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Round 1 – Cowes – 2026 Solent Super Series

After the long hot summer, Autumn conditions arrived this weekend, heralding the start of the Solent Super Series, now back for the 4th edition. This year’s line-up features 15 teams, with JPK’s 1030 & 1080, Jeanneau Sun Fast 3600s, 3300s and 3200s, and J-Boat’s J109 racing for the title. Round...

Solent Super Series 2026

Registration for the 2026 Solent Super Series has officially opened, and the Notice of Race is available online. The Solent Super Series begins on Saturday, 10th October, with 4 Rounds of exciting coastal-style, round-the-cans racing. Stopping off in a Host Port each Saturday, our evening social brings together all competitors...

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’...