CLASSIC EVENTS GUIDE 2013
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o... no Olympics this year! But there is a far more important event to classic sailing – the OGA’s 50th anniversary bonanza (see pp44-45). 2013 is also a Fife year – which means the most beautiful yachts in the world will gather on Scotland’s Firth of Clyde as they do every five years, this year including Britain’s first design symposium. At the other end of the scale from the grand Fifes, dinghies are
just looking stronger and stronger, with the third Bosham Revival and a special one-off to commemorate a century of the International 12s. Cowes Classics Week is also one to watch – with 150 boats expected this year, it will be the largest classic regatta after the OGA’s big bash. And if racing around the cans is not your thing, why not take your classic offshore in the biennial Classic Channel Regatta?
Solent & South coaSt 19-21 APRIL St george’S day cup Yarmouth, Isle of Wight Tel: +44 (0)7831 710946 www.topsail-adventures.co.uk Fourth annual gathering of Pilot Cutters, gaffers, luggers and the like at the Royal Solent YC.
28 APRIL Beaulieu Boat jumBle Beaulieu, Hampshire Tel: +44 (0)1590 612888 events@beaulieu.co.uk For a list of all UK boat jumbles, visit boatjumbleassociation.co.uk
4-5 MAY oga 50 welcome Hamble, See pp36-37
5-6 MAY Southampton maritime feStival Ocean Cruise Terminal www.southamptonmaritimefestival. com Newly-restored Steam Tug Challenge, trips on SS Shieldhall and more in 1940s-themed festival – highlights include historic dive re-enactors, Lancaster bomber fly-past, Dunkirk Little Ships and OGA Parade of Sail
24 MAY royal eScape race Brighton-Fécamp Tel: +44 (0)1273 464868 www.royalescaperace.co.uk Commemorates Charles II’s 17th-century escape. Modern, but now with a classics class
31 MAY – 2 JUNE yarmouth old gafferS feStival IoW, Tel: +44 (0)1983 760655 www. yarmoutholdgaffersfestival.co.uk Flagship event of the Solent OGA, with an average attendance of about 120 boats
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Fifes on the Clyde, 2008. This year the most beautiful yachts in the world return to their birthplace again
1 JUNE round the iSland race Cowes, Isle of Wight Tel: +44 (0)1983 296621 sec@islandsc.org.uk www.roundtheisland.org.uk Anything with a sail – 1,600+ boats
6-7 JULY BoSham claSSic Boat revival Bosham SC, Chichester Harbour Tel: +44 (0)1243 572341 www.boshamsailingclub.com Classic and SoT dinghies and dayboats up to 20ft (6m); 50 boats at the first event in 2011, more last year and probably more this year. One of the events driving the growth in classic and vintage dinghies
6-7 JULY three creekS rally and race OGA Solent Area www.solentgaffers.org Casual racing from Ashlett Creek to Newtown Creek to Wootton Creek
19-21 JULY taittinger royal Solent yacht cluB regatta
6-13 JULY panerai BritiSh claSSic week
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight Tel: +44 (0)1983 760256 www.royalsolent.org IRC, Swans, cruisers, gaffers, 6-Ms, Dragons, FBs, XODs, YODs
Cowes, Isle of Wight Tel: +44 (01983 245100 www.britishclassicyachtclub.org rufus@gildays.com Race series including round-theIsland race, social programme, glamorous yachts. 70+ boats
6-13 JULY claSSic channel regatta Dartmouth-Channel Islands www.classic-channel-regatta.eu Racing and social events in the English Channel. Record attendance expected this year - 100 yachts?
15-19 JULY coweS claSSicS week Cowes, Isle of Wight www.cowesclassicsweek.org david.elliott@cowesclassicsweek.org Metre boats, classic keelboats and yachts at this event formerly known as the ‘Metre and Keelboat’ regatta. This year’s features include the 6-Ms, 12-Ms and, for the first time, 8-Ms. The Sunbeams are expecting to attend with a record turn-out in their 90th year and some 1898-designed Howth 17s will be coming from Ireland. With the other regular keelboat classes and a new class for cruiser-racers, this has developed into a relaxed and enjoyable classic-boat alternative to the congested Cowes Week.
3-10 AUGUST coweS week Cowes, Isle of Wight Tel: +44 (0)1983 295744 admin@cowesweek.co.uk wwwcowesweek.co.uk Or, to give it its sponsored title, Aberdeen Asset Management Cowes Week. Classic classes include XOD, Daring, Seaview Mermaid, Victory, Sunbeam, SCOD and more.
15-18 AUGUST oga juBilee feStival Cowes, IoW The big one. See pp36-37
26-30 AUGUST hammond inneS centenary race ASTO, location TBC Tel: +44 (0)2392 503222, www.asto.org.uk One-off event to celebrate the birth of Hammond Innes, benefactor of sail-training. Details to follow.
13-22 SEPTEMBER Southampton Boat Show www.southamptonboatshow.com Outdoors, (partly) on the water and now Britain’s leading boat show, with strong classic dinghy presence
14-15 SEPTEMBER Battle of Britain regatta Royal Air Force YC, Hamble, Hants Tel: +44 (0)23 8045 2208; www.rafyc.co.uk Open to civilians as well as RAF personnel, features many XODs and Salterns-built Memory gaffers.
21 SEPTEMBER centenary chaSe Yarmouth, Isle of Wight OGA Solent Area www.solentgaffers.org Pursuit race, with Royal Solent Yacht Club
5 OCTOBER aSto Small ShipS race Cowes, IoW Tel: +44 (0)2392 503222 www.asto.org.uk Race for youth-training sailing vessels up to 120ft (36m) in length. The race is 10 this year so expecting a record turn-out.
30 AUGUST – 1 SEPTEMBER coweS claSSic powerBoat rally Bembridge, Cowes Tel: +44 (0)7973 349769 or +44 (0)7921 944251 www.powerboatrally.com In its third year. 33 boats last year CLASSIC BOAT APRIL 2013
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he Old Gaffers Association hits its halfcentury this year. Originally set up to defend and promote traditional gaff rig (mainsails with four sides, essentially) it has proved so successful (1,200 members in the UK, plus overseas groups) it now also tolerates traditional boats with pointy (ie, bermudan) sails. It can reasonably claim to be the leading traditional and classic boating organisation in the UK, and probably the world. The highlights of its 50th anniversary celebrations are the Round Britain Challenge, a 2,000-mile clockwise voyage around the UK, starting and ending on the East Coast, where the OGA was founded; this will be followed in August by a huge jubilee party at Cowes. Around 40 boats, including a dozen from the Netherlands and France, have already expressed interest in joining the Round Britain Challenge; a further 36 are planning to join the ‘relay’, doing just a leg or two. Many boats have room for additional crew members. Have a look on the internet at oga50.org for more details of the boats registered so far. The various OGA Area Groups around the country will be laying on entertainments for the Round Britain fleet and their own members – dates and locations are on the map, and below. Participating boats should sign up for the ports/events they plan to attend. Other ports have been selected for stopovers as required. The Cowes Jubilee Festival, 15-18 August, is billed as “the greatest gathering of gaffers” with four days of festive fun on the water and ashore. Boat places may well be booked up by now, but there’ll be a waiting list, and foot visitors will be welcome. Two other dates have been designated jubilee events: the National Small Boat Rally in Cardiff, 28 June – 1 July, see p 53, and Peel Traditional Boat Weekend, Isle of Man, 8-12 August, see p 51.
20-21 april East Coast arEa: ChallEngE start
map by claudia myatt
the first uK participants in the round britain challenge set off from Maldon where the association was formally founded 50 years ago. Farewell supper on Saturday; ceremonial send-off of the fledgling rbc fleet on Sunday. www.eastcoastgaffers.org.uk
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4-5 may solEnt arEa: wElComE wEEkEnd RAF Yacht Club, Hamble With rally and parade of sail as a backdrop to Southampton maritime Festival (5-6 may). register interest on www.oga50.org CLASSIC BOAT APRIL 2013
8-9 may dEvon arEa wElComEs thE flEEt Plymouth, Mayflower Marina details and register interest, www.oga50.org
11-12 may islEs of sCilly St Mary’s welcomes the round britain challenge fleet with live music in one of Scilly’s best pubs. register interest at www.oga50.org
18-19 may milford havEn Stopover on the way up the Welsh coast; more details to come - see www.oga50.org
‘round the top’ route For those not going through the Caledonian Canal, but following the north coast of Scotland, OGA Scottish Area has arranged stopovers in the Hebrides (Stornoway) and Shetlands (Lerwick), rejoining the Caledonian Canal fleet at Peterhead or Anstruther
14-17 June Stornoway, iSle of lewiS
31 MAy - 4 June ScottiSh area campbeltown
21-24 June 2013 lerwick, Shetland
Gathering of the fleet. Find details and register interest at www.oga50.org
25–26 MAy north waleS area: holyhead Free berthing in the Marina and activities in the harbour organised by Holyhead Sailing Club with entertainment in the club during the evenings. Find details and register interest, www.oga50.org
31 MAy - 2 June dublin bay area traditional boat rally Over the Irish June Bank Holiday weekend to coincide with the arrival of the Round Britain Challenge fleet in Ireland. Berthing at Poolbeg YBC Marina. A programme of racing with a prestigious new trophy. www.oga50.org
8-9 June northern ireland area: weekend rally Belfast Berthing in new marina next to historic Harland and Wolff dockyard and brand new Titanic Belfast attraction. Craic aplenty. www.oga50.org
15-16 June Scotland area: loch melfort Gathering point – and party – for the Caledonian Canal fleet. Moorings and anchorages nearby. www.oga50.org
28-30 June anStruther Reunion of the two fleets, details tba. See www.oga50.org
1 JuLy eyemouth Find details and register interest at www.oga50.org
5-7 JuLy newcaStle feStival of Sail North-east Area, with Newcastle Quayside Marina A large-scale gathering of gaff-rigged and other
A traditional Hebridean boat festival weekend with racing and social events. Find further details and register interest at www. oga50.org
events to be arranged. Find details and register interest on www.oga50.org
traditional and characterful craft, involving as many maritime and heritage organisations as possible in a weekend of activities including: parade/concours d’élegance; craft, volunteer and trade stands; music; food and drink. www.oga50.org
11-14 JuLy north eaSt area: GrimSby Grimsby and Cleethorpes Yacht Club will lay on a programme of social and sailing events over three days. www.oga50.org
20-28 JuLy eaSt coaSt area: oGa Jubilee cruiSe Ipswich-Brightlingsea Tying the knot on the Round-Britain with a week of events, starting in Ipswich and including the annual east Coast Race at Brightlingsea (more details on p49) The week concludes with departure of Challenge fleet for the Cowes Jubilee Festival. www. eastcoastclassics.co.uk
3-5 AuGuST eaSt coaSt area: ramSGate rally Free berthing in the harbour and three days of fun and games for local boats and the Challenge fleet – with participation from the town. www.eastcoastclassics.co.uk
15-18 AuGuST oGa Jubilee feStival, coweS national birthday party! Members and non-members welcome. Music, games, bar, food, trophies, rowing races, tug’o’war - there’ll be racing in the Solent on the Saturday for prestigious once-in-a-lifetime Anniversary trophies and the Solent Annual Race, with crew parties every night. See www.oga50.org for information about registration. More OGA events in the regional pages of this guide – and more about the OGA’s 50th anniversary in future issues of Classic Boat CLASSIC BOAT APRIL 2013
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all photos: spetses classic yacht race
SPETSES CLASSIC YACHT RACE
The cLASSIcS cOme TO greece Greece, home of the Classics had no classic yacht regatta – until now. Steffan Meyric Hughes was there to find out more
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reece is in a period of radical upheaval. I am referring, obviously, to the emergence of a nascent classic yachting scene. That it’s taken this long for Greece to have a bona fide, big-time, sponsored classic yacht regatta will come as a surprise to many: the famous, ship-building nation’s archipelagos have played host to yachtsmen of all stamps over the millennia, from Odysseus to family flotilla sailors, not to mention a great fleet of charter classics throughout the latter half of the 20th century.
a derelict hotel and a sunken boat The Saronic isle of Spetses is not a typical Greek island. It’s only a short ride from Athens by Soviet-built hydrofoil, but few in Britain have heard of it, and its beaches, frequently rocky, are unknown and very secluded. It’s a weekend hang out for wealthy Athenians, some of whom have houses and yachts here, and as a result has preserved most of its originality; it makes for a far more authentic experience than you’ll find on most Greek islands. Antonis Vordonis, owner of the island’s striking Poseidonion Grand Hotel, co-sponsor of the regatta, is not a typical hotelier either. That much is apparent as he arrives helmet-less and wild-haired on his ridiculous, tiny Honda monkey bike, customised with a 150cc engine that makes it a giant in the land of 49cc two-strokers. Antonis, and childhood friend Stratis, a prominent 38
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yachtsman in Greece, are the two men who inaugurated the regatta with a ‘soft-pedal’ launch for 10 boats in 2011. Both have been busy in recent years, Stratis with the restoration of his grandfather’s 50ft (15.2m) 1947 Fred Shepherd ketch Glaramara, and Antonis with the five-year restoration of the Poseidonion Grand. As if that weren’t enough, Antonis also rescued a sunken yacht in Spetses Harbour that he wanted to restore at the same time: Tincano. She’s a 1936, 39ft (11.9m) Philip Rhodes sloop and he brought her to the surface with airbags, free-diving repeatedly to 5m (16ft). Antonis, unlike Stratis, is not competitive about racing. But it’s with Stratis that I’d be sailing the next day aboard Glaramara.
the race “Here – now you can sell ice creams too,” said one of the Greek crew of Glaramara, tossing me a smart, white boiler suit – crew uniform on the newly-restored 1947 ketch. Stratis greeted me with a broad smile and a warning to expect some culture shock from the heated exchange of his crew (“they are very passionate”). We motored out from the harbour, passing mothballed coastal freighters, lines of little wooden fishing vessels on swinging moorings and a 1960s-vintage motor yacht. The start line is in front of the hotel, whose broad verandah provides a great viewing platform for the races.
Above left: Antonis Vordonis Above right: Stratis Andreadis Opposite: The 1914 Poseidonion Grand, hub of the regatta, and its owner’s yacht, Tincano
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Our prayers for wind were answered quickly as the air temperature rose to 36°C throughout the morning, heating the 11 square miles (28km2) of Spetses and the Greek mainland on the other side. Soon, we were in a perfect Force 3/4 sea breeze blowing steady, heavy with the scent of wild thyme. The fleet of 50 yachts jilled near the start line and in the mêlée, the bowman, living up to Stratis’s warning, became excited, uttering a warning cry like that of a guttural bird – “ay, ay, ay, ay, ay!”. We sailed past an old wooden fishing boat, its crew dressed in white with red caps. They made their own sails a week before the race, learned to sail and won their class. They have been fishing under sail ever since; wind is cheaper than diesel. I can’t be the only British sailor who’s long harboured a secret suspicion that sailing in the Med is tantamount to lake sailing. In fact, racing here has unique challenges, as I discovered during our long, triangular course in the strait between Spetses and the mainland. There might be no tide, but unlike the steady oceanic winds of northern Europe, the katabatic breezes are hard to gauge, changing direction as they are deformed by land masses on each side. In the middle of the strait is a “hole” dividing the sea breezes from land on each side, and there is some tactical decision-making to do: ghost through, or run around the outside of it, trusting the wind on its edges will hold. Glaramara has great momentum from her heavy displacement, an overlapping genoa pulling hard and colourful encouragement from the foredeck. By this point, “ay ay ay ay ay” is phasing in and out of syncopation with another livid libretto from amidships that sounds like “fjord’s alibi, fjord’s alibi”, while the bass fills in with an answering refrain, that sounds like deep Jamaican English – “a special place – A SPE-SHUL PLACE!”. The lustiest cries I’d ever heard aboard a boat before this (Portuguese fishermen) paled in comparison, and at first I am seriously concerned that a fight will break out. Then I see how much everyone, including Stratis, cool as a naval officer in the cockpit, is enjoying it.
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Right: The largest boat in the regatta, Fleurtje, a 187ft (57m) three-masted staysail schooner built in 1960, dwarfs one of the smallest in the open-boat class
Clockwise from right: Glaramara; the 20ft (6m) fishing boat Ag Giorgis and her winning crew; Stratis Andreadis at Glaramara’s wheel; a bowman on Glaramara; sponsor’s flags Below: The traditional fishing class was very hotly contested
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In spite of good boatspeed that day, we finished low in our class after handicapping, a disappointment to Stratis, who won last year’s tester event, and whose father and grandfather have both been commodore of the Yacht Club of Greece, organiser of the Spetses Classic. Over the next few days, his fortunes improved, resulting in a bronze finish and the special prize from sponsor Chivas Regal.
spirit of chivalry award This prize was awarded carefully, using a point-scoring system, by a representative of the Comité International de la Mediterranée (CIM) and your humble correspondent. In the cool darkness of the hotel’s computer room, Antonis Asimakos and I looked through the entrants, scoring each for originality or authenticity of hull, rig and topsides. With 21 yachts divided into vintage (pre-1949), classic (1949-75) and spirit of tradition, 17 Aegean schooners and 12 open boats, we had our work cut out. But by the end, we’d found favourites in Candida (the stunning, 120ft/36.6m Charles Nicholson yacht of 1929), Tincano, Glaramara, a 1950s Erik Salander sloop of 34ft (10.4m) called Salana (Getting Afloat, p67), the 8-M Flamingo, Navisa, a 25ft (7.6m) keelboat and the oldest yacht in the race (1907), and the more authentic fishing boats. The next day, I join the parade of sail in a very different craft to Glaramara. Maridha is a ‘cabin trehandiri’ – a local fishing type now being reborn as beamy, shallow, canoe-sterned wooden sailing yachts. She’s 30ft 6in (9.3m)
Top left: the smallest, oldest and the winner in class – Navisa Above left: Christophe Lemarié of Chivas Regal (in red) presents the cup for gallantry to Stratis Andreadis of Glaramara Above right: Candida, not seen on the circuit for some years, racing at Spetses
long and built in closely-spaced, sawn-oak frames, wearing a suit of carvel iroko. Her form provides a rough ride in big seas, “but will never sink”, as elderly owner Mrs Pakis tells me with a smile. The trehandiri is popularly termed a karydosouflo (walnut) for its unsinkable but queasy propensity to ride over, rather than through, the seas. For her purpose of visiting the island’s many inaccessible beaches, though, with her big, low cockpit, fair weather stability and shallow draught, Maridha is perfect. Later, when I hire a waspish moped to ride the 16M (26km) around the island, it was heartening to see a few of these new workboats nestling into secret bays, their owners enjoying the island in boats that are such a part of its heritage.
a dying trade? The next day, I jump on the back of Antonis’s tiny motorbike to go and meet Pandelis Korakis, Maridha’s builder. He has recently taken over the waterside boatyard from his father, a man who built 250 boats. Times have changed, we reflect over syrupy coffee sipped on broken chairs in the dusty shade of one of the sheds. “Best coffee on the island,” says Stratis, who has joined us. Pandelis is finding some work building trehandiri yachts like Maridha and other local workboat types from half models in pine or iroko, using no more than an adze and plane for shaping the frames and planks. He has been hampered in his efforts by Greek legislation that bans buildings on the shore – from the CLASSIC BOAT OCTOBER 2012
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SPETSES
“Of the six yards CB saw on our last trip to Spetses, only three are still open”
Left: A new trehandiri under build by Pandelis Korakis (above)
highest winter wave extending 230ft (70m) inland. There is an exception for ‘heritable’ businesses, but it transpires that the jury is still out in the case of this yard, although it has built traditional Greek boats in wood for well over a century. Of the six yards CB saw on our last visit to Spetses in 2001, only three are still open... just. A boatbuilders’ action group has been set up, called Agamemnon, after Bouboulina’s ship (see below), and receives help, financial and administrative, from the Spetses Race. And the future of that, at least, seems bright. It can count among its assets sponsors like Chivas Regal and the Poseidonion Grand, a perfect setting and great racing. This is Greece after all; the classics belong here.
Spetses: an island of charm and boatbuilding tradition BY MIKE SMYLIE In the years following the Second World War, the Greeks bought up American liberty ships and founded today’s shipping lines. But their strong maritime commerce harks back much further. When the Turks ruled Greece from the 15th century until 1821, they allowed Greeks the freedom to trade, in return for heavy taxation. The fleet grew and shipbuilding became concentrated on various centres – Galixidi, on the Gulf of Corinth, and the islands of Spetses, Hydra, Samos and Psara. Spetses was originally called Pitionsis or Pitiousa in ancient times, which means “an island full of pine trees”. When the Franks came they called it Isola di Spezzie – the “island of aroma” – due to its array of plants. The island had been inhabited since at least 3000BC, and it was likely that the pine trees attracted the first boatbuilders. In the 15th century, Albanian families with Greek education and culture settled, tending sheep and building small craft to fish with. Two centuries later came colonies of people from Lakonia and Argolida, areas of the Peloponnese just across the water, and specifically from what is now the town of Ermioni. These incomers helped establish the strong maritime trade. They built bigger vessels and exported cotton, wool, wheat, olives and olive oil around the Mediterranean and Black Sea. Some boats even sailed as far as Britain, others working purely as trading vessels taking goods from Russia to France, for example. Wealth came to the island during the Napoleonic era, and the sea captains built their archontika – literally mansions – around the harbour. They remain there today. New ships were built, creating an even stronger fleet. Then came the Greek revolution against the Turks in 1821, where Spetses was one of the first islands to revolt. With its fleet of 54 large ships and countless smaller ones,
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Above: The old harbour of Spetses in its boatbuilding heyday in 1907
the island’s captains became renowned for their dauntlessness in battle. Their ships suffered accordingly, and now both Hydra and Spetses have national recognition for the role they played in expelling the Turks.
THE WIDOW OF SPETSES One specific hero from the island was Lakarina Bouboulina, who was a rich, 50-year-old widow at the start of the revolution. She had six children from two marriages, both husbands having died. She had four ships built for the war, captaining the Agamemnon herself, while two of her sons sailed others. She put most of her money into the ships, crewing them with her best men, and supplying all the ammunition they needed. Eventually she was made an admiral – the only woman to achieve this in Greece. She was killed by a misfired bullet while in conversation in a street in Nafplio in 1825. Now there is a museum in Spetses dedicated to her. These days, Spetses boatbuilders import most of their timber from the island of Samos, renowned for its pine, after a forest fire destroyed many of Spetses’ trees.
CLASSIC EVENTS UK AND IRELAND
Pilot cutters at last year’s World Championships
West country CHRISTIAN TOPF
3-6 MAY Pilot GiG Worlds Isles of Scilly Tel: +44 (0)1720 422670 www.worldgigs.co.uk 100+ rowing gigs
8-9 MAY oGA 50 Welcome Plymouth, See pp36-37
11-12 MAY oGA 50 Welcome Scilly Isles, See pp36-37
24-25 MAY BrixhAm heritAGe reGAttA Devon. Tel: +44 (0)1803 853332 brixhamheritagesailing.org.uk From trawlers to small gaffers
24 MAY – 2 JUNE FAl river FestivAl Falmouth. Tel: +44 (0)1326 313394 www.falriver.co.uk
25-27 MAY 22 sQm chAmPionshiPs And clAssic keelBoAt reGAttA Plymouth Sound Tel: +44 (0)1752 869000, www.cremyll-keelboats.org.uk After a successful launch event last year, the exciting 22 Square Metres event expands with an invitation to all classic keelboats to join them for a weekend of racing and social events
26 MAY Around lundy rAce
www.golowanmaritimefestival.co.uk Typically, luggers, gaffers, pilot gigs, ketches, crabbers and toshers
Ilfracombe, North Devon Tel: +44 (0)1271 863969 www.ilfracombeyc.org.uk 45 miles with 50 or more boats
28-30 JUNE FAlmouth WorkinG BoAt chAmPionshiPs
30 MAY – 3 JUNE Pilot cutter World chAmPionshiPs Fowey-St Mawes, Cornwall Tel: +44 (0)1872 580022 www.classic-sailing.co.uk Passage and day racing for new and old boats; seventh year
8-9 JUNE lundy GiG r0W Clovelly-Lundy and back www.clovelly.co.uk
14-15 JUNE looe luGGer reGAttA Tel: +44 (0)1503 265380 www.cornishluggers.co.uk Biennial celebration of the rig
14-16 JUNE FAlmouth seA shAnty FestivAl Events Square, Falmouth www.falmouthseashanty.co.uk 10th year: 36 groups, 20 venues
28-30 JUNE GoloWAn mAritime FestivAl Penzance, Cornwall Tel: +44 (0)1736 360214
Falmouth, Cornwall St Mawes Sailing Club Tel: +44 (0)1326 270686 www.stmawessailing.co.uk
5-7 JULY stArt BAy rAlly www.devongaffers.org.uk Devon OGA’s main event, part of Dartmouth Classics (see below)
6-7 JULY dArtmouth clAssics Weekend www.dartmouthclassics.org.uk Formerly the opener of the longer, offshore Classic Channel Regatta, this is now a weekend event in its own right, with friendly racing and social events. Includes OGA 50th Jubilee race. ,
14 JULY clovelly mAritime FestivAl www.clovelly.co.uk Harbourside festival
26-28 JULY Bristol hArBour FestivAl bristolharbourfestival.co.uk One of Britain’s biggest shoreside festivals: boats, music and more
26-29 JULY sutton hArBour Plymouth clAssic BoAt rAlly Jonti Brice, Tel: +44 (0)7728 670211 www.plymouthclassics.org.uk mail@plymouthclassics.co.uk Three days of racing ending with a 20-mile passage race to Fowey
30 JULY – 2 AUGUST FoWey clAssics Mike Prettejohn Tel: +44 (0)1566 782267 www.foweyclassics.org Friendly event, 60-70 boats
9-11 AUGUST FAlmouth clAssics Tel: +44 (0)1326 211555 falmouthweek.co.uk Up to 150 classic boats, part of Falmouth Week, the biggest regatta in the south-west
AUGUST (Date TBC) sAlcomBe toWn reGAttA Salcombe, Devon Tel: +44 (0)1548 843927 General regatta with shoreside and sailing activities
11 AUGUST sAlcomBe yAcht cluB reGAttA Salcombe, Devon Tel: +44 (0)1548 842593 salcombeyc.org.uk Includes Salcombe yawls race
17 AUGUST dittishAm reGAttA www.devongaffers.org.uk For those who can’t make the OGA’s big bash in Cowes
17 AUGUST clovelly GiG reGAttA Clovelly Harbour, North Devon www.clovelly.co.uk
26 AUGUST neWlyn Fish FestivAl Newlyn, Cornwall Tel: +44 (0)7518 603955 www.newlynfishfestival.org.uk 20,000+ visitors, fish auctions and tasting. Lugger and gig races
29-31 AUGUST dArtmouth royAl reGAttA Devon. Tel: +44(0)1803 834912 www.dartmouthregatta.co.uk Inc Dartmouth Sailing Week and passage race; the 30+ years old review of classics; and, back last year after a health and safety hiatus, illuminated river procession
6-7 SEPTEMBER BoAts in the BAy St Ives, Cornwall Jonny Nance, Tel: +44 (0)7866 777 219 wwww.stivesjumbo.com Luggers, Jumbos and other workboats CLASSIC BOAT APRIL 2013
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EAST COAST And nOrfOlk brOAdS Maldon, Essex www.eastcoastgaffers.org.uk start of the round Britain challenge see pp36-37
25-27 MAY OGA SwAllOwS And AmAzOnS wEEkEnd Walton Backwaters www.eastcoastgaffers.org.uk racing and shore events for dinghies. three days this year. sail through the pages of secret Water
JUNe (tBc) VinTAGE wOOdEn bOAT ASSOCiATiOn nATiOnAl rAlly Wayford Bridge, Stalham John Bailey, tel: +44 (0)1692 650486, www.vwba.org rally for local and visiting classics
1 JUNe blACkwATEr SmACk And bArGE mATCh essex, tel: +44 (0)1206 263026 www.colnesmack.co.uk
1-2 JUNe ThrEE riVErS rACE The Ant, Bure and Thurne tel: +44 (0)1692 630507 horningsc.org.uk popular Broads day/night race, where you can choose the order in which you take the rivers
8-9 JUNe briGhTlinGSEA TOwn rEGATTA essex, tel: +44 (0)1206 263026 www.colnesmack.co.uk
29 JUNe rOwhEdGE rEGATTA
15 JUNe pin mill SmACk And wOrkinG bOAT rACE
Essex, www.rowhedge-regatta.co.uk
30 JUNe COlnE SmACk SAil And piCniC
River Orwell, Suffolk, pin Mill sailing club pmsc.org.uk tel: +44 (0)1473 780271 this race attracts around 20 smacks
essex, tel: +44 (0)1206 263026 www.colnesmack.co.uk
3-5 JULY bCyC rEGATTA EAST COAST fEEdEr
15-16 JUNe SuffOlk yAChT hArbOur ClASSiC rEGATTA
Levington (Orwell) to Cowes Jonathan dyke tel: +44 (0)1473 659465 jonathan@syharbour.co.uk for panerai British classic Week
Levington, River Orwell Jonathan dyke tel: +44 (0)1473 659465 www.syharbour.co.uk Bermudan yacht racing on the orwell and stour; three classes, including stellas
13 JULY wiVEnhOE TOwn rEGATTA essex, tel: +44 (0)1206 263026 www.colnesmack.co.uk
22 JUNe hEybridGE bASin rEGATTA
13-14 JULY fElixSTOwE rEGATTA www.felixstoweregatta.co.uk General regatta with a classics class
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Above: Smacks at Maldon Town Regatta
20-28 JULY OGA GOldEn jubilEE CruiSE Ipswich to Brightlingsea www.eastcoastclassics.co.uk includes ipswich BBQ and regatta (20-21 July); cruise/race programme (21-26 July); east coast race and dinner, Brightlingsea (27 July); parade of sail to Wivenhoe (28 July), followed by departure of fleet for oGA 50 Jubilee at cowes (pp36-37)
28 JULY hArwiCh SEA fESTiVAl Harwich Quay, Essex www.harwichseafestival.com
Below: The Three Rivers (in any order you like) Race on the Norfolk Broads
Nr Maldon, Essex carol Lawson tel: +44 (0)1621 857757 secretary@heybridgebasinregatta. co.uk, www.heybridgebasinregatta. co.uk. friendly, well-attended east coast regatta
22-23 JUNe OGA rOyAl hOSpiTAl SChOOl rAlly Holbrook Creek and Wrabness www.eastcoastclassics.co.uk celebrates 300 years of the famous ex-naval college (nicknamed “the cradle of the Navy”)
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Antigua based, independent yacht charter broker. We feature some of the most beautiful classic and vintage yachts in the Caribbean and have experience of arranging regatta charters and photo/film shoots. 42 Medina Road, Cowes, Isle of Wight PO31 7BY Tel: +1294051 (268) 463 7101 Fax: +1 (815) 572 8962 T. (01983) E. ratseysails@ratsey.com
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• Regatta ethos – mix of Championship and Navigation courses • Committee Boat starts – top race officials • Several race tracks to ensure clean air and open water • Wonderful trophies – the Queen Victoria Cup is awarded as an Anniversary Cup • Major sponsors including Harken and Haines Boatyard • Full and varied social programme • Tea and cake after racing NEW for 2013 • RLYC 175th Anniversary • Sunbeam 90th Anniversary • New classes for Classic Cruisers • Supporting the Andy Cassell Foundation for disabled sailors
RALLY
Fawley Meadows Henley-on-Thames Oxfordshire
Having grown year-on-year, we are expecting 120 classic day racing keelboats including, 12mR, 8mR, 6mR, Darings, Dragons, Sunbeams, Bembridge OD, XOD, Loch Longs, Yarmouth OD, Swallows, Old Gaffers, Classic Cruisers, and a Revival Class for other qualifying boats.
Gates open 9am Plenty of FREE parking
The event is run by the Royal London Yacht Club in conjunction with the Royal Corinthian Yacht Club, the Royal Victoria Yacht Club, Cowes Corinthian Yacht Club and the Island Sailing Club
For more information 01983 299727 sailing@rlyc.org.uk www.2013.cowesclassicsweek.com
CLASSIC EVENTS UK AND IRELAND
3-6 AUGUST oga ramsgate raLLy ramsgate Harbour, Kent www.eastcoastclassics.co.uk Three-day event for local gaffers and Cowes-bound fleet (pp36-37)
4 AUGUST broads cLassic dinghy weekend
24-26 AUGUST oga crouch fambridge raLLy Fambridge www.eastcoastgaffers.org.uk Two rallies combined into one long weekend for local gaffers and boats returning to the East Coast after the big Cowes event
24-31 AUGUST burnham week
Wroxham, Norfolk Norfolk broads YC Tel: +44 (0)1603 782808 www.nbyc.co.uk
Burnham-on-Crouch, Essex burnhamweek.org.uk Tel: +44 (0)845 3460324 info@burnhamweek.org.uk The East Coast’s answer to Cowes Week: 100+ boats in many classes
10 AUGUST cobmarsh marathon
1 SEpTEMbEr mersea oyster dredging match
Cobmarsh Island, Essex Tel: +44 (0)1206 826411 www.mersearegatta.org.uk rowing race around the island for traditional smacks’ boats
Essex rob Lee, Tel: +44(0)7803 281175 Unique event for smacks and bawleys. He who dredges most wins
16 AUGUST norfoLk oyster and giPsy worLds Blakeney, North Norfolk Tel: +44 (0)1263 741172 www.neilthompsonboats.co.uk Tongue-in-cheek title of a friendly day’s racing for Neil Thompson boats
16-18 AUGUST vintage wooden boat association nationaL raLLy Beccles Yacht Station John bailey. Tel: +44 (0)1692 650486, www.vwba.org Local and visiting classics
18-23 AUGUST mersea week
Mersea Island, Essex Greg Dunn, Tel: +44 (0)7801 308054 g.dunn@blackdiamondcommodities.com Family friendly event with races for classic yachts and dinghies. 40 this year
24 AUGUST west mersea town regatta West Mersea, Essex www.mersearegatta.org.uk
24-25 AUGUST iPswich maritime festivaL Ipswich Jay Harvey Tel: +44 (0)7731 991669 www.ipswichmaritimefestival.
Beale Park Boat Show
7 SEpTEMbEr toLLesbury regatta Essex, Tel: +44 (0)1206 263026 www.colnesmack.co.uk
14 SEpTEMbEr coLne smack and barge match Essex, Tel: +44 (0)1206 263026 www.colnesmack.co.uk
14 SEpTEMbEr yare navigation race Norfolk Broads Ian barker, Tel: +44 (0)1508 538100 www.coldhamhallsailingclub.co.uk 32-M passage race; 57 boats last year
21 SEpTEMbEr maLdon town regatta Essex. Tel: +44 (0)7884 268053 geraldine.courtney@btinternet.com
11-13 OCTObEr harwich sea shanty festivaL
river thames
18-19 MAY LechLade smaLL boat gathering salmonboats@yahoo.co.uk Small, tented and boated gathering on the Upper Thames in Gloucestershire.
7-9 JUNE beaLe Park boat show Pangbourne, Berkshire Tel: +44 (0)118 9767498 gillie.jackson@bealepark.co.uk www.bealeparkboatshow.co.uk For small traditional boats
Tel: +44 (0)1202 552582 sailingbarge association.co.uk 18 May: Medway 29 June: Pin Mill 1 July: Blackwater 13/27 July (TBC): Gravesend July (TBC): Whitstable 3 August: Swale 25 August: Southend 14 September: River Colne
Essex, Tel: +44 (0)7921 640772 www.harwichshantyfestival.co.uk
isLe of man 8-12 AUGUST PeeL traditionaL boat weekend Peel, IoM Tel: +44 (0)7624 450146 peeltraditionalboat.org Festival is 22 this year and has expanded from two to five days to celebrate OGA 50, for those who can’t make it to Cowes
20-21 JULY thames traditionaL boat raLLy Henley-on-Thames, Oxon Tony Goodhead Tel: +44 (0)1932 872575, www.tradboatrally.com One of Europe’s largest gatherings of traditionallybuilt river craft including Dunkirk Little Ships, with ample shoreside entertainment; 200+ boats. This venerable festival is 36 this year.
SEpTEMbEr (DATE TbC) st katharine docks festivaL www.skdocks.co.uk
15 SEpTEMbEr great river race Thames, London. Tel: +44 (0)208 398 8141, greatriverrace.co.uk. Huge, colourful, 300-boat, 21-mile rowing race upriver from Docklands in London to Ham in Surrey
northern engLand
thames barge matches
CONISTON rEGATTA
Swale Channel, North Kent www.kentishsail.org info@kentishsail.org 41st match for smacks and barges
waterfrontaction.co.uk Shoreside at Ipswich’s historic Wet Dock with trad craft moored alongside
DAN HOUSTON
3 AUGUST swaLe match
Swallows and Amazons at Coniston
29 MAY – 2 JUNE coniston regatta Coniston, Lake District Greg Simpson, Tel: +44 (0)1229 861001 www.coniston-regatta.co.uk based at bank Ground Farm, ‘Holly Howe’ in Swallows and Amazons. Includes an outdoor showing of the film.
28-30 JUNE internationaL 12-foot centenary West Kirby SC, Wirral Tel: +44 (0)151 625 5579 www.wksc.org.uk www.international12.org Centenary races for the class
2-5 AUGUST british cLassic motorboat raLLy Windermere, Lake District Tel: +44 (0)1253 813007 www.bcmbr.co.uk
5-7 JULY oga newcastLe festivaL of saiL See pp36-37
13-11 AUGUST yorkshire yc regatta Bridlington Tel: +44 (0)1262 678319 ryyc.org.uk CLASSIC BOAT APRIL 2013
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Photograph by Chris Boynton
Further information and entries, please contact, Mary Scott-Jackson, info@msjevents.co.uk, Tel:+44 (0)1983 245100 www.britishclassicyachtclub.org/regatta
CLASSIC EVENTS UK AND IRELAND
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cvrDA Classic and Vintage Racing Dinghy Association www.cvrda.org Runs a series of racing events around the UK, using its own handicapping system. See website for further details
cmBA Classic Motor Boat Association www.cmba-uk.com geoffallchorn@btinternet.com
10-12 August
Cardiff Bay Classic Weekend and AGM CMBA’s main rally of the year with 40-50 boats. See website for details of this and 16 other events
4-5 MAY cock o’ the BriStol chAnnel Barry YC, Tony Winter Tel: +44 (0)1503 272575 polthurne@btinternet.com Pilot Cutters and gaff-rigged vessels, racing in the Bristol Channel, 81-mile course, followed by passage races
25-26 MAY oGA 50 welcome Holyhead, see pp36-37
17-19 JUNE South wAleS BoAt Show Swansea Ben Sutcliffe, Tel: +44 (0)7796 457307 www.southwalesboatshow.co.uk
28 JUNE – 1 JULY oGA 50 SAil cArDiFF www.oga50.org OGA50 event for small gaffers and trailer-sailers. River-raiding on Ely and Taff, racing for yachts of all sizes in the non-tidal bay, with Parade of Sail
JULY (dATE TBC) pemBroke river rAlly Pembroke Town Council (+44 (0)1646 683092) with West Wales Maritime Heritage Society (+44 (0)1646 683764) Established event “to exercise the right of passage up and down the Pembroke River for the people of Pembrokeshire.”
20-28 JULY conwy river FeStivAl
Mike Stevens, Tel: +44 (0)1792 297445 www.oldgaffersassociation.org
North Wales www.conwyriverfestival.org secretary@conwyriverfestival. org. Includes an OGA class and Nobby and Gaffers Race
23-26 AUGUST oGA holyheAD trADitionAl SAil FeStivAl
24-28 JULY All wAleS BoAt Show Deganwy and Conwy Quay Marinas Tel: +44 (0)845 123 5438 www.allwalesboatshow.com
9-11 AUGUST oGA trAiler SAiler rAlly Clywedog SC, Llandidloes
Holyhead, North Wales www.northwalesoga.org Popular event, run in conjunction with the Town Council
24 AUGUST cArDiGAn quAyS FeStivAl Cardigan, Nick Newland Tel: +44 (0)1239 623784 www.cardiganquaysfestival.co.uk Community-minded festival, including a rowing race around Cardigan Island
ScotlAnD 24-27 MAY Brewin Dolphin ScottiSh SerieS
stclaireringer@hotmail.co.uk Following a successful event last year (30-plus boats from Ireland and Scotland), the Tarbert festival is on again.
Tarbert, Loch Fyne Clyde Cruising Club www.scottishseries.com Tel: +44 (0)141 221 2774 14th year, c200 boats. Not classic, but big enough to boast a number of classics in IRC.
3-4 AUGUST ArBoAth SeA FeStivAl Abroath Marina Strictly shoreside and not very classic. But fun - and raised £200,000 for the RNLI last year.
31 MAY – 4 JUNE oGA 50 welcome Campbeltown See pp36-37
Stornoway See pp36-37
15-16 JUNE oGA 50 welcome Loch Melfort See pp36-37
JUNE/JULY (TBC) crinAn clASSic Crinan, Argyll and Bute Tel: +44 (0)7766 2781 www.crinanclassic.com This well-loved event took a sabbatical last year, promising to return in 2013; keep checking the website for details
21-23 JUNE clyDe clASSic Royal Northern and Clyde YC www.clydeclassic.com Clyde Classic, a new regatta that follows on from last year’s McGruer regatta, has sailing and a series of short lectures by noteworthy speakers in historic RNCYC clubhouse.
8-11 AUGUST AnStruther muSter
BEN WOOd
14-17 JUNE oGA 50 welcome
21-24 JUNE oGA 50 welcome Lerwick See pp36-37
22-23 JUNE ScottiSh trADitionAl BoAt FeStivAl Portsoy, Aberdeenshire Tel: +44 (0)1261 842951 www. scottishtraditionalboatfestival. co.uk. 20th year of this favourite with rowing, sailing and much shoreside activity. 100+ boats. Now under Aberdeen Asset Management sponsorship – just like Cowes Week!
28 JUNE - 5 JULY 4th FiFe reGAttA Firth of Clyde and surrounds www.fiferegatta.com, info@fiferegatta.com Fife yachts return to their
birthplace for the fourth of their quinquennial gatherings. Savour the sight of some 20 spectacular boats racing in their spectacular native habitat
1 JULY oGA 50 welcome Eyemouth See pp36-37
15-20 JULY SAil StornowAy Stornoway Harbour, Isle of Lewis www.sailhebrides.info info@sailhebrides.info General maritime festival with classic sailing and shoreside fun
19-21 JULY tArBert trADitionAl BoAt FeStivAl Loch Fyne Phil, Tel: +44 (0)7713 332319
Above: Fifes at rest during the last Clyde regatta
Anstruther, Scotland www. anstruthersailingclub.org.uk Cairn Birrell Tel: +44 (0)1333 313492
irelAnD & ni 24-26 MAY BAltimore wooDen BoAt FeStivAl Co Cork, www.baltimorewoodenboatfestival.com Boats, ceilidh and more
31 MAY – 2 JUNE welcome oGA 50 Dublin Bay See pp36-37
8-9 JUNE welcome oGA 50 Belfast See pp36-37
14-16 JUNE croSShAven trADitionAl SAil County Cork, www.crosshaventradsail.com, Pat Tanner. Tel: +353 (0)87 2811458. With music, food and entertainment. 60+ boats
28-30 JUNE coBh trADitionAl SAil reGAttA County Cork, www.cobhtradsail.ie
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tall ShipS Tel: +44 (0)23 9258 6367 www.sailtraining international.org
4 JUly - 6 aUgUST
tall ShipS RaceS
aarhaus, Denmark – Helsinki, Finland – Riga, latvia – Szczecin, Poland
21 SEPTEMBER – 7 OCTOBER
med tall ShipS Regatta Barcelona, Spain – Toulon, France – la Spezia, Italy
9 SEPTEMBER – 27 OCTOBER
Sydney to aUckland tall ShipS Regatta
DaN HOUSTON
Melbourne, australia – Sydney, australia – auckland, New Zealand
Baltic See also Norway, Sweden
Baltic claSSic ciRcUit Scandinavian Classic Yacht Trust; for all events below: Tel: +46 70632 6624 www.sailtrust.org
25-26 May SjÖgÅRdSRegattan Stockholm city claSSic Stockholm, Sweden
29 JUNE –3 JUly Åf offShoRe Race Stockholm and Sandhamn, Sweden Classic 24-hour offshore race
5-7 JUly hanko Regatta Hanko, Finland Keelboat races with classic classes: Folkboats, Stars, 5-Ms, 6-Ms, 8-Ms and Finnish one-design classes
23-28 JUly St peteRSBURg claSSic week St Petersburg, Russia Three days of races and a two-day festival at Peter and Paul Fortress.
1-4 aUgUST tRoSa aRkÖ claSSic Trosa to Arkösund,Sweden archipelago race at arkosund. Classic and modern mixed fleet
3-4 aUgUST Baltic claSSic maSteR cUp Open sea races, Olympic course
3-10 aUgUST helSinki claSSic yacht week Helsinki, Finland Open sea races, Olympic course
10 aUgUST ViapoRi cUp Helsinki, Finland Race around the 18th-century Viapori Fortress in the Helsinki harbour mouth. Biggest classic yacht race in the Nordic countries, 200 yachts in 20+ different classes
BelgiUm 23-26 May ooStende VooR ankeR Ostend, Tel: +32 (0)59 320 834 www.oostendevooranker.be
Above: The first St Petersburg Classic Week last year proved a spectacular success
denmaRk 8-10 aUgUST SVendBoRg claSSic Regatta
20-23 JUNE (TBC) Belle plaiSance Regatta Bénodet, Brittany Tel: +33 (0)2 9857 2609, www.yco-voile.com
Svendborg, Tel: +45 (0)6222 5104, www.classicregatta.dk
21-23 JUNE tRÉgoR claSSiqUe
10-14 SEPTEMBER* limfjoRden RUndt
Trébeurden, N Brittany yctreb.free.fr tregorclassique@gmail.com yachts, keelboats and dayboats. Increasingly popular with British sailors who did well here in 2012
*Date to be confirmed Tel: +45 (0)6222 5104, www.limfjordenrundt.dk
fRance 17-20 May SpoRtmeR RiVa ReViVal Saint-Tropez Tel: +33 (0)6 6235 0482 www.rivaclubdefrance.fr From the friendly Riva Club de France. Non-members and non-Rivas welcome. Brits invited!
28-30 JUNE RaRe Boat Show Lake Annecy. Tel: +33 (0)6 6235 0482, www.rivaclubdefrance.fr yachts, Rivas, cars. Organised by Riva Club de France, very friendly, non-Rivas and non-members welcome
12-14 JUly VoileS claSSiqUeS de la tRinitÉ Brittany. Tel: +33 (0)2 9755 7384, www.snt-voile.org Classic keelboat racing and more
25 aUg – 1 SEPT coRSica claSSic www.corsica-classic.com
geRmany www.fky.org for more events
31 May – 2 JUNE Max OERTZ REgaTTa Neustadt Tel: +49 (0)450 3609 9052 www.max-oertz-regatta.de CLASSIC BOAT APRIL 2013
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21-23 JUNE rendezvous der klassiker Kiel, Tel: +49 (0)431 544 8343 www.klassiker-rendezvous.de
2-4 AUGUST robbe & berking classic week Flensburg www.classics.robbeberking.de Tel: +49 (0)461 3180 3060
10-11 AUGUST Hamburg summer classics Tel: +49 (0)40 2802 400, www.hsc-regatta.org
22-25 AUGUST german classics Keil-Laboe Tel: +49 (0)431 76277 www.german-classics.info The biggest German event with around 180 classic yachts attending
7-8 SEPTEMBER Holzbootregatta scHwerin Tel: +49 (0)385 564021 www.segeln-in-schwerin.de
greece 13-16 JUNE spetses classic yacHt race Isle of Spetses Tel: +30 210 8015954
mdelenika@clab.gr www.classicyachtrace.com Greece's only proper classic yacht regatta and it's a corker, now in its third year. 50+ boats
italy www.asdec.it for more events
17-19 MAy portofino rolex tropHy Tel: +39 010 246 1206 www.yachtclubitaliano.it Invitation-only rally for big yachts
19 MAy vogalonga Tel: +39 (0)41 521 0544 Venice www.vogalonga.it Rowing extravaganza through the Venice canals with 1,600-plus boats. 39th year of this astonishing event
4-8 JUNE loro piana superyacHt regatta Porto Cervo, Sardinia Tel: +44 (0)208 545 9330 www.loropianasuperyachtregatta.com Superyachts, including classics; five days of sailing organised by yCCS
13 OCTOBER barcolana classic Trieste Tel: +39 040 411664, www.barcolana.it 2,000 boats (not all classics!) in this huge annual event
Above: The Spetses Classic Yacht Race, now in its third year
netHerlands MAy-SEPTEMBER dutcH oga events www.oldgaffers.nl Coordinator Joachim van Houweninge, +31 (0)654 340575, webmaster@oldgaffers.nl The Dutch arm of the Old Gaffers Association is involved with a number of events throughout the Netherlands, some on the Ijsselmeer.
1-7 APRIL Heineken race of tHe classics Rotterdam-Oostende-IpswichAmsterdam www.rotc.nl
23-28 JULy dutcH classic yacHt regatta Hellevoetsluis www.dcyr.nl 'Sharp' yachts only (no flat bottoms!) at this major 200-boat biennial event, with racing and shoreside entertainments, and feeder race for gaffers from the UK
1-3 NOVEMBER (TBC) klassieke scHepen Enkhuizen www.klassieke-schepen.nl Tel: + 31 (0)228 591 111 A CB favourite: end-of-season boat show-cum-rally under cover and on the water at this Netherlands heritage port
norway 1-4 AUGUST risør wooden boat festival Tel: +47 9138 7355 /+47 4781 0074, www.trebatfestivalen.no 51st iteration of one of the world's great classic boat festivals
portugal See also ANMPN. Tel: +351 214 548 484, www.anmpn.pt
24 JUNE (Date TBC) regata de barcos rabelos Oporto, Portugal Confraria Vinho de Porto Tel: +351 223 745 525 www.confrariavinhodoporto.com Traditional port barge race
sweden 24-26 JUNE veterÅnbatsmÖte stockHolm Pierre Dunbar +46 (0)8 783 7904 www.veteranbaten.se Classics afloat in the city centre
turkey 23-28 OCTOBER bodrum cup Tel: +90 252 316 2310 www.bodrumcup.com CLASSIC BOAT APRIL 2013
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C/0 pUIg VElA
Puig Vela Classica at Barcelona
mediteRRanean Regattas 4-6 MAY
Calanques Classiques Marseilles www.lanautique.com
10-12 MAY (Date TBC)
Coupe des dames Saint-Tropez www.snst.org
13-16 JUNE
11-15 sEpTEMBEr
Marseilles www lesvoilesduvieuxport.com
Tel: +377 9310 6300 www.yacht-club-monaco.mc
26-30 JUNE
24-28 sEpTEMBEr
les voiles du vieux poRt
vele d’epoCa a napoli www.ryccsavoia.it
22 JUNE – 3 JUlY
20-26 MAY
tRophÉe bailli de suffRen
Ajaccio, Corsica, www. regates-imperiales.com
St-Tropez-Porto RotondoTrapani-Malta Tel: +33 (0)494 978 700, www.snst.org
29 MAY – 2 JUNE
10-13 JUlY
RÉgates impÉRiales
les voiles d’antibes
www.voilesdantibes.com
7-9 JUNE
poRqueRolles Classique yachtclub-porquerolles@ wanadoo.fr
13-16 JUNE
puig vela ClassiCa Barcelona Tel: +34 93 221 6521 www.puigvelaclassicabarcelona.com
monaCo ClassiC week
RÉgates Royales Cannes, www.regatesroyales.com
28 sEpTEMBEr
Coupe d’automne yC de fRanCe
Porto Santo Stefano www.argentariosailingweek.it
Mallorca www.fundacionhispania.org
16 regattas and four rallies for classic yachts on the south Breton coast and Channel
6-10 AUgUsT
27-28 AprIl
12-15 AUgUsT
Mise en Bouche ré-les sables
31 MAY – 2 JUNE
Coupe de patrimoine la rochelle rallye la rochelle-Yeu-pornic -la Baule les Voiles de legende la Baule
8-9 JUNE
rallye la Baule-galice-la rochelle
perros Classic perros guirec
17-18 AUgUsT
15-16 JUNE
Trophee Marin Marie st Malo
Voiles de la Citadelle-port louis
24-25 AUgUsT
les voiles de saint-tRopez Tel: +33 (0)494 973054 www.lesvoilesdesaint-tropez.fr
28-30 JUNE
16-30 AUgUsT
la regata de las Illas Atlanticas, galicia, spain
les rendez-vous de la Belle plaisance Benodet
31 AUgUsT – 1 sEpTEMBEr
14-18 JUlY
Defi du Bar pertuisCharentais
rallye guernsey-Brest-Mer d’Iroise
Bay of Cadiz Tel: +34 956 858 751 www.semanaclasica.com
Conde de baRCelona
3 AUgUsT
29 sEpTEMBEr – 6 oCToBEr
pueRto sheRRy ClassiC week
20-25 AUgUsT
www.yachtclubclassique.com secretariat@ yachtclubclassique.com
les Voiles Classiques de la Baie de Quiberon Belle Ile
22-28 JUlY
aRgentaRio sailing week
yaCht Club Classique
Cannes - St Tropez, www.ycf-club.fr
27-29 JUlY DAN HoUsToN
www.cim-classicyachts.org
28-29 sEpTEMBEr
Voiles d’Iroise Brest
regate du grand pavois et Trophee Harle-pertuis
30 JUlY – 2 AUgUsT
5-6 oCToBEr
Coupe des Deux phares Brest-la rochelle
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CLASSIC EVENTS OVERSEAS
united stAtes
Apalachicola, Florida Tel: +1 850 653 9419 www.antiqueboatshow.org
4-5 MAy Keels And wheels concours d’elegAnce Seabrook, Texas Tel: +1 713 521 0105 www.keels-wheels.com
17-19 MAy BAss lAKe rendezvous North California Tel: +1 559 642 3121 www.acbs-tahoe.org
2 JUNE (TBC) iYrs grAduAtion dAY International Yacht Restoration School, Newport, Rhode Island Tel: +1 401 848 5777 www.iyrs.org
14-16 JUNE chesApeAKe BAY Antique And clAssic BoAt FestivAl Chesapeake, Maryland www.chesapeakebayacbs.org
28-30 JUNE the wooden BoAt show
27-28 JULy Antique & clAssic BoAt rendezvous Mystic Seaport, Connecticut www.mysticseaport.org
2-4 AUGUST Antique BoAt show & Auction Antique Boat Museum, Clayton, New York Tel: +1 315 686 4104 www.abm.org
3 AUGUST eggemoggin reAch regAttA Brooklin, Maine Tel: +1 207 236 9651 www.erregatta.com
10-11 AUGUST mArBleheAd corinthiAn clAssic YAcht regAttA Marblehead, Massachusetts Tel: +1 617 285 1182 www.corinthianclassic.org Part of the Panerai Challenge
15-18 AUGUST operA house cup regAttA Nantucket, Massachusetts Tel: +1 508 325 7757 www.operahousecup.org
11-14 JULy chris crAFt rendezvous
Newport, RI Tel: +1 401 847 1018, www.moy.org
6-8 SEPTEMBER port townsend wooden BoAt FestivAl Washington Tel: +1 (360) 3853628 www.woodenboat.org
Alexandria, Minnesota Tel: +1 320 759 1114 www.mnlakesmaritime.org
7 DECEMBER (TBC) hAlF-pint-o-rum regAttA
26-27 JULy south tAhoe wooden BoAt clAssic
San Diego, CA www.amss.us, info@amss.us This mildly eccentric regatta is one of many put on by the Ancient Mariner's Sailing Society. To see their full list of events, visit their website
Lake Tahoe, Minnesota www.tahoewoodenboats.com
cAnAdA 2-4 AUGUST (TBC) mAhone BAY regAttA Nova Scotia Tel: +1 902 624 0348, www. mahonebayclassicboatfestival.org. General regatta with a good classics attendance
Salem, Massachusetts Tel: +1 617 666 8530 www.boatfestival.org
30 AUGUST – 1 SEPTEMBER moY regAttA
13 JULy (DATE TBC) chAin oF lAKes clAssic
Above: Eilean at last year's Antigua Classics
24-25 AUGUST Boston Antique And clAssic BoAt FestivAl
Mystic, Conneticut Tel: +1 401 451 0888 www.thewoodenboatshow.com
Port Orchard, Washington www.chriscraftrendezvous.com
DAN HOUSTON
20 APRIL ApAlAchicolA Antique And clAssic BoAt show
BrAzil APRIL, MAy and NOVEMBER (dates TBC) regAtA de veleiros rio state, Brazil Regataclassica. com.br Tel: +55 21 2532 2314 The two regattas that define the growing classic sailing scene in Brazil. Classic sailing yachts and traditional fishing boats
22-25 AUGUST vAncouver wooden BoAt FestivAl Granville Island www.vancouverwoodenboat.com Tel: +1 604 519 7400, 26 this year
cAriBBeAn 8-13 APRIL les voiles de st BArth Tel: +590 272 064 www.lesvoilesdestbarth.com Pre-Antigua event that includes a classic class
18-23 APRIL AntiguA clAssic YAcht regAttA Tel: +1 268 460 1799, www.antiguaclassics.com The main event in the Caribbean, with a worldwide entry of 50-60 yachts each year
24-26 MAy (Date TBC) FoxY’s wooden BoAt regAttA Tortola, British Virgin Islands www.foxysbar.com Laid-back event now 39 years old with a new class for GRP classics
16 DECEMBER – 14 JANUARy (2014) christmAs cAriBBeAn rAllY Lanzarote to Antigua Mikeala Malik, Tel: +44 (0)845 257 5004, www.sailingrallies.com Stop pretending you like Brussels sprouts and sail to the Caribbean for classic season instead. New
AustrAliA OCTOBER 2013 – APRIL 2014 clAssic YAcht AssociAtion oF AustrAliA www.classic-yacht.asn.au
new zeAlAnd OCTOBER 2013 – APRIL 2014 clAssic YAcht AssociAtion oF new zeAlAnd www.classicyacht.org.nz CLASSIC BOAT APRIL 2013
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