Yachting World

  • August 13, 2002

Craig Burlton has won the RS Vareo national championship with four straight race wins

Adrien breaks Channel record

  • August 13, 2002

Jean-Luc Van Den Heede's Open 80, Adrien, left Cowes yesterday morning bound for Dinard (France) to set a record monohull time for the Channel Record Trophy

  • August 13, 2002

Bruno Peyron and team have spent the first 24 hours of their Round Britain and Ireland record-breaking attempt, aboard the maxicat Orange, averaging 14-15 knots

  • August 10, 2002

Digby Fox and Tim Swinburn, who are currently sailing round Ireland in a Shadow catamaran to raise money for a hydrotherapy pool, are making good progress with an average speed…

Six Metre Europeans

  • August 10, 2002

Bernard Haissley’s Fleau has won the Six Metre European championship

  • August 10, 2002

SMS text messaging has been adopted by well over half of the yachts taking part in Skandia Life Cowes Week to receive class courses on the 10-minute warning signal.

  • August 10, 2002

Skandia Life Cowes Week will close out on the final day with Force 3-4 breezes predominantly out of the north-west but shifty close to shore on courses in the central…

  • August 10, 2002

It's taken two days after the last qualifying race to decide the eventual winner of the Skandia Life Young Skipper's Trophy. Christian Hamilton's loss was Matt Glasgow's gain.

  • August 10, 2002

Everyone is thankful that it hasn't been needed in earnest, but Skandia Life Cowes Life Week 2002 benefited from new on-water safety cover.

  • August 10, 2002

Immaculate performances from Waverider and Dog Tag placed them first and second respectively in the Skandia Life Cowes Week Black Group.

  • August 10, 2002

The XODs have had a difficult week, suffering two abandonments due to lack of wind but there's been a happy ending for the Hamble section of the fleet.

  • August 10, 2002

For two of the protagonists there's almost been as much action off the water as on, but it all finally got settled in time for the final presentations at Skandia…

Skandia Life Cowes Week final results

  • August 10, 2002

Here are the results for the last day of racing at Skandia Life Cowes Week and the overall results for the regatta, as at 2100 on Saturday 10 August.

  • August 9, 2002

The new Swan 45 McFly, owned and helmed by Tony Mack, has made its debut at Skandia Life Cowes Week.

  • August 9, 2002

Today will see good sailing breezes but yet another quandary for the race officers and tacticians as a low tracks east across the south coast.

  • August 9, 2002

Yachting World web and magazine art editor Marianne Knudsen was released from the office for a day to sail onboard the Fremantle 8.

  • August 9, 2002

Aristotle was right; a couple of millennia on we find it takes eight to add some colour to Skandia Life Cowes Week's summer of 2002.

  • August 9, 2002

One class has been abandoned at Cowes, all others are underway with 811 yachts out on courses in the central and eastern Solent.