Winds of up to 50 knots meant the Solent was almost eerily empty today, devoid of the nearly 700 raceboats entered in Cowes Week, the plethora of cruising yachts normally found on an August weekend, and even the Red Jet fast ferries. With the weather m…
Hamble River Sailing Club Centenary Founders Day Sail Past
Hamble River Sailing Club Centenary Founders Day Sail Past
Hamble River Sailing Club, or ‘HRSC’ to all who know it, celebrated 100 years since its formation on Tuesday 6th August with a Sail Past of 100 boats including dinghies, yachts, RIBs and launches on the evening of the very same date 100 years on since…
Alex Thomson Racing – Stunning new Hugo Boss boat hits the water
Alex Thomson Racing – Stunning new Hugo Boss boat hits the water
Alex Thomson Racing has announced the completion of the new racing yacht, which it hopes will lead the team to victory in the 2020-21 Vendée Globe round-the-world race. The IMOCA boat, HUGO BOSS, is the product of more than two years of painstaking des…
Rolex Fastnet Race: MACIF pipped at the post by Maxi Edmond de Rothschild in Ultim competition
Rolex Fastnet Race: MACIF pipped at the post by Maxi Edmond de Rothschild in Ultim competition
The 32m long Ultim trimarans laid on a spectacular finish in this 48th Rolex Fastnet Race resulting in MACIF, the leader since rounding the Fastnet Rock earlier this morning, being beaten to the finish line in the last breath of the race by her arch-ri…