Keelboat Endeavour Trophy postponed –Big winds force the postponement of inaugural keelboat champion of champions’ event at Burnham-on-Crouch

Photo – Roger Mant

Photo – Roger Mant

With the wind projected to gust more than 40 kts on Sunday, the race committee at the Royal Corinthian Yacht Club, Burnham-on-Crouch, has made the sensible decision to postpone the Keelboat Endeavour Trophy writes Sue Pelling.

This inaugural event to determine the UK keelboat champions of champions was scheduled to . . . → Full Article: Keelboat Endeavour Trophy postponed –Big winds force the postponement of inaugural keelboat champion of champions’ event at Burnham-on-Crouch

Glorious day for Glorious Fools at Burnham Week Trophy Day – Summer returns for closing day of East Coast favourite

Town Cup winners Glorious Fools concentrate on speed to the finish line – photo Roger Mant

For the second year running Digger Harden, sailing his well-tuned, 11-year-old J/80 Glorious Fools with local team mates, has won the Town Cup at Burnham Week writes Sue Pelling.

In the big race finale yesterday (1 September), Harden, Doug Duce, Flynn Davies (21), Holly Dabson (20) and Tom Adams (24) completed a tactically challenging series . . . → Full Article: Glorious day for Glorious Fools at Burnham Week Trophy Day – Summer returns for closing day of East Coast favourite

Golden Globe start

The warm welcome in Les Sables d’Olonne always attracts huge crowds – photo Julio Graham

Emotions ran high with barely a ‘dry eye in the house’ at the start of the Golden Globe Race in Les Sables d’Olonne, France on 1 July, writes Sue Pelling.

Fond farewells on race day – photo Julio Graham

After three years of preparation for this 30,000nm, non-stop round the world race, 17 of . . . → Full Article: Golden Globe start

Keelboat Endeavour Trophy – New UK keelboat champion of champions event at Burnham-on-Crouch

The highly contested 707 national championship – photo Roger Mant

 photo Roger Mant

The Royal Corinthian Yacht Club, Burnham-on-Crouch (RCYC), and the Royal Yachting Association (RYA) announce the launch of the Keelboat Endeavour Trophy writes Sue Pelling.

The aim of this new event, scheduled to take place on 22-23 September 2018, is to establish the UK keelboat champions of champions’, in a similar format . . . → Full Article: Keelboat Endeavour Trophy – New UK keelboat champion of champions event at Burnham-on-Crouch

US Virgin Islands defy hurricane wrath

The beautiful white beaches and turquoise water off Buck Island, St Croix – photo Sue Pelling

St Croix, St Thomas and St John open for business as Caribbean regatta season gets underway

 

The beautiful white beaches and turquoise water off Buck Island, St Croix – photo Sue Pelling

Just six months after the devastation caused by Irma and Maria, two category 5 hurricanes that swept . . . → Full Article: US Virgin Islands defy hurricane wrath

Barbados Sailing Week finale

Popular winner Trevor Hunte wins stashes of rum for breaking the Windsurfer record once again

Gala prizegiving marks end of successful regatta

Bridgetown, Barbados (23 January, 2018): Barbados Sailing Week incorporating the Coastal Racing Series and the Mount Gay Rum Round Barbados Race concluded last night at a sumptuous rum-themed prizegiving dinner and party at the glitzy Beach House location at Holetown. The final 300-mile Ocean Passage . . . → Full Article: Barbados Sailing Week finale

Mount Gay Round Barbados Race record breakers – 2018

Trevor Hunte

Thrilling conditions for Caribbean classic

Bridgetown, Barbados (21 January, 2018): Squally winds reaching 30kts from the north-east made for magical sleigh-ride, record-breaking conditions in the 82nd Mount Gay Round Barbados Race.

While the lively conditions in big seas proved too much for many of the 34 entries in the 60nm sprint . . . → Full Article: Mount Gay Round Barbados Race record breakers – 2018