A busy summer for the IMOCA skippers
With 22 crews working on their boats to prepare for the Rolex Fastnet Race, which starts off Cowes on 3rd August, a lot is going on around the world in the IMOCA class, starting with the imminent launch of a…
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News, race results plus editorial coverage from the Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, Vendée Globe, The Ocean Race, ARC, Fastnet, Transpac, Ocean Globe Race, Global Solo Challenge and Offshore Yachting from around the world.
Les Sables d'Olonne to host 2022 Golden Globe Race
Following the success of the 2018 Golden Globe Race, the Vendée City of Les Sables d'Olonne and its three-town Agglomeration have voted unanimously to host the next Golden Globe Race in 2022. At a meeting on July 5, the city’s…
Rolex Sydney Hobart entries reach 100
The Cruising Yacht Club of Australia (CYCA) has announced a milestone 100th yacht has already entered this year’s 75th Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, with the receipt of Marcus Grimes’ entry for Insomnia, a JV42 from Pittwater in NSW. Insomnia,…
First starters on their way in Transpac 50
LOS ANGELES, CA – On a classic So Cal summer day with the sun burning through the morning haze to help along a building seabreeze, the first wave of 33 monohulls and two multihulls set off for Hawaii today in…
The Race Around – double-handed in Class40
NEWPORT, Rhode Island (July 09, 2019) – Manuka Sports Event Management and 5 Oceans Sports Marketing announced today the beginning of a new era in Class40 racing: The Race Around. The Race Around is a double-handed around-the-world race with the…
Bumper fleet confirmed for 2019 Noakes Sydney Gold Coast
The largest fleet in more than 10 years is assembling to tackle the 2019 Noakes Sydney Gold Coast, with 78 boats preparing to take on the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s 384-nautical-mile challenge, starting on Saturday 27 July. “The 2019…
First of three waves starts Wednesday in Transpac 50
LOS ANGELES, CA – The first of three waves of 90 entries starts on Wednesday, July 10th in the 50th edition of the Transpacific YC's biennial 2225-mile race from Los Angeles to Honolulu. This record turnout will feature 33 monohulls…
IDEC SPORT back in la Trinité-sur-Mer, after a quick journey to the Mediterranean and back
The IDEC SPORT maxi trimaran arrived back in her home port of La Trinité-sur-Mer yesterday morning after a quick journey to the Mediterranean and back. Francis Joyon has been carrying out public relations work in Cagliari (Sardinia), showing off his…
A month to go: 21 IMOCAs registered for the 2019 Rolex Fastnet Race
In just one month from now on Saturday 3rd August, 21 double-handed crews in the IMOCA category will line up off Cowes for the start of the 48th Rolex Fastnet Race, the classic biennial offshore race. Officially part of the…
The Whitbread Race is back
Dateline 1 July 2019, Royal Nomuka YC, Tonga: The spirit of the Whitbread Round the World Race is back with the announcement of the 2023 OCEAN GLOBE RACE, a retro event starting from a European port on September 10th 2023,…
The Figaro circuit, the final necessary step before racing IMOCAs?
The 50th Solitaire Urgo Le Figaro finished last Wednesday after a fourth and final leg won by Eric Péron, which confirmed Yoann Richomme’s overall first place. With hardly any time to get over this fourth leg, which was just as…
Two-handed entrants to be accepted for 2020 Rolex Sydney Hobart
The Cruising Yacht Club of Australia will accept two-handed entrants into its key events including the 2020 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, it announced today. The CYCA’s Board unanimously passed a proposal from the club’s Sailing Committee to include two-handed…
JPKs tough-out the Fastnet
On the “tough-out” meter the Fastnet is right up there considering the 608nm course down the channel and across the Irish Sea, the navigation hazards including the tides and, this year, the other 340 competitors out there to claim a…
Opportunity for photographers to capture world's greatest ocean race in comfort and style
Photography buffs, this is a rare chance to capture the finish of the 75th running of the world-renowned Sydney Hobart Yacht Race close-up and in comfort and style with an experienced local sailing photographer, Andrew Wilson. Your boat will be…
Richomme wins historic 50th La Solitaire URGO Le Figaro
Crossing the finish line of the final Stage of the 50th anniversary La Solitaire URGO Le Figaro this afternoon in fourth place, after 500 miles from Roscoff to Dieppe via Wolf Rock and Owers, Yoann Richomme completed an impressive overall…
Clipper Race MOB report: Tether entangled on deck fittings
The Maritime Executive The U.K. Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) has released its report on the man overboard that occurred on the racing yacht CV30 on November 18, 2017. Simon Speirs fell overboard from the foredeck of the yacht when approximately…
Last night nerves for La Solitaire URGO Le Figaro fleet?
With an accumulated overall lead time of one hour and 11 minutes, and just 85 miles left to sail to the finish of the final leg on Stage 4 of La Solitaire URGO Le Figaro, overall leader Yoann Richomme (HelloWork/Groupe…
Entries open for Sydney Noumea Yacht Race
Entries are now open for the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s 2020 Ponant Sydney Noumea Yacht Race, the club’s longest ocean race spanning 1064 nautical miles. Following the reintroduction of the race after a 20-year hiatus, the 2018 Sydney Noumea…
IMOCA Globe Series – Le Cam is back
Since early April, Jean Le Cam has done a lot of sailing aboard the IMOCA on which he won the Barcelona World Race (in 2015 with Bernard Stamm) and finished in sixth place in the Vendée Globe (in 2017). Currently…
Women in the 2019 Rolex Fastnet Race
While crew lists for August's Rolex Fastnet Race are far from finalised, currently just over 10% of those competing in the Royal Ocean Racing Club's biennial voyage from Cowes to Plymouth via the Fastnet Rock will be women. While this…
La Solitaire – where there is a Will, is there a way? Harris in lead group with 40 miles to Owers
With 40 nautical miles still to sail to the Owers turning mark off Portsmouth at 1500hrs BST this afternoon, racing within a gradually fading southwesterly breeze, it has been a long, laborious day fighting in the main pack on Stage…
Normal service resumed on Stage 4 of La Solitaire URGO Le Figaro in the Channel
Just over 24 hours after the start of the fourth and final stage of what has been a La Solitaire URGO Le Figaro marked by unusually big time deltas and many pre-race favourites languishing much lower down the general classification…
Eliès leads off from Roscoff as final leg of La Solitaire URGO Le Figaro gets off to a spectacular start
Three times overall La Solitaire winner Yann Eliès (St Michel) may, by conventional logic, have lost his chance of a fourth title as he lies 16th overall in the 2019 rankings, more than seven and a half hours behind the…
Cordelia – racing with Roy and Gail, it’s just a lot of fun
Royal Hamilton Amateur Dinghy Club (RHADC) BERMUDA, June 20, 2019: What’s it like racing offshore with Roy and Gail Greenwald on Cordelia, the overall winner of the 2019 Marion Bermuda Race? In a champagne cork-popping get-together in the cockpit of the 42 foot…
Cordelia wins Marion Bermuda overall honours
Royal Hamilton Amateur Dinghy Club (RHADC) BERMUDA, June 19, 2019: Roy and Gail Greenwald’s Valiant 42 Cordelia has finished first in fleet on corrected time in the 2019 Marion Bermuda Race. She will win the Goslings Founders Trophy. The Greenwalds sail out of…
Seventh Edition of the Atlantic Cup to start June 10th, 2020
NEWPORT, RI (June 19, 2019) – Manuka Sports Event Management announced today the seventh edition of the Atlantic Cup. The longest offshore race in the Western Atlantic dedicated to the Class40 will start from Charleston, South Carolina on June 10, 2020 and culminate…
Marchand takes La Solitaire URGO Le Figaro Stage 3 win as attention turns to the overall rankings
A final surge from Anthony Marchand early this morning has seen the skipper of Groupe Royer-Populaire Secours claim victory in Stage 3 of La Solitaire URGO Le Figaro after taking the lead with just 47 miles to go on the…
The rich get richer on Stage 3 of La Solitaire URGO Le Figaro – Richomme’s overall lead diminishes
Alexis Loison, (Region Normandie), continues to assert his dominance on the shortened 400-nautical mile third stage of La Solitaire URGO Le Figaro, having led the fleet for much of the last 48 hours. Along with Gildas Mahe, (Breizh Cola-Equi-Thé), and…
Kiwi Spirit takes line, Abigail leads Class A in Marion Bermuda
Royal Hamilton Amateur Dinghy Club (RHADC) BERMUDA, June 18, 2019: Kiwi Spirit was the line honors leader from start to finish in the 2019 Marion Bermuda Race. The Farr 63 finished off St. David’s Lighthouse at 2:27:59 Tuesday. Francis Seldorff’s Kinship, a Baltic 52,…
Marion Bermuda – MachBuster pushes Kiwi Spirit for line honours
Royal Hamilton Amateur Dinghy Club (RHADC) BERMUDA, June 17, 2019: At 0730 ADT Monday morning Kiwi Spirit, the Line Honours leader of the Marion Bermuda fleet, was 125 nautical miles out from the finish. That’s a little more than 143 statute (land)…
Is the Stage 3 La Solitaire URGO Le Figaro podium already set?
Less than 24 hours after the start of the 450-nautical mile third stage of La Solitaire URGO Le Figaro, Alex Loison, (Region Normandie), is currently leading a breakaway trio which has earned a cushion of 18 miles since they escaped…
Marion Bermuda 2019 Day 3- leaders approach half-way
Marion MA, June 16, 2019: The 2019 Marion Bermuda Race is shaping up to be a close line honors and handicap race for overall prizes. But with 300 or more miles to go and the Happy Valley/Parking Lot between the fleet and…
La Solitaire – Leboucher rocks off from Roscoff to lead testing light wind channel challenge for Stage 3
French 2012 Olympian Pierre Leboucher, who lies second overall, stole the limelight from local heroes Armel Le Cléach and Jérémie Beyou as the third stage of La Solitaire URGO Le Figaro started on their home waters, the Bay of Morlaix…
Marion to Bermuda Race: Bermuda here they come!
The fleet of 39 Marion Bermuda yachts is on its way to Bermuda and the first start between the classics,Tabor Boy and Spirit of Bermuda, set the pace with an aggressive move by Spirit running down the starting line, crossing…
Penalty time at La Solitaire Le Figaro while Eliès focuses on a bounce-back
With Roscoff in full fête mode, the Bay of Morlaix residents and visitors are fully embracing having the 50th La Solitaire Urgo Le Figaro and local heroes such as Armel Le Cléac’h and Jérémie Beyou in town for 10 days….
Giraglia offshore victory for Caol Ila R – combined prizes to Jethou and Wallyno
A third place on the water yesterday for Alex Schaerer’s Maxi 72 Caol Ila R was enough for the Swiss team to clinch the offshore race of the Rolex Giraglia under IRC corrected time by more than an hour from…
Rambler 88 takes line honours in Rolex Giraglia offshore event
The Mediterranean’s reputation for light wind yacht racing was dented today, with the lead boats regularly experiencing 20-30 knot winds in the Rolex Giraglia’s offshore race – organised jointly by Yacht Club Italiano, Yacht Club de Monaco and Société Nautique…
La Solitaire URGO Le Figaro – game changer
After the first two stages of La Solitaire URGO Le Figaro, at the theoeretical midpoint of the 50th anniversary edition Yoann Richomme (HelloWork-Groupe Telegramme) appears to have risen head and shoulders above his opposition. On the French multi stage solo…
![The first start features the Classic Yacht Division. That’s a match between Tabor Academy’s schooner Tabor Boy and the Bermuda Sloop Spirit of Bermuda. Spirit last sailed Marion Bermuda in 2015 [pictured here]. Photo by Talbot Wilson](https://cdn.mysailing.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/28104955/9708006c-f466-435d-9d24-b88e84b8f8062.jpg)
Marion Bermuda racers prep for Friday start
Marion MA, June 13, 2019: When the race office at Beverly YC in Marion MA opened on Thursday morning, 12 of the 41 boats still had to do their final registration check-in and final paperwork. The rush was on. Skippers…
Record breaking Rolex Giraglia on the cards
This morning on the dock prior to the midday start of the Rolex Giraglia’s offshore race there was much talk of stiff westerlies and the prospect of Esimit Europa 2’s seven-year-old record for the 241 mile race from Saint-Tropez being…
