54 CLASSIC BOAT APRIL 2016
Home waters
SOUTH COAST
2–4 JUNE 2017
Yarmouth Old Gaffers
Festival
Tel: +44 (0)1983 760655
yarmoutholdgaffersfestival.co.uk
If you’re wondering when Yogaff is
on this year – it’s not. It will now
run biennially. Flagship OGA bash,
100+ boats
2 JULY
Round the Island Race
roundtheisland.org.uk
16–23 JULY
Panerai British Classic Week
britishclassicyachtclub.org
11–15 JULY
Cowes Classics Week
cowesclassicsweek.org
EAST COAST
11–12 JUNE
Suffolk Yacht Harbour
Classic Regatta
Levington, River Orwell
Tel: +44 (0)1473 659465
syharbour.co.uk
Bermudan and gaff racing on the
Orwell and Stour
25 JUNE
Heybridge Basin Regatta
Nr Maldon, Essex
Tel: +44 (0)7903 347782
[email protected]
Small, friendly East Coast regatta
13 AUGUST
Swale Smack and Sailing
Barge Match
Hollowshore, Swale Channel, Kent
oga.org.uk, kentishsail.org
20 AUGUST
West Mersea Town Regatta
Mersea Island, Essex
Mersearegatta.org.uk
Family-friendly, fun shoreside and
on-the-water regatta that has been
running since 1838
22–27 AUGUST
Mersea Week
Mersea Island, Essex
merseaweek.org
Family-friendly with dinghy and
yacht racing. Up to 800
competitors.
17 SEPTEMBER
Maldon Town Regatta
Maldon, Essex
maldonregatta.co.uk
Yachts and workboats at this
favourite end-of-season event
Around the coast
The British Isles boasts some of the best classic
regattas in the world. Whatever your rig, year of build
and classic bent, there are gatherings big and small,
smart and less so, coastal and inland, some involving
racing, some more shore-based. An unofficial circuit
now exists taking in the Suffolk Yacht Harbour Classic
Regatta on the East Coast and Panerai British Classic
Week in the Solent, but as our sample here shows,
wherever you are moored, a gathering of fellow
wooden boat lovers is rarely far away.
29–31 JULY
Taittinger Royal
Solent Yacht Club Regatta
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight
T: +44 (0)1983 760256,
royalsolent.org
IRC, Swans, cruisers, gaffers, 6-Ms,
Dragons, FBs, XODs, YODs
6–13 AUGUST
Cowes Week
aamcowesweek.co.uk
24–25 SEPTEMBER
Hamble Classics Regatta
royal-southern.co.uk
SEPTEMBER (DATES TBC)
Bosham Classic Boat Revival
Bosham SC, Chichester Harbour
Tel: +44 (0)1243 572341
boshamsailingclub.com
CHRISSIE WESTGATE
EMILY HARRIS