Sailing

Established in 1925, The Royal Ocean Racing Club (RORC) is celebrating its centenary in 2025. It is best known for the Rolex Fastnet Race and the international team event, the Admiral's Cup. Both of these prestigious events will be run...

HRH The Princess Royal has agreed to act as Patron of the Island Sailing Club in Cowes, it has been announced. Princess Anne and her husband, Timothy Laurence, are keen sailors and are well-known in Cowes. The pair can often...

Several sailors with boats that are often seen racing off Cowes are amongst those honoured at this year's prizegiving of the Royal Ocean Racing Club. (RORC). RORC members and guests from across Europe and beyond gathered in London for the...

Under the leadership of four-time Olympic champion sailor Sir Ben Ainslie, the British crew aboard the AC 75 yacht Ineos Britannia have qualified for the final of the 37th edition of the America's Cup. Racing in the waters off Barcelona,...

Last Saturday (17th August) marked the official opening of the annual Folkboat Week, hosted and organised by the Royal Solent Yacht Club, with 39 of the 3-man Folkboats from England’s South Coast racing in the Western Solent throughout the week....

Alan and Suzanne Whitewood summarize the Cowes Week action that took place onshore in 2024. A number of Island companies had stands at  the Cowes Week Regatta Village on The Parade including Island Photo Centre, Calbourne Classics Ice Cream, The...

The Royal Ocean Racing Club officially opened Its renovated clubhouse on Castle Hill, Cowes on Saturday (27th July). With the addition of some new building and distinctive cladding, there is now a modern look to an established fixture. In welcoming...

Garmin, a leading global provider of smartwatches and GPS-enabled devices, has joined Cowes Week as the Official Weather Sponsor. Garmin will be supporting the event's official meteorology service throughout the regatta and helping to provide competitors and visitors with regular...

The 16th Cowes Classics Week, which took place earlier this month (7th-12th July), was widely praised as the best event so far. Future dates have just been confirmed as 2nd – 6th June 2025 and provisionally 13th-17th July 2026, to...

Teenage sailor Nestor Montagu is to sail around the Island this weekend (28th/29th July) in a Laser dinghy.  The journey, a whole 55 nautical miles, will see Nestor set off from Bembridge Sailing Club before heading anti-clockwise around the Island...