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The NSW Judel/Vrolijk 62, Chinese Whisper (Rupert Henry and Greg O’Shea) is on target to break the 23 year-old Melbourne Osaka Double-Handed Yacht Race record, with an ETA at the Osaka, Japan, finish line of this Saturday evening around midnight. …
Entries are now open for the RORC Transatlantic Race starting on Saturday 24th November 2018. HERE The Royal Ocean Racing Club (RORC) is delighted to announce Calero Marinas commitment to extend their support by continuing to host the RORC Transatlantic Race for…
After 25 days and approximately 5,000 nautical miles, amazingly there is little separating the top teams in the final stages of the race across the mighty North Pacific Ocean to Seattle. Sanya Serenity Coast and Unicef both emerged from 48…
Malcolm Dickson didn't mind being beaten into second in the Solo Trans-Tasman Yacht Challenge, especially as he played such a large role in helping the winner. Dickson finished in Mooloolaba on Queensland's Sunshine Coast about 12 hours after his son,…
With only 11,000 nm of the 45.000 nautical miles to go till the finish in The Hague. Team Brunel is in third place overall and has the second elapsed time sailed in the legs till now. While Vestas 11th Hour racing…
Tension is building amongst the leading pack, with five boats now off the radar in Stealth Mode as the Clipper Race fleet begins what should be the final week of the epic 5,600 nautical mile race across the North Pacific…
The leading Clipper Race teams have rounded the final waypoint of the 5,600 nautical mile marathon across the North Pacific Ocean, and are now racing directly towards the finish line and Seattle. Or, that's what they are most likely doing,…
With the Mighty North Pacific Ocean relatively calm to what was experienced by the fleet a few days ago, the leading Clipper Race teams are relishing the return to full race mode as they enter the final stretch of the…
Within hours of the Notice of Race going live, the Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club’s sailing office accepted its first Club Marine Pittwater to Paradise Regatta entry – John Bacon’s Class 40, Nexba Racing. Until Cyclone Iris sent competitors to…
The Clipper Race fleet has emerged from some of the toughest conditions faced in the 2017-18 edition of the race to date, and as the teams continue racing across the North Pacific Ocean to Seattle, all are being praised by…
Very few professional sailors can say they have sailed in hurricane force winds and a phenomenal sea state with waves greater than 14 metres, but at 1800 yesterday this was the official situation facing the Clipper Race fleet in the…
Gothenburg – 12 April 2018: Neptune, a 59’ sloop who first raced in the WRTWR 1977-78, will compete in the Legends Race this summer, along other historic boats such as Flyer from 1981-82 and Copernicus from the first race in…
The forecast big weather arrived right on schedule with the Clipper Race fleet hit by powerful winds and waves on Day 19 of the race across the Mighty Pacific Ocean to Seattle. Whilst the south-easterly low-pressure system moved through the…
The Clipper Race fleet ticked off another significant race milestone during Day 18 when it crossed the International Date Line, teams are now sailing west of the prime meridian and crew had the rare opportunity to live the same day…
Gothenburg – 10 April 2018: Polish yacht Copernicus, the smallest yacht to complete the very first Whitbread Round the World Race in 1973-74, will compete in the Legends Race starting on 21 June from Gothenburg and finishing in The Hague….
The Clipper Race fleet has reached the approximate halfway point of the 5,600 nautical mile race across the North Pacific Ocean to Seattle, and in a sign of how competitive things are, the gap between the top ranked teams continues…
The Spanish team MAPFRE crossed the finish line for Leg 7 of the Volvo Ocean Race in Itajaí, Brazil on Sunday morning, securing a fifth place finish and collecting six points. The result hands the overall lead in the race…
After the forecast textbook North Pacific weather delivered some of Race 9's fastest, most furious and thrilling conditions, with reports of gusts heading well into the 50 knot range overnight, the sun has come out and the Clipper Race fleet…
Dee Caffari’s Turn the Tide on Plastic ghosted across the finish line for Leg 7 at Itajaí, Brazil in light winds taking fourth place, collecting 8 points. It was the hardest leg of the race, and Turn the Tide on…
For most competitors in the Clipper Race fleet, it's the relative calm before the storm, with teams bracing themselves for a period of text-book North Pacific Ocean weather on day 15 of the 5,600 nautical mile race to Seattle. In…
With the passing of the April 1 entry deadline, 195 boats have submitted entries before the 2018 Newport Bermuda Race ‘application for entry’ deadline, anchored by the usual excellent turnout of nearly 150 cruiser- and cruiser/racer-style boats sailing in the…
When the Volvo fleet was in Auckland, Mysailing spoke with Australian Olympic silver medallist Nina Curtis about her up-coming leg deep into the Southern Ocean. Although she had competed in the Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, this would be her first experience…
This week was a busy and useful one for the IMOCA class, and after the safety course organised in La Trinite-sur-Mer in Brittany on Wednesday 4th April, those involved in the class got together again on the following day in…
The final days of Leg 7 for Turn the Tide on Plastic and MAPFRE are proving long, slow and painful. But the reality is, nothing can be done. A high-pressure ridge over the south Atlantic means the wind is very…
Yachts competing in the Sundance Marine Melbourne Osaka Cup ocean race that were forced to shelter in Queensland ports from Cyclone Iris early this week re-started their 5,500 nautical mile voyage to Japan today. They headed out to sea from…
After careful review of the weather situation, and conditions relating to safe exit from refuges, the Race Director Simon Dryden is pleased to announce plans for competitors who suspended racing due to Cyclone Iris. All options were considered including suggestions…
The crew of Scallywag, the yacht that lost a crew member, John Fisher, overboard during the Southern Ocean leg from Auckland to Itajai, has announced that they will continue in the race. In a Facebook announcement, they said that a…
With only two Volvo boats still racing towards the finish in Itajai, Dee Caffari’s Turn the Tide on Plastic opened up a lead of more than 270 miles on rivals MAPFRE on Thursday as they continue to post better speeds….
With just 3 months to the June 1st start from Les Sables d’Olonne, it is now a race against time for some of the 19 sailors left in the Golden Globe fleet to complete their boats, jury rig tests, and…
Speed records for Race 9 tumbled for a second successive day as the Clipper Race fleet made fantastic progress over the last 24 hours in the Race to the Emerald City. With the next course target being the Scoring Gate,…
Gothenburg – 5 April 2018: L4, formerly known as Ericsson 4, the winner of the Volvo Ocean Race 2008-09 will enter the Legends Race, which will start from Gothenburg on June 21 this year. Ericsson 4, now named…
The Galway Advertiser. By Linley MacKenzie. Well-known Galway sailor, Enda O’Coineen has completed his solo circumnavigation of the world some 17 months after starting. O’Coineen arrived on Sunday afternoon off the west coast of France, crossing the finishing line of…
Team AkzoNobel have nearly closed to within 100 miles of Itajaí, Brazil, and the Leg 7 finish line on Wednesday, on course for a third place podium finish behind winners Team Brunel and second-placed Dongfeng Race Team. Simeon Tienpont’s AkzoNobel…
They will probably finish in first and second in the 1380 nautical mile race in what is a small fleet of only six boats. But it will be only one small achievement for the pair in what has been a…
Entries for the New Caledonia Groupama Race close April 17 and a cross-section of monohulls and multihull owners have signed-up for a very different kind of South Pacific adventure. Most visitors to the French territory travel for the water sports, beaches, ethnic fusion…
It was easily the most difficult stage of the Volvo Ocean Race 2017-18, and the sailors will almost certainly rank it as one of the hardest in the history of the race. But Bouwe Bekking used his veteran nous to…
Almost half the fleet in the 5,500 nautical mile yacht race from Melbourne to Osaka in Japan tonight have sought shelter in ports along the south Queensland coast as reformed Cyclone Iris moves south. Iris has become a Category 3,…
Volvo Ocean Race veteran Bouwe Bekking is predicting a photo finish to Leg 7 as his Team Brunel leads Dongfeng Race Team into the final 36 hours of what has been a massively challenging leg. Less than six miles separate…
The tenth day of the Race to the Emerald City saw the fleet compress yet again in what felt like the third on-the-water race restart for the eleven Skippers and their teams as they converged on the final mandatory gate…
Following the Notice to Competitors yesterday regarding concerns over cyclone Iris there have been some decisions made by skippers overnight and courses in some cases altered accordingly. Some competitors such as Allegro have decided to head further east, keeping an…
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