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RNLI Regatta and Kippford Week 2025
Solway Yacht Club invites you to enter our annual RNLI and Regatta Week in a setting of outstanding natural beauty. Kippford Week is a family friendly series providing competitive racing and after racing social events. It attracts regular competitors from all over Scotland, England and frequently beyond.
Racing for the smaller boats usually takes place in the more sheltered area stretching from where the river begins to open out to the fringes of the Solway Firth. The faster and larger boats normally start inside the estuary and the courses may take them into the Firth itself and even round Hestan Island..
If weather conditions and safety boat provision permit, it is hoped to vary the format of racing for the dinghies and smaller keelboats, with some days having one longer race and others 2 shorter ones. Similarly, depending on conditions, the RNLI Regatta may be one longer race.
Entry Deadline
For both the RNLI Regatta and Kippford Week: 24.00 on Thursday 7th August. Late entries for both Kippford Week and the RNLI Regatta will be considered at the discretion of the Race Committee on payment of an additional £10 to the fees listed below which will be donated to the RNLI.
See the Notice of Race which is accessible from the SYC Website for more details of both events and which gives revised times for the RNLI Briefing and planned Start times for the first races each day,