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Prince Michael of Kent GCVO is Race Starter for the J.P. Morgan Asset Management Round the Island Race July 2 | 09/06/2016The Island Sailing Club in Cowes, Isle of Wight, is delighted that Prince Michael of Kent GCVO, has been confirmed as the Race Starter for the 2016 J.P. Morgan Asset Management Round the Island Race on Saturday, 2nd July 2016. Prince Michael will join Race officials on the Royal Yacht Squadron platform ... -
Ned Collier Wakefield: MOD70 round Barbados | 15/02/2016Well that was intense. 12 hard fought for seconds for the win. In idyllic conditions, Tony Lawsons MOD 70 Ms. Barbados blasted across the finish line in Carlisle Bay in front of the Barbados cruising club to smash the Round Barbados race record by over two hours and claim the prized scalp of ... -
Mini Transat leg 2 report | 21/12/2015The second leg of the Mini Transat started on 31st October, just over a month after I finished the first leg, in order to wait for a good weather window. The gap between the two legs was a very odd period, half the competitors went back home to work or see ... -
Catch up with Lizzy Foreman prior to Leg 2 Mini Transat Iles de Guadeloupe start on Saturday 31st Oct | 28/10/2015Peta Stuart-Hunt chats with the 25 year-old British solo sailor Lizzy Foreman before she sets sail on the final 2,770nm leg of the Mini Transat Iles de Guadeloupe to Guadeloupe on 31st October in 'Hudson Wight', Hull 633, a 10-year old Series Mini 6.50m. Lizzy is expecting to take ...
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Leg 1 report | 21/10/2015I’ve been working towards the Mini Transat now for three years. In 2013 I was part of the Artemis Offshore Academy sailing their Pogo 2. Having joined with one year to the Transat it was always going to be difficult to get a place in the prestigious race. In order to ...
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The 2015 Student Yachting World Cup (SYWoC), an ISAF-recognised event hosted and run by students for students, is being held in France between 13-20 October and this year will host around 150 competitors from 15 countries. Four UK University teams are entered and every one is either skippered or crewed by a ...
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Sailing Networks sponsors Hamble Big Boat Championship Sailing Networks, the world's largest networking website for sailors and the sailing community, is proud to announce sponsorship of the Hamble Big Boat Championship 2015, organised and run by the Hamble River Sailing Club. The Sailing Networks Hamble Big Boat Championship 2015 sees ...
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Team Volvo sailors Giles Scott and Hannah Mills of the British Sailing Team will be taking to the water on board the IMOCA 60 JP Morgan Asset Management Rosalba in this year’s J.P. Morgan Asset Management Round the Island Race, organised by the Island Sailing Club. Both are taking ...
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The J.P. Morgan Asset Management Round the Island Race – an every-day story of racing folk… | 15/06/2015…until, that is, you throw in a handful of high-tech speedsters, glamorous classics, famous sailing families, and some Olympic sports stars, all competing in this annual sporting institution Quite probably stealing much of the limelight from the GC32 class of six competing in this year’s J.P. Morgan Asset Management Round the Island ...
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Sam Goodchild: Watching from the grandstand | 12/06/2015The last time I followed the Solitaire du Figaro as a spectator was back in 2010 when Britain’s Jonny Malbon was doing it for the second time and he was the only Brit in the field. How things have changed now, with eight British sailors in this year’s 39-strong fleet. And for ... -
Jack Bouttell: Solitaire coming up fast | 18/05/2015As per normal, time has disappeared and the 2015 Solitaire du Figaro – Eric Bompard Cachemire is coming up fast. I only arrived in France in February, and since then it’s been non-stop. I finished my last race ahead of the Solitaire last Saturday and I’ll heading off to Bordeaux this ... -
On 15th May Sir Ben Ainslie, the most successful sailor in Olympic history, unveiled the restored bow section of a yacht owned by former Prime Minister Sir Edward Heath, which was wrecked in a storm in 1974, with the loss of two crew, Heath's godson Christopher Chadd, and Nigel Cumming. The ceremony ...
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Matt Reid won his last match racing outing at one of the RYA Winter Series events at WPNSA, and Annabel Vose won hers. They then came head to head in the final of the Royal Southern Match Cup Qualifier on Saturday 11 April in Hamble when Matt, after a seemingly ...
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2014, what a year! | 10/11/2014Well I was a little embarrassed when I realised that the last time I wrote a blog I was wondering what 2014 might bring! The year has certainly flown by and whilst I miss coaching the Chinese girls (Lijia Xu and Dongshuang Zhang, pictured above) I have had a great time with ... -
VOR Leg 1, Getting South, and West.. | 15/10/2014So the start of the mighty Volvo Ocean Race is well and truly under way now and I have to admit I have been a bit of an addict since the start, watching, reading and listening to every bit of media that comes off the boats! Some of the content is ... -
My Playbook Leg 1 VOR | 12/10/2014So the start of one of the greatest races/adventures in the world got under way yesterday, the Volvo Ocean Race. As a Figaro sailor the Volvo this time around has got a whole lot more interesting with the introduction of one design boats. The racing will be closer, and tactical options ...
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Unfinished Business | 01/08/2014Today marks a fantastic milestone and the start of a new partnership with the world’s leading manufacture of rugged mobile devices and accessories. With products sold in over 60 countries, Bullitt Group designs, manufactures and sells consumer electronic devices in partnership with some of the world’s most iconic brands, including Caterpillar. Tough, rugged and ... -
This year the J-Cup returns to the Royal Southern Yacht Club in Hamble and includes the Lombard-sponsored J/97 Championships and incorporates the J/109 UK National Championships. A record turnout is expected with over 60 boats already entered and organisers are looking forward to seeing some new, as well as some of ...
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Fuel Cell Systems Solent 6.50 Race Report | 12/05/2014On Saturday 3rd May, 5 Mini’s set off from the Royal Southern Yacht Club in Hamble in what was my first race of the year and first race in my new Mini. With a mix of both Solo and Double handed entries, as well as Series and Proto we were divided ... -
Amateur/Corinthian Class 40 skipper mixes it up with the pros, on the podium of the Trophée Guyader Twelve Class 40’s turned up for racing last week and over the long holiday weekend to contest the Trophée Guyader, in Douarnenez, which will be the site of the Class 40 Worlds later in ...
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High drama at Rio 2016 | 17/08/2016Tuesday's racing at Rio 2016 was one of the best ever with a Laser contest to rival the Ainslie-Scheidt spate of Sydney 2000, while oldest competitor, Santi Lange, claimed his third gong and first gold in the Nacra 17. There was equally stressful Medal Races in the Laser Radial while Giles ... -
Gold for Giles Scott with a day to spare | 10/08/2016Sunday's racing saw Britain's Giles Scott securing Finn gold before even sailing the medal race. There was no wind and then, suddenly, too much on Monday at Rio 2016. RYA Olympic Manager Stephen Park shares his thoughts on the Olympic venue and tells us of his expectations. Nick Dempsey discusses his fifth ...
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Vendee Globe warm-up | 09/06/2016Congratulations to Jérémie Beyou and Maître CoQ who came out on top in the IMOCA Ocean Masters New York-Vendee race. Seb Josse on Edmond de Rothschild was a close second (see our full report on this boat) and Alex Thomson on Hugo Boss, leader for most of the race, was third. ...
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Olympic classes Europeans | 18/04/2016The FAST40+ represents the most exciting development in UK keel boat sailing in years. See part 1 and part 2 of our assessment of it. The 49er/49erFX Europeans and 470 Europeans have concluded with a come from behind winner in the FX. On the final day of Les Voiles de St ...
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18ft skiff blast off on Sydney Harbour | 22/02/2016The JJ Giltinan Championship went to the wire with Lee Knapton’s team on Smeg claiming the effective 18ft skiff world championship. Nearby in Sydney, Alex Roepers’ Plenty, with Terry Hutchinson calling tactics, won the Rolex Farr 40 Worlds. 17 IMOCA 60s are entered in the inaugural Transat New York–Vendée warm-up for ...
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Rio 2016 favourites | 15/02/2016Incredibly, two Olympic teams - Billy Besson and Marie Riou in the Nacra 17 and Peter Burling and Blair Tuke in the 49er – have secured fourth consecutive World Championship victories making them surefire favourites for gold at Rio 2016. Richard Gorannsen’s Inga from Sweden (sailing with a largely Italian crew…) ...
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Artemis Racing comes good | 19/10/2015After Saturday's racing was canned at the Louis Vuitton America's Cup World Series in Bermuda through lack of wind (the second of six ACWS race days lost due to the conditions this season), Artemis Racing emerged as the worthy winner after three races on Sunday. The 18ft skiff season is underway ...
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Busy weekend for the foiling cats | 04/09/2015Emirates Team New Zealand came through to secure the America’s Cup World Series in Gothenberg, while Sultanate of Oman beat of a fast advancing Alinghi to win the Bullitt GC32 Racing Tour’s Trofeo di Roma. Congratulations to Andrea Rombelli’s STIG team which is the new Melges 32 World Champion. The Maxi ...
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Cowes Week kicks off | 10/08/2015Aberdeen Asset Management Cowes Week is underway. See the reports from day one and day two. A strong line-up is expected for Thursday’s Artemis Challenge, while next Sunday’s Rolex Fastnet Race will be the first event in the new IMOCA Ocean Masters World Championship for the IMOCA 60s. See the prospects for ...
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Slow boat race | 30/06/2015Giovanni Belgrano’s Laurent Giles classic Whooper won the Round the Island Race’s Gold Roman Bowl. The Paprec-Team Concise MOD70 claimed overall line honours with the nimble GC32s nipping at her heels. Flavio Marazzi’s ARMIN STROM Sailing Team came on top in the Bullitt GC32 Racing Tour’s Cowes Cup. The first start ...
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Elite level Olympic sailing returns to the UK | 07/06/2015Weymouth is bracing itself this week for its biggest Olympic sailing event since London 2012. Stephen Park tells us what to expect and the state of Team GBR. ISAF is realigning ready to fight the cause for Paralympic sailing. There was a photo finish at the Volvo Ocean Race’s Lisbon ...
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Europe bound | 15/05/2015Leg seven of the Volvo Ocean Race sets sail from Newport to Lisbon on Sunday – see the latest crew changes. Five°West has launched a new regatta to be held in the heart of the Chinese metropolis Shanghai. Ian Williams and Taylor Canfield were dominating the early rounds of the Congressional ...
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Life after Luna Rossa | 28/04/2015Chris Draper tells us of life after Luna Rossa. The Volvo Ocean Race boats went through a significant tack in the South Atlantic but have now crossed the Equator and face a long slog across the Trades. The GC32s enjoyed a useful few days in Marseille preparing for the Bullitt GC32 ...
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America's Cup in disarray | 09/04/2015With the change to a smaller AC boat and Luna Rossa pulling out, we look at the latest from the America’s Cup. Following Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing’s victory on leg five of the Volvo Ocean Race, Team SCA has made port, while Dongfeng has its own race on to reach Itajai ...
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Pam causes further delay | 16/03/2015Team SCA won the Volvo Ocean Race’s Auckland In Port race. The start of leg 5 is currently under delay thanks to the brisk winds of Cyclone Pam. Despite SAP taking the lead on Thursday, Leigh McMillan and the crew on The Wave, Muscat scored their third consecutive win at the ...
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Tight finish into Auckland | 02/03/2015Leg four of the Volvo Ocean Race finished in Auckland with just eight minutes separating the lead trio. All six boats finished within seven hours. Neutrogena and GAES Centros Auditivos have both passed Cape Horn in the Barcelona World Race. Bella Mente picked up the overall prize in the RORC Caribbean ...
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Record breaking JJ Giltinan for Seve Jarvin | 23/02/2015Congratulations to Gotta Love It 7 for yet another JJ Giltinan Trophy victory. The hotshots claimed 18ft skiffs’ unofficial world championship with a day to spare and in the process skipper Seve Jarvin became the most capped JJ winner of all time. A race restart is underway between Vanuatu and Fiji ...
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The big converge | 16/02/2015Congratulations to Ian Williams who over the weekend not only entered the record books by winning his fifth Match Racing World title but also claimed the Monsoon Cup. Team Brunel’s ‘buffalo girls’ move has reaped an 80 mile reward at the latest sched in the Volvo Ocean Race. Down south, the ...
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Auckland bound | 09/02/2015The Volvo Ocean Race set sail from Sanya on Sunday. See our leg 4 preview and parts 1 and 2 of our ‘state of the VOR nation’ interview with Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing skipper Ian Walker. Dongfeng Race Team won Saturday’s in-port race and the leg 4 start. The crews are ...
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Solid Team GBR medal haul in Miami | 02/02/2015Giles Scott and Bryony Shaw claimed golds at the ISAF Sailing World Cup event in Miami with a day to spare and were followed on Saturday with Luke Patience and Elliott Willis winning the 470 Men (ie beating Mat Belcher). In the Barcelona World Race the frontrunners are are battening down ...
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Prince Michael of Kent GCVO is Race Starter for the J.P. Morgan Asset Management Round the Island Race July 2 | 09/06/2016The Island Sailing Club in Cowes, Isle of Wight, is delighted that Prince Michael of Kent GCVO, has been confirmed as the Race Starter for the 2016 J.P. Morgan Asset Management Round the Island Race on Saturday, 2nd July 2016. Prince Michael will join Race officials on the Royal Yacht Squadron platform ...
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Catch up with Lizzy Foreman prior to Leg 2 Mini Transat Iles de Guadeloupe start on Saturday 31st Oct | 28/10/2015Peta Stuart-Hunt chats with the 25 year-old British solo sailor Lizzy Foreman before she sets sail on the final 2,770nm leg of the Mini Transat Iles de Guadeloupe to Guadeloupe on 31st October in 'Hudson Wight', Hull 633, a 10-year old Series Mini 6.50m. Lizzy is expecting to take ...
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The 2015 Student Yachting World Cup (SYWoC), an ISAF-recognised event hosted and run by students for students, is being held in France between 13-20 October and this year will host around 150 competitors from 15 countries. Four UK University teams are entered and every one is either skippered or crewed by a ...
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Sailing Networks sponsors Hamble Big Boat Championship Sailing Networks, the world's largest networking website for sailors and the sailing community, is proud to announce sponsorship of the Hamble Big Boat Championship 2015, organised and run by the Hamble River Sailing Club. The Sailing Networks Hamble Big Boat Championship 2015 sees ...
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Team Volvo sailors Giles Scott and Hannah Mills of the British Sailing Team will be taking to the water on board the IMOCA 60 JP Morgan Asset Management Rosalba in this year’s J.P. Morgan Asset Management Round the Island Race, organised by the Island Sailing Club. Both are taking ...
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The J.P. Morgan Asset Management Round the Island Race – an every-day story of racing folk… | 15/06/2015…until, that is, you throw in a handful of high-tech speedsters, glamorous classics, famous sailing families, and some Olympic sports stars, all competing in this annual sporting institution Quite probably stealing much of the limelight from the GC32 class of six competing in this year’s J.P. Morgan Asset Management Round the Island ...
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On 15th May Sir Ben Ainslie, the most successful sailor in Olympic history, unveiled the restored bow section of a yacht owned by former Prime Minister Sir Edward Heath, which was wrecked in a storm in 1974, with the loss of two crew, Heath's godson Christopher Chadd, and Nigel Cumming. The ceremony ...
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Matt Reid won his last match racing outing at one of the RYA Winter Series events at WPNSA, and Annabel Vose won hers. They then came head to head in the final of the Royal Southern Match Cup Qualifier on Saturday 11 April in Hamble when Matt, after a seemingly ...
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This year the J-Cup returns to the Royal Southern Yacht Club in Hamble and includes the Lombard-sponsored J/97 Championships and incorporates the J/109 UK National Championships. A record turnout is expected with over 60 boats already entered and organisers are looking forward to seeing some new, as well as some of ...
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Amateur/Corinthian Class 40 skipper mixes it up with the pros, on the podium of the Trophée Guyader Twelve Class 40’s turned up for racing last week and over the long holiday weekend to contest the Trophée Guyader, in Douarnenez, which will be the site of the Class 40 Worlds later in ...
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The Royal Southern Match Cup Qualifier was held on the Solent in a fleet of J80s on 3rd May with three Invitations to the ISAF Grade 2 Royal Southern Match Cup in June (12-15) to play for. Weather prospects had looked dim for days before the event as an area of high ...
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FOR SALE – Owen Clarke designed Class 40 #90, 40 Degrees 2 40 Degrees 2, currently racing in the TJV (Transat Jacques Vabres) as 11th Hour Racing, having restarted from Lorient after a strop failed on her forestay, is the latest Class 40 to be listed by Owen Clarke ...
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Happy Anniversary IRC! Celebrating 30 years | 12/11/20132014 marks the 30th Anniversary of the introduction of IRC under its original name, CHS. The Royal Ocean Racing Club (RORC) and L'Union Nationale pour la Course au Large (UNCL) are delighted to have reached this major milestone in providing fair and simple ratings for racing sailors around the world. ...
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Hudson Wight kit isn’t just for Christmas but it’d be a lovely surprise to receive some! | 07/11/2013Hudson Wight combines sailing experience, proven fabric technology and design and manufacturing expertise to produce great looking, lightweight and breathable ‘offshore spec’ gear and accessories at less than half the price of other brands by supplying direct to the customer. This new brand of perforamnce sailwear, targeted at racing and cruising sailors ...
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Since last weeks’ IMOCA meeting considerably more information is available on how 60s designed to the new rule will be different and might compare to existing designs. The rule changes are preliminary until published and are to be subject to a further meeting in December. But there is now light at ...
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Owen Clarke trimaran success at Nationals | 23/10/2013The trimaran Spirit snatched second place in the Australian Multihull National titles. This Owen Clarke 40’ tri built In the UK in the early 90’s and formerly owned by IMOCA 60 skipper Mike Golding bested a number of more recent designs including an all carbon Farrier designed tri ...
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The Royal Southern Yacht Club will host the 2014 Inter-Club Keelboat Championships on Saturday 29th March 2014. This event is open to IRC yachts with a minimum TCC rating of 0.900 and not exceeding 1.085. The helm and 60% of all crew on board should be 25 years old or under and ...
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A question of balance | 16/08/2013Overview Caterham Composites is a specialist company delivering turn-key lightweight structural solutions to all industries. We offer fresh thinking, new perspectives and an unquenchable thirst for improvement. As part of the Caterham Group we have the technical resources available to offer to the wider world; CFD technology, crash and NDT capacity will ... -
For the second year running, the Barbados Tourism Authority is providing a stunning prize for the most consistently successful competitor in the Royal Southern Yacht Club Summer Series Regattas that commenced with the Club's May Regatta last weekend 11-12 May. One lucky owner and their partner will be rewarded for their Series ...
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McConaghy MC38 Autumn Cup | 16/05/2013The McConaghy MC38 Autumn Cup held on Pittwater, Sydney, crowned John Bacon, Dark Star, as the winner this weekend. This is the second MC38 class victory for John Bacon after winning the Sevenstar MC38 Australian Championships. Saturday offered some light and shifty breezes, but this did not dampen the spirits of the ...
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