Winning the first round of the FAST40+ circuit was our aim towards our goal of winning the season, confirmed Rán s Tim Powell. We have a number of youth sailors, both female and male and it was especially pleasing today to have well-executed crew work in difficult conditions. The FAST40+ Class is very much about boats that are built to withstand heavy weather, but perfecting those manoeuvres is so important towards the performance. I think the competition in the fleet is getting closer. Khumbu has most definitely found another gear and the twin rudder set up on Ino XXX makes the team very quick at certain angles. Morty s Jean Genie has had a number of modifications and I am sure after some fine tuning the boat will be very hard to beat.