Photo by: Aurelia Hall Twenty four folk boats entered for this year's Royal Solent Yacht Club Taittinger Regatta, the second of three in the Folkboat 2025 Regatta Series. The winds were much stronger than last year, but all three races were completed with a different winner for each race. Harry Hall's Svane won the first race, Jack Davis in Raev won the second race, and Crackerjack (Stuart Watson and Matthew Jones) won the third on Sunday. Overall Harry Hall in Svane was the outright winner, with Raev second and Gybe n' (Cy Grisley) third. Full results available on the RSYC website.

Saturday 16th - Friday 22nd August 2025 Dear Folkboat Sailors 60 YEARS OF FOLKBOAT WEEK! We are delighted to let you know that entry into the Folkboat Association's 60th Folkboat Week, hosted by the Royal Solent Yacht Club and supported by Lymington Yacht Haven, is now OPEN! New for this year, we have three classes: Open Nordic Division ~ 9 races over 5 days Classic Division ~ 9 races over 5 days Cruising Division ~ non-racing events afloat and ashore. If you are not planning to race during Folkboat Week but wish to participate in the social events only, please click here Please click here to enter Folkboat Week 2025  Please note that the deadline for entries is Sunday 10th August 2025.We are very much looking forward to seeing you at the 60th Folkboat Week!

Moonraker FGBR 730 and Scaramouche FGBR 738 , both new Hamble Fleet Nordics, met up at the RAFYC pre- race to prepare for their first race of the season. Due to the complete absence of wind , and only an Easterly veering SE 3-4 kts forecast  - they made a plan to head out to Fumesy  -on the back end of the Flood ,  a good location  in the low tidal area north of Bramble , with an option for a beat into shore if the predicted SE’ly breeze developed. Funnily enough we weren’t the only fleet that had that plan – we were greeted by the massed drifting race boats of the Royal Southern and other clubs , with J70’s , IRC and a cruiser passage race all looking to get racing going.  We chose to head over to the vicinity of Sposa and Coronation where a pleasant  hour…