Sailjuice Winter Series Prizegiving at the RYA Dinghy Show 2020

As always the RYA Dinghy and Watersports show was buzzing with boats, banter and bargains but this year also marked a big change with the move to its new venue in Farnborough...

Continuing the theme of a windy Seldén Sailjuice Winter Series, event No.7, the Tiger Trophy, delivered great conditions at Rutland Water...

It’s incredibly hard to win the GJW Direct Bloody Mary, let alone get alone get close twice in a row. After finishing runner-up last year, Sam Pascoe defied the light winds at this year’s 185-boat pursuit race to win yet another event of this season’s Seldén Sailjuice Winter Series...

Now is the winter of our discontent... which is why the Seldén SailJuice Winter Series is being extended into this spring and summer.

While most events are suffering, could the Vendee Globe actually profit from the strange circumstances that we're facing? Mark Jardine joins with Andy Rice to see how the sailing world is coping in the virtual world forced by the coronavirus pandemic lockdown....

Ian Walker has just overseen a massive overhaul of the RYA's Youth system, making it more regionally focused and responding to complaints that the old system was taking parents and kids - two generations of sailors - away from their sailing clubs...

The 2020 edition of the John Merricks Tiger Trophy was one of the windiest on record. It surprised a few that it went ahead at all, but for the majority of the sailors that ventured into the 30 knot breeze, it ranked as one of their best days ever...

Round six of the Selden SailJuice Winter Series, the John Merricks Tiger Trophy, attracted 118 boats to the start line despite the horrendous wind chill factor. Old boys Neil Marsden and Jonny McGovern showed the nippers how to race a 420 at warp speed...

It’s looking like a windy Brass Monkey is in store for this Saturday’s event at Yorkshire Dales Sailing Club. The third event of the GJW Direct Sailjuice Winter Series hit its entry limit a couple of weeks ago, so 100 boats are set for a breezy battle around one of Great Britain’s most beautiful sailing venues.

With a light-wind forecast and 288 boats pre-entered, is 2014 the year the slow boats take their revenge at the Bloody Mary? Two years ago Jason Belben powered to victory on his foiling Moth and looked set to do so again last year, crossing the finish line in first place but subsequently was disqualified after fellow Moth sailor Rob Greenhalgh protested Belben for missing a mark of the course....

Following a record advance entry the gusting winds and chilly conditions excited more to venture out and a monster 340 boats took to the water. Officially the Virtual Rigger 40th Bloody Mary Pursuit was the largest race since 2000.

With a high-wind forecast, no one could have expected all 170 entries to follow through with the trip to today’s Grafham Grand Prix, but the 145 that got out of bed early to brave the conditions would be rewarded with a spectacular day’s handicap racing. The average wind strength might have been in the late teens to early 20s, but it was the severity of the gusts - up to 35 knots - that provided the real test. There were capsizes aplenty although, amazingly, no broken masts.