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iShares Cup 1-3 Aug 2009 - Extreme 40 Series
Featuring the likes of Shirley Robertson and Nick Moloney, the iShares Cup Extreme 40 Sailing Series has six rounds staged across Europe with the UK's heat held in Cowes/Solent from 1-3 August 2009. Click here for more
Cowes Week
Supported by Red Funnel, the oldest sailing regatta in the world dates from 1826 and is a key fixture in the British sporting calendar. Over 1,000 yachts in some 40 classes race daily in the Solent between 1-8 August 2009. Click here for more.
Rolex Fastnet Race
Every 2 years some 300 yachts compete in this grueling race from Cowes to the Fastnet Rock, off the Scilly Islands and back to Plymouth. Watch the start from Cowes Green on 9 August 2009. Click here for more.
Artemis Challenge
Seven IMOCA 60s with world class skippers are set to do battle in the Artemis Challenge on the 5 July as part of Cowes Week 2009. The prize in this 50 mile high speed sprint around the Isle of Wight is £10k for the charity of the winning skipper.
Red Funnel Cowes Keelboat Championship
Competing for Red Funnel Challenge Trophies, there are 24 races held over 6 weekends between May and September for 6 Metres, Etchells, Darings, Dragons and Sonars/Flying 15s/XoD classes. Click here for full details.
Red Funnel Easter Challenge
This ‘must do' tune up event marks the beginning of a very busy racing season. The 18th edition of the Red Funnel Easter Challenge regatta will kick off with seven races scheduled from Friday 10th April to Sunday 12th April 2009. Click for more.
JP Morgan Asset Management Round the Island Race
Supported by Red Funnel, the Round the Island race is the largest of its kind in the world with around 16,000 professional and amateur sailors aboard 1,800 yachts battling on 20 June 2009 to be first around the Isle of Wight in a westerly direction. Click here for more.
Royal Ocean Racing Club (RORC)
Check out RORCs website for the latest racing news, reports and regulations + club events
RORC website
Solent Racing Calendar
See the SCRA website for full details of the 400 sailing events taking place in the Solent every season
SCRA website
Red Funnel are partners to BT Team Ellen, a group of dedicated sailors who are passionate about winning. They race across oceans, take on round the world epics and engage in close inshore combat. But they are also a team who care about the state of the planet they race around, and are striving to live and work in more sustainable ways, and motivate others to do the same.
News
BT on her way back home
Upon arriving back in the UK this Sunday, the BT IMOCA 60 yacht will be lifted out of the water in Cowes and go straight in to short but intensive refit to bring her back to full racing condition for the 2010 IMOCA season, albeit no longer as BT. BT, skippered by Seb Josse, whose chances of winning the Transat Jacques Vabre were shattered by a giant breaking wave which crushed her coachroof less than three weeks ago, is now on her way back towards England, after having left Praia da Vitoria (Terceira Island, Azores) on Monday, November the 30th. Aboard the "Beautriton" cargo ship, the IMOCA 60 will arrive in Southampton next Sunday, before being towed across the Solent, back to Medina Yard in Cowes on the Isle of Wight - the yard where she was built in 2007. Considering the beating she took in the Atlantic after having suffered the blow that forced her crew to abandon her, the boat is in very good shape and has not suffered structurally, as the surveyor who assessed the damage in the Azores was able to confirm. As a result, the repairs and refit should prove to be straightforward, and everything is already in place in Cowes to welcome the BT yacht.
Ellen MacArthur Trust
Red Funnel are proud supporters of the Ellen MacArthur Trust which takes young people aged 8-18 sailing to help inspire them and rebuild their confidence as they recover from cancer, leukaemia and others serious illness.
Ellen MacArthur Trust