Champagne Taittinger are returning to the English South Coast for the 17th edition of the Taittinger Royal Solent Yacht Club Regatta 2025 (Friday 4 - Sunday 6 July) organised and hosted by the RSYC in Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.
As usual at the South Coast's most popular yacht club regatta, the racing fleet will be large and diverse. IRC, IRC Swan and IRC Classic Cruisers will be competing and the One Design fleet includes XOD, YOD, Contessa 32, J24, J105, J80, J111, P40s, Sonatas, Sigma 38s and Folkboats. A fresh innovation for 2025 is the Bembridge Feeder Race organised by Bembridge Harbour Authority providing a competitive challenge for Taittinger RSYC Regatta entries to race east-west through the Solent on Friday 4th.
Competition within some of the IRC fleet will be heightened by the regatta's status as Event 3 of the IRC Solent Championship; Series 2 of the Folkboat Summer Weekend Series and the Allot Cup Series, Golden Tiller Series and Persephone Series for the XODs.
Onshore, the Taittinger RSYC Regatta's blend of entertainment for the competing crews, and their shore-based families and friends remains a key element of the event. The Champagne Taittinger Reception held on the waterfront lawns at the RSYC opens the regatta and while crews are racing, the club will be open throughout Saturday hosting live music and the popular Wightwood Pizza van.
In the evenings, there are back-to-back parties at The Towers adjacent to the RSYC with a private, fundraising rock concert on Friday and bands include the Blue Water Giants featuring members of Status Quo, Procul Harum and Tears for Fears while food is provided by Cowes-based restaurant, Spice Central. The hugely popular Towers Party on Saturday night features live music, fireworks and a broad range of refreshment and food. Last year, the Towers Party, hosted and organised by local sailor and businessman John Caulcutt CBE, raised a phenomenal £85k for the party's two chosen charities; the Motor Neurone Disease Association and Cure Parkinson's.
Following the single race for all classes on Sunday, the regatta prize-giving will be held at the RSYC. Alongside the enormous quantity of silverware available to the regatta's winners, a bottle of Champagne Taittinger will be presented to the wining team in each class with the coveted jeroboam of Champagne Taittinger going to the regatta's overall winner. A prize draw from the regatta's supporting sponsor, the Edelweiss & Gurgl Hotel, will provide a week's stay for two people at this luxury hotel in the Austrian Alps. The winners of the Champagne Taittinger prize draw will take a trip for two to the Champagne Taittinger cellars in Reims.
The Royal Solent Yacht Club, Champagne Taittinger and the regatta's supporting sponsors look forward to seeing you in Yarmouth in July.
For further competitor information, please contact the RSYC :-
Tel: 01983 760256
sailing@royalsolent.org
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