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If you have a charter boat you wish to make available for the Six Metre World Championship please email details including pricing and photographs to Fiona Brown on fiona.brown@fionabrown.com who will be able to add your listing to this page.
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8 September 2023 – Cowes, UK – The Royal Yacht Squadron’s famous lawn overlooking the Solent was the setting for an elegant sunset Prize Giving Reception that brought the International Six Metre World Championship 2023 to a close. The sailors gathered in the presence of His Majesty King Juan Carlos of Spain to celebrate their champions and…
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8 September 2023 – Cowes, UK – Three intense and thrilling races completed the 2023 Six Metre World Championship in style a day early. Knowing that the final day of the regatta was likely to be windless, the Royal Yacht Squadron’s Race Officer Peter Saxton made the wise decision to run all three remaining races…
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STOP PRESS – FULL RELEASE TO FOLLOW 7 September 2023 – Cowes, UK – With zero wind forecast for the scheduled final day of racing at the Six Metre World Championship 2023 in Cowes, the Royal Yacht Squadron’s Race Committee elected to run all three remaining races, races six to eight, on the penultimate day of the…
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5 September 2023 – Cowes, UK – Conditions were extremely light on the third day of the International Six Metre World Championship in Cowes. With strong spring tides to consider the Royal Yacht Squadron Race Committee knew they had just a narrow window of opportunity to run a race during the slack water period. They postponed the…
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5 September 2023 – Cowes, UK - The Solent was at its sparkling and most tidally challenging best for the second day of the International Six Metre World Championship in Cowes. With five races required to complete a series and light airs forecast for the third day, the Royal Yacht Squadron Race Committee did an excellent job…
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4 September 2023 – Cowes, UK – Glorious sun, a steady south-easterly breeze of 10 to 15 knots and a stunning fleet of thirty-four International Six Metres made for the perfect start to the Six Metre World Championship in Cowes. The Royal Yacht Squadron’s Race Officer Peter Saxton set the fleet two windward/leeward courses over the…
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Sunday 3 September saw the sailors take a day away from the race course to hold the International Six Metre Association AGM, where important decisions about class management, future event dates and locations, and technical matters were made. Later in the day Race Officer Peter Saxton hosted a skipper’s briefing to update the teams on…
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Cowes, UK – 2 September 2023 – A second day of warm-up racing for the thirty-four strong fleet preparing for the International Six Metre Worlds in Cowes saw two final practice races run by the Royal Yacht Squadron. With the wind in the south-east and ranging from 7 to 14 knots the course was set up…
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Cowes, UK – 1 September 2023 – British Six Metre Association Chairman Tom Owen welcomed teams from across the globe to Cowes for the International Six Metre World Championship 2023, which is being hosted by the Royal Yacht Squadron from Monday 4 to Friday 8 September. “We’re really pleased to be welcoming thirty-four Six Metre teams…
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Cowes, UK – 29 August 2023 – Preparations are in full swing to welcome 34 teams representing 11 Nations from across Europe and North America for the International Six Metre World Championship, to be hosted by the Royal Yacht Squadron from 29 August to 8 September. The fleet is divided into two divisions, the Open Division and…