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The Vendée Globe’s leading duo Charlie Dalin and Thomas Ruyant are into a period of quieter winds as they recover from the big Indian Ocean storm which hit them on Tuesday night with gusts to 55 knots of wind and…
For the meantime the worst of the Indian Ocean is behind them and Vendée Globe leaders Charlie Dalin and Thomas Ruyant can contemplate a relatively smooth ride to Australia’s Cape Leeuwin, now 1250 nautical miles, or about three days, ahead…
Montreal, QB, December 9, 2020 –On January 1st, 2021, 42-year-old Ryan Finn will depart New York City to set sail for San Francisco as he attempts to establish the first world record for a non-stop singlehanded sail. Ryan’s journey will…
For the leaders of the Vendée Globe, the very difficult conditions in an Indian Ocean depression are the most challenging of the race so far. Fatigue accumulated over one month of racing is less noticeable when motorway conditions roll out…
One month ago today, Sunday November 8th, 33 solo racers, 27 men and 6 women, took the start of the ninth Vendée Globe amidst an unprecedented health crisis. Today December 8th presents the ideal opportunity to take stock. After 30…
Saturday morning 5 December, just before 0400, the night shift Watch Officer at Marine Rescue Port Stephens was alerted through some of our specialised equipment that a SART had been activated east of Port Stephens. A SART is a Search…
Britain’s Pip Hare should cross the longitude of the Cape of Good Hope early tomorrow, her first of the Vendée Globe’s three Great Capes. Lying in 20th place, she is chasing Spanish rival Didac Costa hard, just 12 miles behind…
Christian Beck’s super maxi InfoTrack revealed impressive form in the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s Blue Water Pointscore Cabbage Tree Island Race on the weekend, bagging the ‘treble’ by claiming line, IRC and PHS honours. Even more impressive though, the…
After being rescued from his liferaft six days ago by fellow competitor Jean Le Cam, PRB skipper Kevin Escoffier was plucked from the Indian Ocean by the French Marine Nationale after jumping clear of his rescuer’s IMOCA 60 in a…
British skipper Sam Davies confirmed her retirement from the Vendée Globe today as she arrived in Cape Town, South Africa. But while the race is over for her, and she joins compatriot Alex Thomson who abandoned on arrival yesterday, Davies…
After both hitting floating objects within hours of each other yesterday at the gateway to the Indian Ocean and sustaining damage to their IMOCAs, the emotion in the voices of both Sébastien Simon and Sam Davies was a stark reminder…
Lorient, Thursday, December 3rd, 2020 – Last Friday, after three days at sea on their first round the world record attempt, the crew of the Maxi Edmond de Rothschild opted to turn back after damage resulting from impact with a…
This Friday 4 December marks Race 4 of the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s (CYCA) Blue Water Pointscore, the Cabbage Tree Island Race. When the 51 crews line up on the Sydney Harbour start line, almost all of them will…
Given that the Vendée Globe fleet started on Sunday 8th November in Les Sables d’Olonne with a record sized fleet of 33 IMOCAs and there are still, technically, 31 tracked on the race course, it is not entirely unexpected to…
The Victorian border is open and lockdown over, so a wide variety of boats and crews have come out of hibernation to quench their thirst for sailing – and what better way to celebrate a return to racing than with…
After being rescued from his liferaft by fellow Vendée Globe competitor Jean Le Cam in big seas and strong winds in the early hours of this morning, some 840 nautical miles South West of Cape Town, South Africa, Kevin Escoffier…
The 2020 TasPorts Launceston to Hobart Yacht Race (L2H) has attracted the biggest fleet since 2016, with 33 contenders including one Victorian and 32 Tasmanian teams including four teams from the north of the state. Derwent Sailing Squadron Race Director…
Kevin Escoffier, 40, who is racing in third place in the Vendée Globe solo non-stop around the world race, positioned some 550 nautical miles SW of Cape Town, has triggered his distress beacon. He was racing in a strong SW’ly…
At 0118hrs UTC the PRB Team was informed that their Vendée Globe race skipper Kevin Escoffier (PRB) has been rescued by fellow Vendée Globe competitor Jean Le Cam (Yes We Cam!). Escoffier had to abandon his IMOCA 60 PRB following…
Ever wonder how much work goes into preparing a yacht for the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race – never mind a big boat that has just returned from Europe amid the COVID-19 pandemic? Peter Harburg had not…
Lorient, Friday, November 27, 2020 – After three days at sea on their first round the world record attempt, Franck Cammas and Charles Caudrelier, in agreement with Cyril Dardashti, the director of the five-arrow racing stable, have this evening taken…
Charlie Dalin, the Vendée Globe race leader, should pass the longitude of the Cape of Good Hope on Monday, the first of the legendary 24,296 nautical miles solo round the world course's’s three Great Capes. That his elapsed time since…
British skipper Alex Thomson's hopes of winning the Vendée Globe were dashed by damage to the starboard rudder of his IMOCA HUGO BOSS on Friday evening. This insurmountable problem occurred almost exactly one week after Thomson discovered extensive cracking to…
At the same time as Alex Thomson euphorically announced this morning that ‘the BOSS is back’ after the British skipper completed four days and nights of structural repairs to the inside of the bow of HUGO BOSS, his French rival,…
Lorient, thursday, November 26, 2020 – Since Tuesday evening, at 20:37 UTC on the dot, and their departure from the dock in Lorient to make for the start line off the north-west tip of Brittany, the pace has continued to…
As race leader Charlie Dalin starts to finally feel like he is on the threshold of the big south, where he will race for the first time in his life, his closest rival Thomas Ruyant reported damage to the port…
Charlie Dalin, Vendée Globe leader since yesterday morning, confirmed that he is in full ‘inshore mode, fighting for every metre I can gain’ as he tries to break through to the southern ocean low pressure train which should finally catapult…
Lorient, tueday, November 24, 2020 – Record hunting is not a bed of roses, but the many variables, which have inevitably been part and parcel of life for the Gitana Team and her crew since the start of standby, were…
Lorient, wednesday, November 25, 2020 – It’s all going on in the Jules Verne Trophy! For Gitana Team, the time has indeed come to cast off and make for the start line offshore of Brest. After a great deal of…
Lorient, wednesday, November 25, 2020 – Leaving Lorient shortly after 21:30 hours local time on Tuesday 24 November, the men of the Maxi Edmond de Rothschild launched onto an express delivery trip up to Ushant and the start line for their…
The 76th running of the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race will be different this year with COVID-19 restrictions in place around the world, however, it has not diminished the quality of the fleet; the chase…
On a sequence of gybes stepping downwind underneath the Saint Helena high pressure system in the South Atlantic, Charlie Dalin (Apivia) became the new leader of the Vendee Globe this morning. He outmanoeuvred his close rival Thomas Ruyant (LinkedOut) and…
Lorient, Monday, November 23, 2020 – After a long weather briefing carried out remotely with the router Marcel van Triest, the entire crew of the Maxi Edmond de Rothschild gathered alongside Cyril Dardashti, director of the five-arrow team, has taken…
British Vendée Globe skipper Alex Thomson has today been forced to slow his HUGO BOSS to a crawl as he attempts to make a technical repair to a longitudinal beam near the bow of his IMOCA. Thomson alerted his team…
Mischievous, amusing, sardonic, French veteran Jean Le Cam continues to light up the leading pack of the Vendée Globe who are slogging south-westward, beam reaching into choppy, slamming seas. Alex Thomson continues to lead the 32 boat fleet by about…
The complicated weather patterns of the first week, not least the high proportion of upwind sailing and multiple frontal systems, put to rest any hopes of the Vendée Globe’s 9 days 7 hours and 02 minutes passage record between Les…
While Nicholas Troussel is motoring slowly into a lumpy sea, his Vendée Globe abandoned after his mast was broken early yesterday morning, this afternoon in bright sunshine and light winds off Les Sables d’Olonne, Jérémie Beyou was resuscitating his own…
When the cannon fires 1300hrs Boxing Day, signalling the start of the 2020 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, a strong deputation of six Tasmanian entries inclusive of two previous overall winners will have their sights set on winning a trophy…
French skipper Nicolas Troussel, who was lying in seventh place in the Vendée Globe, has dismasted on CORUM L’Épargne this morning. He was racing south in brisk NE’ly trade wind conditions some 270 nautical miles NW of the Cape Verde…
This year's Rolex Sydney Hobart fleet includes just two 100ft supermaxis after Wild Oats XI and Comanche failed to enter by the deadline. The Oatley family has issued a statement, clarifying why the big silver boat will not be on…
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