Details of visitor and competitor attractions are emerging.
Yachting World
Laser Master worlds
The Harken Laser Masters Championship kicked off yesterday in light winds off the coast of Bitez
Match racing fleet for charter
Berkeley Marine has won the competitive tender for the fleet seven RYA First Class 8s and will be using them for corporate events, challenge programmes and training
IMS worlds
Italian boats win both classes
Flying 15 Europeans
Forty one boats and crews arrived in Puerto Pollenca on the beautiful island of Mallorca for the inaugural Flying 15 European championship from 9-14 May
Oki European Challenge 2005
First commercial yacht partner comes on board
Thomson set for Vendée
Alex Thomson signs two primary partner sponsors
Scottish Series preview
Over 160 yachts confirmed for this year's regatta
The Transat awaits
Gitana X and Gitana 11 head for Plymouth
Fireball Class news
New Fireball Class Chairman
Sail4Cancer
Southampton students raise money for cancer research
Laser worlds
Double Olympic medallist Robert Scheidt won the Laser world championship which concluded yesterday
Talisman shines at IMS worlds
Marco Birch's Talisman wins the Rolex IMS worlds' offshore race and non corinthian division
New Cowes regatta centre open
HRH The Duke of Edinburgh officially opened the new Cowes Combined Clubs Regatta Centre yesterday
Thomson pulls out of Transat
Alex Thomson pulls out of the Transat race with less than two weeks before the start
New Cowes regatta centre open
The official opening of the new Cowes Combined Clubs (CCC) Regatta Centre took place yesterday.
IMS worlds
The Rolex IMS worlds started in the Bay of Naples yesterday
Anna Kournikova to start Transat
Anna Kournikova, the Russian tennis player, will start the Transat 2004
Larks at Barnt Green
Larks from as far afield as Cumbria and the south coast descended on Barnt Green for the annual Lark open meeting last weekend
Laser worlds
The thermal Meltemi failed develop for the sixth day of racing in the Harken Laser World Championships in Bitez, Turkey yesterday