page_title: Cowes Week
hierarchical_section_title: Cowes Week
caption_attribution_description: English: Yachts racing in the Solent during Cowes Week in 2003, most with their colourful spinnakers up.
context_page_description: Cowes Week is one of the longest-running regular regattas in the world. With 40 daily sailing 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. Having started in 1826, the event is held in August each year on the Solent, and is run by Cowes Week Limited in the small town of Cowes on the Isle of Wight.
context_section_description: Cowes Week (/kaʊz/ KOWZ) is one of the longest-running regular regattas in the world.  With 40 daily sailing 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.  Having started in 1826, the event is held in August each year on the Solent (the area of water between southern England and the Isle of Wight made tricky by strong double tides), and is run by Cowes Week Limited in the small town of Cowes on the Isle of Wight.
caption: A Cowes Week race in 2003
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