...was won by a UK ship for the first time in 31 years, TS Royalist.
RACE RESULTS: FINAL RACE SERIES REPORT 2017 (FINAL)
On my delivery trip last December (on which we encountered F10 winds off Dover) the skipper was Royalist's 2nd i/c. He's acting skipper at the moment due to the injury of the official one. A good man to have in charge.
The achievement didn't hit the headlines but in our sensationalist, celebrity obsessed world I have no doubt at all that's the way her acting skipper prefers it.
