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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