Temperatures were scorching and so was the on water action as Kent based Powerboat Racing Team Jelf Racing headed to Bedford last weekend (4/5 August) for the 2018 Powerboat GP RYA British Sprint Championships. With team racers competing in four of the seven championship classes the team had their work cut out to make it…
Niklas Zennstrom’s Carkeek designed Rán 7 has won Round 4 of the FAST40+ Class Circuit at Lendy Cowes Week. Rán 7 came from behind to take the lead from Peter Morton’s CF40+ Girls on Film, which was runner-up. Bas de Voogd’s Carkeek MkIII Hitchhiker worse score in the seven race series was fourth, securing the…
A whopping 205 RS Aeros representing 16 nations are in Weymouth for the Class’ 2nd World Championship. Racing over 3 fleets RS Aero 5, 7 and 9 and sharing the week with the 170 boat RS Tera Worlds makes this week a huge start to the 3 week long RS anniversary Games. A record number…
The second day of Lendy Cowes Week delivered fantastic conditions for the FAST40+ Class. An easterly breeze held out for the duration of the day, and with a sea state enhanced by wind over tide mixed with tropical temperatures, the Solent was the perfect playground. PRO Stuart Childerley go the fleet away on time for…
The opening day of Lendy Cowes Week delivered a gloriously sunny and tactically challenging day of racing for the 35 classes taking part. The first start, for the 36-strong J/70 fleet, was on the Royal Yacht Squadron line in a northerly breeze of 10 knots. The fleet bunched towards the favoured northerly end of the…
The 2018 Sevenstar Round Britain and Ireland Race is set to start from the Royal Yacht Squadron line at noon on Sunday 12th August, directly after Lendy Cowes Week. The 1,805 nautical mile race around Britain and Ireland is organised by the Royal Ocean Racing Club every four years and is considered to be one of…
The 2018 Channel Race proved to be the windiest race of the RORC Season’s Points Championship to date, with competitors reporting gusts of up to 40 knots and a short sharp sea state for the blast to Beachy Head and back to the Solent. Effectively a 150 nautical mile windward leeward course, only three yachts…
The second day of the 11th edition of Cowes Classics Week, the Red Funnel Race Day, saw the English heatwave continue unabated but with lighter winds than yesterday’s opening day. After a postponement of two hours, and more for some classes, racing got underway in the Solent when a steady south westerly set in during…
Henry Bagnall and his crew were celebrating their hard fought win in the 45 strong XOD class today on the opening day of Cowes Classics Week in spectacular sunshine and perfect south westerly 15 knot breezes. Explaining how he triumphed over such a large one design fleet Henry who was racing Fury, kindly loaned by…
With the best score of any of the 120 boats over the past week, Rory Fekkes’ Fn’Gr8 (Carrickfergus Sailing Club) has been confirmed as the overall winner of Volvo Cork Week following an intense three-race final day. The Antrim boat was a convincing overall winner to the week despite several other strong performances in other…
