Powerboat Racer Ben Jelf (18, Kent) this week has made the long journey to the Lake District for the 48th Annual Powerboat Records Week which will take place from Monday 29th October to 2nd November 2018 on Coniston Water. As proceedings got underway this morning conditions were near perfect and on Ben’s first run of…
15 RS Aeros with 8 visitors from as far away as Yorkshire and South Wales joined 7 Chelmarsh RS Aeros for the 2018 RS Aero Open at picturesque Chelmarsh Sailing Club in Shropshire. In a light and shifty breeze, Race Officer Steve Taylor got the first of 2 morning back to back races off with…
In response to the remarkable growth in the multihull category, the Sint Maarten Yacht Club has designed an important annual event celebrating the differences between a traditional yacht race and a race series designed for the special attributes of multihulls. And accompanying the hot racing the club will mount a major celebration of multihulls in…
2019 will be the 20th anniversary of the RS800 class. To celebrate, the European Championships in July is returning to Lake Garda, spiritual home of the RS800, and an awesome Nationals is being planned at Eastbourne SSC in early September. The Nationals will include a Reunion event for all past and current RS800 sailors, details…
The organizers of the St. Maarten Heineken Regatta are proud to announce, that the 39th edition will be held at the Princess Port de Plaisance Resort, Casino and the Yacht Club. In addition to its central, secure and convenient location, the Yacht Club Port de Plaisance will be offering 35 slips of free dockage in…
The 2019 edition of the Rolex Fastnet Race will start on Saturday 3rd August 2019, which is two weeks earlier than the original published date. Unusually, the race will now run the week before Lendy Cowes Week, whose dates remain unchanged, starting on Saturday 10th August. This break with tradition, in consultation with Lendy Cowes Week,…
Nineteen sailors signed up for the RS Aero Northern Championships at East Lothain Yacht Club in the seaside town of North Berwick. Six local sailors were joined by visitors from clubs as far apart as the Isle of Man, Warrington, Yorkshire, Lincolnshire and Aberdeen. Several arrived Friday and sampled the delights of the Puffin and…
Supported by Rooster, IT Computers and SpeedSix The perfect weekend at Lymington! 39 young RS Aero sailors ventured to Lymington for the 2nd annual RS Aero UK Youth Champs with Class racing set over the three RS Aero Classes providing good sailing for all sizes of youngsters. The entrants were aged from 13 to 21…
Organised by the Royal Ocean Racing Club, in association with the Yacht Club de Cherbourg, and the Royal Yacht Squadron. DATE: Friday 7th September – first start 18:00 COURSE: Cowes – Cherbourg DISTANCE: 80nm The Cherbourg Race is the last of the UK-based races of the RORC Season’s Points Championship with the final race, the…
For 3 weeks in August WPNSA, the 2012 Olympic Sailing venue, played host to the largest one-design dinghy event the UK has ever seen. The RS Games celebrated almost 25 years of RS sailing and brought together all the RS racing fleets and sailors aged 8 to 80 from across the world. 1300 sailors in…
