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Elliott Smith, fortitude incarnate. What a difference an ocean makes. Elliott Smith (USA) had a hard time sailing South, dealing with intense frustration in wind holes. He rose up to the challenge and after numerous repairs and eventually found the…
Skippers and crews from the near 50 boat fleet are counting down the days to the start of the 50th anniversary of the Ocean Racing Club of Victoria’s (ORCV) Melbourne to Hobart Yacht Race and as final preparations are made,…
December 16th at 20H54 hours UTC the Franco-Japanese crew of MILAI Around The World was first across the leg 5 finish line at the entrance to the Beagle Channel, which leads to the Argentinean town of Ushuaia. Hours earlier, Masa…
Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club (RPAYC) has launched the new Australian Ocean Racing Championship (AORC) today, an annual event that will be inaugurated with the Bunbury and Return Ocean Race (Western Australian) in February 2023 and conclude with the Rolex…
The East Coast Classic. Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club (RPAYC) invites competitors to participate in the Pittwater to Coffs Harbour Yacht Race 2023. The race commences on Friday 31 March 2023 at 1300hrs with a race presentation on Sunday at…
Press release n°35 – 12th December 2022 Around 1,000 miles from Cape Horn, the GLOBE40 crews are having to contend with a succession of depressions, the latest one fuelling winds of up to 50 knots. Though the skippers aren’t currently…
Kathy Veel and Bridget Canham are two experienced sailors and the only two-handed female crew from among the 22 entered in the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race this year – and on the second smallest boat in the fleet. Veel,…
The Golden Globe Race fleet is stretched 5000 miles across the Southern Ocean and is not short of stories, with just nine sailors still bound for Les Sables d’Olonne in France – and they are not even halfway! The weather,…
Sandringham Yacht Club’s Gerry Cantwell, skipper of Marten 49 Performance Cruiser Carrera S, credits Victorian boat builder Bernie Webber, with piquing his interest in sailing the Melbourne to Hobart (Westcoaster). “Bernie encouraged me to buy Carrera S and filled me…
It was a clean sweep for co-skippers Nigel Jones and Cam McKenzie on their J111 yacht ‘Ginan’ in the Ocean Racing Club of Victoria’s (ORCV) West Offshore Products Coastal Sprint 2, where thirty yachts enjoyed what could only be described…
Mistral is the first two-handed boat to win overall honours in one of the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s major races, with co-skippers Rupert Henry and Greg O’Shea leading a two-handed sweep of the podium in the 2022 Cabbage Tree…
In October 2023, the Transat Jacques Vabre Normandie Le Havre will celebrate its 30th anniversary in Le Havre ahead of the famous two-handed Transatlantic race heads to Martinique, where the finish of the race, known as the Route du Café,…
Andoo Comanche set a new record time to take line honours in the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s 2022 Cabbage Tree Island Race. The 100-foot maxi, skippered by John Winning Jr, finished the 172 nautical mile race in 12 hours,…
A new trophy is announced for the VO65 one design class in The Ocean Race 2022-23. Along with five confirmed IMOCA teams racing around the world, up to five VO65 teams will be on the starting line in Alicante, Spain…
Switzerland’s 32nd placed IMOCA Oliver Heer: “I had my doubts I would make it back into the race” Swiss skipper Oliver Heer (Oliver Heer Ocean Racing) crossed the finish line of the 12th Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe at 01:37:55hrs TU…
On the eve of her 60th birthday, sailing the famous ‘Cigar Rouge’ – the boat on which she became the first woman to complete the Vendée Globe in 1996/7 – Catherine Chabaud completed a successful, popular return to ocean racing…
With just over one month to go until the start of the 2023 RORC Transatlantic Race, Marina Lanzarote is ready to receive the international fleet which will set off on Sunday 8th of January for the 3,000-mile race across the…
Advantedge (Andrew Jones) may have taken line honours with a new Two Capes Race record of 11hrs 8mins, but it was a clean podium sweep by the smaller teams for the overall IRC win, ORC and PHS handicaps after a…
Today at 15:00 hours local time (01:00 UTC Sunday), the Gobe40 crews set sail on Leg 5 in Matavai Bay to the north of Tahiti, bound for the Argentinean stopover of Ushuaia via the legendary yet feared Cape Horn. A…
Friday night into Saturday’s early hours The Memorial ACTe, Pointe-à-Pitre’s giant structure, dedicated to the history, heritage and memories of the Caribbean slave trade, watched on as the busiest spell of finishers completed the 12th edition of the Route du…
Loïc Escoffier (Lodigroup) who crossed the finish line second in the Multihull division has been declared winner of the Route du Rhum – Destination Guadeloupe after initial winner, Roland Jourdain was penalised. Escoffier crossed the line at Pointe-à-Pitre line at…
French skipper Roland Jourdain (We Explore) has won the Rhum Multihull class in the 12th Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe when he crossed the finish line at 19:06:00hrs UTC (Friday). Jourdain’s elapsed time for the 3542 nautical mile solo course from…
23 November 2022Italian skipper Ambrogio Beccaria brought his 100% Italian made Alla Grande-Pirelli across the finish line of the 12th Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe at 2038hrs UTC to take a hard earned second place in the highly competitive 55 boat…
23 November 2022Rhum Multi Class Leader Gilles Buekenhout (JESS) has capsized but is safe on board At 1920hrs this Wednesday, November 23, the race management of the 12th edition of La Route du Rhum – Destination Guadeloupe received a message…
This Saturday will see a bumper fleet hit the start line for the Derwent Sailing Squadron’s novel short ocean race, the Two Capes Race. Sponsored by the Hobart law firm, Wallace Wilkinson and Webster, the race will start off Wrest…
23 November 2022French skipper Yoann Richomme joined the very elite group of solo ocean racers to have twice won their class on the Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe today, when he brought the new build Lombard Lift 40 V2 Paprec-Arkea through…
A strong fleet with an international flavour and multiple former winners and record holders is preparing to take on the 2022 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race. 118 boats are entered for the 77th edition of the Cruising Yacht Club of…
23 November 2022-Britain’s Pip Hare 12th, rising Star Rookie Haryada 14th, and Italy’s Giancarlo Pedote in 16th in the IMOCA class -Yoann Richomme looks set to take Class40 title this afternoon, as battle for seconds rages between Italy’s Ambrogio Beccaria…
21 NOVEMBER 2022Thomas Ruyant, solo skipper of LinkedOut, was unofficially crowned ‘King of the Transats’ when he won the 38 boat IMOCA class on the 12th Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe. Hollow eyed, wobbly legged and exhausted this morning after setting…
37th Atlantic Rally for Cruisers Sets Sail FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASESunday 20 November 2022It was an exciting start to the 37th edition of the Atlantic Rally for Cruisers (ARC) today, Sunday 20 November, from Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, as a…
20 NOVEMBER 2022A record sized entry of 38 boats at the start line in Saint Malo on Wednesday 9th November looks set to produce the closest and most exciting finish to an IMOCA race in the 44-year history of the…
In the 12th Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe French solo skipper Erwan Le Roux sailed Koesio across the finish line first in the OCEAN FIFTY fleet this morning at 10:50:52 UTC (06:50:52 local time) narrowly beating second placed Quentin Vlamynck (Arkema)…
Les Sables d’Olonne: A successful rescue operation for Tapio Lehtinen took place in the Southern Indian Ocean, with Kirsten Neuschäfer the first to reach his position and take him to safety aboard her racing yacht, Minnehaha, before transferring him onto…
Arthur Le Vaillant brought his 21-year-old Ultim, Mieux, through the Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe finish line in sixth place this afternoon. From fourth in Class40 in 2018, it is something of a step up for the 34-year-old skipper from La…
Les Sables d’Olonne: Tapio Lehtinen was sailing toward Australia in the Southern Ocean, when at 0654 UTC, he activated Asteria’s EPIRB, 460 nautical miles south-east from Port Elizabeth in South Africa, while racing in the solo Golden Globe Race. The…
With 1,000 miles to go on the Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe, the IMOCA title is in the balance, as leader since the start and outstanding pre-race favourite, Charlie Dalin (Apivia, was passed this morning by Thomas Ruyant (LinkedOut). Ruyant seems…
Legendary French skipper, Francis Joyon, sailed to fourth place in the 12th edition of the Route du Rhum – Destination Guadeloupe when he crossed the finish line off Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe this Friday morning at 02:56:40hrs UTC (22:56hrs Thursday local time)….
The Ultim 32/23 podium for the 12th Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe was completed yesterday (Wednesday) when Thomas Coville brought the Sodebo Ultim 3 through the finish line off Pointe-a-Pitre at 1952hrs UTC (1542hrs local time) 10 hours and fifty minutes…
Yann Guichard, Dona Bertarelli and nine other sailors will make up thecrew of ‘Sails of Change’ for their next attempt on the Jules Verne Trophy,an award for the fastest non-stop and unassisted circumnavigation of theworld. Several years of hard work…
Dateline: Cape Town, Tuesday, 15th of November 2022 Two front runners of the Golden Globe Race have retired into Cape Town with wind vane failures. Damien Guillou arrived in Cape Town this monday having lost his windvane rudder. Pat Lawless…
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