The XOD Class is the largest class racing at Cowes Week, with 66 entries.
Designed in 1908 by Alfred Westmacott, who was responsible for so many of the successful Solent classes, 170 of these one design yachts race from divisions at Hamble, Itchenor, Lymington, Parkstone and Yarmouth.
Among this year's entrants are Madcap and Puffin, both built in 1911, and Xanthus, who will be crewed by Richard and William Westmacott, the grandsons of designer Alfred.
The boat has been raced by the Westmacott family at Lymington since 1960.
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