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Britannia – The Solent Sessions

The Ineos Team UK AC75, Britannia, has been putting in long, fast days on home waters this week

Dublin Bay Water Wags go Olympic

Not part of the usual training programme for Olympic sailors but Ireland’s Olympians, Finn Lynch and Annalise Murphy duly obliged by winning the first Water Wags race of the delayed 2020 season

What the easing of government restrictions mean to your club

This week’s RYA Club Zone video focusses on the latest easing of Government Restrictions in England and what they mean for your club

Small but perfectly formed – RS Vareo National Championships

A rarity these ‘new normal’ days . . . I received the results of a sailing national championship

IOC postpone Youth Olympics by four years!

The International Olympic Committee has postponed the Youth Olympics to 2026 due to the coronavirus pandemic

Delayed WAVE Regatta . . . a different experience this time around

The Howth Yacht Club’s delayed Wave Regatta will see the ICRA National Championship absorbed into the biennial block-buster event over the 11 to 13 September 2020

Delayed M32 season goes ahead this weekend

The starting point for the much delayed M32 season will be Newport, USA this weekend 17 to 19 July and Marstrand, Sweden 7 to 9 August

Iceberg Alert

A giant iceberg that calved off of from a larger ice formation has spent three years floating on the ocean near Antarctica

Negri and Lambertenghi 2020 Italian Star Class National Champions

Diego Negri and Sergio Lambertenghi of Italy are the 2020 Italian Star Class National Champions

RORC switch Ushant race for day race at Cowes

RORC cancel the Ushant Race and in its place will organise a long day race in the English Channel using laid and virtual marks, starting and finishing in Cowes

New Round Britain solo record set by Ian Lipinski

Ian Lipinski is the new record holder for the Class40 tour of the British Isles.

INEOS Team UK Lead Systems Engineer Andy ‘Animal’ McLean

Meet Ineos team UK Lead Systems Engineer Andrew – Animal – McLean . . . both a highly experienced inshore and offshore racer as well as a qualified mechanical engineer