Sailing: Rogers steers Rosina to main prize

While the biggest boat in the 50-mile Round the Island Race, the 110-ft catamaran Maiden II, failed in its mission to set a new record and its owner, Tracy Edwards, prepared to abandon her all-woman crew trademark as she struggles to secure $5m of sponsorship, one of the smallest boats, the 26-ft Rosina of Beaulieu, skippered by its veteran designer Jeremy Rogers, snatched the overall winner's prize, the Gold Roman Bowl.

A series of start-line collisions saw the rescue services being called to the aid of Robin MacDonald's Clipper Lion after it had hit a boat illegally crossing its bow. She was pumped out by the fire brigade.

Stephen Bailey saw his day end early when his Sydney 40 Arbitrator was in conflict with Harry Evans' Swan Alvine XII and John Woodhouse's Forward Thinking, while James Le May's Tresca hit another Swan, Menenes, owned by Graham Deegan. Yvan Bourgnon only made it to East Lepe Ledge where he put Rexona Man aground. But, while the boats looked scarred, the people were all unhurt.

Then all 56 of the boats in Group One were recalled because so many started prematurely. They were forced to cool their heels for an hour, among them Ellen MacArthur in Kingfisher, as punishment. That led to more chaos as they then charged through the smaller boats at Hurst Narrows. Protests for rules infringements kept the jury working late.