Folkboat Week 2024 Open Meeting Thursday August 22nd. David Fox (Folkboat Week Chairman) opened the meeting and welcomed everyone, with both owners and crews in the room over 15 boats were represented, there were apologies from The Sowry's (Mistral) and David Gredley (Lady Linda). Kim Morley (FB Chairman) Welcomed all the new members and boats new to Folkboat week. He reiterated the five objectives that he put forward at the AGM. Looking to the future our aims  for the fleet  are : to increase the Solent fleets back up to 50, build the Nationals to a successful standalone event and to include the fleets that are further afield. This years event at Lymington was fantastic, but still more to do to encourage boats from further afield. Continue to build the competitiveness of the One Design Nordic fleet Improve the international participation targeting the UK holding a future Gold Cup. Amazing…

Wow what a Folkboat week that was !! it was amazing!!  the buzz in the harbour, on the race course and in the social events speaks for itself - The Folkboat Family truly is the best in sailing. I though now ...... a week on is a good time to reflect back on a successful 59th Folkboat week regatta. We had 39 Folkboats gathering for a week of great racing and fabulous friendly socials   - with a packed ever more competitive Nordic fleet of 32 duking it out over the west Solent and a great turnout of  7 in the Classic “Cruiser Racer” division. We kicked off the first Saturday with the Gold cup presentation to the Royal Solent as well as welcoming our many new crews to a super at the welcome supper. The Gold Cup is the World Cup of Folkboat racing and has been running since 1963…

James Walters and team Cidron Too won the HRSC Central Solent regatta Folkboat class after close battles with Svenja and Valhalla coming out with Four wins, to 1 apiece for Svenja and Valhalla. Freyilda also joined in the fun , but opted for white sails, as sailing with a novice crew, and Kindred's crew sailed on Valhalla to gain race experience. Great and challenging courses were set in variable wind conditions made for great one design racing , taking advantage of the low tide area off Hill Head with a mix of windward leewards and round the cans. Big call out to Mike Stoner epitomising the spirit of Folkboating , who raced with full family and friends including 3 little ones dangling bare feet over the side and a Skull and Crossbow Battle flag flying off the backstay !  - We thought we were re-enacting the Swallows and Amazons movie…