Cowes Week organisers hope to avoid calling off sailing spectacular

Cowes Week is one of sailing's annual highlights / Picture: Paul Wyeth

Cowes Week organisers are continuing to plan for their August regatta - hoping it will be able to go ahead if coronavirus restrictions are lifted by then.

Cowes Week 2020 is scheduled to take place from Saturday August 8 to Saturday August 15. Despite the current restrictions, work is continuing from home on all of the organisational aspects of the week and we remain committed to running the event if at all possible.

Laurence Mead, Regatta Director, said: "We continue to move forward with plans for the event and remain hopeful that by the time we get to mid-August - still four months' away - the necessity to socially distance ourselves will have reduced sufficiently so that we can run some great boat racing in Cowes.