Entries for the world-famous Round the Island Race opened at 00.01 this morning, 19 March. Organised by the much-respected Island Sailing Club, the Round the Island has always been one of the UK’s largest participation sporting events and regularly attracts over 1,500 boats and thousands of sailors. This year the race will be held on…
We were hoping that we could all go sailing but unfortunately the covid virus and the protocols have made this impossible. The Chairman of the Antigua Classic Yacht Regatta, Carlo Falcone and the committee have decided to cancel the 2021 ACYR and hope that everything will go back to normal in 2022. For classic yachts already in Antigua, we are…
The J/70 UK Class is looking forward to an exciting season of racing for 2021. Following the UK Government announcement of the roadmap to cautiously ease lockdown restrictions in England and following guidance from the RYA. The J/70 UK Class will have some coronavirus protocols in place, and we are planning a full season of…
In this August’s Rolex Fastnet Race, one of the most popular ‘classes within a class’ will be the Performance 40. At present more than fifty of these racer-cruisers and cruiser-racers are currently entered in the Royal Ocean Racing Club’s pinnacle event. So, what is the Performance 40, why has it struck such a chord and…
After four years of dedication, hard work, grit and hundreds of thousands of man hours from the 100+ strong team, INEOS TEAM UK’s 36th America’s Cup campaign came to an end today as Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli won both races in light wind in Race Day 4 of the PRADA Cup Final to win the…
British solo skipper Pip Hare, 47, fulfilled the dream that she has held since she was a teenage sailor in her native East Anglia, England when she crossed the finish line of the Vendée Globe solo non-stop round the world race at 00:57:30 hrs on the 12th February, emerging from a bitterly cold Bay of…
Boris Herrmann is the new IMOCA Globe Series champion, after a remarkably consistent campaign by his Team Malizia over the last three years. The championship is calculated by accumulating the scores of skippers and their teams in the major IMOCA Class races, among them the Vendée Globe, the Route du Rhum, the Transat Jacques Vabre,…
Race day 2, sponsored by Oris Swiss watches, and the final day of the third annual Caribbean Multihull Challenge. This weekend was full of action, with lots of tactical decisions and more than anything, a ton of fun. It was handicap racing at its best with a full mixture of boats in the racing class,…
The Groundhog Day Distance Challenge supported by Intensity Sails was a lot of fun, held mid-week within the RS Aero South Florida Race Week. Tony Corkell designed an interesting zig-zag course that had us scooting all over the bay in a shifty 5-18 knot NWly breeze, after being postponed from the previous day due to…
Kelly Park, Merritt Island, Florida – 23/24 January 2021 A relaxed regatta hosted by the Indian River Yacht Club racing on the Banana River from Merritt Island, Florida. Fleets of both RS Aeros and Lasers enjoyed pleasant medium breezes, a nice temperature and blue skies made for an enjoyable weekend on the water. RS Aero fleet local, Gregory…
