A colourful sail with the girls

Yachting World's Editorial Assistant Christina Sampson reports on a day with the Girls for Sail crew on their Sigma 38

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.

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.

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

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…

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…

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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