AOA Atalanta Trophy (Annual Race)

First Atalanta in the West Mersea Regatta (previously Round the Island Race)

Wooden Model of A12 in a glass case.  The Atalanta Trophy was created by Fairey Marine in 1958 and awarded to the first Atalanta in the Isle of Wight ‘Round the Island’ race. It is a wooden model of A12 in a glass case. When entries to the Round the Island race dwindled in the early 1970s the trophy was re-assigned to for the first Atalanta in the West Mersea Regatta races.