.jpg "Image") Artemis Ocean Racing, the Open 60 sponsored by one of the UK’s leading investment companies, Artemis, will today start the Royal Ocean Racing Club (RORC) Sevenstar Round Britain and Ireland Race. The 1,800 mile race will kick off at 18.00 BST today, from the Royal Yacht Squadron line off Cowes, Isle of Wight. |
.jpg "Photo credit: Daniel Forster / Rolex") USA Olympic Laser sailor turned Star helm Mark Mendelblatt with crew Mark Strube gained an early advantage by winning today's first race at the Star European Championship, part of Rolex Baltic Week, here at Neustadt, Germany. |
.jpg "Photo by: Kurt Arrigo/ Rolex") The 2006 edition of the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup (3-9 September), organized since 1980 by the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda, will see 49 of the world's largest and fastest racing yachts competing in the waters off the Costa Smeralda. The event represents potentially the largest ever gathering of Maxi yachts and a fleet that if lined up end-to-end would total 1300 metres of pure sailing excellence. |
.jpg "Photo credit: Daniel Forster / Rolex") The world's sailing elite are gathering off Neustadt on the Baltic coast for the Monday, 7th August start of the IMS Worlds and the European Championships of the Olympic Star boat class. With an entry list featuring 93 Star boats and 50 IMS yachts, the third Rolex Baltic Week is lining up to be a highly competitive regatta week. |
.jpg "Image") WISC (Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing), Glynn William’s Swan 45 racing at Skandia Cowes Week secured second place in IRC Class 1, 13th overall in Black Group and dominated the Nautor’s Swan Fleet to win the Nautor’s Swan Trophy with ease. |
.jpg "Copyright onEdition 2006") After a stunning week of Solent sailing, Skandia Cowes Week 2006 drew to a close with light and fickle northerly winds causing the abandonment for all but four classes as low cloud cover and a slow moving high denied the sea breeze a chance to fill. Competitors awoke this morning after a fantastic fireworks display on Friday evening that shook the windows and delighted the thousands of spectators that lined every available vantage point along the Cowes frontage. Unfortunately, on the water it was ‘one of those Solent days’ as Principal Race Officer Simon Hand of the Royal Southern Yacht Club was forced to first abandon the inshore White Group that saw only the Laser SB3’s get away before abandoning the offshore Black Group after Classes Zero to Two got away against the tide for shortened courses in the eastern and central Solent. |
.jpg "Copyright onEdition 2006") After six days of blustery, testing conditions for the 8,500 competitors at Skandia Cowes Week, day seven of the regatta dawned with light north-westerly breezes, sunshine and a smooth Solent race track. Racing got underway on time with the Laser SB3’s living up to their reputation of being the hardest charging of all the fleets with a general recall followed by a black flag start. Crowds of spectators lined the canon hustings of the Royal Yacht Squadron to view the amazing sight of the SB3’s second start that got away on a reaching leg down to the eastern Solent. A blanket of asymmetric spinnakers flopped across the mouth of the Medina River with Glenn Bourke onboard Musto wriggling through the moored dayboats parked on Cowes Roads to emerge as the front-runner. Bourke sailed a blinding race on this, the last day of the series for the SB3’s and held off the fast-charging Price Waterhouse Coopers of Jono Shelley and the triple race winner Russell Peters on Selden Seen to win by some 29 seconds. After discard has been applied, Russell Peters takes the best of five race series from Jono Shelley with Bourke sneaking into third spot. It’s been a brilliant week of sailing for the SB3’s who have handsomely repaid their fleet sponsor Volkswagen and provided acres of newspaper and newsreel coverage for the world’s media as well as being one of the talking points of Skandia Cowes Week. |
.jpg "Copyright onEdition 2006") With Skandia Cowes Week celebrating its first ever Ladies Day on this, the sixth day of the 180th anniversary of the regatta, there was some disappointment for eleven of the inshore White Group dayboats as Race Officer Ian Lallow decided that the gusty force 5-6 north-north westerly winds were just too tough to send the fleets out. The Medina River was proving tough to navigate as the wind funnelled down in the early morning across the Solent, so wisely a decision was taken to postpone racing for a little over an hour and a half as event meteorologist Chris Tibbs predicted a slight abatement in the wind strength from midday onwards. Almost bang on cue, the clouds cleared and the wind dropped to a manageable 15-18 knots that provided superb sunshine and spray sailing for the whole of the offshore Black Group and the six remaining classes of the White Group. |
.jpg "Copyright onEdition 2006") With one of the most famous trophies, the Britannia Cup, up for grabs in the glamorous Class Zero on day five at Skandia Cowes Week, the Royal Yacht Squadron officials decided to make the professional crews really earn their money. The forecasted West North-Westerly winds, that gusted to a force five at times in places, seemed perfect for an attempt on the record set by Mike Slade’s Leopard in 2001 of 4 hours 8 minutes 55 seconds with the 98ft super-maxi ICAP Maximus lining up against the turbo-charged Volvo Ocean Race winner ABN Amro One. From the start the race looked set to be a titanic tussle around the 54 nautical mile course that was slightly lengthened by just over 4 nautical miles to take the fleet clear of the Laser SB3 fleet that had started some 25 minutes earlier. However the expected fast-jaunt around the Isle of Wight failed to materialise as the Super Zero’s got stuck in patchy zones around the back of the Island where the wind dropped to around 10 knots on a long beat against the tide and at the finish it was ICAP Maximus that thundered down the Green with a flotilla of spectator and photographer boats some 50 minutes outside the course record. |
.jpg "Copyright onEdition 2006") Day four of Skandia Cowes Week 2006 dawned with a forecast of strong and blustery south-westerly winds with gusts straining the dial beneath storm clouds producing a lumpy Solent and gusts of up to 29 knots. Principal Race Officer John Grandy of the Royal Yacht Squadron rightly urged his course setters to adopt a “safety first” attitude by sending all the classes on the Castle start line to the more sheltered eastern Solent and ensuring their courses were suitably short enough to get all the fleets safely home before the tide turned. Running starts with the tide, therefore, were the order of the day and provided a fantastic spectacle for the shoreside spectators as the day boats streaked off the start line setting myriad shades of colourful spinnakers for a long first leg down to the Hill Head Shore. However for three classes – the Solent Sunbeams, RS-K6 and Swallows – the conditions were just too tough for the sailors and the class associations decided not to race them whilst in the Seaview Mermaids, a gentleman’s decision saw none of the fleet fly spinnakers. |
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