Cowes Week Sailing. News and Results from the Largest Regatta of its Kind in the World
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…
Entries for Cowes Week 2022 will open at 12 noon on Friday 21 January, with Super Early Bird discounts available until 18 February. A new one design class for Sonatas has been introduced to reflect its strong activity in Cowes…
The County Wicklow designed Cape 31 by Mark Mills to announce its arrival in the big time with the UK Class start at Cowes Week 2021. The Cape 31 stole a lot of the limelight with some enthusiastic reporting from…
Winners of Cowes Week IRC One division on the Solent this week was Tony Mack's UK-based J/111 McFly that included a notable Irish presence in her crew lineup. Royal Cork's Harry Durcan was the mainsheet trimmer, Cathal Leigh-Doyle was the…
Entries for Cowes Week 2021 will open at 12 noon on Monday 29 March. Whilst this is somewhat later than usual, the event is carrying over nearly 200 entries from 2020 and the team have been inundated with questions about…
Cowes Week Organisers Hopeful for 2021 — But It Will Be a Smaller Affair
17th February 2021 Cowes Week
A more subdued Cowes Week is on the cards for 2021, without the usual Red Arrows flypast and fireworks display. But as the Isle of Wight County Press reports, efforts are being made to encourage a community event to breathe…
Cowes Week Limited (CWL), organiser of the UK's largest and best-known sailing event, has today announced the cancellation of the 2020 Cowes Week regatta. The move was largely anticipated given the size of the regatta (over 1,000 boats) and large…
Cowes Week organisers say they are continuing to work from home on all aspects of this year’s event which is still scheduled to take place from 8-15 August. Regatta director Laurence Mead said: “We continue to move forward with plans…
