Sailing.
Before the superyacht there was the regatta. A castle on the Isle of Wight, a cup first won in 1851, and a race round a rock off Ireland.
Before the superyacht there was the regatta. A castle on the Isle of Wight, a cup first won in 1851, and a race round a rock off Ireland.
1815The Yacht Club, later the Royal Yacht Squadron, is founded
The Royal Yacht Squadron was founded in 1815 as The Yacht Club, and its home is The Castle at Cowes, on the Isle of Wight. Its regatta first raced yachts for cups on August 10, 1826. 200 years on, Cowes Week ran from August 1 to 7, 2026, with about 600 boats and more than 5,000 sailors, the starts called from the Squadron's battlements.
1851The schooner America wins round the Isle of Wight
In August 1851 the schooner America, from New York, won a race around the Isle of Wight for a trophy then called the Hundred Guinea Cup. Its owners gave it to the New York Yacht Club in 1857, and from 1930 to 1983 the matches were sailed off Newport, Rhode Island, until Australia II took the cup in 1983. The 38th match is sailed off Naples, with the opening races on July 10, 2027.
1925The first Fastnet race
The Fastnet race was founded in 1925, the year of the Royal Ocean Racing Club. Every second year it starts off the Royal Yacht Squadron line at Cowes and rounds the Fastnet Rock off the southwest coast of Ireland. In 2025 it finished in Cherbourg.
The classic yachts end their summer at Les Voiles de Saint-Tropez, at the end of September, in Saint-Tropez. The harbors, the shows and the shipyards are in Yachting.
London🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Naples🇺🇸 Florida, United States
Saint-Tropez🇫🇷 France
Monaco🇲🇨 Monaco
Porto Cervo🇮🇹 Sardinia, Italy
St John's🇦🇬 Antigua and BarbudaSources. Royal Yacht Squadron, history of Cowes Week · Country & Town House, Cowes Week 2026 · Britannica, America's Cup · Sailing Scuttlebutt, dates of the 38th America's Cup · Rolex Fastnet Race, about · Royal Ocean Racing Club, 1925 to 2012. Read October 2026. A record of places, houses and dates, published as research. Patrician.ch has no commercial relationship with any house named here. Photographs from Unsplash and Pexels, used under their licenses.
In early August, off Cowes on the Isle of Wight.
In 2026, its bicentenary, it ran from August 1 to 7.
In August 1851, when the schooner America won a race around the Isle of Wight.
Off Naples, Italy.
The 38th match opens on July 10, 2027.
An offshore race founded in 1925, sailed every second year from Cowes round the Fastnet Rock off southwest Ireland.
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