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The 2022 Surf to City Yacht Race, hosted by the Queensland Cruising Yacht Club (QCYC), was sailed from the Gold Coast to Shorncliffe on Saturday January 22 incorporating both inshore and offshore fleets. There were 75 entries with some late withdrawals. The…
The Translated 9 team announced today the addition of Vittorio and Nico Malingri, members of Italy’s most famous ocean sailing family, to support its efforts in the Ocean Globe Race 2023 (OGR). Vittorio Malingri will join the team as co-skipper,…
Without question, one of the biggest trends in offshore sailing has been the rise in global popularity of double-handed (AKA two-handed) racing. Double-handed teams now compete in all of the great offshore races. And it’s caught the attention of many…
Romain Pilliard and Alex Pella, accompanied by Christian Dumard, their router and meteorologist on land, finally seem to see a weather window to launch an assault on the legendary Cape Horn. On Tuesday January 4, Pilliard and Pella set off…
Accompanied by the Department of Vendée and the town of Les Sables d’Olonne, the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) Vendée, which is the organising entity for the Vendée Globe, will this summer take on the organisation for the Vendée Arctic –…
The Noakes Sydney Gold Coast Yacht Race is set to return on Saturday 30 July 2022. After consecutive cancellations due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s annual 384 nautical mile challenge is back on the racing calendar. …
On November 1, 2021, Dona Bertarelli, Yann Guichard and their team began the standby for a fourth attempt at the Jules Verne Trophy around-the-world sailing record. Since this date, there has not been a suitable weather window for the crew…
The eighth edition of the 3,000nm 2022 RORC Transatlantic Race attracted a record entry of 30 boats racing under the IRC and MOCRA Racing Rules. The 100ft Maxi Comanche set a new Monohull Race Record and was the overall winner….
The final class and trophy winners were decided on the 18th day of the RORC Transatlantic Race. Richard Palmer’s JPK 1010 Jangada (GBR) has won IRC Two-Handed, racing with Jeremy Waitt. Martin Westcott’s S&S Swan 57 Equinoccio (CHI) has won…
South African Kirsten Neuschäfer, the only woman in the Golden Globe, recently completed her 2022 Golden Globe Race refit in Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, Canada, and is about to arrive home in Cape Town after an 8,000-mile solo non-stop…
The 30.48m (100ft) VPLP Design/Verdier Maxi Comanche (CAY), skippered by Mitch Booth has achieved the quintuple for the 2022 RORC Transatlantic Race. While three boats are still racing under IRC, none of them can beat Comanche’s corrected time for the…
The RORC Transatlantic Race has featured close racing right through the record fleet. On the 16th day of the 3,000-mile race, Ross Applebey’s Oyster 48 Scarlet Oyster (GBR) came in sight of Grenada – peeling to a reaching kite in…
The body of a 75-year-old Frenchman who was attempting to row solo across the Atlantic Ocean has been found at sea. Jean-Jacques Savin was “found lifeless inside the cabin” off the coast of Azores, an archipelago belonging to Portugal, said a statement…
Grenada: Two weeks into the RORC Transatlantic Race, three more French teams have crossed the finish line outside Camper & Nicholsons Port Louis Marina – Lady First 3 (FRA) finished under one hour ahead of Tonnerre de Glen (FRA). In…
On the 13th day of the RORC Transatlantic Race David Collins’ Botin 52 Tala (GBR) and Max Klink’s Botin 52 Caro (CH) crossed the finish line outside Camper & Nicholsons Port Louis Marina to complete the RORC Transatlantic Race. The…
Maiden has set off on its next circumnavigation of the planet, aiming to raise awareness and funds for girls’ education, sponsored by DP World. The yacht, which famously raced with a female crew in the Whitbread Round the World Race…
On the 12th day of the RORC Transatlantic Race a thrilling finish is shaping up for Caro and Tala in IRC Zero, with the potential for both teams to take the overall lead under IRC for the RORC Transatlantic Race…
At sunset on the tenth day of the RORC Transatlantic Race, the modified Volvo 70 L4 Trifork (DEN) finished the RORC Transatlantic Race in an elapsed time of nine days 10 hrs 27 mins and 58 secs. L4 Trifork is…
On the tenth day of the RORC Transatlantic Race, 21 teams are still racing in the Atlantic for the overall win and to claim the RORC Transatlantic Race Trophy. Racing under the IRC Rating Rule, Comanche’s record run has now…
Australian sailor Lisa Blair never does anything by halves. Her passion for the environment drives her to take on challenges that require huge commitments and sacrifices in equal measure. At the end of this month, the 38-year-old Queenslander will embark…
Paddy Hutchings is a 21-year-old sailor from Plymouth and from an early age, grew up sailing around the southwest of England. He has been lucky enough to have had the opportunity to take sailing to the next level. After finishing…
The first leg of the 14th edition of The Ocean Race will start on 15 January 2023 from Alicante, Spain. With just one year to go to the start gun for leg one, the countdown is on and Ulysse Nardin,…
Putting together all of the building blocks which form a successful Vendée Globe project is a seemingly endless task. Over the next few weeks we will look at some of the key people who perform vital roles behind the scenes…
The 30.48m (100ft) VPLP Design/Verdier Maxi Comanche, skippered by Mitch Booth, has taken Monohull Line Honours in the 2022 RORC Transatlantic Race, winning the magnificent IMA Trophy. Comanche has set a new race record for the 3,000nm race from Lanzarote…
Giovanni Soldini’s Multi70 Maserati (ITA) has taken Multihull line honours in the 2022 RORC Transatlantic Race, crossing the finish line outside Camper & Nicholsons Port Louis Marina in Grenada at 05:51:41 UTC on Saturday 15th January (Corrected: 6d 18h 51m…
On the morning of the seventh day of the RORC Transatlantic Race, news in from PowerPlay and Argo confirms they are in sight of each other, 500 miles from the finish, so at dawn in Grenada on Saturday 15 January,…
On the sixth day of the RORC Transatlantic Race a thrilling finish is shaping up for multihull line honours contenders – PowerPlay, Argo and Maserati. The 100ft Maxi Comanche (CAY), skippered by Mitch Booth is estimated to be over two…
The Royal Ocean Racing Club (RORC) Transatlantic Race enters the fifth day with the potential for a real twist of fate at the front of the RORC fleet. Peter Cunningham’s MOD70 PowerPlay (CAY) still leads the multihulls, but as the…
On Tuesday January 4, Romain Pilliard and Alex Pella set off for the round the world upside down record with the aim of setting a new benchmark time for crewed multihulls. Jean-Luc Van Den Heede’s all-time record to date has been…
Two sailors with Kangaroo Island connections tackled the tough conditions in the 2021 Sydney to Hobart yacht race. Ian Roberts last sailed in the epic race back in 1981 as a crewman for the late Jamie Cowell on the 34-foot…
On day four of the 2022 RORC Transatlantic Race, Peter Cunningham’s MOD70 PowerPlay (CAY) is over halfway and just two hours outside multihull race record pace. The 100ft Maxi Comanche (CAY), skippered by Mitch Booth, is 1,900 miles from Grenada…
After the quiet Christmas period, 2022 started with good news for the 2023 Global Solo Challenge. First, we received two new entries bringing the total to 40. It is such an incredible milestone for the event. We never imagined the…
Close to 40 yachts did not finish the 2021 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race. Months of hard work was thwarted by breakages, injuries and sea sickness, as the fleet battled against an uncomfortable southerly for the first 30 hours of…
For the first time Gran Canaria bid farewell to an Atlantic Rally for Cruisers (ARC) fleet in the new year as ARC January 2022 set sail from Las Palmas on Sunday 9 January. The new route has brought together an…
By sunset on the second day of the RORC Transatlantic Race, the majority of the record fleet had raced into the wide expanse of the Atlantic Ocean, leaving the Canary Islands in their wake. This would normally result in blasting…
Lanzarote: The 2022 RORC Transatlantic Race started on time in glorious conditions outside Marina Lanzarote, while a flotilla of spectator boats witnessed the spectacle and thousands more watched by live stream, with Vendee Globe star Pip Hare providing commentary. After…
For the 2021 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, the super maxis and racing yachts had to share the media spotlight with a new division of boats. The inaugural Two-Handed Division comprised of a fleet of 17 yachts, each with two…
The Gold Coast’s premier offshore yachting event, Qoin Sail Paradise, has come to an end. A solid south-easterly wind swept across the course during the morning and made for spectacular sailing. Wind gusts up to 20 knots and seas up…
The Excess 11 Bombarda, led by Marco and Lizzy’s team, has won the Atlantic Rally for Cruisers (ARC) 2021 Multihulls Class B category. Being the only Excess catamaran in ARC 2021, Bombarda departed from Las Palmas, Gran Canaria on November 21, 2021,…
It was a wet and wild first day of racing at Qoin Sail Paradise Regatta at Southport Yacht Club on the Gold Coast. The first two days of racing were postponed as a consequence of the gale-force winds generated by…
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