FourthCape Blog

Thoughts and things from FourthCape HQ

RORC Griffin – Offshore opportunities The Royal Ocean Racing Club’s Jeanneau Sun Fast 3600 Griffin, GBR 8936, competing in the 2025 Cherbourg Race. Georgie Corlett-Pitt hears from Figaro sailors Ellie Driver and Ollie Hill on how they’re shaping their own pathways, and discovers how RORC’s Griffin Project is offering solutions...

Round 4 – Gosport – Solent Super Series 2025

Winners decided at Round 4 of the Solent Super Series After three rounds of very favourable conditions, the ‘winter series’ version of the Solent Super Series greeted teams for the fourth and final round of the 2025 edition. With 20 knots at times gusting to 27 from the South to...

Round 3 – Lymington – Solent Super Series

The Solent Super Series crews returned to their boats for Round 3 on a bright November morning and were met by light and shifting wind (roughly from the west.) Series Race Officer Rich Palmer set up the start line on the Hill Head Plateau between the committee boat ‘Cowes United’...

Round 2 – Yarmouth – 2025 Solent Super Series

This past weekend was Round 2 of the Series, and as usual, Saturday began in the central Solent, with sunshine and a crisp 12 knot NW’ly wind, the Race Team set up their start line to the East of Bramble bank at 4W Ancasta, Race 1 was a 14.3nm zigzag...

Round 1 – Cowes – 2025 Solent Super series

This past weekend saw the first round of the Solent Super Series, now in its third year. The 4 round, max 4 crew format, will visit Yarmouth and Lymington before finishing with the final round in Gosport in late November. Nine of the Eleven entered teams got the series underway...