2025 kicked off for us with coordinating and running the Royal Ocean Racing Club’s youth ‘Griffin’ sailor selection for the 2025 season. Twenty-four International sailors braved winter conditions to attend the Griffin25 selection event, gathering before dawn at the Southampton Red Jet terminal. A sense of anticipation filled the air, fuelled by the limited information […]
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Article published in the June ’24 edition of Seahorse Magazine When Michel Desjoyeaux appeared at the start of the 2008 Vendée Globe with a remote string-driven system to adjust the toe-in (or out) on Foncia’s twin-rudders it set people thinking… then he won the race The origins of FourthCape’s current work on rudder Toe-In/Out goes
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BRITS IN IMOCA: AN EXPERIENCED AND TALENTED GROUP WITH THE VENDÉE GLOBE AND THE OCEAN RACE IN THEIR SIGHTS If you look through the list of skippers and co-skippers for the Transat Jacques Vabre Normandie Le Havre 2023, you will discover that the biggest representation of any nation in the race, apart from France, is
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Race officer John Smalley – “Goes without saying your amazing Bots have gained many admirers and you can count me as one.” The Dartmouth Royal Regatta 2023 was the 178th running of the regatta, one of the longest running in the world. Proving that age is just a number, this year’s regatta has had a technology overhaul,
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Following on from the successful launch and introduction of Vela Roja the JPK Composites 1030 [which FourthCape commissioned in June 2022] to the Solent scene, hull number 48 was launched in to the FourthCape stable in June 2023. ‘Insert Coin’ was launched in Lorient for her owner with an intensive race commissioning programme followed by
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American Robotic Mark Manufacturer ‘MarkSetBot’ have appointed Cowes based sports marketing company FourthCape to develop, support and deliver the MarkSetBot system in the UK. Acting as an extension of the MarkSetBot HQ, FourthCape will support clubs, classes, and race organisers to adopt robotic marks and RaceOS™ software for events and racing. With unrivalled success over
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With a favourable, albeit very gusty SW wind and big tides in the Solent, three Jeanneau Sun Fast boats challenged the IRCRecords™ Nab Tower Course, each having a frothing Friday sail. The previous record holders on the course were ‘Redshift’ Farr GP42 holding the fully crewed time at: 04h 05m 36s and the double handed
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