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DATE: Sunday 8th July
COURSE: Hamilton, Bermuda – United Kingdom to port – Hamburg/Cuxhaven, Germany
DISTANCE (nm): 3,500Entries are open for the first ever race crossing the Atlantic Ocean twice: the Atlantic Anniversary Regatta.
West: November 25th 2017 Lanzarote (Canary Island) – Grenada, incorporating the RORC Transatlantic Race
East: July 8th 2018 Bermuda – Hamburg (GER) -
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DATE: Sunday 12th August - first start 12:00
COURSE: Cowes – around Britain and Ireland - Cowes
DISTANCE (nm): 1805This quadrennial race is probably the most challenging of all RORC offshores - the equivalent of three Fastnets.
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DATE: Saturday 25th August - first start 10:00
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 7th September - first start 18:00
COURSE: Cowes – Cherbourg
DISTANCE (nm): 80The 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: Saturday 24th November
COURSE: Lanzarote - Grenada
DISTANCE (nm): 2995The fifth edition of the RORC Transatlantic Race takes the competitors through the islands of the Canaries, with their reputation for large acceleration zones and big waves, beforeheading out across the Atlantic Ocean to a finish off Quarantine Point on the east coast of Grenada
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The race will start at noon on Sunday 12th August – RYS line, Cowes (the fleet will head east).Read More
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A record number of Class40s will be competing in the Sevenstar Round Britain and Ireland Race starting from the RYS line on Sunday at noon and includes Concise 8 © Rick TomlinsonRead More
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The 2018 Sevenstar Round Britain and Ireland Race is set to start from the Royal Yacht Squadron line at noon on Sunday 12th August, directly after Lendy Cowes Week.Read More
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The 2018 Channel Race proved to be the windiest race of the RORC Season's Points Championship to date, with competitors reporting gusts of up to 40 knots and a short sharp sea state for the blast to Beachy Head and back to the Solent.Read More
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Dating back to 1928, the Channel Race is one of the oldest races organised by the Royal Ocean Racing Club. This weekend all of the class leaders in the 2018 RORC Season's Points Championship will be in action and all of the top ten teams after eight races sailed.Read More
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Racing took place for the XOD Telegraph Bowl over the weekend of the 21st and 22nd July. With no significant breeze forecast until after lunchtime the RORC race team announced that racing would not start until 1400hrs.Read More
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