With most of the ‘big’ yacht races postponed or cancelled for 2020, it is time to look forward to the plans for the 2021 season - including the Rolex Fastnet race. Last week would have been Cowes Week and in...

133 boats took part in a race around the Isle of Wight on Saturday, marking the return to competitive racing at the Royal Ocean Racing Club (RORC) - the first since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Mike Bartholomew’s Tokoloshe...

With so many events cancelled or postponed for 2020 it is good to welcome a new event onto the sailing calendar for this Summer. 'Race the Wight'-a race around the Isle of Wight on Saturday 1st August - will see...

With SailGP heading to Cowes once again this year, anyone who is contemplating a visit might be interested in the racing results so far this season. To kick off the season, the first of the SailGP event was held off...

Having originally been launched in June 2019, the well-received ‘The Wight Book’ has been relaunched with an exhibition at Dimbola Museum and Galleries, Freshwater Bay. Featuring 57 unique photographs it shows the work of 10 separate photographers who worked on...

Brading Roman Villa will be hosting a charity event over the 3 days of the August Bank Holiday Weekend - and this is the advanced notice of things to come. There will be 3 days of Roman games with gladiator...

Anglo Saxon Treasures exhumed from Chessell Down in the 19th Century have returned to the Isle of Wight and form part of a new exhibition at Carisbrooke Castle Museum. This major exhibition within Princess Elizabeth’s Room in the Museum has...

This year’s biennial Quay Arts Open Exhibition attracted almost 100 entries from across the Island and the South of England, including as far away as London. Would-be entrants were given a nature-related brief to tie in with the Isle of...

The Royal Ocean Racing Club (RORC), organisers of the Rolex Fastnet Race, have announced that the City of Cherbourg will host the finish of the Rolex Fastnet Race for the 2021 and 2023 editions of the biennial race, with Cowes...

With the SailGP Cowes dates now confirmed for 2020, it is time to look back on this summer and the community legacy left behind by the fast-paced event. During the SailGP event at Cowes, organisers launched the foundation phase of...