• August 6, 2003

For the second time this week committee officers running the racing at Skandia Cowes Week had to consider the use of the new Amendment 2 to the Race Instructions.

  • August 6, 2003

Skandia Cowes Week served up another day of blazing sunshine, but with a frustrating mid-afternoon wind shift that sent race officers running for their shortened course routines.

  • August 6, 2003

Hannah Mills gives Britain it's best ever result at the Optimist World Championships

  • August 5, 2003

Everyone woke to a pleasingly brisk easterly breeze this morning and the Skandia Cowes Week starting gun is already firing but can all of the classes get around their shortened…

  • August 5, 2003

Yesterday we said Skandia Cowes Week couldn't get better...but it just did today thanks to a fresh and building wind that saw all of the classes back in the beer…

  • August 4, 2003

A Europe-wide heat wave may be grabbing all of the headlines, but settled pressure means more pressure for those trying to engineer sailing courses at Skandia Cowes Week.

  • August 4, 2003

There's a doubling of the Swallow entry at this year's Skandia Cowes Week, a welcome return on efforts made to keep the class healthy.

  • August 4, 2003

Young entrants are encouraged by the organisers at Skandia Cowes Week, so it's not unusual to find skippers for whom a 1980s nostalgia evening would mean very little.

  • August 4, 2003

Yachting World Editorial Assistant Christina Sampson and Picture Editor Vanda Woolsey were aboard Swan 55 Valhalla for a classic day's racing in Class 3 at Cowes Week

  • August 4, 2003

Temperature in the high 20s, a steady breeze from the south-east, typical Solent tides to add some spice; today was Skandia Cowes Week at its best.

  • August 3, 2003

Team McLaren Mercedes' British Formula 1 driver David Coulthard will be taking the wheel of Formula 1 Sailing's brand-new Farr 65, Hugo Boss on Friday 8 August at Skandia Cowes

Girls For Sail expands to a four-boat fleet

  • August 3, 2003

Girls For Sail Managing Director, Annie O'Sullivan had a few words of advice for her gathering of 40 girls set to tackle Skandia Cowes Week in a fleet of four…

  • August 3, 2003

The weather did its level best to keep the race officials on their toes and competitors guessing for the second day of Skandia Cowes Week.

  • August 2, 2003

Just 16 seconds split the Farr 52s Bear of Britain and Cheernikeeff II at Cowes today...and with good reason.