Kingston Regatta 2026

ALL COMPETITORS AND COACHES

ATTENTION - HEAT WARNING

In view of the hot weather forecast for both days of the regatta all involved should be aware of safety requirements detailed here

MONDAY 6 JULY 2026

NOTICE TO ALL ENTRANTS

The regatta draw for both the Saturday and Sunday regatta will be published on our website.

On Saturday, the afternoon forecast is for high temperatures and, for the welfare of our competitors, officials, stakeboat holders etc, we have made the decision to run a shortened programme over a shortened “free start” course of 500m. Our goal in preparing the programme was to ensure that as many competitors as possible who applied to race do race. This means that events that were advertised to run in the morning division will run from (broadly) 8.30am to 10.30am and events that were advertised to run in the afternoon division will run from 10.45 to 12.30. Regrettably we cannot accommodate any 1x events or events with two or fewer entries.

On Sunday, although forecast temperatures are not currently quite so high, we have similar considerations for our younger athletes, in particular where they are doubling up in a 1x event. We were also oversubscribed. We are therefore running a slightly shortened programme on Sunday too and we are only running 1x events for those athletes who are not doubling up in another event.

The regatta committee is keeping a very close eye on the anticipated temperatures and any weekend heat wave warnings covering Kingston and it remains possible that further adjustments to our programmes may need to be made so please keep an eye on the website and our instagram page.