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BUSA Yachting Championships

The main event in the Cambridge University Yacht Racing Team's Calendar is the BUCS/BUSA Yachting Nationals. The event is held in the vacation between Lent and Easter terms at Port Solent. This event sees all the best university crews from all over the country come together for 4 days of intense inshore racing. The racing currently takes place on Sunsail Beneteau F40s.

Varsity Yacht Race

After setting up the racing squad in 2003, we decided to challenge Oxford to a varsity race having met them at BUSA that year. The first race took place in the Solent on Sigma 38s on Sunday the 30th of November 2003 and was organised by Tim Houghton (Cambridge) and Jacqui Catherall (Oxford).

The race was conducted as part of the Hamble Winter Series because neither club had the resources to organise an event itself. It was also felt that fleet racing was most appropriate for the yacht race, as that was the type of racing both teams were competing in. Oxford won after a good performance in drizzle, rain, and fog, but the event had been established and has been raced every year since.

The race is normally run just before BUSA and after the end of Lent term, in order to give both teams time to train up some of their new intake and get a bit more training before BUSA. The racing normally takes place during a Sunsail regatta weekend, but entering other races, such alternating between the Fastnet and Cork or Cowes Week has been mooted for the future if funding can be found. The CUCrC donated a cup, which is awarded to the winner each year (see picture).

Year Winner  
2021 Oxford
2020 No Race (COVID-19 pandemic)
2019 Cambridge
2018 Oxford
2017 Cambridge
2016 Oxford
2015 Cambridge
2014 Cambridge
2013 Cambridge
2012 Oxford
2011 Oxford
2010 Cambridge
2009 Oxford
2008 Cambridge
2007 Oxford
2006 Oxford
2005 Cambridge
2004 Oxford

Offshore Racing

In 2022 we will be entering a race-ready First 40 in several of the UK-based Royal Ocean Racing Club races.

The provisional 2022 RORC Race Programme can be found here: http://www.rorc.org/racing/race-programme/2021-race-programme

International Events

International Top Universities Regatta, Qingdao, China - 2017 (1st place), 2018 (1st place), 2019 (3rd place)

Student Yachting World Cup 2015 (4th place)

 

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