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…
It’s been a season of real highs and lows as the P1 SuperStock and AquaX UK Championships head to Bournemouth for the fourth and final round of the season. The teams and riders have tackled everything, from choppy seas in Scarborough to steady conditions under the sun last weekend in Cardiff Bay. Now it’s time…
Nils Jollife and Dave Jarrett are the overnight leaders after day one of the RS Vareo Volvo Noble Marine National Championship being held at Llangdegfedd Sailing club over the Bank Holiday weekend. A warm but overcast day saw a fleet of 26 Vareos (the largest for a good few years) take to the water of…
After two days of tricky shifting breeze in the Solent, the New Zealand Team racing Feng Shui of Andrew Wills, Anatole Masfen and Matthew Kelway, has won the 2016 Etchells Open European Championship. The team from Royal Akarana Yacht Club scored no worse than a seventh, in the four race series, to win the first…
Just because you can doesn’t mean you should. Overall it had been a great event. Once the dust has settled nobody really cares or remembers who gets to etch their name on the winner’s trophy. What people remember (or at least the sixteen brave folk that ventured out on the final day will) is…
Thanks to the weekend entries, a larger fleet of 42 RS 800s left the beach (mostly) on time and headed out to the promised 9-11 knt NE breeze. However, on arriving at the committee boat the breeze had built to a steady 15 kts+. Pete Barton and Chris Feibusch quickly settled in to the increasing…
The wind arrived at last on day three for a four race extravaganza. Race four saw Robbie choose the least favoured route to the right of the beat to clear the fleet at the windward mark. He held the lead to the finish. Big waves and traffic made for some white knuckle rides. Jerry Wales…
Day One Thursday morning dawned with light airs and a forecast for light and variable breeze throughout the day. After a couple of hours postponement and some last minute bumbling the fleet took to the water in the vain hope of the breeze filling in. It didn’t but the Ians were improved… Day Two More…
Abersoch delivers again. Great venue, wind and company made for a most enjoyable week’s sailing. Three RS300s formed part of a 22 strong mixed single handed fleet including a wide range of boats from Musto Skiffs to Byte C11s. The early part of the week was dominated by the Musto with 3 bullets. It took…
The weather gods provided the Royal Southern Yacht Club, one of the Cowes Combined Clubs that run the annual Cowes Week Regatta, the sort of summer event they used to get a decade ago! Conditions combined to produce a Cowes Week as good, if not better than, most of us can remember and the Royal…
