60th Celebration Party Saturday 16th August  - Folkboat Rum Party followed by a Celebration Dinner, Dancing and Live Band 60+ Folkboat Sailpast and Salute International and National Team Racing for the Walcon Cup FB week for Classics and Nordics Daily Cruiser activities …. and special social events every evening of FB week History: Its going to be 60 years since Folkboats moved their annual regatta from Cowes week to its home at Yarmouth Isle of Wight . All Folkboats Welcome!!  Racing and Rallies for our Cruising,  Classic Racing and Nordic One Design Fleets, including International and National attending Folkboats. Racing : Open Invitational National and International Team Racing Saturday 16th  Sunday 17th  – for the Walcon Cup followed by Folkboat week Classic and Nordic Divisions  Sunday 17th to Friday 22nd Will you be one of our 60th Anniversary Winners ? Special prizes for most travelled, concourse d’elegance, historic awards…

SEASON REVIEW by Chris Fox - Lymington FB Fleet Captain of the Folkboat Association supported Regattas and the Gold Cup The Folkboat Fleet has been really exciting this year with great competitive sailing, some new boats joining the fleet and a mix of winners across competitions from all the clubs across the Solent. The combination of Regattas in Lymington, Yarmouth and Hamble along with Saturday, Wednesday series and TEK racing has kept the fleet very busy. We also had 5 boats from the Solent clubs head off to the Gold Cup in Sweden, which is the pinnacle of Folkboat racing and Britain had our first Gold Cup Champion in Ed Donald, who has pushed the standards of Folkboating up for many years and has now taken the top prize. An amazing achievement. After the long winter break, the season started with the April Spring Series which saw 7 Folkboats out…

There is a great video of Folkboat Week produced by the Royal Solent Yacht Club. The link to the page is https://www.royalsolent.org/folkboat-week/folkboat-week-2024/