"Big Thursday" brings home the Britannia CupCompeting in Class Zero, the Langley sailing team notched up a perfect score of 6 bullets (first places) at this year's Lendy Cowes Week and took the prestigious Britannia Cup.Over 1000 boats and more than 5,000 participants competed in 40 different sailing events daily at this, the largest sailing event of its kind anywhere, hel…

Another solid performance Retford, 28th July 2017For the 6 months to 30th June 2017, Langley Holdings plc, the diverse engineering and industrial group, reported a profit before tax of €45.7 million on revenues of €422.6 million.In his half year review of the business, the group's chairman, Tony Langley, says that the result "...was in line with expectations and o…

...near two-hour duel decided by just two seconds NEWPORT RI June 12, 2017Over 130 sailing yachts ranging from classic 12 metres from a bygone Americas Cup era, through to the latest Grand Prix TP52 race boats came together off Newport RI last weekend for the 163rd New York Yacht Club (NYYC) Annual Regatta, presented by Rolex and sponsored by Porsche and AIG.Challenging fo…

Audacious manoeuvre at the pin "the start of the season"....on the same day as Brits in Bermuda fail to pull off a similar tactic in run-up to the Americas Cup.The shore team that worked tirelessly to have the Gladiator A boat ready for the first of the TP52 Super Series Med events in Scarlino, just weeks after a serious collision in Miami, were rewarded with a spectacular…

"...this is what Tony's companies do the whole time, they get the job done under pressure...there was no way we were going to let the side down" Tom Wilson - Gladiator Sailing Team Manager. It was only the second day on the water when the new Gladiator A boat was involved in a spectacular port/starboard collision in Miami, just over eight weeks ago.The offending boat smash…

Victors and vanquished decided212 teams competing in 16 classes competed at Sperry Charleston Race Week (April 20-23). Teams from 24 States and 9 foreign countries lined up to do battle in 20 knot-plus breezes and 80 degree sunshine on the waters off Charleston, SC last weekend.Three days of racing decided the victors and the vanquished and in the big boat ORC-A class, it …

Gladiator, the TP52 racing yacht owned by British industrialist Tony Langley, will be competing at this year's Sperry Charleston Race Week (April 20-23) with injured British Army Afghanistan veterans making up part of the pro-am team.The Charleston team will comprise partly regular pro team members and partly young amateur sailors, together with Afghanistan veterans, Pete …