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No prizes for guessing where this was taken… One thing that never changes about Cowes Week is that the first race of the day is to unravel the course… and that’s before you start to look at the fast-changing tidal effects through the day. No wonder great skippers like Ken Read, when bemoaning the lack of a modern Admiral’s Cup, always add the observation that the complex Solent is still one of the most interesting places to race on earth. And regardless of the rain and cold
biggest boats out, even for a few days and the uncertainty of the Covid situation made the majority of parties much less hectic than normal. The race committee made the wise decision to cancel the last race with 35kt gusts forecast. As they stated… ‘bearing in mind the circumstances of this strange year’. Moving on to the Fastnet, at the last minute we received
the good news that European-based competitors will after all be able to come ashore in Cowes before the race and that the British will be able to go into Cherbourg and enjoy the after- party. As I write the race is building up nicely with 280 fully crewed entries plus 63 double-handers competing in the IRC divisions. We also have a good number of other fleets, with all eyes on the Imoca 60s and the challenge of whether a Maxi or a foiling 60 will take monohull line honours. After the excitement of the Fastnet and a Cher-
bourg finish we opted for our final race of 2021 to be Cowes-based rather than the usual sprint to Cherbourg. So we have introduced the Castle Rock Race, named after our clubhouse, starting and finishing in Cowes with an after-party where our season’s winners will also be announced.
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he last offshore race before the Fastnet Race and the highlight of our season is the Channel Race, a ‘round-the-cans’ course starting and finishing in Cowes. This year we had an interesting extended round-the-island with the addition of ‘line of longitude’ marks with a line south of Poole to the west and
Brighton to the east. With fickle wind and challenging tides these kept the navigators on their toes. The bigger boats looked good until near the end but were
undone by the finish at Stokes Bay in light breeze and foul tide eventually making for a small boat race. Seven of the top eight places were taken by double-handers, with congratulations to winners Nigel Goodhew and Kelvin Matthews aboard the Sunfast 3200 Corawith only Ross Applebey’s fully crewed Scarlett Oyster spoiling the double-handed party coming in third. This year’s Cowes Week was somewhat subdued with
entries down and a relatively low-key party scene. But the racing was fantastic with a variety of conditions, opening with the first two days’ traditional blusterly southwesterlies followed by some lighter airs racing and then more wind into the final day which unfortunately had to be cancelled. The new Cape 31 fleet had some particularly exciting racing
with seven boats, five of which achieved a win during the week. I for one missed some of the glamour of seeing more of the
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