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Yachtsmen competing in the Royal Southampton Yacht Club's 540-mile BNY Mellon Biscay Challenge yacht race from the Solent to Hondarribia, northern Spain faced such tricky sea and weather conditions in the early part of the race, that only two boats made it to the finish.
Hamble yachtsman Andy Hill and his French co-skipper Mathieu Lathoud took the honours by beating the adverse conditions in the Solent, English Channel and the Western Approaches on their 35ft J105, Only Just, beating second placed Basque sailors Santiago Orlando and Txema Garcia on their French made 32ft Bongo, Baobab.
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THEY'VE
MADE IT
They defied the weather to win the Royal Southampton's double handed Biscay race to Santander four years ago, and Andy Hill and Mathieu Lathoud, sailed into the Basque port of Hondarribia today to repeat the feat and win the BNY Mellon Biscay Challenge for 2011.
On their Hamble-based yacht Only Just they beat ferocious weather in the Channel and set the pace for the race from the moment they left the start line on Sunday.
