Cowes Week

The Extreme Sailing Series Act 5 has come to the end of a week filled with big winds and high adrenalin action at Aberdeen Asset Management Cowes Week. The six day racing extravaganza delivered some of the closest and intense ‘Stadium Racing’ the circuit has ever seen - in front of the biggest crowds ever recorded for the event. The ultimate winner was The Wave, Muscat

Extreme Sailing Series Act 5, Cowes has reached the penultimate day six in which The Wave, Muscat has managed to hold on to their lead. In the late afternoon, the wind dropped below twenty knots and the turning tide flattened out the sea to allow racing to begin. Perhaps the greatest surprise given the damp overcast weather was the huge turn-out of spectators

At the end of another glorious day’s racing at Aberdeen Asset Management Cowes Week Tina Scott was crowned as winner of the Ladies Day trophy. As XOD class secretary she has been a major force in the organisation of the fleet’s centenary celebrations, including the 145-boat fleet competing this week.

After the drama and action-packed first four days of Act 5 from Aberdeen Asset Management Cowes Week, the breezy conditions that cart-wheeled the Extreme 40 Aberdeen Asset Management yesterday, eased off today at the halfway stage of the UK round of the 2011 Extreme Sailing Series™.

Including a few choice words from John Pink.

The thousands of competitors at Aberdeen Asset Management Cowes Week enjoyed another glorious sunny day, with a brisk west-north-westerly wind providing spectacular sailing.

Fantastic conditions for the second day of Act 5, Cowes. The Extreme Sailing Series famous for attracting huge crowds, and today they poured to the shoreside in their thousands to catch the action. And in the big breeze, there was plenty of it - nose-dives, pitch poles, spray everywhere and one BIG collision between Artemis Racing and Groupe Edmond de Rothschild.

The second day of Aberdeen Asset Management Cowes Week was blessed with bright sun and strong winds, giving competitors a fresh set of challenges after the opening day’s light airs.

In this contest between a flimsy yacht and a bulky oil tanker, there was only going to be one winner.

Renowned for adrenalin-fuelled
stadium sailing, 12 teams lined up for the start and delivered nothing less
in front of huge crowds. For the 12 skippers it was an opening salvo of
close calls, nose-dives and near misses. At the end of the day it was the
French team Groupe Edmond de Rothschild who were on top of the leaderboard. With plenty of more breeze to come this was just the start of what promises to be an epic week.