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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Contents: September 2002

So, we’re required by law to make a passage plan but we don’t need to write it down...

Nineteen-year-old Mike Senior, crewed by Graham Nelson, has won the GP 14 national championship in Bangor.

Sue Pelling interviewed Olympic gold medallist Shirley Robertson to ask about her immediate sailing plans and her views on the Yngling keelboat.

The Hunter 707 team have just topped their class after taking a first today. Sue Pelling asked them about their role as one of five Skandia-sponsored yachts here at Cowes

Modern yachts may lend themselves to close combat but you cannot beat a vintage scrap.

Following a two-hour postponement, the wind showed up in force (4-5 to be precise) for the sixth day's racing at Skandia Life Cowes Week.

After four days of Skandia Life Cowes Week and, for most classes, three races thanks to abandonments on Monday, most groups and classes are still too close to call.