Friday March 17th, 2002 - American skipper Steve Fossett and his international crew of 11, aboard 125' maxi catamaran PlayStation, set a new world record for the Fastnet race course. Their time of 35 hours 17 minutes and 14 seconds beats the previous mark by a considerable 5 hour margin.

The previous ecord for this course was set by Loick Peyron on Fujicolour II in the Fastnet race of 1999.

• Steve Fossett (USA), skipper
• Adrienne Cahalan (AUS), navigator
• David Scully (USA), Watch Captain
• Peter Hogg (NZ), Watch Captain
• Dave Calvert (USA)
• Brad Cavanagh (USA)
• Simon Cotter (UK)
• Helena Darvelid (SWE)
• Pete Berry (UK)
• Quentin Dimmer (UK)
• Dave Weir (USA)
• Mark Featherstone (UK).