The JPMorgan Asset Management Round the Island Race
The annual JPMorgan Asset Management Round the Island Race, organised by the Island Sailing Club, is the fourth largest sporting event in the UK, competitors come from all over the UK as well as Europe and the USA to follow the 50 mile course round the Isle of Wight.
Challenge Macmillan boat in action at this year's JPMorgan Asset Management Round the Island Race/onEdition
The 2009 event takes place on Saturday 20th June in Cowes, Isle of Wight, England, and this year the race has attracted the fourth highest entry of 1767 boats making it the biggest race in the world of its kind. This year's event has an all-star line up of personalities, including Olympic sailors Ben Ainslie CBE and Shirley Robertson OBE and solo round the world sailors Dame Ellen MacArthur and Francis Joyon, Americas Cup Legend Russell Coutts and charity Ambassadors singer Jonathan Ansell & Comedian Dave Spikey.
Prostate UK Charity Challenge boat in action at this year's JPMorgan Asset Management Round the Island Race.
Starting on the famous Royal Yacht Squadron line in Cowes, the fleet races westabout, to The Needles, round St Catherine's Point and Bembridge Ledge buoy back into the Solent. Spectators can find many vantage points, both on the mainland and Isle of Wight, to watch the race progress.
