built in Cowes at the Lallows boatyard for lifetime owner Mark Wynter, who is Commodore of the Island Sailing Club, the organising club of the Round the Island Race. Wynter was not onboard during this year’s race, which saw two crew rescued from Alchemist as she sank rapidly in around 17 metres of water just east of the Needles in strong winds on 2 July.

It has been widely reported that Alchemist hit the wreck of the SS Varvassi , an infamous obstacle of the course created when a Greek cargo steamer ran aground in 1947. Despite attempts by the inshore lifeboat crew to pass a pump to the crew onboard Alchemist, and to attach a stern towline, the beautifully varnished wooden yacht was taking on water rapidly and sank in Scratchells Bay. Both crew were rescued safely by the RNLI RIB, and an RNLI crewman was recovered from the water immediately after.

Besides competing in almost every Round the Island Race since her launch, Alchemist was a familiar sight on the Solent for nearly 30 years, and a frequent competitor in the JOG (Junior Offshore Group) races across the Channel. Many key figures in Cowes sailing community enjoyed their first taste of yacht and offshore racing onboard the Half Tonner. Yacht designer John Corby posted via social media “Seeing it under construction at Lallows when I was about 15 was one of the things that made me want to build boats.”

Both the RNLI and independent lifeboats were also called to multiple incidents during the day, including a dismasting, rudder and steering failures, and an injured crew member who was transferred to land after two boats collided.

VIDEO: The Sinking of Alchemist

Published on July 4th, 2016 by Editor -->

This dramatic footage of the Dubois designed Half Tonner Alchemist was captured by RNLI Mudeford during the Round the Island Race on July 2, a 50 nm course that rounds the Isle of Wight in the UK.

Skippered by Andrew Talbot, Alchemist hit the SS Varvassi wreck off The Needles, with crew members on board having to be rescued by the Christchurch based Mudeford RNLI inshore lifeboat team. The crew got off the boat just seconds before she sank in 17 metres of water just east of the Needles.

The yacht, built in 1978, was competing without its owner, Mark Wynter, who is the Commodore of the Island Sailing Club, the host of the race.

Alchemist during better times.

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Video: Watch as commodore’s yacht sinks in Round the Island Race

• Katy Stickland

Alchemist, the yacht belonging to the commodore of the Island Sailing Club, sank during the Round the Island Race on 2 July after hitting a shipwreck. But it was good news for TP52 Gladiator who won the race and MOD70 Phaedo 3 who smashed the multihall record time.

Credit: Marion Heming

Dramatic footage of the sinking of the Alchemist during the Round the Island Race has been released.

It was shot by a crew member of RNLI Mudeford, which rescued the crew just seconds before the yacht sank.

It started taking on water after hitting the shipwreck of the SS Varbassi just east of The Needles on the Isle of Wight.

The vessel was competing in the Round the Island Race on 2 July.

The Dubois half-tonner, Alchemist, sank in 17 metres of water just east of The Needles, Isle of Wight on 2 July.

The yacht hit the wreck of the SS Varvassi while competing in the Round the Island Yacht Race.

The Junior Offshore Group (JOG) racer belongs to the commodore of the Island Sailing Club, Mark Wynter. He was not on board at the time, and none of the crew were injured in the incident.

The Yarmouth RNLI all weather lifeboat, the Mudeford RNLI inshore lifeboat and The Needles coastguard rescue team all responded to the incident.

The Mudeford RNLI rescued the crew just seconds before Alchemist sank.

Strong winds during the racing, especially south of the Isle of Wight, meant challenging conditions for many taking part.

Racing for some of the smaller classes of yacht was cancelled.

See results of the Round the Island Yacht Race below

The Yarmouth lifeboat was called to six incidents during day, including the loss of a mast, damaged rudder, crew injuries and damaged hulls.

The sinking of the Alchemist has been reported to the Maritime and Coastguard Agency. Pollution was minimal because the yacht had little diesel onboard.

Meanwhile a yachtsman was taken to hospital on 1 July after being knocked unconscious while practicing for the Round the Island Race.

The injured sailor is taken ashore. Credit: Cowes RNLI

The man, who is in his 30s, suffered serious head injuries when he was thrown onto a winch handle.

He was on board a 40 foot Sunsail ocean racer.

Cowes RNLI took the man to shore where he was taken to St Mary’s Hospital.

Despite the challenging conditions, race organisers say that only a small percentage of the fleet retired from the race.

The overwhelming majority of competitors – some of whom saw gusts to almost 40 knots – successfully completed the course.

The winners of the prestigious Gold Roman Bowl for the first IRC boat on corrected time was Bernard Langley’s TP52 Gladiator.

The crew completed the course in less than four and a half hours from Gladiator’s start, beating Sir Keith Mills’ FAST 40+ Invictus, which had Prince Harry on board as crew.

Gladiator sails past The Needles. Credit: onEdition

Gladiator’s owner, Tony Langley, is currently racing his other TP52 in Porto Cervo, Sardinia, but his three children, Tom, Charlotte and Bernard, who helmed, all took part in the race.

“It was a windy and rough race,” said boat captain Brett Aarons, “especially in the overfalls off St Catherine’s and Dunnose. It was very wet, both on deck and below.”

Nevertheless the team never held back, hoisting the A3 spinnaker at the Needles, before peeling to the A4 at St Catherine’s Point and hitting speeds of 20-24 knots.

“At that point we knew that we had a chance of a good result,” stated Aarons.

“At that kind of speed, the adverse tide only slows you by a small percentage. Once we were back in the eastern Solent we were still in the last of the west-going favourable tide and were almost able to lay the finish line in one tack – it was a huge advantage,” he concluded.

Meanwhile, Lloyd Thornburg’s giant MOD70 trimaran Phaedo^3, tore round the course in two hours 23 minutes and 23 seconds.

In doing so he smashed the record time Sir Ben Ainslie set in 2013 by a stunning 28 minutes.

Speaking after crossing the line, Thornburg said: “We’re over the moon, the team work on board was fantastic and it was just on the edge where we could keep the full main up, so the boat was totally powered up.”

The largest monohull in the fleet, Mike Leopard’s 100ft Leopard, took monohull line honours, but failed to beat the record time he set in 2013 by 13 minutes.

When asked for his take on this 80th race in its 85th Anniversary year, ISC Sailing Flag and head of the ISC Race Management team, Dave Atkinson, acknowledged the challenges.

“The heavy weather forced us into making some pretty major decisions in cancelling some classes but we feel that with safety always being paramount, we were entirely justified in doing what we did,” he said.

“There are a few sad faces but many more happy ones. We act as we do with the information that we have and at the end of the day I think it has been an incredibly successful weekend,” concluded Atkinson.

Major trophy winners included:

OBSERVER TROPHY & JPMAM TROPHY – First Monohull to finish GBR1R LEOPARD Mike Slade GOLD ROMAN BOWL & JPMAM SALVER – First Overall IRC GBR11152 GLADIATOR Bernard Langley SILVER ROMAN BOWL & JPMAM SALVER – Second Overall IRC GBR1851X INVICTUS Sir Keith Mills ROYAL THAMES CHALLENGE TROPHY & JPMAM SALVER – Third O/A IRC GBR1682R TOKOLOSHE II Michael Bartholomew ROYAL LONDON CHALLENGE CUP & JPMAM SALVER – Fourth O/A IRC GBR4863R YES! Adam Gosling JPMORGAN TROPHY – First Overall IRC Group 0 GBR11152 GLADIATOR Bernard Langley OWEN PARKER MEMORIAL TROPHY – First Overall IRC Group 1 GBR4863R YES! Adam Gosling RAYMARINE RIR YOUNG SAILOR TROPHY GBR3277L WAVE WHISPERER Richard Barnes TENACITY TROPHY – Last boat to finish within the time limit SEASCAPE (John Hulford-Funnell)

Next year’s race takes place on Saturday, 1 July 2017.

Thalia. Credit: Hamo Thornycroft

Entries have now closed for the 2016 Round the Island Race.

The oldest boat competing is believed to be Thalia.

Built in 1888, the vessel was one of the last yachts by George Wanhill of Poole who was boatbuilding from the 1850s onwards.

In the 1890s, Thalia went to Cork and was raced from the Royal Cork Yacht Club, returning to the south coast of England in 1918.

After a more recent stint in the Caribbean, she was bought by David Aisher in 2010, and returned to England for a refit at the Elephant Boatyard in Hamble where a new mast was fitted with new standing and running rigging and sails.

The yacht was also re ballasted, rewired and replumbed.

Aisher’s Thalia won’t easily be mistaken for another Thalia racing again this year; a Hanse 385 built in 2012.

Owned by Andrew Banks, there are five members of the family competing in the Round the Island, ranging from his 91 year-old father Ken down to his two sons aged 21 and 19.

Find out below how to follow the Round the Island Race 

Maritime and polar explorer Jock Wishart will be hoping to repeat the success of 2006, when he was the navigator on the winning yacht in the Round the Island Race, 

His 2015 JPK 10.80 boat Shaitan is entered for the Commodores Cup as part of the Celtic Team as well as for this year’s Round the Island.

His crew includes helmsman Thomas Lundquist, who is a Finn Gold Cup Winner and Olympic Gold Medallist and co-helm Julian Smith, the 2014 National Finn Champion.

Also on board will be Andy Sinclair, trimmer and Red Bull Youth America’s Cup helmsman and Jamie Joel, rigger and instructor.

Girls for Sail have entered two boats this year with all-female crews, many of whom have never raced before – and in some cases, have never even sailed before.

Hot Stuff, a Beneteau 40.7 and Diamonds are Forever, an Elan 37 are competing.

Girls for Sail are hoping this will encourage more women to get involved in yacht racing.

The Class 40 Concise 2 features a highly experienced all-girl crew on a fast boat with good pedigree.

Already confirmed for 2 July are skipper Joy Fitzgerald, Sammie Evans, Hannah Diamond and Annabel Vose.

All competitors are invited to the Island Sailing Club at 18:00 on 1 July, for the live Raymarine Weather Briefing.

Raymarine Weather Briefing. Image: Patrick Eden.

It will be presented by professional meteorologist Chris Tibbs.

He will share his tactical advice, giving competitors the latest weather and tidal information.

The briefing will be streamed live to the Royal Southern Yacht Club in Hamble, Hampshire for those who can’t make it.

It is also available at www.raymarine.eu/rtir-weather. 15 June

The J.P. Morgan Asset Management Round the Island Race will return to the Isle of Wight on 2 July.

The event sees thousands of sailors taking part annually.

Round the Island Race. Credit: Paul Wyeth

This year, organisers say there have been larger than usual entries from first time racers and families.

Competing next month is Ian Bowker and his friends on High Hopes, one of the regular Dubois half tonners, unmodified with original mast, keel and rudder.

They have plenty of experience in this event, having completed four consecutive races up to 2014 with a regular crew.

Ian Bowker, pictured in his blue cap, and his friends have high hopes for this year’s race.

Bowker said the race, known as RTI,  touches the spot in thousands of sailors’ hearts.

“Our best RTI result, in an increasingly competitive IRC Class 3C filled with quarter tonners, was 5th in class and 98th overall in the windy 2011 race, where we held a spinnaker from the Needles to Bembridge managing 15 knots down a wave off Freshwater,” he noted.

“We enjoy the variety, challenge and beauty of the Solent and the Island, as well as the atmosphere and spectacle created by the number of boats in the RTI. We’re hoping that despite our age, both crew and boat have many years left in them!”

Sadly, High Hopes didn’t end up competing last year as Bowker suffered heart failure the day before the race.

But with treatment, support and determination, he is back for the 2016 race with this message:

“While other competitors may wait until the end of the race to find out how they have done, I consider I will have won if and when we cross the starting line. It will be a privilege to just take part, and a culmination of all the work from the many people involved in my recovery,” said Bowker.

Race starter on 2 July will be Prince Michael of Kent GCVO.

He will join race officials on the Royal Yacht Squadron platform to commence the starting sequence and fire the cannon signifying the first of eleven class starts at 8.30am.

Amongst the boats jostling for position in the second Class start will be the MOD 70 multis – Phaedo^3 and Concise 10.

Phaedo^3. Credits: Team Phaedo

The trimaran will be jointly skippered between the legendary Brian Thompson and Lloyd Thornburg.

Phaedo^3 recently broke the trans-Atlantic speed record between Bermuda and Plymouth.

Thornburg said he is “very excited to be participating in the Round the Island Race for the first time.”

Their race rival is Concise 10, who pipped Phaedo^3 to the post by 12 seconds in the Round Barbados Race in January.

Team Directors, Tony Lawson and Ned Collier Wakefield, launched Team Concise in August 2006, with the intention of helping young British sailors forge a future in competitive offshore racing.

“The Round the Island Race is something that we look forward to each year and the iconic event certainly shouldn’t disappoint with two MODs racing this year,” said skipper and team director Ned Collier Wakefield.

“After taking a fairly easy line honours last year the team and myself are expecting a closely fought race between ourselves and Phaedo. Hopefully the spectacle doesn’t disappoint,” he added.

Also confirmed to compete this year are Alex Thomson on HUGO BOSS and last year’s winner of the Gold Roman Bowl, Giovanni Belgrano and his crew on Whooper.

Helena Lucas MBE will be skippering Team Volvo and the Squire Patton Boggs, a chartered Elan 450 yacht.

Helena Lucas MBE

Others to watch this year include:

• *Ratatosk: Adam Beaumont and his team are from Linton in Leeds, one of the most inland areas in the UK and they’re racing on Beaumont’s Hanse 445. Last year they did pretty well in their first time out in this race, scoring a 2nd in IRC 4B with an undersized spinnaker.
• Illiria is a Sparkman & Stephens 40ft RORC Class sloop being raced by Andrew Easdown, family and friends. She’s mahogany built in 1968 in Italy by Cantiere Carlini, Rimini and is in near original condition.
• hendara is a pretty 1960 Buchanan 33 sloop, owned and sailed by Chris Day and his son Nick, from Oxfordshire with two other crew. As Day points out: “People in the yard with very fast modern boats do still admire these classic long keels and it’s nice to show her lines off.”
• Nimble Chiquita. Owned and helmed by Christophe Nielsen, who is a famous German Folkboat Winner amongst his other accolades. He was also part of the 1987 Admiral’s Cup Team.

Ways to follow the Round the Island Race

If you can’t make it to the Isle of Wight, there will be full coverage from 8am on the event’s website , with updates hourly and broadcasts live with on-water and shoreside commentary.

The Royal Southern Yacht Club in Hamble, Hampshire will be streaming coverage on the big screen from the Friday weather briefing to the starters and finishers on Saturday.

Spectators can also keep in touch with the action via the big screen in the Race Village at the Cowes Yacht Haven.

Supporters of those who are racing can follow the progress of their friends and family via a mobile tracking service, which will go live shortly via the race’s website.

Those wishing to take part in the race have until midnight on 18 June to register on the website .

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Commodore’s yacht sinks in Round the Island Race

• Laura Hodgetts
• July 4, 2016

A yacht owned by the commodore of the Island Sailing Club sank after it hit a shipwreck in Saturday’s Round the Island (RTI) race.

The Mudeford RNLI inshore lifeboat rescued all the crew of  Alchemist seconds before she sank in 17 metres of water just east of the Needles.

The Yarmouth RNLI all weather lifeboat also raced to the scene of the SS Varvassi shipwreck.

The Dubois half tonner Alchemist had competed successfully for many years and was owned by Mark Wynter, the commodore of the Island Sailing Club (ISC), the race organisers.

He was not on board but was said to be shocked.

None of the crew were seriously injured.

Alchemist in 1984. Credit: John Corby

Isle of Wight-based yacht designer John Corby said: ‘Really sad to hear about the sinking, without owner-from-new Mark Wynter on board it should be stressed, of the 1977 Dubois Half-Tonner Alchemist on this years RTI. ‘Seeing it under construction at Lallows when I was about 15 was one of the things that made me want to build boats. I then raced on it in ’84 with Duncan Bates and Roger Guy including lots of offshore.’ He added: Hopefully it can be recovered but pretty deep there. Great shame.’ Alchemist in 1984. Credit: John Corby

A challenging race

The strong wind forecast resulted in the cancellation of all the smaller classes of yacht.

Conditions south of the island were said to be ‘challenging’. The Yarmouth lifeboat was called to no less than six incidents including the loss of a mast, damaged rudder, crew injuries and damaged hulls.

Thalia, built in 1888, is the oldest boat in this year’s Race, helmed by David Aisher. Image: Patrick Eden

History makers

Organisers of the J.P. Morgan Asset Management Round the Island Race said this year will go down in history as ‘a windy edition of the event’.

This year marked the 80th race and its 85th anniversary year – as the event was not run during the war years.

The MOD70 trimaran Phaedo 3 shattered the multihull race record in a time of 2 hours 23 minutes, 23 seconds, with owner Lloyd Thornburg and skipper Brian Thompson on board.

They smashed the record time Sir Ben Ainslie set in 2013 by a stunning 28 minutes.

Thornburg said: ‘We’re over the moon, the team work on board was fantastic and it was just on the edge where we could keep the full main up, so the boat was totally powered up. Reaching and downwind it was right on the edge.’ window._taboolaSlots=window._taboolaSlots||[];window._taboolaSlots.push({"mode":"thumbnails-a-mid","container":"taboola-mid-article","placement":"Mid Article","target_type":"mix"});

The largest monohull in the fleet, Mike Leopard’s 100ft Leopard, took monohull line honours, but failed to beat the record time he set in 2013 by 13 minutes.

Prince Harry at The J.P. Morgan Asset Management Round the Island Race. Credit: onEdition

Among the big names taking part was Prince Harry, racing aboard Sir Keith Mills’ Ker 40+ Invictus in the FAST40+ fleet.

Reporting from on board, crew member Alex Mills said: ‘It was pretty fruity down the back of the Island, but we got away with it unscathed.’

Despite the unusually testing conditions, only a small percentage of the fleet retired from the race, with the overwhelming majority of competitors – some of whom saw gusts to almost 40 knots – successfully completing the course.

ERIVALE III, IRC Division 0. Image: Patrick Eden

By 2100 there were only a handful of the back markers left on the final few miles of the race course.

The only prize that was still open before the finish deadline of 2230 was the Tenacity Trophy for last boat to cross the line within the time limit!

The prizegiving ceremony at ISC attracted a large audience for the hour-long presentation of gold and silverware.

ISC Sailing Flag and head of the ISC race management team, Dave Atkinson, said: ‘It’s been more of a challenge this year than we have had in recent years. ‘The heavy weather forced us into making some pretty major decisions in cancelling some classes but we feel that with safety always being paramount, we were entirely justified in doing what we did. ‘There are a few sad faces but many more happy ones. We act as we do with the information that we have and at the end of the day I think it has been an incredibly successful weekend.’

All the results and trophy winners are listed online at rtir.me/results

Next year’s race takes place on Saturday 1 July.

Pre-race injury

On Friday, yachtsman suffered serious head injuries in an accident whilst training in the Solent for Round the Island Race.

The incident occurred just outside Cowes Harbour when the eight-person Farnham-based crew of the 40ft Sunsail ocean racer were carrying out gybe exercises in a brisk south-westerly wind.

Injured man conveyed from yacht. Credit RNLI/George Chastney

A Cowes RNLI lifeboat spokesman said: ‘It appears that the man, in his 30s, was violently thrown on to a winch handle by a taut rope. As he lay unconscious and profusely bleeding it was then found that the yacht could not proceed to shore under its own power because a rope had fouled the propeller. ‘Following a May Day call to Solent Coastguards the coastguard helicopter was launched as a precaution. However, the yacht was successfully taken in tow by a passing RIB skippered by Robbie Southwell, son of operations manager of Cowes lifeboat, Mark. ‘As the yacht was being towed to Trinity Landing, Cowes, the lifeboat whose crew had been on stand-by, was launched and proceeded to the landing. There one of the lifeboat crew members, Dr Will King, went aboard to give medical assistance. The man was eventually taken by ambulance to St Mary’s Hospital, Newport.’

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Commodore's yacht sinks in Round the Island Race

A yacht owned by the commodore of the Island Sailing Club sank after it hit a shipwreck in yesterday's Round the Island race.

The Yarmouth RNLI all weather lifeboat raced to help her as she was taking on water rapidly.

The Mudeford RNLI inshore lifeboat rescued all the crew seconds before she sank in 17 metres of water just east of the Needles.

Alchemist had competed successfully for many years and was owned by Mark Wynter, the commodore of the Island Sailing Club, the race organisers.

He was not on board was was said to be shocked.

None of the crew were seriously injured.

The strong wind forecast resulted in the cancellation of all the smaller classes of yacht.

Conditions south of the island were challenging yesterday .The Yarmouth lifeboat was called to no less than six incidents including the loss of a mast, damaged rudder, crew injuries and damaged hulls.

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Specifications

The ALCHEMIST yacht is powered by twin MTU engines providing power to comfortably cruise at 16 knots while a maximum speed of 18 knots can be obtained.

ALCHEMIST has a beam of 12 meters and a draft of 3.2 meters as well as a volume of 1200 tons. It is estimated that she carries approximately 120,000 Liters of fuel as well as 30,000 Liters of water.

ALCHEMIST has a slick exterior and aesthetic appeal perfectly contrasting the white exterior with dark black windows. She has very large spacious teak decks which further add to the design and all round feel of the yacht.

Similar to most superyachts of this magnitude, ALCHEMIST is built with a steel hull and aluminum superstructure.

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24.38m  /  80' | overmarine | 1998.

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