All Entries in the "Regattas" Category
Rolex Big Boat Series
New Division for Sport Boats Announced; Event Website Launched
With two weeks until the early registration deadline of September 1 for the 2010 Rolex Big Boat Series, organizers at St. Francis Yacht Club have announced the inclusion of a new IRC class for light displacement sport boats. In addition, the new official website [...]
Persistent Storm Delays Day One Races at The Clagett Regatta
The arrival, on Monday (August 23), of a summer nor’easter has slightly rearranged the competition schedule at the eighth annual C. Thomas Clagett Jr. Memorial Regatta being held from Sail Newport, Rhode Island’s public sailing center. The clinic that is the hallmark of this event took place Monday morning as planned, however, a north-northeasterly breeze [...]
Sunferries Magnetic Island Race Week
Sometimes an idea is just meant to be!
Just four years ago, Townsville Yacht Club with the strong support of Townsville based Sunferries staged the first Sunferries Magnetic Island Race Week, a winter regatta following on from Meridien Marinas Airlie Beach Race Week and Audi Hamilton Island Race Week.
It was a brave step; [...]
18ft Skiff International Regatta Day 1
Observing the sailing rivalry between the Winnings, father and son, on opening day of the ninth annual 18ft Skiff International Regatta, one could conclude it’s intense, but it doesn’t stop there.
John Sr.—or, [...]
Dempsey and Goodison lead the way in Weymouth
Windsurfing World Champion Nick Dempsey, and Laser Olympic and World Champion Paul Goodison lead British fortunes at the halfway stage of the Skandia Sail for Gold Regatta in Weymouth and Portland on Wednesday (11 August).
Dempsey, who won the RS:X world title at the same venue 11 months ago, took the [...]
NAUTOR’S SWAN YACHTS SUCCESS AT COPA DEL REY REGATTA
As is the annual tradition, the first week of August marked one of the most prestigious regattas in the Mediterranean sailing calendar, the Copa Del Rey Audi Mapfre. Hosted by Real Club Nautico de Palma, in the fantastic racing conditions off of the coast of Palma de Majorca, a [...]
Stunning sailing off Magnetic Island lures back southerners
Sunferries Magnetic Island Race Week’s warm waters, great competition and north Queensland hospitality has lured back southerners for another year.
Four years ago Townsville Yacht Club (TYC) sailors coming back from the two largest sailing events in Queensland, Merdien Marinaa Airlie Beach Race Week and Audi Hamilton Island Race Week decided that [...]
Record numbers for 21st Meridien Marinas Airlie Beach Race Week
Plenty of buzz around Airlie Beach, the Whitsunday gateway, as its clear that new entry records are being set for the 21st annual Meridien Marinas Airlie Beach Race Week.
Back in Race Week 2005 there were 122 boats racing on Pioneer Bay, but 25 of these were Off the Beach F18 catamarans, with [...]
Cowes Week Day Six Round Up
Black Group classes on the RYS line started going west, with spinnakers popping up in the final 30 seconds before each start. The J/92 class held its national championships over the first four days of Cowes Week, but all but two boats are still competing. Today Taylor, Greenhalgh and Bexon’s J’Ronimo [...]
Edmond de Rothschild Group scores another podium place
The longest and perhaps most intense grand prix of the 2010 season has just concluded this evening in Cowes with the victory of The Wave Muscat. The catamaran fitted out by Baron Benjamin de Rothschild came 3rd in the event with its second podium finish of the competition. The result has enabled Yann Guichard and [...]
