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DATE: Sunday 6th August
COURSE: Cowes – Fastnet Rock – Bishop Rock - Plymouth
DISTANCE (nm): 605Started in 1925 when seven yachts set sail from Ryde to the Fastnet Rock to arrive in Plymouth, the infamous post-race dinner heralded the foundation of the Ocean Racing Club. Today the Rolex Fastnet Race is the most popular of the world’s classic 600 mile offshore races, attracting a diverse, international fleet of IRC yachts and grand prix classes such as the IMOCA 60s, Class40s and the MOCRA-rated multihulls.
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DATE: Friday 1st September
COURSE: Cowes – Cherbourg
DISTANCE (nm): 75The Cherbourg Race is the last of the UK-based races of the RORC Season’s Points Championship and is very often the decider for the class winners. The race can be won and lost in the escape from the Solent, in the strong tides on the approach to Cherbourg and finally on the last mile along the inside of the breakwater of the Grande Rade.
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DATE: Friday 8th – Sunday 10th September
COURSE: N/A
DISTANCE (nm): N/AOrganised by the Royal Southampton Yacht Club and RORC
The IRC Double Handed National Championship will again be run from the Royal Ocean Racing Club’s Cowes Clubhouse. Comprising windward-leeward courses, short passage races and, this year, the Nab Tower Race, the competition will again challenge the full range of competitor’s shorthanded sailing skills.
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DATE: Thursday 9th October
COURSE: Dubai, UAE – Muscat, Oman
DISTANCE (nm): 360Organised by the United Arab Emirates Sailing and Rowing Federation
Having celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2016, the 2017 race departs Dubai, passes through the Strait of Hormuz into the Gulf of Oman and on to the finish at Muscat, Oman.
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DATE: Wednesday 18th October
COURSE: Victoria (HK) – Nha Trang
DISTANCE (nm): 673Organised by the Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club.
First run in 1996, then biennially since 2004, this year will mark the eighth edition of this, the longest Category 1 offshore race in Asia. A challenging, predominantly downwind and fast passage to Nha Trang, on the southeastern coast of Vietnam, the race has once again been recognised as a qualifying race for the Rolex Sydney Hobart Race.
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DATE: Saturday 21st October
COURSE: Valletta, Strait of Messina, Stromboli, Pantelleria, Lampedusa, Valletta.
DISTANCE (nm): 608Organised by the Royal Malta Yacht Club
The Rolex Middle Sea Race has one of the most spectacular courses of all the classic offshore races.
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The Offshore Worlds will be held from 12 to 20 July 2018 in the first ever combined ORC and IRC championship, an innovative solution to unite the world's two largest offshore racing fleets. Be part of this unique fleet and register now for this historic event.Read More
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Ker 46 Lady Mariposa, skippered by Daniel Hardy, has won the 2017 Cherbourg Race, after holding off a strong challenge from James Neville's HH42 Ino XXX. After IRC time correction, 29 seconds was the winning margin, after a high speed blast to Cherbourg across the English Channel. Edward Broadway's Ker…Read More
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Organised by the Royal Ocean Racing Club, in association with the Yacht Club de Cherbourg, and the Royal Yacht Squadron.Start: Friday 1st September 2017. First Warning Signal: 1850Course: RYS Cowes, to the West. Approx. 75 miles The RORC Cherbourg Race is the penultimate race of the RORC Season's Points Championship,…Read More
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France galvanised its reputation as the world’s greatest offshore racing nation by dominating the results across the majority of the classes in the Rolex Fastnet Race for a third consecutive occasion. Of the 11 main prizes, French boats failed to win just three, and of these one (Dongfeng Race Team)…Read More
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The Rolex Fastnet Race starts Sunday 6th August, at 1100 BST The start sequence begins with the first warning signal at 10.50 BST. The sequence lasts for two hours from 1100 to 1240.Read More
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Setting off from the Solent on 6 August in the 2017 Rolex Fastnet Race will be three of the most prestigious classes in offshore racing. Significantly it will be the first occasion the 2017-18 Volvo Ocean Race fleet of VO65 one design will line up on the race’s ‘Leg Zero’.…Read More
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