Cowes will welcome the world’s oldest, most respected and most challenging of oceanic races dating back more than a century and a half later this year.
Spare a thought from noon on Sunday for the 30 entries taking part in one of the toughest yacht races ever - the Sevenstar Round Britain and Ireland Race - as it leaves Cowes and heads clockwise around the Isle of Wight in the first stage of this record-breaking race.
You'll be able to travel from Ryde to Freshwater and stop at lots of places in between and hear bells ringing from 10.30am until 5.30pm on Saturday to celebrate the NHS's 70th birthday.
2018 marks an impressive 30th anniversary for Skipper David Robinson as he joins some 12,000 other sailors set to master one of the world’s largest yacht races, often referred to as ‘Britain’s favourite yacht race’
A group of Isle of Wight residents, mostly with professional engineering and project management expertise, and including some town councillors, have written today to the Solent LEP - who funded Floating Bridge 6 - requesting a meeting and setting out their concerns about the failure of the project.
The next episode in the second series of BBC2’s documentary on the RNLI, which airs at 8pm on Tuesday 26th September, will include footage of the Yarmouth lifeboat in action and interviews with the Coxswain and members of the volunteer crew.
A whopping 400 boats will be on the Cowes start line on Sunday 6th August for this year’s Rolex Fastnet Race - the largest ever entry in the 92 year history of the Royal Ocean Racing Club's biennial 'classic 600 miler'.