Television coverage of the J.P. Morgan Asset Management Round the Island Race (RTI) is being significantly extended in 2015 to include live streaming of the Race to a global audience. A new, dedicated outside-broadcast production unit will provide live, commentated coverage of the starts and early finishes on Race day, Saturday 27th June. The programme…
Royal Southern Match Cup World Champion Ian Williams takes on rising stars in home waters Just a year ago, Ian Williams lay second in the ISAF Open rankings. Now he is World Champion both as No.1 in the rankings and the five times winner of the World Match Racing Tour. Ian is top ranked at the Royal…
This bank holiday weekend (24/25 May) the RYA Powerboat GP British Championship heads to Oulton Broad, Suffolk for the Lowestoft Grand Prix where the competitors are gearing up for the second round of the competition. 2015 sees the Powerboat GP Championship back, bigger and better with a 6 round British Championship series in…
Chelmarsh Sailing Club in the heart of rural Shropshire saw the first event of the inaugural RS Aero UK Series kindly sponsored by Magic Marine http://www.magicmarineshop.co.uk . A forecast of 16mph with gusts into the 20s encouraged a healthy fleet of 25 sailors from around the UK to this picturesque piece of water. The direction…
As the J.P. Morgan Asset Management Round the Island Race entries hit the 900+ mark in early May, the Race Management team at the Island Sailing Club (ISC) is especially pleased to see a number of Race Partners and their boats lining up for some exciting Race action on Saturday 27th June. Haven Knox-Johnston…
The 2015 Gazprom Swan 60 World Championship has been won for a third consecutive year by Bronenosec. Igor Frolov, Executive Director at Saint Petersburg Yacht Club skippered the team to yet another victory this year at the new Mediterranean location of Marina di Scarlino. Igor Frolov has been in high spirits all week with a…
It’s been a busy and exciting week at the Volvo Ocean Race Newport Stopover and sparks will fly when the US Moth Class heads out to race on the waters surrounding the Race Village at Fort Adams State Park for the 11th Hour Cup, from Friday May 15 to Sunday May 17. An international fleet of…
St Katharine Docks has been confirmed as berthing partner for the Thames Trafalgar Race for the third year running. The collaboration between the iconic St Katharine Docks in the heart of London and joint race organisers the Little Ship Club and Erith Yacht Club provides competitors with an exclusive berthing deal at Central London’s only…
The MotoSurf GP World Championship 2015 kicked off in Cancun Mexico from the 24th to the 26th of April. According to Philipp Wolf, President of the International Motorized Surfing Federation (FIDSM), the event was a huge success and managed to generate more buzz than ever before. “We managed to attract more international media attention with…
Always keen to innovate, the RS300 Class ran its first ever slalom championship at Bristol Corinthian YC on 9 May. The wind was fruity and from the west. This, and the extremely compact course, heightened the ‘highdramaadrenalinepumpinghugegrinshortcoursepointandshootcrashandburnhopeandpray’ style of tack and gybe racing on offer. What it was all about was this. Two parallel lines…
