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…
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…
Peter Holmberg, the Caribbean’s most famous sailor is living proof that ordinary people are capable of extraordinary things, and at this year’s BVI Spring Regatta & Sailing Festival he was awarded for his services to the sailing world. “Every year we present The Guy Eldridge Spirt of Enthusiasm Award to someone who shines in the…
The 45th Edition of Antigua Sailing Week will open for registration on Friday, April 24. Antigua Sailing Week is the longest running and most famous regatta in the Caribbean and this year the number of entries has eclipsed recent years with 121 entries. Antigua Sailing Week is recognised the world over and the participants come…
Winner of the last two double-handed races in the IMOCA class, the Transat Jacques Vabre and the Barcelona World Race, Jean Le Cam also has high ambitions sailing solo and intends to compete for the fourth successive time in the Vendée Globe.And he isn’t just planning to be there to make up the numbers… He…
There are three standout moments in the Volvo Ocean Race; the start, the finish, and rounding Cape Horn. Leaving from Auckland, New Zealand, Leg 5 is what every sailor dreams of. Descending into the Southern Ocean through the Roaring Forties, and down into the Furious Fifties, this is the only ocean in the world where…
