Thirteen examples of the FAST40+ Class will make up the largest Grand Prix class, racing at Lendy Cowes Week. From the 29th July to 4th August, the FAST40+ Class will be the first start of every day at Britain’s most famous regatta. Racing a mixture of tight Solent courses, and longer coastal races, Lendy Cowes Week marks…
2017 Cowes Dinard St Malo Race Course: Cowes – Casquets – Les Hanois – St Malo. Approximately 151 miles. Organised by the Royal Ocean Racing Club in association with UNCL, Yacht Club de Dinard, Société Nautique de la Baie de St. Malo, Junior Offshore Group (JOG) and the Royal Yacht Squadron. George David’s American Canting…
Last weekend (1/2 July) saw 10 competitors from Great Britain, Poland and Estonia head to Stewartby, Bedford for the UIM GT30 European Championships. Competitors would compete over the weekend first battling for pole position during qualifying and then competing in four heats of racing with the best three heats to count. Quickly getting down to…
Start: Friday 7th July. First Warning Signal: 0950, RYS Cowes, to the West. Cowes – Casquets – Les Hanois – St Malo. Approximately 151 miles. Organised by the Royal Ocean Racing Club in association with UNCL, Yacht Club de Dinard, Société Nautique de la Baie de St. Malo, Junior Offshore Group (JOG) and the Royal…
The RS100s were joined by the RS Vareos at Llandegfedd on July 1st and 2nd for some classic snakes and ladder sailing. In the absence of your normal correspondents the literary genius Clive and smarty pants David the report was written by a small committee with a game of pass the tablet. The course for…
Proudly sponsored by Raymarine, a division of FLIR Systems, for over ten years, the 2017 Young Sailor Trophy at Round the Island Race in association with Cloudy Bay was presented to the fastest young skipper at this year’s race, Harvey Attrill of Arun Rockall who completed the course around the Isle of Wight with a finishing time…
Race record set by multihull MOD70 Concise 10 beating Phaedo3 by an extraordinary one minute It was an absolutely flying start from the MOD70 Concise 10. Yesterday evening nobody thought that the course record set by another MOD70, Phaedo3, last year would fall. But their fast time to the Needles and rapid progress down the back…
How best to describe the annual Round the Island Race in association with Cloudy Bay in one word, one that neatly encapsulates the passion, competition, thrills and enjoyment shared by thousands of sailors each year? It’s always EXCITING! The Race Management team led by Rear Commodore Sailing Dave Atkinson at the Island Sailing Club in Cowes on…
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While conditions on day one built to a brutal 30 knots, today it was equally challenging at the Royal Ocean Racing Club’s IRC National championship. There was marginally less wind, but stronger gusts coming through in the squalls. Once again two windward-leewards were held followed by a longer round the cans race. Today it was…
Team AkzoNobel, the Dutch ocean racing team preparing to compete in the 2017-18 edition of the Volvo Ocean Race, has christened its newly built Volvo Ocean 65 racing yacht at a spectacular event in the Netherlands. The ceremony took place at the team’s home base in The Hague, four months almost to the day before…
