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Fri 30th september, 2022 — sun 2nd october, 2022 this event has already happened 12:00 am | 11.30am on saturday 1st is the main event.

About this event

Offshore Powerboat Race.

Falmouth will host the final round of the 2022 UKOPRA Offshore Powerboat Race Championship over the weekend of the 30th September – 2nd October!

This event is organised and managed by the Eastwood Racing team alongside Falmouth Harbour Commissioners. The Eastwood Racing team are a local racing team, owned and piloted by Gary Aldington from Eastwood Garage in Penryn. Their boat, Vintage Torque is a class-1 boat which can exceed 100mph on a good day!

The race will be run under World Powerboat Events sanctioned by UKOPRA both of which are racer owned.

Spectators will be able to watch the start of the race in Falmouth as they speed through Carrick Roads between Black Rock and Pendennis Point and watch them go offshore. There will also be Zapcat/Thundercat racing on the Saturday which will be closer to shore.

Friday 30th September

AM- There will be a couple of boats on display just in front the Maritime Museum with a couple of racers there to answer any questions from the general public.

PM – All the boats will be launching across Falmouth and docking at Port Pendennis Marina opposite Events Square where the public can view them

Saturday 1st October – RACE DAY

09.30am – the first Thunder Cat race is scheduled to start off the right side of the point (Castle Beach side)

11.30am – class 1-2-3 races will start off Pendennis Point. The boats will run out towards the centre of the bay and then offshore heading up to the Eddystone Light house off Plymouth and back to Falmouth (weather dependent, a shorter course may be run if the sea state is deemed too severe). This is the closest start line to the shore in the whole offshore race calendar, so the spectators will be in for a treat! V8 noise, speed and rooster tails of spray are guaranteed!

There will be a prizegiving and awards ceremony held at Events Square from around 4.30pm where racers will be awarded trophies for 1st, 2nd and 3rd in their respective classes.

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What is prw.

It’s a powerboat racing website that has covered circuit racing, offshore racing and PWC since 2016. Maintained by The Race Factory based in Norway who have specialists in event planning and promotion, social media, graphic design, and photography. We are currently working on our vision and believe that we can and will make a different in powerboating. We will dedicate our time to produce accurate factual stories and to promote the sport to a wider global audience.

From an IPRC press release.

Neptune is a capricious God and he certainly made his presence felt at the first Falmouth to Scilly Powerboat marathon race organised by the International Powerboat Racing Club (IPRC.

With winds gusting up to Force 8 off Lands End and a small boat advisory warning issued by the Coastguard the International Powerboat Race Club, who organised the race, took the decision to abandon their original course and rapidly crafted a safer route.

IPRC’s Eugene Bari commented on the event:

Our determination has always been to make certain a race happened and we did everything we could to make that a reality. This is just the first part of our plan to expand all forms of powerboat racing where we can so it was absolutely imperative that the race went ahead in some form.

A number of teams were forced to withdraw from entry because of the weather including Martini Vector, Cougar and All Black Racing who were unable to cross the Irish Sea to get to the start line.

However the Pilot of Team Martini Vector and legendary racer Peter Dredge made it to the start line alongside another legend and world record holder, Keith Whittle where they found themselves in extremely unusual roles on the start boat.

Peter dropped the flag to start the race and Keith waved the chequered flag on the finish line.

The revised route turned East towards Plymouth and ran out past the Edison Lighthouse before turning back to Fowey and home again to Falmouth. The total route was 76 miles. With the massive changes forced on the officials by the weather, the teams also needed to be on their toes and capable of handling rough, chop, long swells and tricky navigational challenges.

Belgian team pilot Jean Pierre of Biretta Due joked that they should have carried on along the channel and gone home when they hit the rough seas on the inbound leg.

Despite the weather all the teams finished the race with Silverline, driven by Drew Langdon and Miles Jennings in first place, Halcyon Connect piloted by James Sheppard and Myles Dobson second followed by Biretta Due and local team HTS Perkins piloted by Nick Wilkinson ably assisted by Glen Chidzoy in fourth.

Bari said after the race:

4 boats may not sound a lot but the response from the public and race community has been entirely positive. All we can do is put the races on and rely on teams to make the effort to enter. If they didn’t make it this time we can only hope that they will change their minds for the next one. It’s absolutely up to the teams to make this a success now. I hope that despite the massive obstacles that organising a race like this presents we have proved that it can still be done.

He continued:

We are not disappointed by the numbers, in fact we consider it a huge success. So many people have been burned over the past few years with races not going ahead so it is hugely encouraging that teams like Biretta Due are prepared to come all the way from Belgium to join us. We have always said that we will never make promises we cannot keep. I hope now that we proved that. We know that it is a long haul to build trust in UK organisers again and we are ready to keep pushing ourselves to get better and better. The messages of support are flooding in by the day and that makes it all worthwhile. All we need now is for people to back the other events like CTC and bring back the joy of racing.

Co IPRC organiser Paul Mitchell commented:

We are going to do this again and again and again until we have a fleet of 40 and tens of thousands of people watching us.

Photo: Tim Tapping

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Date: 30-9-22 Location: Helford Passage

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Spirit of the Sea

30th Sep 2022 - 2nd Oct 2022

UNTIL Sunday 2nd October

UKOPRA 'Spirit of the Sea' Offshore Powerboat Race Falmouth 2022

Falmouth will host the final round of the 2022 UKOPRA Offshore Powerboat Race Championship over the weekend of the 30th September - 2nd October!

This event is organised and managed by the Eastwood Racing team alongside Falmouth Harbour Commissioners. The Eastwood Racing team are a local racing team, owned and piloted by Gary Aldington from Eastwood Garage in Penryn. Their boat, Vintage Torque is a class-1 boat which can exceed 100mph on a good day! Gary is a true ambassador of the sport and in discussions with Falmouth Harbour Commissioners has gained agreement to a pre cursor event in 2022 for a big festival next year.

The race will be run under World Powerboat Events sanctioned by UKOPRA both of which are racer owned. Below is a timetable of what will be happening in Falmouth around the race, racers and organisers will be available for interviews throughout Friday and Saturday (apart from race times).

Spectators will be able to watch the start of the race in Falmouth as they speed through Carrick Roads between Black Rock and Pendennis Point and watch them go offshore. There will also be Zapcat/Thundercat racing on the Saturday which will be closer to shore – see details below.

EVENT TIMIMGS

Friday 30th September

AM- There will be a couple of boats on display just in front the Maritime Museum with a couple of racers there to answer any questions from the general public.

PM - All the boats will be launching across Falmouth and docking at Port Pendennis Marina opposite Events Square where the public can view them

Saturday 1st October – RACE DAY

09.30am - the first Thunder Cat race is scheduled to start off the right side of the point (Castle Beach side)

11am – larger boats will start to leave Port Pendennis to muster just off from the Falmouth docks

11.30am - class 1-2-3 races will start off Pendennis Point. The boats will run out towards the centre of the bay and then offshore heading up to the Eddystone Light house off Plymouth and back to Falmouth (weather dependent, a shorter course may be run if the sea state is deemed too severe). This is the closest start line to the shore in the whole offshore race calendar, so the spectators will be in for a treat! V8 noise, speed and rooster tails of spray are guaranteed! All being well the boats should be finishing in the bay approximately 60-90 minutes later. The best place to view this will be from the Pendennis Point car park.

Saturday 1st October- PM

The boats will head back into the marina after their respective races where they can be viewed again from Events Square.

There is a free app called TackTracker available on AppStore and Google play store where you can track the offshore race as it happens.

There will be a prizegiving and awards ceremony held at Events Square from around 4.30pm where racers will be awarded trophies for 1st, 2nd and 3rd in their respective classes.

SUNDAY 2nd OCTOBER IS HELD AS A LAYOVER DAY FOR RACING SHOULD THE WEATHER BE TOO BAD ON THE SATURDAY.

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