Cork’s Slattery breaks own Fastnet record

CORK sailor Justin Slattery was celebrating breaking his own record in the Rolex Fastnet Race last night after arriving into Plymouth on board Azzam, the Abu Dhabi entry for this year’s Volvo Ocean Race.

Slattery sailed on Mike Slade’s ICAP Leopard in 2007, which was a similarly windy event to this year.

The UAE entry is a new-build 70-footer and edged ahead of rival Groupama 4 by five minutes in the last stretch of the race from Land’s End to the finish.