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Jack Bouttell started racing with the RORC on Piet Vroon’s Tonnerre as a teenage bowman & Alexis Loison shot to fame winning the 2013 Rolex Fastnet Race overall. Listen to their achievements as they talk through sailing some of the biggest races in the world. Time Over Distance Volume 2 - Friday…Read More
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Jolie Brise was the winner of the inaugural Fastnet Race in 1925 and is still the only boat to have won the race on three occasions. She celebrated her centenary by competing in the 2013 Rolex Fastnet Race. Rick Tomlinson selects his favourite shot of this historic 1913 Gaff-Rigged Pilot…Read More
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Live interviews with sailors from around the world, exploring epic races, top pro-techniques and more. Interactive discussions with outstanding sailors together with videos and pictures. Time Over Distance is designed to inform and entertain any serious offshore sailor. We hope that the RORC Time Over Distance library will become a…Read More
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Watch the 23 minute wrap-up film of the 2020 race - includes interviews with competitors and winners from all classes across the fleet. Tilmar Hansen's TP52 Outsider (GER), skippered by Bo Teichmann was the overall winner - the first German boat to lift the RORC Caribbean Trophy and breaking a seven-year winning streak of winners…Read More
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In line with the continued COVID-19 Government guidance, as well as advice from many of the host finishing clubs in Europe, the Royal Ocean Racing Club (RORC) has, with regret, had to cancel or change a number of its key events.Read More
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In light of the Government issued advice on Friday 20th March, we regretfully inform you that we will be temporarily closed until further notice.Read More
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DATE: Saturday 23rd May
COURSE: Cowes – Eddystone Lighthouse – Solent finish
DISTANCE (nm): 230The race around Eddystone Lighthouse is typically the most popular in Rolex Fastnet years, mirroring the first 130nm miles of the season's main event.
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DATE: Saturday 6th June
COURSE: Cowes – Marks - Solent
DISTANCE (nm): 110-160Presented to the club by ‘Buster’ (Vice Commodore 1957-1959) and Mrs De Guingand, the Bowl goes to the winner of the annual race bearing their name. This will head out from the Royal Yacht Squadron line, rounding marks and waypoints, and taking in the headlands of the central English Channel, before returning to the Solent to finish.
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DATE: Friday 19th June
COURSE: Harwich - Breskens
DISTANCE (nm): 125Organised by the East Anglian Offshore Association in association with the RORC and Haven Ports Yacht Club.
This year's event will start from Harwich before crossing the North Sea to a finish off the harbour town of Breskens in the south-western Netherlands.
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DATE: Friday 17th April
LOCATION: Cowes ClubhouseWe will be joined by world-renowned sailor and coach Andrew “Dog” Palfrey, as he covers the do’s and don’t’s relating to getting around a sailboat race course quicker and more consistently.
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DATE: 19.00, Friday 2nd May
LOCATION: Cowes ClubhouseWe welcome Will Hodshon to the RORC Cowes Clubhouse, who will talk about his record-breaking circumnavigation of mainland Britain in the Hodshon’s 60-year-old, 16-foot Wayfarer sailing dinghy, Nipegegi.
