It was terrific to see so many returning competitors to the 16th Edition of Cowes Classics Week, joined by lots of newcomers including the magnificent 8mR Sophie Anne from Lake Starnberg, Germany.
At a time when many regattas are reporting declining numbers we are delighted that Cowes Classics Week is showing modest increases year on year. It is not our aim to make the regatta much bigger, but we do strive to make it better.
Following this link will take you to our Wash Up Survey. We have changed it a little this year reflecting your comments last year.
We do carefully consider every returned survey and respond to what we learn. This enables us to continually improve the regatta so do please take a few minutes to complete and return the survey as the more responses we have the higher the quality of data.
Every survey returned with an email address entered will be entered into a draw and the successful contributor awarded a bottle of fizz at the 2025 regatta.
The generosity of Mazars Charitable Trust and the competitors raised well over £3,000 for our charities Autism on the Water and National Coast Watch. The financial contribution from Cowes Classics Week is a tremendous help to them and those of you that attended the Regatta Dinner will have heard first hand of the work that they do, and the results achieved.
We believe that we delivered even better social events at good value in 2024 but await the return of the survey to determine how well we really did!
Tim Jeffreys, the regatta photographer, took some amazing photographs every day of the week. He tries to capture every boat in the regatta so do look through the gallery on the web site and if you like what you see you can purchase the image at very reasonable rates.
Our work for this year is done, but very soon preparations start for the 17th Cowes Classics Week, begining with confirmation of the 2025 dates, as we have been obliged to move together with Round The Island Race due to the clash with Isle of Wight Festival.
We look forward to welcoming you back to Cowes.
David Gower
Regatta Chairman
Cowes Classics Week 2024
