The Royal Dart Yacht Club (RDYC) is one of nine clubs around the UK who are using the RORC Rating Office’s Start Up scheme to encourage members to race their boats using the Spinlock International Rating Rule (IRC) in 2016, and is now looking forw…
Fairline unveils its first Mancini design
Fairline unveils its first Mancini design
Luxury British boatbuilder, Fairline Yachts, unveils its first yacht designed by renowned Italian superyacht designer, Alberto Mancini. The new Targa 62 GTO is the first of the new generation of models from Fairline Yachts featuring the world class com…
Championship battle hots-up in Chasewater!
Championship battle hots-up in Chasewater!
The 2016 RYA Powerboat GP Championship campaign headed to Chasewater Water Sports Park for the Chasewater Grand Prix last weekend (16/17 July) for the penultimate weekend in the British Championship. Four of the championship classes made the journey to…
Brewin Dolphin Commodores’ Cup – Team GBR’s turn?
Brewin Dolphin Commodores’ Cup – Team GBR’s turn?
Looking at the Brewin Dolphin Commodores’ Cup results for the last eight years, GBR won in 2008, Ireland in 2010, then GBR again in 2012 and Ireland in 2014. Given this sequence it should be Britain’s turn to prevail once more in the Royal Ocean Racing…
Karpaz Gate Marina: New Treats and Attractions for Visitors this Summer
Karpaz Gate Marina: New Treats and Attractions for Visitors this Summer
Leading North Cyprus venue provides oasis of luxury amidst Karpaz nature for boat owners, tourists and local residents An exciting destination for food, drink, music and activities, Karpaz Gate Marina has introduced a range of new attractions for…
TNG Swiss Watches brings Newcomers Trophy to Aberdeen Asset Management Cowes Week 2016
TNG Swiss Watches brings Newcomers Trophy to Aberdeen Asset Management Cowes Week 2016
TNG Swiss Watches are partnering with Cowes Week Ltd to provide a Newcomers Trophy, to be awarded to the boat with the best overall result racing at Aberdeen Asset Management Cowes Week for the first time in 2016. Aberdeen Asset Management Cowes Week h…
Laying down the gauntlet for the third RORC Transatlantic Race
Laying down the gauntlet for the third RORC Transatlantic Race
The third edition of the Royal Ocean Racing Club’s RORC Transatlantic Race will start on Saturday 26 November 2016 and the line-up will include MOD70s and Maxi yachts vying for the prestigious IMA Transatlantic Trophy awarded to the line honours monohu…
Charles Stanley Cowes Classics Week – Tricky tides for Tempests and shifty winds for everyone
Charles Stanley Cowes Classics Week – Tricky tides for Tempests and shifty winds for everyone
Lighter breezes and flatter seas greeted the 188-strong fleet of classic yachts in Charles Stanley Cowes Classics Week, sailing for the Harken Trophy today, on the penultimate day of the series. The 2016 International Tempest World Championship,…
RS100 Inalnd Championship, Llandegfedd 9th-10th July 2016
RS100 Inalnd Championship, Llandegfedd 9th-10th July 2016
Day 1 Well here we are in Wales, the RS100 fleet visiting the home of the UK’s decent football team to pay their respects to Bale and Co. Annoyingly, it appears that its not only football and rugby the Welsh can do – the Llandegfedd SC 100 team a…
Charles Stanley Cowes Classic Week – Winners and losers in a typical Cowes day
Charles Stanley Cowes Classic Week – Winners and losers in a typical Cowes day
Day two of the points series for the Cowes Classics Week classes got underway today in lighter breezes with some course-changing shifts which made and lost race positions. A tactic of heading up the left hand side of the beat on the windward-leew…