The Gazprom Swan 60 Class is firing up for its final showdown of the 2015 circuit. Racing across four events since April, the class is now into final scoring to ultimately crown the 2015 Gazprom Swan 60 Champion. Competition has taken the global entries to Palma de Mallorca Spain, Scarlino in Italy for the Gazprom Swan 60…
The bank holiday weekend saw 71 racers from 14 countries travel to the National Watersports Centre at Nottingham for the UIM Powerboat World Championships and Nottingham GP. Two World Championships titles were up for grabs in the UIM OSY400 and GT30 class, in addition to the UIM GT15 European championship, Round 5 & 6 of…
Kent based Jelf Racing Team this weekend headed to Nottingham for the UIM World & European Powerboat Championships and British Nottingham GP for 3 days of fast and frantic bank holiday action. First up was the Junior Jelf racers of George Elmore and Jonathan Brewer who were competing for the UIM European GT15 Championship. George…
Garmin, the global leader in satellite navigation, returns as Official Marine Electronics Partner to the 10th Clipper Round the World Yacht Race – the world’s longest ocean race. Garmin will also return as a Team Sponsor in the Clipper 2015-16 Round the World Yacht Race, following the brand’s successful sponsorship in the last edition of…
The inaugural RS Aero UK National Championships kicks of this weekend I Weymouth with a staggering 73 entries so far. Just 14 months after the first boats were delivered to owners there are already 360 RS Aeros at 130 locations in the UK alone. The Class is fortunate to have their first champs hosted by…
If you were blessed enough to pick your ideal ingredients for a class championships you would surely start with one of the very best sailing venues in the country in Weymouth Bay and Portland Harbour. You would also want (but of course this is just fantasy) the support of the leading brands in their category…
After 22 years at the RORC Rating Office, Mike Urwin, its Technical Director, is stepping aside to relinquish the day to day running of the Rating Office to James Dadd, 44, with effect from 1st September. Mike will continue to work as a part-time consultant for the foreseeable future and James will take overall technical…
Gonzalo Botin, campaigning Tales II, a design by his brother Marcellino, returned to the Rolex Fastnet Race and succeeded in making reparations after finishing second Class40 in 2013. This year’s race was no less intense for the Spanish team, who’s crew was the same as it was two years ago, including round the world sailor…
Battling for line honours in the Royal Ocean Racing Club’s Rolex Fastnet Race continued all the way to the Plymouth finish line last night in both the maxi-multihull and monohull divisions. Among the multihulls, Yann Guichard and Dona Bertarelli’s 40m Spindrift 2, found herself locked in a match race with two time Route du Rhum winner…
With the latest deluge of arrivals in the Rolex Fastnet Race, overall victory is currently looking like it might be claimed, in this 90th anniversary running of the Royal Ocean Racing Club’s flagship offshore race, by a fast boat in the 35-40ft range. Most promising at present is Gery Trentesaux’s new JPK 10.80, Courrier Du…
