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Some boats you sail. The ILCA, it seems, is one you keep coming back to. That’s the storyline running through the class this year, and it’s about to get its biggest chapter yet.

All season, people have been turning one purchase into real time on the water, swapping the shortlist for the shoreline. Get the gear, and you’re in the same boat.

Johnny Vincent’s Volvo 70 Pace has been declared the overall winner under IRC for the 2026 RORC Round Britain and Ireland Race. With no remaining competitor able to better Pace’s IRC corrected time, the result gives Vincent and his crew the race’s top prize, adding overall victory to Monohull Line Honours. Pace crossed the Royal…

Ben Whaley and Isobel Stewart hit the front, not once but twice, to open up a late charge, while leaders Ian Martin and Emma Hivey hit the wall with a double discard day. Whaley and Stewart won the first race of day 4, ahead of Brendan Lynch and Ellen Clark (2, 8), with Jamie Harris…

The Wanderer class kindly invited the Wayfarer class to share a race course, and start line, with them at their National Championships at Whitstable. The course was shared with the club racing – from Darts to Toppers.

Day 3 dawned with conditions so perfect that even the most weather-obsessed sailor couldn’t complain. Yes, really. No wind shifts, no surprise squalls, no “character-building” drizzle.

The Royal Ocean Racing Club is delighted to confirm that Johnny Vincent’s Volvo 70 Pace has been declared the overall winner under IRC for the 2026 RORC Round Britain and Ireland Race.

Yorkshire Dales Sailing Club are very pleased to host the Fireball Inland Championships at Grimwith Reservoir on 12th and 13th of September.

Ballyholme Yacht Club recently played host to an unforgettable weekend of high-speed sailing as the Irish Sea Challenge and Irish Multihull Northern Championships took centre stage from August 7th to 9th, sponsored by Victoria Pinkerton Estate Agents.

Pierre Le Boucher’s Class40 Penfret crossed the Round Britain finish line first . . . but at a Protest Hearing, Penfret was deemed to have not sailed the course. Penfret crossed the finish line first in an elapsed time of 9 days 29 mins and 40 secs. They still celebrated, even though they knew a…