The Royal Dart Yacht Club (RDYC) is one of nine clubs around the UK who are using the RORC Rating Office’s Start Up scheme to encourage members to race their boats using the Spinlock International Rating Rule (IRC) in 2016, and is now looking forward to a bumper number of RDYC members entering the IRC classes…
The 2016 RYA Powerboat GP Championship campaign headed to Chasewater Water Sports Park for the Chasewater Grand Prix last weekend (16/17 July) for the penultimate weekend in the British Championship. Four of the championship classes made the journey to the Staffordshire country park to battle it out for vital points in the championship as scores…
Looking at the Brewin Dolphin Commodores’ Cup results for the last eight years, GBR won in 2008, Ireland in 2010, then GBR again in 2012 and Ireland in 2014. Given this sequence it should be Britain’s turn to prevail once more in the Royal Ocean Racing Club’s biennial event for three boat teams with Corinthian…
The third edition of the Royal Ocean Racing Club’s RORC Transatlantic Race will start on Saturday 26 November 2016 and the line-up will include MOD70s and Maxi yachts vying for the prestigious IMA Transatlantic Trophy awarded to the line honours monohull winner. The usual diverse range of highly competitive, experienced offshore RORC racers will also…
Lighter breezes and flatter seas greeted the 188-strong fleet of classic yachts in Charles Stanley Cowes Classics Week, sailing for the Harken Trophy today, on the penultimate day of the series. The 2016 International Tempest World Championship, which is part of the event, had another challenging day in the 8-10 knot breeze. “The tides are…
Day 1 Well here we are in Wales, the RS100 fleet visiting the home of the UK’s decent football team to pay their respects to Bale and Co. Annoyingly, it appears that its not only football and rugby the Welsh can do – the Llandegfedd SC 100 team also seem to know both how to…
Day two of the points series for the Cowes Classics Week classes got underway today in lighter breezes with some course-changing shifts which made and lost race positions. A tactic of heading up the left hand side of the beat on the windward-leeward course for the 50-strong XOD fleet put Ben Childerley’s X2 Palassie into…
This weekend (16/17 July) the Powerboat GP Championship heads to Chasewater Country Park for the penultimate championship round as competitors battle it out at the Chasewater Grand Prix. All six classes will be back in action with as the competitors chase the chequered flag for the all-important championship points. With 61 points up for grabs…
Winds pushing over 30 knots and a choppy Solent sea meant that 188 yachts, all designed before 1975, decided to stay in the safety of their moorings this morning (Monday) on what should have been the opener of the Charles Stanley Cowes Classics Week. Eight amongst them are more than 100 years old, like Peggy…
With the deadline for entries into the 2016 Brewin Dolphin Commodores’ Cup now passed, eight three boat teams are set to contest the Royal Ocean Racing Club’s biennial championship for Corinthian crews, taking place out of Cowes over 23-30th July. Teams for the 13th Brewin Dolphin Commodores’ Cup, comprise three from Team France, two from…
