Cowes Week has been given a boost with the announcement that Aberdeen Asset Management has agreed to support the sailing regatta for one more year in 2016 adding a final chapter to their Cowes Week story. Aberdeen’s original five year title sponsorship commitment of Cowes Week came to end
The Royal Yacht Squadron and the Royal Thames Yacht Club will each be hosting a new event on the J/70 calendar this summer. Taking place in Cowes on 21 st and 22 nd May will be the J/70 Southern Area Championships , under the direction of the Royal Thames YC
The Earl of Wessex (HRH Prince Edward) visited the Isle of Wight on the 29th April. Arriving at Ryde via Hovercraft upon disembarking he was gteeted by the Island’s Lord Lieutenant Martin White and met with participants who are taking part or have recently achieved Duke of Edinburgh’s Awards. Included
One year on from when Red Funnel placed an order with Shemana Refit LLP to build Red Jet 6 in East Cowes, she is due to be launched on the 4th of July. A team of 58 permanent boat builders including five apprentices, have kept the construction of the new
Hosted by Island Harbour, the 2nd Annual IW Festival Dragon Boat Race Day attracted twenty teams. Organisers John and Caroline Giddings chose to raise money for the Stand Up To Cancer campaign (Cancer Research UK) Celebrity attendees included Keith Duffy and Shane Lynch from Boyzone, Caroline Corr an honorary
17th September 2016 will see the last Wightlink Wight Challenge and organisers are delighted that so many teams are signing up for what they hope will be a bumper year. However, there are still spaces if you fancy a challenge and there is still time for you and a team
Having been stored in a Winchester farmhouse for forty years, the photographic archive of Austrian born Lotte Meitner-Graf (1899-1973) can be seen for the first time for many years at Dimbola Museum and Galleries, Freshwater. Although Lotte was unconventional and uncompromising, she never courted publicity, neither did she seek to
All the Island’s Rainbows (the youngest members of Girlguiding IW aged 5-7) were invited to an outdoor fun day at Barton Manor recently. This day in the great outdoors included a number of challenges and foraging for items found in the countryside and woods. All the Rainbows, together with leaders
SCIENCE SEWING CIRCUS SKILLS Guides belonging to the Compton Bay Section of Girlguiding Isle of Wight enjoyed a Badge Day recently. Held at Northwood Scout Hut the girls from the Compton Bay Section , which covers the Newport, Cowes and West Wight areas of the Island, undertook various challenges to
Presentations have recently taken place for Girlguiding’s Baden Powell (BP) Awards. Guides from across the Island undertook challenges during a special weekend of events organised by Girlguiding IW BP Adviser Tammy Vincent who said, “Emma, my assistant leader, and I would like to add it was an honour to take