yacht race

[masterofnone]

looking on marine traffic i see alot of yachts heading towards the C.I, anyone know what race?

 

[Siosarnoir]

RORC Cowes to St Malo race

 

[{151760}]

The huge fleet passed us this morning. A wonderful sight.

 

[AIDY]

A lot still at it sailing passed the Channel Islands. A qualifying race for the fastnet.

 

[john_morris_uk]

A lot still at it sailing passed the Channel Islands. A qualifying race for the fastnet.

Sailing well to overtake the Channel Isles?

 

[Giblets]

Let's hope none of them meet up with this on the way back!

UK Coastal
WZ 809/17
081400 UTC Jul 17
​ENGLISH CHANNEL, CHANNEL ISLANDS.
Guernsey Northward.
1. Large, 40 metre long rope reported adrift in vicinity 49-36.74N 002-38.04W.
2. Cancel this message 111600 UTC Jul 17.

 

[horatio_nelson]

I was crewing on a Class 40 in this race. Beautiful warm, sunny conditions and glorious moonlit night but once about 15 miles off the Needles there was bugger all breeze. Kept the fleet fairly close together though and did make for some wonderful views of the fleet.

 

[sailor211]

When I were young , before all this tech stuff, the coastguard used to spend the night on vhf giving nav warnings about 200 boats sailing north to south IOW to Casquets. I always thought they should have added something like " and two going east". which would got a few navigators out of their bunks.

Some very enjoyable nights on that race. And a few good meals at the end.

 

[lpdsn]

" and two going east". which would got a few navigators out of their bunks.

 

[Frogmogman]

Aaah. Happy reminiscience.

The Cowes-Dinard race was always one of my faves.