Where the Cape 31 UK Series began in May, it ends in September: in Cowes, the Black Star Sailing Cape 31 team contests the sixth round – the season finale of a compact, tightly scheduled British campaign. The finale is hosted by the Royal Thames Yacht Club. Founded in 1775 as the “Cumberland Fleet” on […]
Cape 31 – UK Series Round 5 – Cowes Week, 2 – 4 August 2026, Cowes, United Kingdom | A summer without a summer break: after four regattas in southern England in a row, interrupted only by a single outing in Sweden, the Black Star Sailing Cape 31 team now returns to the Solent for […]
Cape 31 – UK Series Round 4 – UK National Championship Hamble, 3 – 5 July 2026, Hamble, United Kingdom | The demanding 44Cup waters off Marstrand are barely in our wake before Black Star Sailing and its Cape 31 team head back to England’s south coast – to the Solent, the waters that shape […]
Four rounds of the Cape 31 UK Series in eight weeks now lie behind the Black Star Sailing Team, with the 44Cup Marstrand in between. What the Solent and the Kattegat off the Swedish coast had in store for us in such a short space of time would have been enough for an entire season: Mediterranean heat in five knots of wind, squalls of 38 knots, and in between that sea breeze which was the main reason we had been looking forward to the south of England. But let us take things in order.
44Cup Marstrand, 24 – 28 June 2026, Marstrand, Sweden | With the first intensive phase of the season – featuring three Cape 31 events along England’s south coast – now behind us, Black Star Sailing’s focus shifts back to the RC44 class. The 44Cup Marstrand at the end of June marks the next major challenge […]
44Cup Puntaldia, 22 – 26 April 2026, Puntaldia, Sardinia, Italy | With the 44Cup Puntaldia, Black Star Sailing is set to begin its RC44 campaign for the 2026 season. Following the deliberate decision to skip the 44Cup season opener in Lanzarote in early February, the focus now shifts entirely to the first Mediterranean stop – […]
Cape 31 – UK Series Round 3 – UK Summer Series Hamble, 12 – 14 June 2026, Hamble, Great Britain | Ironically, it was the IRC Europeans in Poole, held in May well before the start of summer, that provided a remarkably summery taste of things to come. The south coast of England presented itself […]
Cape 31 – UK Series Round 2 – IRC Europeans Poole, 22 – 24 May 2026, Poole, Great Britain | No sooner has the opening round of the Cape 31 UK Series in Cowes concluded than the next event is already on the horizon for the Black Star Sailing Cape 31 team. The IRC Europeans […]
Successful re-start! Cape 31 Princess Sofia Trophy Palma and 44Cup Puntaldia. – Just as at last year’s opening regatta, the ‘Trofeo Princesa Sofía de Palma de Mallorca’ welcomed us with open arms this season too, starting with light, shifting winds on the water. We quickly found our rhythm and were able to establish ourselves on the podium early on.
Cape 31 – UK Series Round 1 – Royal Yacht Squadron, 8–10 May 2026, Cowes, United Kingdom | A new chapter in the Cape 31 campaign now takes Black Star Sailing to the south coast of Great Britain this May. Cowes on the Isle of Wight hosts the opening round of the Cape 31 UK Series […]