Day three of the British Classic Yacht Club Panerai Cowes Regatta saw the fleet of classic yachts undertake a long distance race in simply glorious weather conditions. The complex 35 mile course took the competitors to some of the far reaches of the Solent and presented the navigators and tacticians, who had to plot their way through capricious tides and a multitude of hidden sandbanks, with numerous head scratching moments. Today’s race got under way this morning at 1000 with the entire 52 fleet boat setting off together from a long committee boat start line off Cowes. Under clear blue skies and in around ten to 12 knots of breeze, the regatta fleet was a magnificent sight as the yachts initially beat westward for several miles before turning at Lymington for a long run back down the Solent under spinnaker.

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