abstract:Cowes Week is one of the longest-running regular regattas in the world. With 40 daily races, up to 1,000 boats, and 8,000 competitors ranging from Olympic and world class professionals to weekend sailors, it is the largest sailing regatta of its kind in the world.
She was on the Solent this summer for the Cowes Classic Regatta, an event that draws some of the world's most beautiful yachts for a week of racing, partying and mutual admiration.
By the third week of April, Portland, Exmouth, Bexhill, Folkestone, Hastings, Lydd, Dungeness, Cowes and Newhaven had all suffered "tip-and-run" raids - so-called because the fast fighter-bombers randomly "tipped" their bombs and "ran" for it.