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Written on Wednesday, 17 July 2019

RT @DazcatCatamaran: Two Dazcat 1495s, Apollo and Hissy Fit, make a pitstop at the @MultihullCentre...

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Written on Wednesday, 17 July 2019

RT @LVyachting: The final countdown is on to the Rolex Fastnet Race, so we thought we'd take...

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Written on Wednesday, 17 July 2019

2017 #RolexFastnetRace winners are back to defend the title! 🏆 Didier Gaudoux is back for...

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Written on Monday, 15 July 2019

Over the last few editions of the #RolexFastnetRace, the @IRCrating Two Handed class has shown...

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Written on Monday, 15 July 2019

RT @RAFSailingAssoc: @RORCRacing Cowes Dinard St Malo at the weekend enjoyed by all! @HQRAFSport...

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Written on Monday, 15 July 2019

RT @OarsomeChance: We made it home after a fantastic @RORCRacing #stmalorace across in near...

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Written on Friday, 12 July 2019

RT @yandyfeed: 198 boats to set sail for RORC Cowes Dinard St Malo Race tomorrow - The largest...

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Written on Friday, 12 July 2019

RT @DefiVoileSEP: Départ en direct de la Cowes Dinard @RORCRacing grâce à la Webcam 👉 isleofwightwebcams.co.uk/cowes-yachting/ Y...

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Written on Friday, 12 July 2019

RT @OarsomeChance: This weekend we are competing @RORCRacing #stmalorace for #fastnetrace qualifying...

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Written on Friday, 12 July 2019

RT @DefiVoileSEP: [TOP DÉPART | COWES//DINARD - ST-MALO RACE] Que la force du girafon soit...

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Written on Friday, 12 July 2019

RT @OarsomeChance: Approaching #theneedles @RORCRacing #stmalorace bound #nicedayforit #training...

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Written on Thursday, 11 July 2019

Well over 1000 sailors will be taking part from 20 different countries for the Cowes-Dinard-St...

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Written on Wednesday, 10 July 2019

197 yachts are registered for the Cowes Cowes Dinard St Malo Race, a record that hasn't been...

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Written on Friday, 05 July 2019

Line Honours for Scallywag in the 2019 Transatlantic Race 🏆🌎 SHK Scallywag has won line honors...

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Written on Wednesday, 26 June 2019

We are delighted to welcome Sue Wescomb as the new General Manager of the RORC Cowes clubhouse....

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Written on Monday, 24 June 2019

William McGoughand Christian Jeffrey, racing J/109 Just So in @IRCrating Two Handed are the...

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Written on Friday, 14 June 2019

The official #RolexFastnetRace entry list for IRC and Non-IRC rated (e.g. Class40, IMOCA 60,...

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Written on Wednesday, 12 June 2019

RT @gt_llp: G&T is proud to support Ausome Charity as it launches a campaign to compete...

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Written on Wednesday, 12 June 2019

RT @amokura1939: First-time offshore racers Moxon and Jones enter 1939 classic yawl Amokura...

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Written on Tuesday, 11 June 2019

RT @GCASailingClub: The end to the school year sees our @RoundtheIsland with mixed crew 50:50...

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Written on Tuesday, 11 June 2019

How many #Fastnets have you raced!? 📝⛵️ This year, Richard Matthews will compete in his 23rd...

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Written on Sunday, 09 June 2019

The 2019 RORC De Guingand Bowl was undoubtedly a tough test for both the crews and competing...

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Written on Thursday, 06 June 2019

Over 400 sailors will be taking on the demands of racing in the forecast full-on conditions...

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Written on Thursday, 06 June 2019

Early July in Cowes will see the cream of the IRC fleets converge in Cowes for the @IRCrating...

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Written on Tuesday, 04 June 2019

The 2019 Royal Ocean Racing Club North Sea Race was won by Ker 43 Baraka GP sailed by Harmen...

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Written on Friday, 31 May 2019

One of the worlds most iconic offshore races. Saturday 3rd August 2019. "The Everest...

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Written on Wednesday, 29 May 2019

79 boats prepare for the North Sea Race which starts on Friday 31st May. Race preview at bit.ly/NorthSeaRace #rorcracing...

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Written on Sunday, 26 May 2019

Images from the start of the 2019 RORC #MythOfMalham Race where 140 yachts are making their...

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Written on Thursday, 23 May 2019

This bank holiday weekend, 140 yachts, with over 900 crew from all over the world, will be...

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Written on Wednesday, 22 May 2019

Gispy Moth IV will compete RORC #MythOfMalham Race! Gipsy Moth IV is a 53 ft (16 m) ketch...

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The world's largest offshore race, the biennial #RolexFastnetRace. - An established fixture on the ocean racing circuit since 1925. 2019 marks the 48th edition of the epic offshore race, Saturday 3rd August in Cowes, UK. - © ROLEX

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The 5th boat built by Sodebo, the 3rd Ultim of the series, and one of the largest multihulls racing in the #RolexFastnetRace. - Owned by sponsor Sodebo and sailed by Thomas Coville, Sodebo Ultim was launched in March this year with this race being their first competitive outing. - Skipper Thomas has sailed with Sodebo for 20 years; he holds the world sailing record on a multihull and finished 3rd in the Route du Rhum - Destination Guadeloupe this year with the last Sodebo Ultim. - This is by no means his first Fastnet Race “I have participated many times, especially in younger days during the Admiral’s Cup. The start will be the most challenging part for us,” says Thomas. “We are looking forward to competing against other Ultims offshore in one of the most famous and popular races in the world.” - 📸 @sodebo / @sodebovoile

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Buckle up for the start of IRC 2 at the 2017 #RolexFastnetRace. In IRC Two Gilles Fournier and Corinne Migraine's J/133 Pintia took the class win in 2017. 🇫🇷🏆

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Owner of the oldest boat in the race, Paul Moxon fell in love with the 50ft Shepherd-designed 1939 classic yawl Amokura 1939 which he bought in the Med seven years ago. - She was originally built as a speedy vessel, suitable for both cruising and ocean racing, designed for Major Ernest Harston, ADC to Lord Mountbatten. The yacht has a rich history and previous owners include well-known author George Miller, whose book Maquis chronicled his exploits in WW2 behind enemy lines. With the profits, he went on to buy Amokura and wrote extensively about her in his book Oyster River, describing a summer spent cruising in the Gulf of Morbihan in the early 1960s. - Competing in the popular Two Handed division with Steve Jones, Moxon says he is more experienced sailing shorthanded than with a full crew: - “I thought it was a great challenge to take an old boat on the Fastnet. It is a huge mountain for us to climb, but we are more experienced doing it with just two as I have no experience of running a race crew,” says Moxon who has notched up hundreds of long-distance cruising miles, crossing with the boat to the Med many times. “There is nothing like having to prepare for a race of this magnitude to drive us to make the boat better, to learn about the boat, us as crew, and how to sail her better. The challenge of preparing, taking part and hopefully completing the course is something so satisfying and something I am really proud of.” - #RolexFastnetRace . . . #yachting #yachts #superyachts #yachtrace #ocean #waves #water #sail #sailing #sea #sun #fastnetrace #yachtphotography #buildyourownboat #woodenboats #woodyboater #classicboat #woodboat #boat #rivayacht #vintageboat #boatinglife #luxurytender #rivaaquarama

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2017 #RolexFastnetRace winners are back to defend the title! 🏆 - Didier Gaudoux is back for more with his winning JND 39 Lann Ael 2. After sailing a near-perfect race in 2017 he and his mostly Corinthian crew will be hoping for another set of perfect conditions for their yacht. - A lifelong sailor who did his first RORC races in 1978 Didier mentioned that the yacht had been designed with the Fastnet in mind. “You have to be a bit lucky with the weather to win but I am very proud to have designed a boat with Bernard Nivelt to win the Fastnet.” - © Rolex/Kurt Arrigo/ELWJ

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The mythical #FastnetRock. - 2019 marks the 48th edition of the biennial Rolex Fastnet Race. On Saturday, 3 August an intrepid fleet of 400 yachts will set sail from Cowes, on the south coast of the United Kingdom, bound for the Fastnet Rock off southern Ireland and the return leg to the finish in Plymouth. - This is offshore racing at its very best. Don't miss a moment. - © @rolex / Kurt Arrigo #RolexFastnetRace . . . #yachtdesign #sailor #sail #superyachts #yachtclub #design #oceans #luxuryyachts #theneedles #sailing #beach #yachtbroker #cowesiow #instasailing #yachtphotography #fastnet #fastnetrace #rolexfastnetrace #isleofwight #boatshow #instasea #classicyacht #imoca #yachtstyle #yachtweek #sailingstagram #sailors

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Doublehanders on the rise! - Perhaps it is because people are becoming increasingly time poor, or because it neatly side-steps the problem of keeping a large crew together, but one area of offshore racing undeniably gaining popularity is doublehanding. - This unique discipline of our sport has been recognised by World Sailing with the announcement that a ‘Mixed Two Person Keelboat Offshore’ event will be introduced to the Olympics for Paris 2024. - Over the last few editions of the Rolex Fastnet Race, the IRC Two Handed class has shown steady growth from 45 entries in 2013 to 53 in 2015 and 57 in in the last race. At the time of writing, 63 doublehanded competitors were entered this year. - The range of boat performance in IRC Two Handed spans James Heald's Swan 45 Nemesis (although the longest boat is American Mark Stevens’ Hinckley 51 Kiva, a recent arrival in the Transatlantic Race 2019), down to Will Sayer's Sigma 33 Elmarleen. In between there are Sun Fast 3200s and 3600s, JPK 10.10s and 10.80s plus J/122s, J/109s and J/105s and A-35s plus, among others, Sigmas, Swans, Figaro IIs and Figaro 3s. - Pictured, Dutch two handed champions, Robin Verhoef and John van der Starre will return to the Rolex Fastnet Race on J/122 Ajeto! - 📸 © Paul Wyeth/pwpictures.com . . . #yachtdesign #sailor #sail #superyachts #yachtclub #design #oceans #luxuryyachts #theneedles #sailing #beach #yachtbroker #cowesiow #instasailing #yachtphotography #fastnet #fastnetrace #rolexfastnetrace #isleofwight #boatshow #instasea #classicyacht #imoca #marina #yachtstyle #yachtweek #sailingstagram #sailors #class40

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Scarlet Celebrations in St Malo! 🏆 - Ross Applebey's Oyster 48 Scarlet Oyster has won the Royal Ocean Racing Club Cowes-Dinard-St Malo Race, having scored the best corrected time of the 170 yachts racing under IRC. In all 185 yachts raced to St Malo from 20 different countries. The largest fleet for a RORC race since the 2017 Rolex Fastnet Race. - My wife Sarah is expecting our first baby in two weeks, and was not on board, but she started getting some sensations back home, which was a bit of an incentive to sail faster! However, all is well, and the baby hasn't been born yet!” - “Coming out of the Solent we went over the Shingles Bank, I am not sure if it worked tactically, but the strategy put us in a clear lane, avoiding the dirt from the huge fleet. The wind did go aft during the race which really suited Scarlet Oyster, as we could pole back, while the asymmetric boats had to sail a lot more miles. Pintia showed us the way leaving the Channel Islands, with some favourable tide we were very fast towards St Malo. The final icing on the cake was the tide turning foul just after we finished. Our best result in previous races to St Malo has been third in class. To win overall, against very good opposition, is a real thrill. Jules White did a great job, allowing me to concentrate more on tactics, and Jules will be the skipper for the Rolex Fastnet Race, as our baby should have arrived before the race start.” - skipper Ross Applebey. - #rorcracing

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🚀 Beep beep, coming through! 🚀 - The RORC fleet are on route to Saint Malo! - #rorcracing 📸 Paul Wyeth

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Eric De Turckheim's Teasing Machine has finished the Transatlantic Race 2019! - The crew crossed the Royal Yacht Squadron finish line in Cowes at 13:35:34 UTC today for an elapsed time of 15 days, 22 hours, 15 minutes and 34 seconds. - "We’re physically fit, maybe mentally exhausted, but that’s what it is after a long race. Everything is okay!" Eric De Turckheim, owner of Teasing Machine. - #TransatlanticRace #rorcracing 📸 Rick Tomlinson

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Royal Ocean Racing Club
(General Enquiries, Membership, House)

20 St James's Place
London
SW1A 1NN
UK

+44 (0) 20 7493 2248
+44 (0) 20 7493 5252
http://www.rorc.org

Royal Ocean Racing Club
(Racing Enquiries)

82 High Street
Cowes
Isle of Wight
PO31 7AJ
UK

+44 (0) 1983 295 144
+44 (0) 20 7493 5252
http://www.rorc.org

RORC Cowes Clubhouse

The Parade
Cowes
Isle of Wight
PO31 7QU
UK

+44 (0) 1983 293581
+44 (0) 20 7493 5252
http://www.rorc.org

RORC Rating Office
(Seahorse Rating Ltd)

Seahorse Building, Bath Road
Lymington, Hampshire
SO41 3SE
UK

+44 (0) 1590 677030
+44 (0) 1590 679478
http://www.rorcrating.com

Royal Ocean Racing Club - since 1925

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.