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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…
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – After organizing presentations at the Los Angeles Yacht Club in February, the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron (defending club of the America's Cup in Auckland) in April, and at the start of the 50th edition LA-Honolulu…
Two-time Volvo Ocean Race participants Charlie Enright (Bristol, RI) and Mark Towill (Honolulu, HI), co-founders of 1 Degree, announced today that they have formally renewed their team’s sponsorship with 11th Hour Racing for a long-term campaign, with their eyes set…
In less than three weeks, on Sunday 22 September at 14:15 hours local time, 90 sailors (including eight women), will take the start in La Rochelle of the 22nd edition of the Mini-Transat La Boulangère with Las Palmas de Gran…
The sun shone on the thousands of supporters who lined the banks of St. Katharine Docks and the River Thames to witness the Clipper 2019-20 Race departure. Tower Bridge was lifted to mark the occasion and the eleven strong fleet…
The Ocean Race will come to Aarhus, Denmark during the spring of 2022, following a popular ‘Fly-By’ of the city during the final leg of the 2017-18 edition of the Race. The success of the Fly-By, where the fleet raced…
Four months ago, Charles Caudrelier and Franck Cammas joined Gitana Team and took over the helm of the Maxi Edmond de Rothschild to form a rather atypical if complementary duo. In late May, the 32-metre giant returned to the water…
The Ocean Race Summits – an international series of events held by The Ocean Race – aims to bring together leaders from sport, business, politics and science to advance efforts to restore ocean health. Ocean health summit to bring together…
TasPorts’ innovative proposal to build a floating marina within historic Constitution Dock on the Hobart waterfront has been welcomed as a key for berthing the huge fleet for the 75th edition of one of the world’s most famous ocean yacht…
Vera, owned by the Argentinian Miguel Galuccio, is the first yacht to cross the finish line of the XV Palermo-Montecarlo: the 82' long hull with, crewed by stars such as Volvo Ocean Race legend, Bouwe Bekking and Olympic champion, Michele…
After almost 30 hours of navigation, the fleet of the Palermo-Montecarlo is expectedly dealing with a rather uncertain situation because of the very unstable sea and weather conditions. “On the Tyrrhenian Sea there is a very high pressure, and everything…
Palermo-Montecarlo, the fifth and final event of the International Maxi Association’s Mediterranean Maxi Offshore Challenge 2018-2019, set sail from Sicily at midday today with crews anticipating a long, tactical race north along the Sardinian and Corsica coasts to reach the…
The Mixed Two Person Offshore Keelboat will join kiteboarding, windsurfing, multihulls, singlehanded and double-handed dinghies and skiffs as an Olympic class, promoting the diversity of the sport. This in turn will support World Sailing’s desire to promote and grow universality…
The Mange Olsson Memorial Foundation has revealed that Carolijn Brouwer – one of the first females ever to win The Ocean Race in the 2017-18 edition – has scooped its prestigious award for 2019. The Magnus Olsson Prize is awarded…
When the 2019 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race starts, an eclectic fleet of tried and tested yachts will line up against newcomers for the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s (CYCA) 75th running of the race. Last year’s winner Alive has entered…
An American VO70 has continued its phenomenal winning streak to claim the Fastnet Challenge Cup, the overall prize for the 2019 Rolex Fastnet Race. David and Peter Askew, aboard their VO70 Wizard, came out on top under IRC corrected time,…
As announced last April by the Ultim Class 32/23, on Sunday 3rd November this year, Actual Leader, the Maxi Edmond de Rothschild, the Trimaran MACIF and Sodebo Ultim’3 will find themselves on the starting line of a race never before…
Sebastian Bohm’s Rogers 46 Smuggler pocketed all the key trophies in the 13th Club Marine Brisbane to Keppel Tropical Yacht Race, redemption for three years ago when a penalty cost the crew first place on corrected time. The start of…
One of the tightest competitions in the 48th Rolex Fastnet Race was between the eighteen Class40 pocket offshore rockets. Like the IMOCA 60s, the world's most successful fleet of 40ft race boats (with hulls 158 and 159 soon to launch)…
While IMOCA 60s are renowned for racing non-stop around the world in the Vendée Globe, the double-handed crews of these extraordinary space-age craft appreciate the Rolex Fastnet Race as it offers most conditions of a round the world race within…
Rambler 88 has won monohull line honours this morning, after crossing the Plymouth finish line at 09:55:02. American Owner George David and his all-star crew were delighted to have beaten their rivals on the 100-footer SHK Scallywag to the punch….
Matt Allen’s JV 52 Ichi Ban has been declared the IRC overall winner of the inaugural Lendlease to Hamilton Island Yacht Race, none of those still at sea able to better the champion Sydney boat’s corrected time for the new…
The 32m long Ultim trimarans laid on a spectacular finish in this 48th Rolex Fastnet Race resulting in MACIF, the leader since rounding the Fastnet Rock earlier this morning, being beaten to the finish line in the last breath of…
The Oatley family’s Wild Oats sailing campaign has chalked up another win, this time with the Reichel Pugh 66, Wild Oats X, which finished first monohull home in the Lendlease Brisbane to Hamilton Island Yacht Race. First multihull was the…
A record fleet of 388 yachts set sail this afternoon from Cowes on the Rolex Fastnet Race, and from the outset, this 48th edition of the Royal Ocean Racing Club's pinnacle event was unusual. Whereas in most 'normal' Fastnet Races,…
Brisbane turned on perfect conditions for the 1100hrs start of the inaugural Lendlease Brisbane to Hamilton Island Yacht Race; sunshine and 12-15 knots of sou’east breeze on Queensland’s Moreton Bay setting up the first of what could be one long…
Whether to go inshore or offshore, how long will it take, will it be a big boat or small boat race, how to handle the powerful tides and will I need an anchor and an umbrella – the answers for…
The 2019 Rolex Fastnet Race will bring together no fewer than 20 IMOCA monohulls on Saturday (including eleven foilers), at the start from Cowes in the UK with the finish in Plymouth after sailing via the Fastnet Rock in Ireland….
Geoff Ruggles, one of two surviving crew members from the inaugural Sydney Hobart Yacht Race in 1945, died peacefully last evening aged 94. At 21, Geoff was the youngest of an otherwise older experienced crew on Wayfarer when they headed…
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