EMILY HARRIS
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29 APRIL BEAULIEU
he year 2012 might now be synonymous with the Olympics but it’s also a bumper year for classic yacht events.
In London, a parade of 1,000 boats will celebrate 60 years of our Queen’s reign. Cowes, particularly, seems to be wall-to-wall: 8-M Worlds, a re-run of the Westward Cup, the Js (six or more in Falmouth
SOLENT & SOUTH COAST
28-29 APRIL PILOT CUTTERS REGATTA AND ST GEORGE’S DAY
Commemorates Charles II’s 17th-century escape. Modern, but now with a classics class
TROPHY RACE Yarmouth, Isle of Wight Tel: +44 (0)1983 760256
royalsolent.org Third year for this race: pilot cutters and other gaffers welcome
BOAT JUMBLE Beaulieu, Hampshire Tel: +44 (0)1590 612888
events@beaulieu.co.uk For a list of all UK boat jumbles, visit
boatjumbleassociation.co.uk
18-20 MAY WESTMACOTT ONE-DESIGN
9-17 JUNE LONDON TO PORTLAND SMALL
7-14 JULY PANERAI BRITISH CLASSIC WEEK
SHIPS RACE London to Portland, Dorset ASTO. Tel: +44 (0)2392 503222
asto.org.uk,
office@asto.org.uk Biennial passage race run by ASTO, 25 ‘small ships’. See overleaf for ASTO’s main event, the Small Ships Race in Cowes
REGATTA Portsmouth/East Solent
www.rnc-rayc.co.uk/sailing.htm Gareth Penn. Tel: +44 (0)7974 352233, gareth@
goodsalonguide.com All small, Solent keelboats welcome. Third year for this event. Includes professional coaching and video feedback in
the evening on the first day.
25-27 MAY YARMOUTH OLD
WESTWARD CUP Cowes, Isle of Wight Tel: +44 (0)1983 292191
rys.org.uk Invitational big-yacht regatta: Altair, Elena, Lulworth, Cambria, Mariquita, Eleonora, Mariette and Moonbeam IV are invited.
11-19 JUNE
27-29 JUNE NEW 12-M BRITISH
OPEN Hamble, Hants Tel: +44 (0)23 8045 0300,
royal-southern.co.uk Part of the Royal Southern YC’s 175th anniversary celebrations
7 JULY BEAULIEU
GAFFERS FESTIVAL IoW. Tel: +44 (0)1983 760655 +44 (0)7790 668075, www.
yarmoutholdgaffersfestival.co.uk Flagship event of the OGA (see OGA panel), with an average attendance of about 120 boats
Left: Cambria at Les Voiles de Saint-Tropez, last year
1 JUNE ROYAL ESCAPE
RACE Brighton-Fécamp Tel: +44 (0)1273 464868
www.royalescaperace.co.uk
(BCYC) Cowes, Isle of Wight Mary Scott-Jackson. Tel: +44 (0)1983 245100 Mob: +44 (0)7790 770526
britishclassicyachtclub.org Five-race series, plus a clockwise round-the-Island with the usual social programme. 70 boats in 2011
15-21 JULY EIGHT-METRE
WORLDS Cowes, Isle of Wight Tel: +44 (0)1983 292191
rys.org.uk
18-21 JULY
J-CLASS Cowes, Isle of Wight
jclassyachts.com Regatta, culminating in the Hundred Guinea Cup, clockwise around the island to the old 1851 America’s Cup course. See
also 27-30 June in ‘West Country’
RIVER ROW Beaulieu Village, Hampshire Jenny Brewis, Tel: +44 (0)1590 614621. All types of human-powered craft
30 JUNE ROUND THE
ISLAND RACE Cowes, Isle of Wight Tel: +44 (0)1983 296621
sec@islandsc.org.uk www.roundtheisland.org.uk Anything with a sail – 1,600 boats plus. Ben Ainslie is in it to win this year, too.
CUP Cowes, Isle of Wight James Pleasance, Tel: +44 (0)203 377 3235, Mob: +44 (0)7711 1 130886
thesuperyachtcup.com Large SoT yachts like Gaia and Adela among the gin palaces.
22-25 JULY THE SUPERYACHT
23-27 JULY METRE AND CLASSIC KEELBOAT
and Cowes amount to the biggest J-Class fleet ever seen), BCYC Panerai Week, Metres and Keelboats and the Superyacht Cup! Elsewhere, new events are cropping up and there’s something going on near you wherever you are. Overseas (see p52), it’s even busier: Sweden is celebrating its own Olympic centerary in style, and it’s a Brest year – the festival’s 20th anniversary, so a bit special.
REGATTA Cowes, Isle of Wight
cowesclassicsweek.org david.elliott@
cowesclassicsweek.org Metre boats, classic keelboats and yachts at this alternative to Cowes Week
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