Cowes Classic Powerboat Rally 2015

[burgundyben]

This year's Cowes Classic Powerboat Rally is 4th to 6th September. The fifth time we've run this event and it gets better every year.

More here

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Cowes-Classic-Powerboat-Rally/758793564208697

 

[Jurgen]

Some Top Drawer Boats, any idea what the course will be?

 

[burgundyben]

On the rally we don;t do a set course as such.

The BPRC run the race, I think is 2 legs again this year, Cowes to Tq, Tq back home.

 

[rbcoomer]

Hoping to get up one year soon. Have only ever watched the race from this end and would love to see the classic rally!

 

[burgundyben]

Entry form has now been released.

See here for more detail or to request the form.

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Cowes-Classic-Powerboat-Rally/758793564208697

 

[burgundyben]

Reminder to anyone wishing to join the fun to get an entry form to us soon.

 

[DoubleVision]

Hi Ben. What are the criteria for being able to enter? I will be down there at that time but not sure if I would be welcome in a 1991 Squeeker?

 

[burgundyben]

Hi Ben. What are the criteria for being able to enter? I will be down there at that time but not sure if I would be welcome in a 1991 Squeeker?

If the boat has some pedigree for racing offshore, such as Cowes-Torquay or Miami -Nassau. Most hulls designed by Sonny Levi, Ray Hunt or Alan Burnard, built before 1990 by Souter, or Fairey, or Bertram would all be fine. As an example, we do allow the Alan Burnard designed Swordsman 40, based on the Swordsman 33 and Dagger hull. So while we're fairly lax, in the nicest possible way we try to avoid 'towering white GRP'. We discourage anything flybridge unless its got race history.

We do have Britannia Plastics, Riva, Tod, Teal, Magnum.

Think your Squeeker, lovely as it may be, probably not the right boat for the event. Soz. An original Sunseeker S20 might be though. They raced.

 

[Double Vision]

If the boat has some pedigree for racing offshore, such as Cowes-Torquay or Miami -Nassau. Most hulls designed by Sonny Levi, Ray Hunt or Alan Burnard, built before 1990 by Souter, or Fairey, or Bertram would all be fine. As an example, we do allow the Alan Burnard designed Swordsman 40, based on the Swordsman 33 and Dagger hull. So while we're fairly lax, in the nicest possible way we try to avoid 'towering white GRP'. We discourage anything flybridge unless its got race history.

We do have Britannia Plastics, Riva, Tod, Teal, Magnum.

Think your Squeeker, lovely as it may be, probably not the right boat for the event. Soz. An original Sunseeker S20 might be though. They raced.

Thanks Ben. Yes my old girl has no racing history apart from trying to get to the Folly on a Friday night before last orders. I will still turn up and admire from a distance. Great to see so many of my childhood dream boats restored to perfection.