Storm Katie rampaged through the UK over the Easter weekend creating havoc. None the less, 9 RS Aeros made it out at Keyhaven with 3 on Friday being joined by a further 6 on Monday. Ahead of the storm and under clear blue skies Andrew Snell had built up a good lead in Friday’s 16…
Tuesday March, 29, 2016, Tortola, British Virgin Islands – The BVI Sailing Festival Round Tortola Race for the Nanny Cay Cup and Nanny Cay Challenge started promptly at 09:30 on Tuesday morning in seas a little rougher than normal due to last week’s high winds, and an easterly breeze of 18+ knots. The trimaran Triple…
Over the weekend of 19/20th March, the travelling RS Aero fleet ventured to Grafham Water with 20 Aeros contesting the Magic Marine Spring Champs, our ninth and final event of the 2015/16 Winter Traveller Series. It had been a mainly windy series to date, with the Tiger Trophy, Steve Nicholson, Bloody Mary and Roadford Rocket to…
If traditionally the RORC Easter Challenge is the Royal Ocean Racing Club’s coaching regatta, today’s lesson centred upon heavy weather sailing technique. As the fleet returned to yesterday’s start area around Peel Bank, conditions were sunny and relatively benign, but with giant grey clouds looming. During today’s one race, a squall stuck down the fleet…
With gale force gusts forecast for the afternoon of Easter Saturday, one long race on a round the cans course in the central/eastern Solent was held today at the Royal Ocean Racing Club’s Easter Challenge. Despite this, there were leader changes in two of the four classes. In the FAST40+ class, Peter Morton on his…
This Friday’s opening regatta of the Royal Ocean Racing Club’s domestic calendar, the RORC Easter Challenge, provides an opportunity for the 50 or so crews to ramp up their programs for the 2016 season. To help, for the three day duration of the regatta the RORC lays on free coaching, led by the eminent Jim…
Lloyd Thornburg’s American MOD70 Phaedo3 will be attempting a record run from Antigua to Bermuda this April with a view to joining the Antigua Bermuda Race next year. Phaedo3 has set multiple world records over the past 12 months, including the Antigua to Newport passage, taking just 3 days, 5 hours, 55 minutes and 12…
High speed, adrenalin pumping, ultra-competitive racing came to the Solent today in what many agree is the most exciting development to have taken place in big boat keel boat racing in the UK for decades. The long-awaited advent of competition for the new FAST40+s, the big boat class at the Royal Ocean Racing Club’s Easter…
RS Sailing and the RS500 Class Association are aiming to mobilise the RS500 club fleets this year, and tempt new sailors to the class. Dinghy show sales and enquiries certainly suggested a renewed interest in the class, and RS Sailing are supporting the initiative with charter boats available for training and the Nationals. The key…
For three days over the bank holiday weekend, the yachting world’s eyes will be glued to the Solent as the Fast 40+ class makes its debut en masse at the Royal Ocean Racing Club’s domestic season opener, the RORC Easter Challenge. Between eight and 10 Fast 40+s will be competing and with the fleet expected…
