Royal Western Yacht Club
A friendly club with full range of sailing and social activities, an excellent waterside venue for weddings and corporate events and home to famous oceanic races such as OSTAR, RB & I and Fastnet.
UK Mini Fastnet 6.50 2012
The Royal Western Yacht Club is pleased to welcome back the Classe Mini sailors for 2012. This year there will be races from the West coast of France and the Solent to Plymouth beforehand. The Notice of Race and Entry Form is below. The competitors will set off on Sunday 8th May on a 561 mile course that will take them from Plymouth to Fastnet Rock via Eddystone Rock and Bishop Rock, then on to the Coningbeg Light before returning to Plymouth.
The Classe Mini yachts will race in two classes, Series and Proto. The Series yachts are production models, whereas the Protos are one off designs. These exciting 6.50 m yachts though offering little comfort to their sailors, are capable of high speeds particularly off the wind and offer close and exciting racing.
The class rules limit the communication equipment that can be carried by each yacht, but Yellowbrick will again be supplying the trackers that will enable an hour by hour update on the progress of these intrepid sailors.
It all starts at 1200 (BST) on Sunday 8th May 2011
