Dometic is introducing the new WAECO CoolFreeze CFX 95DZ2 powerful compressor coolbox for even more flexible cooling and deep-freezing options when storing food and drink on-board. The quiet and efficient CFX 95DZ2 has separate compartments with their…
Saturday 10th September dawned somewhat grey and damp but that didn’t affect the spirits of the RS Aero fleet at Burghfield. The strong home fleet was complemented with many of the usual suspects, but also several new faces including new additions to t…
Porto Cervo, Italy. 12th September 2016. Mike Slade’s Leopard 3 wins the prestigious Maxi Racing Class at the 27th edition of the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup. After a fascinating duel between Mike Slade’s British Maxi Leopard 3 and George David’s American Max…
Big breeze arrived at the 2016 Etchells World Championship today; fully powered up, punching through Solent chop upwind and pulling the trigger down wind, several teams experienced gear failure. The conditions were unexpected, 25 knots of solid breeze…
The day dawned bright and sunny with some sporty gusts across the dinghy park to add a touch of panic to the 28 sailors preparing their weapons for the wars ahead. There was much banter in the boat park as old friends met and new alliances formed…
Too much wind and massive waves crashing on Dawlish Warren led to the cancelling of the day’s racing. However the RS100 fleet is inventive and competitive and they remained in need of competition. So they decided that an afternoon of Go-Karting w…
It was a dramatic finish to the third day of the Etchells World Championship, sponsored by Red Funnel Ferries. John Bertrand, representing the Royal Brighton Yacht Club (AUS), was initially disqualified from Race 5, for being over early on a U-Flag sta…
The forecast for the four days of the event has been changing on a daily basis over the last week so it really should have come as no surprise when the weather, itself, couldn’t make its mind up what it wanted to do on day 1one. The day dawned brillian…
There was some more Aussie cheer, on Day Two of the Etchells World Championship. Noel ‘Nitro’ Drennan, has raced Etchells with Dennis Connor and John Bertrand, and his experience showed today, nailing the pin end of the start to win Race Three by a han…
The 2016 Etchells World Championship started in earnest yesterday, with two intensely competitive races in the Central Solent. It took four attempts to get the fleet away for Race One and the U-Flag start produced several casualties, including reigning…
