The Powerboat GP British RYA Powerboat Championship comes to a close this weekend (17/18 September) as Britain’s top Powerboat racers head to Stewartby for the final event of the season the Bedford Grand Prix. 50 competitors have battled it out in 6 classes over the course of the summer at 4 separate Grand Prix weekends…
Saturday 10th September dawned somewhat grey and damp but that didn’t affect the spirits of the RS Aero fleet at Burghfield. The strong home fleet was complemented with many of the usual suspects, but also several new faces including new additions to the fleet from Rickmansworth and Bexhill in their sparkling new RS Aeros. With…
Porto Cervo, Italy. 12th September 2016. Mike Slade’s Leopard 3 wins the prestigious Maxi Racing Class at the 27th edition of the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup. After a fascinating duel between Mike Slade’s British Maxi Leopard 3 and George David’s American Maxi Rambler 88, the winner of the biggest prize in Maxi Racing, hung on…
Big breeze arrived at the 2016 Etchells World Championship today; fully powered up, punching through Solent chop upwind and pulling the trigger down wind, several teams experienced gear failure. The conditions were unexpected, 25 knots of solid breeze with bullets of pressure, sending the wind speed past 30 knots. Race 6 was completed, guaranteeing a…
The day dawned bright and sunny with some sporty gusts across the dinghy park to add a touch of panic to the 28 sailors preparing their weapons for the wars ahead. There was much banter in the boat park as old friends met and new alliances formed among the gold and silver fleets helped by…
It was a dramatic finish to the third day of the Etchells World Championship, sponsored by Red Funnel Ferries. John Bertrand, representing the Royal Brighton Yacht Club (AUS), was initially disqualified from Race 5, for being over early on a U-Flag start, and then re-instated after the Race Committee reviewed the decision. “We have cameras…
The forecast for the four days of the event has been changing on a daily basis over the last week so it really should have come as no surprise when the weather, itself, couldn’t make its mind up what it wanted to do on day 1one. The day dawned brilliantly sunny, much better than the…
The 2016 Etchells World Championship started in earnest yesterday, with two intensely competitive races in the Central Solent. It took four attempts to get the fleet away for Race One and the U-Flag start produced several casualties, including reigning Etchells World Champions, Skip Dieball, Jon McClean and Jeff Eiber North Cape YC (USA). “Yes, we…
There was some more Aussie cheer, on Day Two of the Etchells World Championship. Noel ‘Nitro’ Drennan, has raced Etchells with Dennis Connor and John Bertrand, and his experience showed today, nailing the pin end of the start to win Race Three by a hansom margin. Drennan’s bullet lifts his team above John Bertrand, but…
Quantum Key West Race Week has reached agreement with Gill North America to be the technical apparel supplier, a Platinum-level sponsorship for the upcoming 30th anniversary race week, scheduled January 15-20, 2017. Gill will provide all clothing for race week officials and official retail merchandise for competitors and fans. Gill joins an elite group of…
