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A large fleet of local and travelling boats is expected to compete in the Royal Corinthian Yacht Club Squib Gold Cup, a 'must-do' for many East Coast Squib sailors, over the May Bank Holiday weekend.
Light Westerly winds and sun welcomed the expected six competitors for the 2025 Harken RS100 Sprint Regatta, a two day event expertly hosted by Rutland Sailing Club, the first event in the RS100 ...
The Cape 31 UK fleet made a spectacular return to the Solent this weekend for the first round of the 2025 Cape 31 Race Circuit, hosted by the Royal London Yacht Club. Across eight tightly contested ...
The weather forecast was not good, very light SSE going south after midday - not the best direction at Forfar Loch which is aligned WSW-ENE. As it turned out at the 11:00 start time, although the ...
The International One Meter radio sailing boat is raced all over the world and wherever you go the fleets are fiercely competitive. The UK Nationals is the pinnacle of our racing calendar and, with ...
The RS100 is a revolutionary boat that enjoys sparkling performance downwind. Like many assymetrics, the exhilaration of sailing downwind is tempered by the beat back to the windward mark. In order to ...
The Notts County Sailing Club First of the Year race is always well attended, but the dire weather forecasts (yellow warnings of wind and rain the previous day) understandably put many off travelling, ...
The Team Racing World Championship at West Kirby was apparently the first ever. Can you name the year? You can also watch the final with GBR vs IRL from the above event. This record of Spinnaker ...
Last week we looked at the oldest videos of craft which chased the wind speed record. Whilst they did not always look conventional, they still had a certain sanity about them. Our video archive has ...
With the 2024 edition of Weymouth Speed Week under way - and still bringing many to the UK's south coast in search of 30 knots, 40 knots, 50 knots - let us look back into the video archives for the ...
Oliver Groves (27) and Esther Parkhurst (25) representing the 2000 class have won the Endeavour Trophy after a close final day battle that went right down to the wire writes Sue Pelling. This ...
The fourth and final day of the 2024 RS700 Nationals had a similar feel. Too many dark and stormies from the previous night were being regretted, breakfasts were being demolished and mirror-like ...