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Home / Berthon Blog / Uncategorized / Round 3 of the 2023 UKOPRA offshore powerboat racing championship is coming to Lymington

Round 3 of the 2023 UKOPRA offshore powerboat racing championship is coming to Lymington

June 28th, 2023

The Lymington Challenge, will be hosted by Berthon on July 7th and 8th. The race will start at 13:00 on Saturday 8th July and will include 7 classes, ranging from local racer Bligh Julius in a 50 hp ThunderCat to Rob Lockyer’s 47′ Team 25 Good Boy Vodka, boasting 2200 hp.

Lockyer and co-driver Scott Younger won the Round the Island race in early June, beating four-time Class One champions Drew Langdon and Miles Jennings.

The team will be looking to overcome the 75-point lead they currently hold over Langdon and Jennings in the championship.

The marina WILL NOT be open for public access. If you would like to see the boats in action, the best place to view is at Hurst Castle.

If you would like to find out more call 01590 647405 or email [email protected].

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UKOPRA British Offshore Championships: Local powerboat racers Rob Lister and Nick Crouch full speed ahead Lymington return

New Forest’s Rob Lister and Nick Crouch took third place in the latest UKOPRA British Offshore Championships round ahead of a return to Lymington after more than a 10-year hiatus.

The former British champions come into the Lymington race – the first time the championships have raced in Lymington since 2010 – in good form and were leading their class until a mechanical failure resulted in the duo slipping back into third.

The second round race of the UKOPRA British Offshore championships was a 51-nautical mile course around the Isle of Wight, with 26 teams racing, including a class one team from Sweden.

Conditions were split, with the start legs from the eastern Solent to the Needles being favourable and the legs from the Needles to Bembridge rough and rugged for the class three boats.

A great battle for first took place between the two class one outer limits boats, with four seconds separating the two at the finish. Averaging 86.43mph, Rob Lockyer and Scott Younger took the honours, narrowly defeating Miles Jennings and Drew Langdon.

The local offshore team of Keyhaven’s Lister and Milford’s Crouch led class 3D until the Needles, where a fuel filter housing failed, resulting in lost fuel pressure and power. Despite the disadvantage, the team crossed the line third in their class.

Meanwhile, the Ringwood-based offshore race team of Clive Prestige and Scott Weldon finished first in the 115hp class 3B.

In the past, Royal Lymington Yacht Club hosted the Lymington race from their Bath Road home, but this year’s iteration will be staged at Berthon Marina.

Nick Crouch told the A&T: “The last Lymington challenge race took place in 2010, so it’s great to have this race back on the calendar. Back then, Rob was racing it while I was safety cover in my charter RIB.

“As a race team, it’s our home race, and although both Rob and I have spent a lifetime out there, and local knowledge helps, the weather and tide dictate what kind of day we will be having – a good day is finishing with fewer bruises and everything where it should be.”

“Ideal conditions would be a slight chop which helps break the hull drag, a rolling swell with no wave crests is amongst the most dangerous conditions, found usually at the Needles bridge and south Christchurch bay.”

The 73-nautical mile race will be a rolling start commencing at Lymington Bank buoy, west Solent, with the course passing Hurst Castle before heading along the shingle bank to Northhead buoy near Hengisbury Head. Two laps of Christchurch Bay follow before heading back up the Solent past the Needles to east Lepe and back down to the finish line, just north of the Lymington Bank buoy.

Crouch added: “Our team MADCRAB Offshore Racing Team, would like to thank our sponsors Mark Cutler Auto Motive and Solent Projects, also Tony Hope, our engineer.”

World Powerboat Events and Bligh Julius of Onyx Events have organised the race.

The UKOPRA British Offshore Championships third round is based at Berthon Marina, Lymington, on 8th July, with the race starting at 1pm – for more information about the course, race boat viewing times, and events, visit rb.gy/k1zsm

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