Hong Kong Race Week

新鴻基公司香港帆船賽週2025閉幕

由於今日風力微弱，除了樂天初階組外，其餘組別都沒有進行賽事，新鴻基公司香港帆船賽週2025提早落幕。

29er組別賽事暨2025年「29er亞洲帆船錦標賽」，中國香港姊弟檔麥曉彤/麥皓然從頭領先到尾，以７分優勢拿下冠軍，由聖地牙哥遠道而來的美國組合Kevin Cason/Holland Vierling排名第二，泰國組合Patcharaphan Ongkaloy /Kan Kachachuen以38分排行第三。

代表中國香港出戰2024年巴黎奧運的港隊代表貝俊龍，在三日比賽後勝出，朮朗風落後５分排名第二。 在ILCA 6組別，另一奧運代表洛雅怡以5分領先隊友高文思，日本選手船澤娜娜奈菜位居第三。ILCA 4組別有50名選手，是賽事第三大的組別，港隊代表衛亮行憑6場勝仗在組別稱霸，泰國選手Tom Rattana排名第二，緊隨其後的是中國香港的黃子曦。

在參賽人數最多的樂天公開組，希臘選手Agis Angelopoulos擊敗香港的Margaux Nguyen-Minh 取得冠軍，海南海淀外語學校的程文俞取得第三名。樂天中階組方面，來自陳錦浩航海俱樂部的黃仕騰在55名選手中取得第一，白沙灣遊艇會的嚴文博取得第二，第三名由風之曲帆船俱樂部的熊則仁拿下。

去年組別冠軍，楊衍逸連同新拍檔王耀凱，再次在11隊參賽的RS Feva中脫穎而出，第二、三名都是來自萬航隊，分別是劉悅歆/余胤雅以及黃子書/鄒沐瑧。在今年新增的RS Tera組別，香港學校風帆協會的廖焯婷以及梁穎熙包辦頭兩名。至於2.4mR 組別Virgile Bertrand以3分擊敗去年冠軍付遠威取得冠軍。

今年有25位小朋友參加樂天初階組別，完成人生第一次的帆船賽週，當中有14人來自內地。代表風之曲帆船俱樂部的孟暘嘗得勝利滋味。

總賽事主任Barry Truhol總結比賽說：「今年有 286 艘船隻參加，規模是歷年來最大的，多日的比賽包含了所有條件，試過天氣很冷、風很大，亦有出太陽和暖無風的時刻，確實是非常有趣的活動。」

頒獎典禮在中途島進行。組織如此大型的活動需要大量的資源和義工投入大量時間和精力，是次協辦單位、香港遊艇會會長彭考書向140名義工致以衷心的感謝！ 他亦感謝賽事主席Peter Davies在過去11年來的貢獻。「從 2014 年首屆賽事只有108艘船隻參加，茁壯成長至今年有286艘參賽船隻，成為亞洲甚至國際盛大帆船賽事，我們非常感謝你對香港帆船賽週的不懈奉獻。」

被問及有否想像過香港帆船賽週會發展至如此規模，賽事主席Peter Davies 表示：「我從不會想像能否成事，因為這是我熱愛的活動，只要動手做起來，人們就會逐漸明白這個想法，凝聚更多人一起行動。設立帆船賽週目的是在本地打造一項國際賽事，讓香港帆船手體驗大型國際賽事的滋味，並激勵他們邁向更高的水平。今次有很多來自中國內地的賽手到來，相信他們第一次在大陸以外地區比賽。」

「新鴻基公司香港帆船賽週2025」暨「29er亞洲帆船錦標賽」今年一共有多達317位來自12個國家及地區，包括加拿大、中華台北、中國內地、希臘、關島、意大利、中國香港、日本、新加坡、瑞典、泰國及美國等地的青年帆手一較高下。期待在下年再次見到大家！

Sun Hung Kai & Co. Hong Kong Race Week

Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club (RHKYC)
中國香港帆船運動總會 Sailing Federation of Hong Kong, China
Sun Hung Kai & Co Scallywag

Sun Hung Kai & Co. Hong Kong Race Week 2025 - Day 4

With no wind for the final day of the Sun Hung Kai & Co. Hong Kong Race Week 2025, the championships were awarded in accordance to yesterday's results.

In the 29er class, which incorporated the 2025 29er Asian Championship, the top scoreboard remained unchanged since the first day – with local sibling team Tiffany Mak /Raphael Mak wrapping up the event 7 points ahead of American team Kevin Cason/Holland Vierling who came all the way from San Diego. The team from Thailand, Patcharaphan Ongkaloy/Kan Kachachuen came in third with 38 points.

After three days of racing, Hong Kong, China Olympian Nicholas Halliday ended up 5 points ahead of Peter Jessop in the ILCA 7. In the star-studded ILCA6 class after nine races, fellow Hong Kong, China Olympian Stephanie Norton won the division 5 points ahead of her teammate Nancy Highfield with Japanese sailor Nana Funazawa in third.
The third-largest participating fleet this year was the ILCA 4 with 50 sailors – local sailor Charalampos Velianitis dominated the fleet with 6 wins out of 9, while Thailand sailor Torn Rattana took second place followed by local sailor Zixi Huang.

Taking the win in the biggest fleet of the regatta was Greek sailor Agis Angelopoulos, beating Margaux Nguyen-Minh of Aberdeen Boat Club in Hong Kong and third was Mainland of China sailor Wenyu Cheng from Hainan Haidian School.

In the Optimist Intermediate fleet Mainland of China sailor Shi Teng Huang from Chenjinhao Race Team came first among 55 entries competing in the Intermediate Fleet, with local sailor Wenbo Yan (HHYC) in second place and another Chinese sailor Zeren Xiong from Whisper of the Wind Sports Club in third.

Defending champion Hin Yat Yeung and Yiu Hoi Wong took first place in the 11-strong RS Fevas and second place went to Liu Yuexin /Yu Yinya followed by Steven Huang /Henry Zou both from Vanhang Sailing.

RS Tera is a new division in Hong Kong Race Week and local sailor Cheuk Ting Liu from Hong Kong Schools Sailing Association took the top spot with teammate Wing Hei Leung coming in second place. In the 2.4mR, Virgile Bertrand was crowned the champion, 3 points ahead of defending champion Fu Yuen Wai.

There was a big fleet of 25 entries in the Optimist Green Fleet where young sailors get to have their first ever racing experience in a regatta and which included 14 young sailors from the Mainland of China. Chinese sailor Yang Meng from Whisper of the Wind Sports Club took the win.

Principal Race Officer Barry Truhol summed up the regatta : "This is the biggest year for race week we've had with 286 boats and we have a bit of everything. We had some really exciting racing, it's been cold, it's been really windy, it's been hot, there's been no wind, but it's been a really, really fun event."

The prizegiving ceremony was held after racing at Middle Island. Organising such a big event requires a lot of resources and volunteers who devote their time and passion. Adrian Pang, Commodore of Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club, co-organiser of this event, expressed his gratitude to all 140 volunteers for making all the magic happen! Adrian also thanked Peter Davies for contributing 11 years as the Chairman of Hong Kong Race Week. “From its humble beginnings in 2014 of 108 entries to now a major regional and international event of 286 entries this year. Peter we thank you very much for your tireless dedication to Hong Kong Race Week”

Hong Kong Race Week Race Chairman Peter Davies being asked if he could imagine Hong Kong Race Week growing to this scale, he replied “I don't think you imagine you just do because it's something you're passionate about and you believe in. So you just go and people gradually get the idea and more and more people mobilise around it. The objective of race week when we set it up was to create an international event on our doorstep that Hong Kong sailors could get a taste of what it's like if they went to a big international event and get inspire them to take the sailing to a higher level. We had a lot of big entries from the Mainland of China come down here and it's their first taste of sailing outside of the Mainland.”

In all, a record number of 317 sailors from 12 countries and regions from Canada, Chinese Taipei, Hong Kong (China), Italy, Greece, Guam, Japan, Mainland China, Singapore, Sweden, Thailand, and the USA participated in a wonderful week of racing. See you next year!

Sun Hung Kai & Co. Hong Kong Race Week

Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club (RHKYC)
中國香港帆船運動總會 Sailing Federation of Hong Kong, China
Sun Hung Kai & Co Scallywag

The prizegiving has begun!

Sun Hung Kai & Co. Hong Kong Race Week

Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club (RHKYC)
中國香港帆船運動總會 Sailing Federation of Hong Kong, China
Sun Hung Kai & Co Scallywag