RICHARD and Inge Strompf's Jeppesen-designed 51-footer X-Rated completed a line honours handicap double yesterday as the bulk of the 43-strong Dunhill San Fernando fleet neared this fishing port on northern Luzon Island in the Philippines yesterday.
Strompf and his 10-strong crew finished more than three-and-a-half hours ahead of Nigel Stevens' 68-footer, Mandalay, in a time of two days, eight hours and seven minutes, only six hours outside the race record set in 1991 by the Humphrey's 83-footer, Rothmans, a competitor in the last Whitbread Round The World Race.