This is the Official Notice Board for the regatta. Here you will find links to all the racing and other documents you need to enter, plan and enjoy your Cowes Classics Week regatta.

The notice board often changes so it is worth coming back from time to time to review the listing, especially with regards to amendments etc.

Regatta Documents

Cowes Classics Week Provisional Handicaps and Shoreline Fleet Splits

Although the final Handicaps and Shoreline Fleet Splits will be published on Friday 5 July 2024, you can view the current situation here.

Regatta Signing-On

For 2024 the Cowes Classics Week signing-on process has been moved online.

Rather than sending you a form to be printed and completed, you can now provide the required information online at any time before you attend the Regatta Race Office to collect your Race Pack. You do not need to complete the form in one go as you can return to complete missing details or perhaps make a crew change right up until Regatta Registration closes.

To find your signing-on form you must first 'LOG IN'. Once logged in the ‘Signing-On’ form can be found in the main menu under ‘MY REGATTA’.

Weyborne Estate Pursuit Race - Monday

Sponsored by Weyborne Estate and starting off Cowes Green from 14:00 on Monday, this event is going to be a spectacle! in order to race participants must register at the Royal London Yacht Club Regatta Office, located in the Arundel Room, where Weyborne Estate backstay flags will be issued. You can find full details and class timings here.

Cowes Classics Week WhatsApp Groups

To stay up to date please join the WhatsApp Group for your Circuit and also for The Weyborne Estate Pursuit Race. QR codes and links for all the groups can be found here.

Crew Finder

There is a WhatsApp group running that’s focussed on bringing boats and crews together, so if you are a skipper looking for crew, or crew looking for a boat, then the CCW’24 Crewfinder group at https://chat.whatsapp.com/Fy2miLbkpQX0Gsba7nzZ30 is where you need to be.

Cowes Dartmouth Passage Race 

The Classic Channel Regatta Organising Team and the Royal London Yacht Club would like to extend a warm welcome to all Classic yacht owners and invite you to take part in this new initiative, a feeder race from Cowes to Dartmouth to provide a link between Cowes Classic Week (6 - 12 July) and the Classic Channel Regatta (17 - 25 July). The course over some 90 miles will form part of the new Five Lights Points Series’ ('La Coupe Des Cinq Phares). Which will include Cowes Classic Week, The Classic Channel Regatta and then the Coupe d’Amorique (run by the Yacht Club Classique of France) starting from Paimpol on the 26th of July and finishing in Brest on the 28th July.

Racing Results

To reduce the environmental impact of printing thousands of paper result sheets during the week paper racing results are no longer provided. Instead, the results will be displayed at RLYC in the lobby window. Online results will be posted to the website and we aim to have the provisionals online before boats return to the dock.

Protest Hearings Schedule and Decisions

Notices to Mariners

As well as recreational craft, there are a large number of commercial movements, with high-speed ferries, vehicle ferries, and commercial shipping up to 100m in length moving in and out of the harbour and river. In this busy marine environment it is essential for everyone's safety and enjoyment that all water users understand how to navigate safely in a crowded river and harbour, and know the local regulations. To review the comprehensive list of all active Local Notices to Mariners visit the ABP Southampton Website.