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...It’s March, gusting Force 7, and the finish line of the Nab Tower Race off Cowes cannot come soon enough....
...The 50 nautical mile westabout race starts and finishes in Cowes, the centre of British yachting. Mr Collier Wakefield said: “To break the Round the Island Race record is a pretty special thing....
...Moonspray, which will berth in St Katherine’s Dock for a week, then heads off to the trust’s base in Cowes before making for Wales....
...Neil Graham, OC’s technical director, is leading the boat’s development at their Cowes base where a design prototype would cost about €2m ($2.3m)....
...A team of six sailors on board 70ft trimaran Musandam, Oman Sail’s flagship, arrived to a heroes’ welcome at Cowes, the home of British sailing, on Thursday after shattering the Round Britain and Ireland...
...Experts on the water Aberdeen Asset Management Cowes Week takes place in the Solent, off the Isle of Wight, with club sailors sharing the challenging waters with Olympic and world champions....
...Organisers had first reversed the direction of travel from the start at the Royal Yacht Squadron’s line at Cowes on the Isle of Wight from westwards to anticlockwise eastwards, and then postponed the start...
...Rock and roll with the sea The Rolex Fastnet Race starts from Cowes, Isle of Wight, to track 609 miles to the rock off Ireland’s southern tip....
...Hoist the mainsail Cowes Week, the regatta which runs to August 10, takes place in the waters of the Solent, off the Isle of Wight, and sees 8,000 sailors racing daily in up to 1,000 boats, with club sailors...
...After the downturn hit in 2008, Simon Dabell, chairman of Visit Isle of Wight, says the sector actually enjoyed an unexpected rise....
...Mark Turner, executive chairman of series organisers OC ThirdPole, based in Cowes, Isle of Wight, told the FT: “We had three good years with iShares as title sponsors but now we work with a very different...
...Mr O’Leary said he welcolmed the prospect of a massed fleet start off Cowes Green at next year’s event....
...Simon Greaves is FT.com’s sailing correspondent...
...He has sailed with Lewis Hamilton at Cowes and says that while he also enjoys watching football, rugby, tennis and golf, he would like to think that he could have been an F1 driver....
...Carphone Warehouse boss Charles Dunstone emerged victorious in one of the most fiercely contested races at Cowes, the IRC Class Zero race....
...The five European events this year started with Sète, in France, moving to the UK during Cowes Week, an event expanded from the usual four days to six....
...Simon de Burton is the co-author of the official history of Panerai....
...The organisers hope the Cowes event will attract many of these sleek beasts, as well as some of the latest launches....
...Among those to have taken advantage of this opportunity, at the Cowes regatta this summer, were yachtsman Simon Le Bon of Duran Duran, television presenter Ben Fogel, Formula One team Brawn’s chief executive...
...Water Jewels, for example, offers its wares on cruise ships and at sailing resorts favoured by the well-heeled, such as Eden Rock in St Barths, and Cowes-based designer Deborah Miller advertises her bespoke...
...Simon Greaves is FT.com’s sailing correspondent simon.greaves@ft.com...
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...Gow was inspired to hunt down bigger and better examples of his ancestor’s work and now owns a large, pointillist painting, “Windsor Castle, Wartime Nocturne” (circa 1941) and etchings of a regatta at Cowes...
...Simon Jacot de Boinod, chief executive of City Championships, said: “This is our fourth regatta and our first time in Cowes....
...Simon Greaves is ft.com’s yachting correspondent...
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