Sam Davies grows wings

In the lead up to the Vendée Globe start on 8 November, we are featuring RORC women members who are sailing in the race, starting this week with Sam Davies and followed by Miranda Merron and Pip Hare.
In the lead up to the Vendée Globe start on 8 November, we are featuring RORC women members who are sailing in the race, starting this week with Sam Davies and followed by Miranda Merron and Pip Hare.
Richard Palmer’s JPK 10.10 Jangada, raced by Jeremy Waitt and Shirley Robertson, won the final race of the Royal Ocean Racing Club’s 2-H Autumn Series to take overall victory in the three-race series.
James Harayda & Dee Caffari, racing Sun Fast 3300 Gentoo, have won the second race of the RORC IRC Two-Handed Autumn Series.
Moving to Cherbourg for the finish of the Royal Ocean Racing Club’s premier event, the Rolex Fastnet Race next year will see navigators and crews facing a few significant new challenges.
Day two of the Royal Ocean Racing Club’s IRC Nationals on the central-eastern Solent was held in similar near perfect conditions to Friday, the wind starting stronger, and increasing to 16 knots mid-afternoon.
The central Solent delivered on the opening day of the Royal Ocean Racing Club’s IRC National Championship.
The Royal Ocean Racing Club's Summer Series came to a conclusion with the fourth and final race of the RORC Summer Series.
By invitation of Key Yachting, the 2020 Landsail Tyres J-Cup celebrated the 21st birthday of the annual regatta exclusively for J Boats.
2020 has been a very challenging year, particularly for offshore racing, and sadly we were forced to cancel the 2020 RORC Season's Point Championship - there have therefore been a number of changes and additions to the programme.
The Royal Ocean Racing Club's Summer Series Race 3 was a full-on foam up in 25 knots of breeze gusting over 30.
The RORC was founded in 1925 to encourage long distance yacht racing and the design, building and navigation of sailing vessels in which speed and seaworthiness are combined. Today the club encourages ocean, long distance and other forms of yacht racing and yachting activity.