Cowes-Torquay 96.5Nm average 95.67 mph.
Torquay-Cowes 97.4Nm average 93.47 mph.
Truly insane!
We were there to watch them return to Cowes this (beautiful) afternoon, and you really get a feeling of the speed. We were holding station just off West Cowes, and the fact that you can just make out the white blur of the rooster tales as they just about come into view (Hurst Point-ish, I expect) and only moments later it's tearing past making a wicked noise!
Does anybody know why the route they took came close in to Bournemouth? Is it just part of the race planning so that people on land can spectate?
I also love the fact that on the race tracking website
http://yb.tl/ctc2015-1# both Flyin' Falcon and HTS Perkins appear to have raced along the A31 and got the car ferry over to Cowes