JOG Race Series

The Junior Offshore Group or 'JOG' race series is a mixed race programme which includes longer offshore series races and shorter inshore series events. Established in 1950, JOG, enables smaller yachts to compete offshore, it organises highly competitive races for IRC rated yachts. The JOG series runs from March to early October throughout the UK race season. Races range from coastal events to cross-channel races. Please contact us to check on the latest availability for JOG race events.

JOG is a yacht club with a difference. What makes JOG different is known amongst the members as “the spirit of JOG”, it’s an outlook and an attitude that captures and combines serious seamanship with a chivalrous but competitive edge and lots of joie de vivre. Once racing is over the party begins!

The Lonely Tower and Great Escape races are the fourth and fifth races in the annual Junior Offshore Group or 'JOG' race series which runs from March to October throughout the UK race season. The Junior Offshore Group or 'JOG' race series is a mixed race programme which includes longer offshore series races and shorter inshore series events. Established in 1950, JOG, enables smaller yachts to compete offshore, it organises highly competitive races for IRC rated yachts. The JOG series runs from March to early October throughout the UK race season. Races range from coastal events to cross-channel races. Please contact us to check on the latest availability for JOG race events.

JOG is a yacht club with a difference. What makes JOG different is known amongst the members as “the spirit of JOG”, it’s an outlook and an attitude that captures and combines serious seamanship with a chivalrous but competitive edge and lots of joie de vivre. Once racing is over the party begins!

This popular annual weekend of races in the western Solent accounts for Races 6 and 7 in the JOG race series calendar.

Races 8 and 9 in the JOG 2027 race calendar are Category 3 races and part of the Offshore Series. Race 8 starts from Cowes, UK following a cross-channel course to Deauville, France. Race 9 is the return leg from Deauville to the finish line off Cowes. Many entrants are based on the UK mainland some are located in Cowes on the Isle of Wight. Please allow for weather conditions when considering your travel plans on your return.

Race 10 in the 2027 JOG Calendar is a Category 3 race as part of the Offshore Series. This cross Channel race from Cowes, UK to St Vaast, France takes place across the weekend.

An inshore coastal race that takes competitors out of the Solent to the popular south-west coastal port of Weymouth.

Race 12 in the JOG Race Series this is a Category 3 Offshore series event. Cowes to Alderney - a cross-channel classic.

Race 13 in the JOG 2027 Race Series calendar. This is a Category 3 race in the Offshore series which starts off Cowes, UK and follows a cross-Channel cross to Fecamp, France.

Race 14 in the JOG Race Series is a Category 3 Offshore race. This cross channel course takes competitors from the start off Cowes in the Solent across the English Channel to the race finish in the Channel Island port of St Peter Port on Guernsey.

Race 15 in the JOG Race Series is a Category 3 Offshore race. This cross channel course takes competitors from the start off Cowes in the Solent across the English Channel to the race finish in Cherbourg, France.

Races 16 and 17 in the JOG Race Series calendar 2027. These category 4 inshore coastal races follow a course which starts off of Cowes, Isle of Wight, and heads out of the Solent to the south-west coastal port of Poole in Dorset. Race 17 is the return leg which finishes off Cowes.

Races 18 and 19 in the JOG Race Series 2027. These inshore, Category 4, coastal races are held in the Western Solent from Cowes to Lymington and the return leg for Race 19.