Yachting World

  • August 10, 2002

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

  • August 10, 2002

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.

  • August 10, 2002

Digby Fox and Tim Swinburn, who are currently sailing round Ireland in a Shadow catamaran to raise money for a hydrotherapy pool, are making good progress with an average speed…

Six Metre Europeans

  • August 10, 2002

Bernard Haissley’s Fleau has won the Six Metre European championship

  • August 9, 2002

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

  • August 9, 2002

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.

  • August 9, 2002

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

  • 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.