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Race Officer Patrick Gifford set a demanding and varied series for the six-boat Lark fleet at this year’s Waldringfield Cartoon. With tides and winds shifting across the weekend, the racing was full of drama, tactical gambles, and the occasional capsize.

Teams from across the country converged on the Royal Torbay Yacht Club, hosts of the latest edition of Torbay Royal Regatta, for three days of intense racing and socialising over the August Bank Holiday weekend.

There could have been no better way to celebrate the 75th edition of the Centomiglia, Italy’s longest-running regatta, organized by Circolo Vela Gargnano with the support of the Italian Sailing Federation and this year also Unione Vela d’Altura Italiana.

Painfully light winds along the Italian and French coasts overnight have meant slow sailing for the crews on the way from Genova to Boka Bay.

Bala Sailing Club welcomed the RS Vareo fleet over the August Bank Holiday weekend to enjoy the vast expanse of water at Llyn Tegid to compete for the Inland Championship, as part of the Rooster National Tour 2025.

Forget the forecast; the true weather at the 2025 Birmingham Hansa TT was one of unbreakable spirit and fantastic sailing in what were testing conditions.

The penultimate open meeting of the Hadron H2 year was hosted by the Walton and Frinton Yacht Club at the weekend in ideal sailing conditions- sunshine, mild temperatures and fresh winds.

Derwent Reservoir Sailing Club welcomed 21 entrants to their annual ILCA open on Saturday 6th September, forming part of the 2025 ILCA Lakeland & Borders series.

Kingspan-sponsored Flying Irishman Tom Dolan is in the leading edge of the pack after the first night at sea in La Solitaire du Figaro Paprec, as the 34 skippers head north-west towards the Skerries Bank Buoy off the Cornwall coast.

With last weekend a write-off with no racing because of strong winds, and the forecast for this weekend not looking too promising, inevitably there was not a lot of enthusiasm to go racing.