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Out on the racetrack this evening, the Mini-Transat La Boulangère fleet stretches from the latitude of Lisbon to Cape Finisterre. It’s been a very fast and exhilarating day, especially for the sailors further South. The leaders are setting a hellish…
South-easterly winds and a number of fierce battles are predicted for the 215-nautical-mile Newcastle Bass Island Race, the third race of the CYCA's Blue Water Pointscore Series, commencing this Friday evening on Sydney Harbour. A total of 37 yachts are finalising their preparations…
The skippers competing in the Mini-Transat La Boulangère are just about done with the demanding passage across the Bay of Biscay. They’re now entering the second major phase of this course, which is just as exhilarating since the coming days…
Multihulls have competed in every edition of the RORC Caribbean 600 and for the first time in the history of the race, the 2020 edition is set to feature three equally matched 70ft carbon flyers. Argo, Maserati and PowerPlay have…
On the third day of racing, the 87 sailors in the Mini-Transat La Boulangère are all still at sea, led this evening by Axel Tréhin (prototype) and Ambrogio Beccaria (production). However, it’s not great news for the Briton Joe Lacey,…
This year marks the 42nd running of the first major keelboat regatta for the season, the Sydney Short Ocean Racing Championship (SSORC), hosted by Middle Harbour Yacht Club over the weekend of 23 and 24 November. Entry is open and…
On Sunday local time, a day after the start of the first leg of the Mini-Transat La Boulangère, the 87 participants have been making the most of the conditions, which are currently conducive to slipping along nicely. However, all that’s…
On Saturday 5 October, at 10:38 hours local time, the 87 sailors competing in the Mini-Transat La Boulangère finally set sail from La Rochelle on the first leg to Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. Though the event kicked off in…
The much-awaited moment is finally upon us, as on Saturday 5 October at 10:30am local time, the 87 competitors in the Mini-Transat La Boulangère will finally take to the start line in La Rochelle for the first leg of 1350…
The 22nd edition of the Mini-Transat La Boulangère will not now be able to set sail this weekend, as the narrow weather window has closed and the expected forecast in the Bay of Biscay over the coming days is such…
The situation is becoming clearer for the 87 sailors in the Mini-Transat La Boulangère. The first leg (La Rochelle/Las Palmas de Gran Canaria) will kick off late in the day on Saturday or around the same time on Sunday. Race…
After a year of fine tuning and her first win this summer in the Rolex Fastnet Race, Jérémie Beyou’s IMOCA, Charal with the sailor from Marseilles Christopher Pratt aboard, shone at the 2019 Azimut Challenge this weekend in Lorient. With…
By The Maritime Executive 2019-09-22 04:34:05 One of the least pleasant aspects of going to sea is the possibility of getting seasick. An individual's susceptibility to seasickness is highly variable. If you've ever had motion sickness when traveling by car,…
Genoa will be the finish of the next edition of The Ocean Race, marking the first time the fully-crewed, around the world yacht race, known as the ‘toughest test of a team in sport’ will come to Italy. The selection…
The start date for the 22nd edition of the Mini-Transat La Boulangère is still an unknown, but there is one thing for sure: kick-off won’t be before Friday 27 September. In the meantime, the wind conditions and, above all, the…
Matt Allen and his crew on the grand-prix racing TP52 Ichi Ban have claimed the overall win for the 2019 Blue Water Pointscore Flinders Islet Race. After a mid-morning start in testing conditions with close, choppy swells averaging nearly two…
Two Sydney Hobart division winning yachtsmen, Richard Grant and Ed Psaltis, have duelled on the Huon River in southern Tasmania to decide the winner of the 2019 Cock of the Cock yacht race off historic Shipwrights Point, with Grant scoring…
Despite the delayed start of the 22nd edition of the Mini-Transat La Boulangère, there was a festival atmosphere this Sunday in La Rochelle. Indeed, this morning, a big crowd came along to cheer on the sailors as they docked out…
A 10-15 knot nor’ easter met the 32 competitors at the start of the Flinders Islet Race – the second of the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s Audi Centre Sydney Blue Water Pointscore Series. Setting off from Point Piper and…
The lively wind and sea state in the Bay of Biscay, and offshore of Cape Finisterre, mean that it won’t be possible to reschedule the Mini Transat race start until this coming Wednesday at the earliest, meaning patience is key…
Among the 87 sailors competing in the 22nd edition of the Mini-Transat La Boulangère, just five are ‘repeat offenders’, among them Italian Ambrogio Beccaria, who sports the label of race favourite. That said, rumours circulating the dock suggest that there…
Initially scheduled for Sunday 22 September, the start of the 22nd edition of the Mini-Transat La Boulangère has been postponed until a later date. The reasons for this are boisterous wind conditions and sea state forecast in the Bay of…
Frank Racing, the current record holder of the PIC Coastal Classic yacht race from Auckland to Russell, has been sold overseas, prompting an international competitor to make the most of a door left ajar. Karl Kwok’s Mod 70 Trimaran Beau…
(September 19, 2019) – The new IMOCA 60 HUGO BOSS, set to be raced by British sailor Alex Thomson, launched today at an official christening ceremony on The River Thames in London. Built with a focus on improved sustainability, innovation,…
Among the 87 sailors competing in the Mini-Transat La Boulangère 2019, 22 are competing in the prototype category. Though four sailors stand out as firm favourites (François Jambou, Axel Tréhin, Erwan Le Méné and Tanguy Bouroullec), there are also some…
For the first time in its history, The Ocean Race will make a stop in Cabo Verde during the 2021-22 edition. Cabo Verde will become just the second African venue the Race has ever visited and the first West African…
D-5! On Sunday 22 September, at 14:15 hours, the 87 entries in the Mini-Transat La Boulangère will set sail from La Rochelle on the first leg to Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. In the meantime, they’ll be able to make…
An independent analysis report compiled by Meltwater on media coverage secured during the 2018 Golden Globe Race shows that the Race gained US$185m worth of coverage world-wide. Click here to read the full report. Les Sables d’Olonne, which will be…
Today marks 100 days to the historic 2019 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race – the 75th 628-nautical-mile race to Constitution Dock in Hobart, Tasmania. The countdown to the 2019 Rolex Sydney Hobart is building substantially, with this year’s race fleet…
In six days’ time, on Sunday 22 September at 14:15 hours, the Mini-Transat La Boulangère will set sail. Following the withdrawal of the Swiss sailor Arnaud Machado due to injury, ultimately there will be 87 women and men taking the…
The Ocean Racing Club of Victoria (ORCV) is celebrating its 70th anniversary this year, and will be marked in a variety of ways, including a gathering of past commodores, members, committees and volunteers at Royal Brighton Yacht Club (RBYC) on…
The first big test of the 40,000 nautical mile Clipper Round the World Yacht Race awaits, with around 220 everyday people setting sail from Portimão, Portugal, to race across the Atlantic Ocean to Punta del Este in Uruguay. The race…
The 90 sailors in the Mini-Transat La Boulangère have been dockside in the Bassin des Chalutiers in La Rochelle since Wednesday evening, ready to welcome visitors who come to admire the 6.50m monohulls before the start of Leg 1 to…
From September 18 to 22, the ninth Azimut Challenge in Lorient will bring together an exceptional line-up of 23 IMOCAs, including three brand new boats: Advens for cybersecurity, Arkea-Paprec and DMG Mori. Because this is a Transat Jacques Vabre year…
The Ocean Race will visit The Hague for a third consecutive time when the next edition of the event stops in the Netherlands in Q2 of 2022. The Race first came to The Hague with a ‘pitstop’ on the final…
To start on Sydney Harbour at 1pm on 30 January 2021, the inaugural Sydney to Auckland Ocean Race 2021, organised by the Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club (RPAYC) in NSW in association with the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron (RNZYS),…
The winners of the first stage of the Clipper 2019-20 Race have crossed the finish line into Portimão. Punta del Este took line honours, after racing 1,200 nautical miles from London, arriving into the Algarvian city at 00:45:22 UTC. Dare…
In the early days of the Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, rubbish from competing yachts would wash up on Tasmania's east coast beaches for days after the event, as crews simply threw their waste overboard. Now they would face disqualification from…
The 11 Clipper Race teams in the Clipper Round the World Race enjoyed a real thrill-ride during the fifth day of racing as they zoomed through the start of the Ocean Sprint, with wind speeds of over 40 knots and…
After Jérémie Beyou’s Charal, the first new generation monohull launched a year ago, things sped up this summer with the launch of no fewer than five new IMOCAs in just over six weeks… In all, eight brand new IMOCAs will…
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