MOD70: PowerPlay Breaks Fastnet Record

Pictures and Video © Lloyd Images – Info sent by PowerPlay Racing. Happy to see A Cat sailor Paul Larsen onboard (Fastest sailor in the World)

PowerPlay Breaks Fastnet World Record
13 April 2021

The historic 595nm course starts from Cowes IOW, around Lands’ End, across the Celtic Sea, around the Fastnet Lighthouse off the coast of Ireland, and finishing at the Plymouth Breakwater.

Peter Cunningham’s MOD70 PowerPlay, skippered by Ned Collier Wakefield, has officially set the Fastnet Original Course Record ratified by The World Sailing Speed Record Council, authorised by World Sailing to confirm speed records. PowerPlay completed the 595 nautical mile course in a new world record time: 25hrs 04mins 18secs on April 6th, 2021.
Peter Cunningham on the helm of MOD70 PowerPlay (© Lloyd Images)

“PowerPlay is an amazing machine; strong, responsive but not very comfortable when the boat is doing 40 knots – it is shaking like a thorough-bred,” commented Peter Cunningham. “There are only six MOD70s in existence and they were originally built as a one design. However, PowerPlay is so responsive and quick that it is an ideal boat to break records. The Fastnet Course has been raced for nearly one hundred years, so to be the fastest is a brilliant achievement, and the PowerPlay crew is fantastic.”

PowerPlay Crew for Fastnet World Record: Peter Cunningham, Ned Collier Wakefield, Tom Dawson, John Hamilton, Paul Larsen, Jack Trigger, Miles Seddon, Martin Watts.