Cowes Week Sailing. News and Results from the Largest Regatta of its Kind in the World
Cowes Week has announced North Sails as its new title sponsor ahead of the regatta’s 200th anniversary in 2026. North Sails Cowes Week 2026 will take place from 1–7 August, with more than 500 boats already entered for the bicentenary…
Former Royal Ocean Racing Club (RORC) Admiral and Commodore Andrew McIrvine has called for Cape 31 boats to race in their own class at Cowes Week. In a letter to Eurosailnews (August 14th), McIrvine said the Cape 31 is “an…
The Cape 31 class achieved a historic quintuple in Britain’s largest regatta, the 199th edition of Cowes Week. Over the course of the week, the one design class from Wicklow-based Mark Mills enjoyed their own mini-series, others won their IRC…
Stuart Cranston, representing Strangford Lough Yacht Club in Northern Ireland, was on the podium again with his Quarter Tonner, this time finishing second in Class Six at Cowes Week. The winner was Sam Laidlaw's 28-foot Quarter Tonner BLT, which, after…
Former Belfast Lough Centenarian Classic Cruiser-Racer Wins Top Award In Cowes Week
6th August 2024 Historic Boats
When twin Brothers Billy & Brian Smyth of Royal North of Ireland YC at Cultra brought the Bermuda-rigged 35ft West Solent semi-OD Class Suvretta to Belfast Lough in the late 1950s, she was still very much as designed and built…
The conclusion of an often-breezy Cowes Week 2024 has brought a special double success for a keenly campaigned Crosshaven cruiser-racer. The Jones family’s J/122 Jellybaby (Royal Cork YC) has been consistently at the front of IRC Class 2, slipping up…
Cowes Week - which concludes at the weekend - has found good sailing conditions in the current difficult overall weather pattern, thanks to the Solent's changing nature as each day goes on, and the dynamic nature of the tides. It…
Laura Dillon Finishes Cowes Week In The Frame (Again) With Second Overall In Class
4th August 2023 Cowes Week
Howth's Laura Dillon - All Ireland Helm Champion 1996 - has been in her accustomed place in Cowes Week doing the driving on Harry Heijst's vintage S&S 41 Winsome from The Netherlands, and finished the Week at second overall in…
J109 Jukebox, with Royal Cork Royal Cork tactician Mark Mansfield and Alan Roche of Dun Laoghaire's National Yacht Club as part of the crew, has emerged as the victorious boat in the IRC Class 3 category at Cowes Week. The…
Cowes Week competitors faced a new level of challenge on Thursday, as they counted all races sailed rather than discarding their worst score, following the loss of two days of racing due to high winds earlier this week. Fortunately, Thursday's…
Isle of Wight Lifeboat Kept Busy By Multiple Incidents During Cowes Week Regatta
3rd August 2023 RNLI Lifeboats
The Cowes RNLI lifeboat was kept busy during Cowes Week racing earlier this week with incidents on Monday and Tuesday. On Monday morning (31 July) the lifeboat crew were called out to two yachts involved in a violent collision, and…
Royal Irish's Niall Dowling Finishes Second in Cape 31 Short Series at Cowes Week
2nd August 2023 Cape 31
Niall Dowling of the Royal Irish Yacht Club finished a close second in the Cape 31 'short series' at the Cowes Week Regatta on Tuesday. The 24-boat Cape 31 fleet braved the challenging conditions to complete the short series. Sandra…
The Cowes-based J109 Jukebox crew, led by John Smart, sailed a smart race on Tuesday to take the lead in a highly competitive IRC 3 fleet at the 2023 Cowes Week Regatta. The team, which has Royal Cork's Mark Mansfield…
Lady's Day at Cowes Week may sound like a charmingly old-fashioned Victorian concept, but there was nothing old-fashioned about the way that top women sailors of the calibre of Laura Dillon of Howth contested the time-honoured event yesterday in the…
Warm weather, combined with winds gusting above 25 knots, provided lashings of excitement, thrills, spills and adrenaline for competitors across all fleets at Cowes Week Sunday. Long downwind legs for many classes ensured competitors came ashore with big grins. In…
Cowes Week 2022 beckons (30 July – 05 August), and some of Ireland's top yacht race crews are among the IRC Zero Class, composed entirely of GP Zero boats, at the world-famous regatta. US-based German skipper Christian Zugel, a member of…
