Six Metre Europeans

Bernard Haissley’s Fleau has won the Six Metre European championship

SMS text messaging has been adopted by well over half of the yachts taking part in Skandia Life Cowes Week to receive class courses on the 10-minute warning signal.

Skandia Life Cowes Week will close out on the final day with Force 3-4 breezes predominantly out of the north-west but shifty close to shore on courses in the central…

It's taken two days after the last qualifying race to decide the eventual winner of the Skandia Life Young Skipper's Trophy. Christian Hamilton's loss was Matt Glasgow's gain.

Everyone is thankful that it hasn't been needed in earnest, but Skandia Life Cowes Life Week 2002 benefited from new on-water safety cover.

Immaculate performances from Waverider and Dog Tag placed them first and second respectively in the Skandia Life Cowes Week Black Group.

The XODs have had a difficult week, suffering two abandonments due to lack of wind but there's been a happy ending for the Hamble section of the fleet.

For two of the protagonists there's almost been as much action off the water as on, but it all finally got settled in time for the final presentations at Skandia…

Skandia Life Cowes Week final results

Here are the results for the last day of racing at Skandia Life Cowes Week and the overall results for the regatta, as at 2100 on Saturday 10 August.

The new Swan 45 McFly, owned and helmed by Tony Mack, has made its debut at Skandia Life Cowes Week.

Today will see good sailing breezes but yet another quandary for the race officers and tacticians as a low tracks east across the south coast.

Yachting World web and magazine art editor Marianne Knudsen was released from the office for a day to sail onboard the Fremantle 8.

Aristotle was right; a couple of millennia on we find it takes eight to add some colour to Skandia Life Cowes Week's summer of 2002.

One class has been abandoned at Cowes, all others are underway with 811 yachts out on courses in the central and eastern Solent.

Contents: September 2002

So, we’re required by law to make a passage plan but we don’t need to write it down...

Nineteen-year-old Mike Senior, crewed by Graham Nelson, has won the GP 14 national championship in Bangor.