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5 June 1988

With Carlsberg installed as the new event sponsor, 95 boats lined up for the 1988 race. The record breaking winner, Philippe Poupon, took his Nigel Irens designed 60ft trimaran from Plymouth to Newport in an amazing 10 days. Irens was also the designer of second placed Laiterie Mt St Michel.

Briton, Nic Bailey, was the first outside class one to finish. A superb performance in his 40ft class IV trimaran MTC.
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Record breaking performances in the leading wave of the fleet were due to fine weather conditions, those further back were not so lucky and experienced strong winds approaching the America continent.

Several boats had close encounters with whales. Mike Birch’s Fujicolor was badly damaged after a collision with one but he made safe harbour in France, taking 11 days, the last three without food. Hyccup was sunk by an aggressive pod of whales forcing David Sellings to take to his liferaft.

OSTAR veteran Jester, in her 8th raced, suffered a fatal knockdown, bursting open a starboard hatch, flooding the cabin. Michael Richey switched on his EPIRB (Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon) and was eventually taken onboard a commercial vessel that took Jester in tow. Sadly Jester sank when they were later forced to abandon the tow.
Skipper Nationality Yacht Class Type LOA Time
D H M

Class
Place
Philippe Poupon France FLEURY MICHON I T 60 10 09 15 1
Olivier Moussy France LAITERIE Mt St MICHEL I T 60 11 04 17 2
Loick Peyron France LADA POCH II I T 60 11 09 02 3
Philip Steggall U.S.A. SEBAGO I T 60 11 09 55 4
Bruno Peyron France VSD I C 60 12 23 20 5
Halvard Mabire France GERARD HENON I C 60 13 06 51 6
Florence Arthaud France GROUP PIERRE ler I T 60 13 10 58 7
Jean Maurel France ELF AQUITAINE III I T 60 14 10 02 8
Pierre Sicouri Italy LA NUOVA SARDEGNA I T 60 15 17 34 9
Tony Bullimore Britain SPIRIT OF APRICOT I T 60 16 04 46 10
Pascall Herold France DUPON DUPAN I T 60 16 12 39 11
Nic Bailey Britain MTC IV T 40 16 17 03 1
Jean Yves Terlain France UAP 1992 I M 60 17 04 05 12
John Martin S.Africa ALLIED BANK I M 60 17 08 18 13
Jose Ugarte Spain CASTROL SOLO I M 60 17 21 47 14
Mark Rudiger U.S.A. HOLSTEN OCEAN SURFER IV T 40 18 06 28 2
Titouan Lamazou France ECUREUIL D'AQUITAINE I M 60 18 07 00 15
Michael Reppy U.S.A. DAMIANA III T 42 19 08 28 1
Didier Caquet France TRANSPORTS GRIMAUD IV C 40 19 10 24 3
Stephen Slack U.S.A. EAGLE PREMIER IV T 40 21 00 03 4
Courtney Hazelton U.S.A. MARIKO III M 45 21 05 44 2
Nigel Burgess Monaco DOGWATCH A II M 50 21 05 46 1
Roderick Stuart Britain CALEDONIA VI T 30 21 06 16 1
Bertie Reed S.Africa INVERTEX VOORTREKKER II M 49 21 10 53 2
Simon van Hagen Netherlands ROC IV M 40 21 11 42 5
Sennett Duttonhofer U.S.A. MAN-0-WAR IV T 40 21 14 37 6
Richard Wilson U.S.A. CURTANA V T 35 21 17 17 1
Jack Boye U.S.A. LEGEND SECURITIES II M 50 21 22 37 3
Robin Davie Britain GLOBAL EXPOSURE IV M 40 22 03 12 7
Herve Cleris France EMBALLAGE POLSEITE IV T 40 22 07 47 8
Gerry Hannaford Britain HETAERA OF GRIMSBY III M 45 22 09 08 3
Steve Pettengill U.S.A. FREEDOM IV M 40 22 12 11 9
Wolfgang Quix W.Germany JEANTEX T 3000 IV M 40 22 12 58 10
Roy Hart Britain MOON BOOTS III M 45 23 03 53 4
Peter Goss Britain CORNISH MEADOW VI C 26 23 05 04 2
Francis Stokes U.S.A. SPARROW V M 35 23 05 17 2
Jim Gardiner U.S.A. CELOX IV M 39 23 09 39 11
Gerard Montariol France GAULOISE IV III T 45 24 08 56 5
Morris Propp U.S.A. HETAERA SAILOR'S GAME III M 43 24 03 26 6
Rupert Kidd Britain OCEAN WORLD V T 35 24 05 09 3
Paul Vinck Belgium GENERALE BANK II M 50 24 05 30 4
Vivien Cherry Britain PANICKER IV M 40 24 06 30 12
Jeremy Heal Britain ALICE'S MIRROR VI M 30 24 23 58 3
Peter Phillips Britain CHAFFOTEAUX CHALLENGER I M 56 25 07 43 16
Jan van Donselaar Netherlands RUTH/LESS V M 35 25 12 07 4
Olivier Dardel France ALCATEL IV M 38 25 21 15 13
Vincenzo Fontana Italy MOANA BIP BIP III M 45 26 11 38 7
Are Wiig Norway SOREN SOPHIE VI M 30 26 12 13 4
Cees de Gruyter Netherlands RIGHT MEASURE V M 33 26 14 07 5
Nigel Rowe Britain PIPER RISING IV M 39 27 13 24 14
Peter Hopps Britain TRIPLE FANTASY V T 35 27 16 18 6
Mary Falk Britain QUIXOTE V M 34 27 16 39 7
Thierry Caroni France ATHOM LE REBELLE I C 56 27 17 22 17
Roland Treinzen W. Germany STELLA POLARE IV M 40 27 21 30 15
James Hatfield Britain BRITISH HEART III VI M 30 28 00 48 5
John Melling Britain BURAN V M 33 28 05 16 8
Peter Keig Britain ZEAL V M 38 28 08 05 9
Anthony Rowe Britain DREAM WEAVER VI M 26 28 22 38 6
Josh Hall Britain SPIRIT OF IPSWICH V M 34 29 23 35 10
Henk van de Weg Netherlands PATACHE VI M 30 30 11 00 7
Jens Anderson Denmark DIVINA VI M 30 31 01 45 8
Michael Petrovsky Britain AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL VI M 29 32 04 48 9
David Rice Britain TEMARAIRE VI M 30 32 09 42 10
Clive Shelter Israel MACCABI V M 32 32 16 10 11
John Passmore Britain LARGO V M 32 32 21 40 12
Franco Malingri Italy MOANA 39