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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 [...]
Cowes Week Day Five Round Up
The first Black Group start was for the big boats competing for the New York YC Challenge Cup in IRC Class Zero. In the first four days of the regatta this class has seen three different race winners. Sir Peter Ogden’s all-black Mini Maxi Jethou, lying third overall at the beginning [...]
Extreme Team GAC Pindar take on windsurfers in Cowes
The action continued on day four of the Extreme Sailing Series in Cowes, with gusts of up to 24 knots leading to more spectacular, yet taxing racing for the fleet. Before the racing, as part of the afternoon entertainment, Team GAC Pindar’s skipper and windsurfing fanatic, Nick Moloney, challenged a fleet of windsurfers to race [...]
Cowes Week Day Four Round Up
On the White Group start line the Laser SB3 class got away cleanly after a 10-minute postponement. The adverse tide favoured the inner end of the line, but in light wind there were big holes close inshore. 10 minutes later it was very soft for the Longtze class, with only one boat [...]
British sports and film stars compete in round the island sprint at Cowes Week
British skipper Mike Golding lifts the Artemis Challenge Trophy winning £10,000 for the RNLI
British sports stars Zara Phillips, Amy Williams and former England rugby international Martin Bayfield, along with ‘Weasley Twins’ James and Oliver Phelps and GMTV’s Emma Crosby today joined teams sailing in the Artemis Challenge at Cowes Week. Competing [...]
AN EMOTIONAL FINALE TO A SUCCESSFUL ARTEMIS EVEN KEEL CHALLENGE AT COWES WEEK
AN EMOTIONAL FINALE TO A BRILLIANT ARTEMIS EVEN KEEL CHALLENGE @ COWES WEEK
Craig Rose with Rob Greenhalgh take the 2010 title and the Trophy!
It was an emotionally charged scene at the Prizegiving for the inaugural Artemis Even Keel Challenge at Cowes Week held in the THE PIPER-HEIDSIECK BAR in Cowes Yacht Haven last night, [...]
Cowes Week Day Two Round Up
The day’s closest racing was undoubtedly in the Quarter Ton class, where just nine seconds separated four of the first five boats on corrected time at the end of an intense four-hour race. “It was a great day’s sailing, with an awesome course,” said Chris Preston, sailing in the class for [...]
COME ON DOWN AND SHOW YOUR SUPPORT FOR THE ARTEMIS EVEN KEEL CHALLENGE @ COWES WEEK
The Even Keel Project is inviting everyone in Cowes on Monday 2nd August to ‘come on down’ to The Parade at 5.30pm and cheer on its sailing teams for the finals of the inaugural Artemis Even Keel Challenge Pro-Am Series @ Cowes Week.
The culmination of this special two-day series comprises [...]
The Longtze Premier at Sailing’s Mecca
For the first time since it arrived in Europe in 2008, the Longtze Premier is going to race on the other side of the channel. And not just anywhere, as it is at the mecca of the sailing world, during the legendary Cowes Week, that this “dragon’s son” is going to set [...]
Southampton Solent University teams up with Cowes Week once again to deliver live sports programming
Following a successful partnership in 2009, Cowes Week Limited and Solent Productions – a Southampton Solent University Enterprise Centre - have teamed up again for the 2010 regatta. Media students at Southampton Solent University will gain valuable hands-on experience through the provision of television production and broadcast support to one of [...]
