With 450+ yachts entered in this year’s 49th edition of the Rolex Fastnet Race, the Royal Ocean Racing Club’s biennial flagship event has consolidated its position as the biggest offshore yacht race in the world
Alex Thomson returns to racing with the Fastnet Race
British sailing team Alex Thomson Racing will begin their 2021 competitive season with the Fastnet Race on 8 August 2021 – See video here
Maxi Racing Resumes in Capri
Based out of Capri’s Marina Grande, the Maxi Yacht Capri Trophy at Rolex Capri Sailing Week is the opening event of the International Maxi Association’s annual five event 2021 Mediterranean Maxi Inshore Challenge
RORC Spring Series – Whooper and Jago celebrate in Cowes
The Royal Ocean Racing Club organised two races over the May Bank Holiday weekend including a 91nm race for IRC Two Handed, the first overnight race of the year
RORC Spring Series – Dawn Treader and Gentoo Triumph
The Royal Ocean Racing Club’s Spring Series continued on Saturday . . . Class winners were Ed Bell’s JPK 1180 Dawn Treader and James Harayda’s Sun Fast 3300 Gentoo
RORC Spring Series – Easter Chocolates for Ino XXX & Aries
The Royal Ocean Racing Club 2021 season got underway on Easter Saturday with an inshore race in the Solent of approximately 38 nautical miles, the first of three races in the 2021 RORC Spring Series
IRC European Championship set for Hyeres
The 5th edition of the IRC European Championship will take place in Hyères, France, from 23 to 27 June with four days of racing on one of the most competitive and popular sailing areas in the Mediterranean
Figaro 3 Solo Maitre Coq – Overall Silver for Roberts behind Laperche
Pierre Quiroga won the long distance race, but it’s Tom Laperche who wins the overall Solo Maître CoQ with Alan Roberts in second and Gildas Mahé
Cowes Week 2021 Opens for Business
In a nod to the Government’s Roadmap to some sort of normality, entry for Cowes Week 2021 will open at 12 noon on Monday 29 March. The event is carrying over nearly 200 entries from 2020 so have every expectation that it will be a bumper year.
Everybody’s doing it – Warsash Spring Championships ready to roll
Since the release of the Government’s Roadmap to lead us out of the current coronavirus lockdown in England, sailing clubs have been making plans for reopening their facilities and getting back on the water
RORC Return to Offshore Racing in April
The RORC Committee, working with the RYA and Government, is confident that overnight racing will return for the 2021 RORC Season’s Points Championship
Sam Davies Completes Solo Vendée Globe Outside The Race
After being forced to abandon her Vendee race on 5 December following a violent collision with a floating object south of Cape Town, British skipper Sam Davies sailed back into Les Sables d’Olonne on Friday 26 Febuary.
