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After several days of strong winds and disrupted racing, conditions were milder on Aarhus Bay as the Final Series got underway at the 2026 ILCA 4 Youth World Championships.

After some delay and a bit of paddling the fleet arrived at Hill Head for a committee boat start. A perfect sea breeze filled in as forecast and a navigational race track set.

Day 2 dawned at the Noble Marine Comet Trio National Championship held at Exe Sailing Club with the promise of a lighter breeze with ESE 8/9 knots forecasted.

Being part of the North Sails Cowes Week 200th Regatta is a proud moment for the RS21 International Class, with the fleet racing alongside more than 600 boats at one of sailing’s most iconic events.

There is something special about taking a boat out of the Bristol Channel and into offshore waters. During the last week in June four Portishead Cruising Club boats made the epic voyage across the Irish Sea to race in Cork Week.

Five Redwings and seven One-Designs started on time from Janson in a brisk (12 to 15 knots) SE’erly breeze. The course for the former was Tara, Derrick twice to port finishing at Under Tyne.

After a successful nations championship in Looe the Redwing fleet descended on Llys-Y-Fran reservoir in beautiful Pembrokeshire, over the weekend of August 1/2nd for their Inland event.

The new crew of Hanuman recently spent a week training in Palma along with the beautiful J Class yacht’s new owner, Italian Giovanni Lombardi Stronati.

The day dawned like any other 2026 Torbados Summer day, buckets of sunshine and a gentle breeze though its northerly direction hinted that this heatwave might soon be over, until the next one.

At the end of the day, bicentenaries are just a nice round number, but the effect they can have on events are quite extraordinary. They galvanise people to come together, to push harder, to put on a show and, most of all, attend.