Global technical sailing brand, Helly Hansen, has announced its sponsorship of the VR FX Girls, for their upcoming racing HH-334 lowseason. The VR FX Girls – Bryony Bennett-Lloyd and Polly Jarman – will be sailing in the Female Olympic Skiff Class, the 49er FX and together with Helly Hansen, share a love of the…
Competitors pitched up at Lymington Town Sailing Club on Sunday morning to readings of 26kn gusting 34kn on the Solent. After some debate and chin rubbing the sensible decision was made to cancel all racing for the day. However, undeterred, a valiant posse of four RS Aero sailors pointed out that they all had the…
The Brewin Dolphin Commodores’ Cup is the Royal Ocean Racing Club’s (RORC) biennial flagship event for national teams with amateur crews. The international offshore regatta comprises a tough mix of inshore and offshore racing and is an intense seven-day programme that pits three-boat teams against one another to accrue overall team points. For the next…
In this episode sailors competing in Antigua Sailing Week and locals alike blow off some steam with a whole host of party games on Pigeon Beach. We also follow the thrills and spills of the invitational regatta, The Nonsuch Bay RS Elite Challenge and go behind the scenes of the Orange Limited GreenTeam helping to…
The Awards Ceremony for the 48th edition of Antigua Sailing Week was held in Nelson’s Dockyard, English Harbour. The glittering prize giving was attended by His Excellency the Governor General of Antigua and Barbuda, Sir Rodney Williams, Asot Michael, Minister of Tourism, Economic Development, Investment and Energy and Kenneth Kwok, Vice President of Yida International…
Steel Pulse Lit up Nelson’s Dockyard and the Italian Stallions ruled in the Nonsuch Bay RS Elite Challenge. Tuesday April 28 – Thousands of people packed out Nelson’s Dockyard Marina for the massive live music night at Antigua Sailing Week. Locals and sailors were in a party mood for a memorable evening and the main…
It was either WindGuru predicting we would have a cracking weekend of sailing ahead, or the half price rum happy hour on Saturday night, that tempted 24 RS800s to make the trip to Stokes Bay Sailing Club last weekend. Day 1 was on-shore about 12-15 kts and reigning National Champions Roger Phillips and Will Crocker…
The Kent based Powerboat Racing Team of Jelf Racing will this weekend (2nd/3rd May) Power their way into the first round of the 2015 Powerboat GP British Racing Championships. The team that consists of five individual drivers will battle it out at the opening round of the championship at the Lancashire GP hosted by Lancashire…
The world’s largest, most diverse fleet of offshore racing yachts will set sail from the Solent on 16th August in the Royal Ocean Racing Club’s biennial Rolex Fastnet Race. 2015 marks the 90th anniversary of the Royal Ocean Racing Club and with it a record-sized fleet with as many as 350 boats is expected to…
Lloyd Thornburg’s MOD70, Phaedo^3 has smashed the race record for the Guadeloupe to Antigua Race, completing the 42-mile course in 1 hour, 27 minutes, 0 seconds, at an astonishing average speed of 28 knots and a top speed of 34 knots. Any record that has lasted over 10 years is hard to beat. Back in…
