yachts

The Etchells World Championship 2015 organized and hosted by the Hong Kong Etchells Association and will be held near Nine Pins Islands, in the waters off Clearwater Bay between Sunday Nov 1 and Saturday Nov 7. As a precursor to this event, the Etchells Asia Pacific Championship took place at the same venue from Saturday Oct 24 to Monday Oct 26.

Day-4 of the UK Sailmakers Summer Saturday Series took place last Saturday, July 25 with two geometric races inside Port Shelter with 11-IRC, 8-HKPN, 5-Sportsboats and 6-Dragons taking part.

The largest private yacht in the world, the Eclipse, owned by Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich, remained at a pier in New York City this week.

A total of 2,168.9 miles were raced in the 10th Anniversary Hebe Haven 24 HR Charity Dinghy Race, with organisers expecting to exceed HK$1 million when all funds have been collected.

“Fantastic, after the weather we have had over this past week,” Somerville told The Epoch Times.

There were performances to savour for Catch 22, Kiasu, Taxi and Stella and ones to forget for Bits & Pieces and Barnstormer.

Sir Richard Branson announced he wants to break the world’s trans-Atlantic sailing record for a single-hull yacht.