With yachts gathering for this year’s RORC North Sea Race, hosted by the Royal Harwich Yacht Club and scheduled to start off Harwich on Friday morning, Fox’s Marina & Boatyard is providing support to several yachts and enjoying a real marina side view of offshore racing highlights and an amazing 40 years of design development.
Yachts arriving at Fox’s this evening include Cornelis van Riestchoten’s 1977/78 Whitbread race winner, the 19.86m Sparkman & Stephens classic Flyer, now operated by the charity the Foundation for the Preservation of Flyer; the Bruce Farr designed Volvo Ocean 60 Boudragon, previously known as Silk Cut she was skippered by Lawrie Smith in the 1997-98 Whitbread Round the World Race and is now sailed out of Scheveningen by the Holland Ocean Racing Academy; and the Ker 51 Oystercatcher XXXIII, launched in 2012 and well-known on the IRC racing circuit as Tonnerre 4.
A big welcome to all our visitors to Fox’s Marina and fair winds to those taking part in this year’s North Sea Race.
Find out more about the RORC North Sea Race
The Foundation for the Preservation of Flyer
