Cowes Week Ltd, organisers of the world’s best-known sailing regatta and highlight of the British Sporting Summer, are delighted to announce another addition to their family of sponsors, as telecoms operator aql joins Cowes Week as the Official Communications Sponsor. aql is a specialist communications provider powering most of the mobile messaging and IP telephony…
The second German RS Aero Regatta of 2017 was held in Haltern am See near Dortmund on 13/14 May. Thirteen RS Aeros entered with the organising club Segelclub Prinzensteg. In extremely good conditions, partly sunny, partly cloudy, at winds of around 10 knots, four of the overall six triangular route races were completed on the…
Esprit de Corps IV, skippered by Gilles Barbot finished the Antigua Bermuda Race on Thursday May, 18 after seven days at sea. For the last day and a half of the race, the French Canadian Volvo 60 had six extra passengers; Les Crane and the crew of Monterey who had to abandon their sinking Farr…
The magnificent 162ft schooner Eleonora, an exact replica of the 1910 Herreshoff-designed Westward took Line Honours for the Classic Class, finishing the Antigua Bermuda Race just before sunset yesterday, Wednesday 17th May. Eleonora is one of the most famous and best-known racing schooners in the world and will remain in Bermuda for the duration of…
Arnaud Delamare and Eric Mordret’s JPK 10.80 Dream Pearls has won the Royal Ocean Racing Club’s De Guingand Bowl Race. In second place was Noel Racine’s JPK 10.10 Foggy Dew and third overall was the British Two Handed team of Ian Hoddle and Ollie Wyatt, racing Sunfast 3600 Game On. Line Honours for the De…
Olá o meu nome é Fernando Gamboa, sou de Lisboa em Portugal… ohh wait I need to write this in English not Portuguese and it needs to be funny! Oh dear, a recipe for disaster! So the race report for the open meeting in Reading Sailing Club… When I said that I was going to…
Start: Saturday May 13, 2017 Flexi-Course starting from Royal Yacht Squadron Line The Royal Ocean Racing Club’s offshore racing season continues this weekend with the 4th race of the RORC Season’s Points Championship. Over 80 yachts are expected to take part with the vast majority of the crews made up of passionate Corinthian sailors with…
RS Vareo Magic Marine Grand Prix Event Number One Race One: The wind was building through the race. Cheryl Wood started well but went too far left allowing Luke Fisher to take a small lead on the pack at the windward mark. Nick Crickmore gybed off from the rear of the pack and caught…
The penultimate day of racing at the 50th edition of Antigua Sailing Week was held in near perfect conditions off the south coast of Antigua. The Caribbean surf and sea state had moderated in comparison to the start of the regatta, but the strength of the competition was undiminished. Apart from the Club Class, all…
The third day of racing at the 50th edition of Antigua Sailing Week was once again blessed with glorious conditions. Squally pewter skies cleared shortly after the first warning gun and the breeze slowly woke up as the skies cleared, touching 17 knots at times. Ten teams went out to the race course unbeaten, but…
