Yachting World

  • 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.

Contents: September 2002

  • August 9, 2002

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

  • August 8, 2002

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

  • August 8, 2002

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

  • August 8, 2002

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

  • August 8, 2002

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

  • August 8, 2002

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.

  • August 7, 2002

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.

  • August 7, 2002

Racing is postponed until 1210 while everyone exercises the powers of mind over weather to pull in an approaching front at Cowes Week."

  • August 7, 2002

The debut class is due to demo tonight at Skandia Life Cowes Week, subject to the wind holding.

  • August 7, 2002

It's a worry when a classic James McGruer one-off is re-rigged to become a gin palace, but at least the skipper has something to keep his mind off the light…

  • August 7, 2002

Arthur Robb's Daring one-design could arguably be called the home team at Skandia Life Cowes Week, with all of the 31 boats in existence based here through the year.

  • August 7, 2002

Today's racing was held in light and shifty winds that made it a long hike to the Needles and back for the Britannia Cup, but you wouldn't have known it…

  • August 7, 2002

Sue Pelling joined four Olympic medallists and a couple of Volvo Ocean Race skippers aboard the Swan 70 Volvo for Life, during the today's Britannia Cup.

  • August 6, 2002

...and we shall have slow (racing) at Skandia Life Cowes Week, at least until Saturday if the current synoptics are to be believed.