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Victory

Victory

The Victory Class was founded in 1934 to race day-boats out of Portsmouth Harbour and participate in the annual Cowes Week regatta. In their home waters the distinctive 21ft black clinker built boats provide competitive racing 3 times a week and a turnout of twenty or more boats is not unusual. The Victory Class believes it has some of the most competitive racing on the Solent.

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Show news Entries open for Cowes Week 2024
Hoping to welcome around 500 boats racing in up to 36 different classes
Posted on 5 Jan 2023 Cowes Week day 7
Enigma wins White Group, and the week overall too
Posted on 4 Aug 2023 2023 Cowes Week day 6
Less wind, but more tide, and no discards
Posted on 3 Aug 2023 2023 Cowes Week update
Winner of inaugural Youth Trophy announced
Posted on 2 Aug 2023 2023 Cowes Week day 4
Women's Day highlight's the huge impact women have at Cowes and is to inspire
Posted on 1 Aug 2023 2023 Cowes Week day 3
Royal Navy Day and Charity Day in the presence of HRH the Princess Royal
Posted on 31 Jul 2023 2023 Cowes Week Day 2
Strong winds force abandonment of racing
Posted on 30 Jul 2023 2023 Cowes Week Day 1
Off to a thrilling start with winds gusting well over 20 knots
Posted on 29 Jul 2023 Entries open for Cowes Week 2023
In this iconic regatta two of the most competitive classes are worlds apart
Posted on 17 Jan 2023 Cowes Week 2022 overall
A spectacularly busy finish line at the Royal Yacht Squadron
Posted on 6 Aug 2022 Cowes Week day 6
Khumbu wins the New York Yacht Club Challenge Cup
Posted on 4 Aug 2022 Cowes Week day 5
Ian Atkins' Dark 'n' Stormy wins the Britannia Cup
Posted on 3 Aug 2022 Cowes Week day 4
Women's Day sees a great ratio of female helms
Posted on 2 Aug 2022 Cowes Week day 3
One highlight: more than 20 XODs crossed the finish line overlapped
Posted on 1 Aug 2022 Cowes Week day 2
Lashings of excitement, thrills, spills and adrenaline
Posted on 31 Jul 2022 Cowes Week day 1
Sun and a west-south-westerly breeze that built from 10 to 15 knots
Posted on 30 Jul 2022 Cowes Week Regatta Update - 17 days to go!
There is still time to enter the world's largest regatta
Posted on 12 Jul 2022 Cowes Week 2022 plans taking shape
Nearly 300 boats have already entered
Posted on 27 May 2022 Cowes Week 2021 overall
A mix of interesting and exciting racing
Posted on 6 Aug 2021 Cowes Week 2021 Day 6
Tight and energetic racing today in brisk southerly winds
Posted on 5 Aug 2021 Cowes Week 2021 Day 5
A really challenging day for both competitors and race officials
Posted on 4 Aug 2021 Cowes Week 2021 Day 4
A relaxing morning ashore waiting for the sea breeze
Posted on 3 Aug 2021 Cowes Week 2021 Day 3
A change in the weather brings new boats to the fore
Posted on 2 Aug 2021 Cowes Week 2021 Day 2
Shorter courses and predominately wind with tide conditions
Posted on 1 Aug 2021 Ramping up for Cowes Week
New additions and changes for 2021
Posted on 30 Jul 2021 Portsmouth Regatta 2021
Great competition for IRC and Club fleets, Squib, Tempest and Victory classes
Posted on 8 Jun 2021 Cowes Week announces the Official Charity for 2020
Scaramouche Sailing Trust gets youngster from North London into sailing
Posted on 15 Dec 2019 Imperial Poona YC v Victory Class & Portsmouth SC
Backwards to victory (in a Victory)
Posted on 9 Sep 2019 Cowes Week 2019 day 8
The final day's racing is for the Cowes Town Regatta
Posted on 17 Aug 2019 Cowes Week 2019 day 7
Fridays's racing held in an increasing south-southwesterly breeze
Posted on 17 Aug 2019
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Unity on day 5 of Cowes Week 2023
© Ingrid Abery / www.ingridabery.com Victory fleet on day 7 of Cowes Week
© Martin Augustus / www.sailingimages.co.uk Victory fleet on day 7 of Cowes Week
© Martin Augustus / www.sailingimages.co.uk Victory fleet on day 7 of Cowes Week
© Martin Augustus / www.sailingimages.co.uk Victory fleet on day 7 of Cowes Week
© Martin Augustus / www.sailingimages.co.uk Victory fleet on day 7 of Cowes Week
© Martin Augustus / www.sailingimages.co.uk Cowes Week day 3
© Martin Augustus / www.sailingimages.co.uk Cowes Week day 3
© Martin Augustus / www.sailingimages.co.uk Cowes Week day 3
© Martin Augustus / www.sailingimages.co.uk Cowes Week day 3
© Martin Augustus / www.sailingimages.co.uk Cowes Week day 3
© Martin Augustus / www.sailingimages.co.uk Cowes Week day 3
© Martin Augustus / www.sailingimages.co.uk Cowes Week day 3
© Martin Augustus / www.sailingimages.co.uk Cowes Week 2021 day 2
© Ingrid Abery / www.ingridabery.com Portsmouth Regatta 2021
© Lotte Johnson / www.lottejohnson.com A Poona dhow crosses over to Gosport to board the Victories
© Jeremy Atkins Gareth Penn's manoeuvre in the second race backfires
© Jeremy Atkins Russel Mead in the lead in race 3 before trying to go backwards
© Jeremy Atkins Close racing between a Poona & Portsmouth boat
© Jeremy Atkins Victory Zelia on Cowes Week 2019 day 7
© Paul Wyeth / CWL Victory class in the 2018 Portsmouth Regatta
© Adrian Saunder Victory class winner, Isabel at Lendy Cowes Week 2017
© Tom Gruitt The sunshine returns on day 7 at Lendy Cowes Week 2017
© Ingrid Abery / www.ingridabery.com The sunshine returns on day 7 at Lendy Cowes Week 2017
© Ingrid Abery / www.ingridabery.com The sunshine returns on day 7 at Lendy Cowes Week 2017
© Ingrid Abery / www.ingridabery.com The Victory class lines up for a start on day 3 at Charles Stanley Direct Cowes Classics Week
© Rick Tomlinson / www.rick-tomlinson.com Victory class at the Sunsail Portsmouth Regatta
© Sunsail Portsmouth Regatta Shearwater II on day 7 at Aberdeen Asset Management Cowes Week
© Tom Gruitt / www.tom-gruitt.co.uk #MyCowesWeek Photography Competition 2014 winner
© #MyCowesWeek Z73 finishing the 3rd Annual Hot Turkey Race
© Brian Clarke
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