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2025 Hamble Winter Series - Race Report Week 4
Hamble Winter Series Race week 4 With the clocks going back at 02.00 am last Sunday, Race Week 4 is the last two race day in the 2025 Hamble Winter Series. The One Designs have packed up for the winter, leaving just the IRC classes to head out into the Solent. To make sure no one headed out too early, the event WhatsApp carried a "clock back" warning for the fleet
Published 14:20 on 31 Oct 2025
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2025 Hamble Winter Series - Week 3 Race Report
Hamble Winter Series 2025 Race Week 3 Sponsored by One Sails UK Saturday saw the start of the second weekend of the Hamble One Design Championship. CRO Matt Stein took the CV Artimis near to 4R, Darling Buoy. He was ably assisted by Kathryn Clark as ARO with PRO Peter Bateson lurking onboard doing menial tasks. In addition, HRSC Rear Commodore Sailing, Mark Benton, skippered the boat, under the watchful
Published 13:52 on 24 Oct 2025
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2025 Hamble Winter Series - Week 2 Race Report
Hamble Winter Series. Race Week 2 Sponsored by Force 4 Chandlery For the second week running, wind was the major discussion point as the weekend approached. This time, however, it was an apparent lack of puff, particularly on the Saturday. Not one to be put off by less than favourable forecasts, Peter Bateson, PRO, messaged the fleet by WhatsApp on Friday, to give them his thoughts. His message finished with "We
Published 13:07 on 17 Oct 2025
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2025 Hamble Winter Series - Week 1
Hamble Winter Series 2025 Race Week 1 Sponsored by Key Yachting In the build up the 44 th Hamble Winter Series, all eyes were focused on the Grib files to see how Storm Amy would affect the proceedings. Try as they might, the Race Team could not find a forecast that would allow racing on Saturday 4 th October. This made the decision easy for Matt Stein, the CRO
Published 11:49 on 9 Oct 2025
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Hamble Winter Series week 8 - Race Report
Hamble Winter Series Race Week 8 and Final At last, some normal winter series weather came to the Solent, for the final Race Week of the 2024 Hamble Winter Series, sponsored by Greene King. "Miserable weather to finish" was view of Lis Robinson on Hot Rats. Provisioning on the First 35 was fortunately up to its usual standard with coffee and Millionaire's Shortcake on the way out. Other shortcake brands are available. There
Published 11:19 on 5 Dec 2024
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Hamble Winter Series - Week 6 - Race Report - Sponsored by Key Yachting
Hamble Winter Series - Week 6 - Race Report - Sponsored by Key Yachting Robert Hillman's Exuberant was the Committee Vessel for Race Week 6 of the Hamble Winter Series, sponsored by Key Yachting. Indeed, exuberant was how everyone was feeling, with the prospect of two races for the second week running. You could feel the energy as the Race Team and competitors headed for 4S, Royal Southern buoy.
Published 11:42 on 22 Nov 2024
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Hamble Winter Series week 5 - Race Report
Hamble Winter Series Race Week 5 - Sponsored by Force 4 "Dunkelflaute. The German word for the miserable, grey non-weather that's been draining the life out of everyone in Britain." wrote Quentin Letts in the Mail on Sunday, on 10 th November 2024. Well, it has certainly been draining the strength out of the Hamble Winter Series so far this year. Two Race days have been lost to this
Published 14:19 on 13 Nov 2024
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Hamble Winter Series Race Week 3 Sponsored by Force 4
Hamble Winter Series Race Week 3 Sponsored by Force 4 "This is Hamble Race Control, the race is not live, we have exceeded the wind limit!" Well, that's what the PRO would have said if the CV, WetWheels, had gone out on Sunday morning for the 3 rd week of the Hamble Winter Series. Fortunately, for the RO's, Peer Bateson and Ian Bullock, the approach of Storm
Published 10:47 on 30 Oct 2024
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Hamble Winter Series Week 2, IRC Autumn Champs, Race Report
Hamble winter Series Race Week 2 sponsored by Key Yachting Race Week 2 of the Hamble Winter Series comprises two days of racing for the Hamble IRC Autumn Championship, sponsored by Key Yachting. Early weather forecasts showed that once again we may have weekend of two halves. As it turned out it was a weekend of one half. Sunday's weather had looked light from a couple of days out
Published 10:25 on 18 Oct 2024
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Hamble Winter Series Week 1 & Hamble One Design Championship Weekend 1
Hamble Winter Series 2024 Race Week 1- Sponsored by One Sails. The 43 rd running on the Hamble Winter Series started with two completely contrasting days of weather. Saturday, day one of the Hamble One Design Championships, had glorious sunshine and a steady breeze but, when Peter Bateson, PRO, announced "We have passed the wind test" on Sunday morning everything was grey and dank. So grey was it on
Published 12:32 on 10 Oct 2024
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Hamble Winter Series 2024 Entries are open!
Hamble Winter Series 2024 Entries are open! Entries are now open for the 43 rd Hamble Winter Series. The event will take place in the central Solent starting on Sunday 6 th of October and finishing on Sunday the 1 st of December. As always there will be a lay weekend halfway through the series on the 3 rd of November. Racing in the main series is
Published 12:01 on 2 Sep 2024
