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In August 2015 Michael Guggenbergger read a magazine announcing the 50th anniversary edition of the first ever 1968 Sunday Times Golden Globe Race. It would start from Les Sables d’Olonne in three years! He immediately sent his entry and his…
All five teams are making fast progress towards their goal… As Team Holcim-PRB continues to set the standard, racing at speed towards the first scoring gate at 143 degrees east longitude, three other boats are – finally – in fast…
Team Holcim-PRB has escaped to the east, while repairs are underway on Team Malizia’s mast In this edition of The Ocean Race, Kevin Escoffier’s Team Holcim-PRB has selected Sia’s “Unstoppable” as its team song for dockout and stage ceremonies, and…
After months of delaying the standby period as long as possible for the ever-elusive weather window, Sails of Change have officially announced today they will not cast off this year to challenge the Jules Verne Trophy record. They have been…
Two teams suffered setbacks over the past 24 hours with GUYOT environnement electing to return to Cape Town while Team Malizia is down a sail… It’s been a busy 24 hours in The Ocean Race, with the fleet pushing east…
As The Ocean Race fleet heads further south, conditions change dramatically The wind has arrived for leg 3 of The Ocean Race as the five IMOCA teams settle into higher latitudes and begin to criss-cross to the east, hooking into…
A fast and furious start sequence out of Cape Town has given way to light winds as the fleet attempts to work to the south and the promise of stronger conditions After beating upwind into the teeth of a gale…
Racing starts in up to 25 knots and two teams suspend racing with heavy conditions in the forecast. It was an extraordinary ‘stop-go’ type of start to Leg 3 of The Ocean Race in Table Bay as the five-boat IMOCA…
Team Holcim – PRB has blitzed the Cape Town In-Port Race presented by V&A Waterfront Team Holcim – PRB (SUI) led the Cape Town In-Port Race presented by V&A Waterfront from start to finish in Cape Town. With the South…
On Saturday 11 June 2022, the GLOBE40 competitors set sail from LORIENT LA BASE within the scope of the GLOBE40 prologue, bound for the GREAT START IN TANGIER. Once they’d rounded the Pen Men headland on the Ile de Groix,…
Entries have opened and the Notice of Race published for the 2023 Yacht Sales Co Brisbane to Hamilton Island Yacht Race, due to start at 11am on Friday 4 August 2023. The 530 nautical mile race, inaugurated in 2019 and…
23 February, Antigua – Day 4 AM Race Update: By dawn on day four of the RORC Caribbean 600, 29 teams had finished the race with nearly all of them crossing the finish line in a hectic overnight period. The…
23 February, Antigua: The Royal Ocean Racing Club announce that the overall winner of the 14th edition of the RORC Caribbean 600 is Roy P. Disney’s Pyewacket 70 (USA). None of the teams still racing under IRC has any realistic…
21 February, Antigua: After over 30 hours of racing at speeds approaching 40 knots, MOD70 Zoulou sailed by Erik Maris (FRA) won Multihull Line Honours in the 2023 RORC Caribbean 600 by just 11 seconds. Zoulou completed the 600-mile race…
21 February, Antigua: At the break of dawn on the second day of the RORC Caribbean 600, Giovanni Soldini’s Maserati Multi70 (ITA) was in pole position, an hour inside race record pace for the 600 mile race. Video footage from…
QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA: Dr Sam Haynes, owner and skipper of Rolex Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race 2022 winning Celestial has his sights set on making sailing history and putting his name on The Courier-Mail Cup when Australia’s second oldest yacht race,…
Organised by the Royal Ocean Racing Club and supported by Antigua Yacht Club, the 14th edition of the RORC Caribbean 600 started on time at 11:00 AST on Monday 20th February. Seventy boats racing under IRC, Class40 and MOCRA Rules,…
Hound (USA), the stunning 60-foot aluminium sloop designed by Aage Nielsen and crafted by Abeking & Rasmussen in 1970, is a magnificent sight racing in IRC One. In addition to Hound, Marie Tabarly’s classic 73ft ketch, Pen Duick VI (FRA)…
The 14th edition of the RORC Caribbean 600 starts on 20th February at 11:00 AST (UTC-4). Seventy boats from all over the world are ready in Antigua for the non-stop 600nm race around 11 Caribbean islands. With over 550 sailors…
In brief:– The team’s original foils will be installed into the raceboat for Leg 3 of The Ocean Race, from Cape Town, South Africa, to Itajaí, Brazil.– Team CEO, Mark Towill: “We are pleased with the Race Committee’s decision […]…
It’s been an eventful month of February for Kirsten Neuschäfer (ZAF), finally rounding Cape Horn at 2020 UTC 15th Feb. She moved to first place after 150 days of racing and since had to face two storms, breaking a spinnaker…
The 2023 RORC Caribbean 600, set to commence on 20th February in Antigua, is expected to attract 71 teams representing 16 different nations. The event will feature a number of highly-anticipated classes, with IRC Zero being one of the largest….
February 13th at 22.09 local time (02.09 UTC on February 14th) the Canadian crew WHISKEY JACK crossed the finish line of leg 7 of the GLOBE40 at the entrance to the port of St Georges in Grenada. An express victory…
Photo finish into Cape Town sees top three boats within three miles Skipper Kevin Escoffier and his Team Holcim – PRB have won Leg 2 of The Ocean Race from Cabo Verde to Cape Town after a tense battle through…
The ETA is Sunday near noon local time – for the top four boats – as a light wind battle rages on the final approach With just 250 nautical miles left to race (as of noon UTC on Saturday) the…
Times are tense as the fleet compresses on day 16 of leg 2 to Cape Town For nearly 4700 nautical miles, the five IMOCA teams competing in leg 2 of The Ocean Race have been dueling south from Cabo Verde…
The fleet is heading northeast again, away from the ice exclusion zone, and making miles directly towards the finish in Cape Town Team Malizia is leading the way on Thursday as the five IMOCA teams gybed away from the ice…
STORM ALERT! Golden Globe Race leaders face a big one– A Large storm is pounding Abhilash and Kirsten right now 1100 miles NW of Cape Horn.– With 20.000 miles and 156 days on the clock, boats and sailors suffer wear…
The fleet has pushed south into the Roaring 40s and close to record-breaking speed runs… It’s been a productive and fast 24 hours for the IMOCA fleet in The Ocean Race as the teams are diving south towards an ice…
The rankings have flipped over the weekend with 11th Hour Racing Team jumping into the lead… The American-flagged 11th Hour Racing Team pushed into the lead on leg 2 of The Ocean Race over the weekend. Skipper Charlie Enright and…
Every boat in the fleet has gybed to the east, making miles towards Cape Town… It was near midnight UTC on Saturday night when boats in The Ocean Race fleet started to make their first significant move to the east…
At 15:00 hours local time today, the GLOBE40 skippers took the start of the 7th and penultimate leg of the event, which will lead the fleet to the island of Grenada in the West Indies. The crews cast off from…
Compression and a move to the south from the western contingent leaves GUYOT environnement looking for answers… “Around the outside” is a trope that gets pulled out at one point or another on every edition of The Ocean Race. It…
ADRIAN KUTTEL SAILING ON ATALANTA, WINS 50th ANNIVERSARY OF THE CAPE2RIO RACE The 50th anniversary of the Cape2Rio race concluded with some incredible victories and sadly three retirements.There was a party atmosphere in Rio de Janeiro as the winners were…
There is a split in opinion that is playing out on the race course as the fleet races south… Credit to GUYOT environnement – Team Europe who have regained the lead on the race tracker as well as their position…
GUYOT environnement – Team Europe runs into a light patch with its easterly routing One day can make a big difference in The Ocean Race. In fact, just a few hours can turn what had been a winning hand into…
Dateline: Les Sables d’Olonne, Tuesday, 31st of January 2023 149 days ago, on Sept 4th 2022, 15 men and one woman set out from Les Sables d’Olonne. Their dreams and aspirations were to circumnavigate solo in the extreme Golden Globe…
All five IMOCAs are charging south in the tradewinds After hitting the speed bump of the doldrums, the five IMOCA yachts competing in The Ocean Race are now eating up the miles on the race south to Cape Town. Watch…
The Ocean Race fleet is escaping the clutches of the doldrums and picking up speed in the southern hemisphere As January comes to a close, so does one chapter of leg 2 of The Ocean Race. The fleet has burst…
Tensions run high as wind and boat speeds hit new lows with the IMOCA fleet crossing an unusually large doldrums It’s been a difficult 24 hours for the entire fleet as the five IMOCA teams become fully engulfed in the…
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