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Yesterday, the goal for the leading group was to be the first to pick up the northeast trade winds and Brunel has done just that. “Not very stable trade winds, very shifty and cloudy,” skipper Bouwe Bekking reported on Tuesday…
The preliminary results of the Volvo Ocean Race Science Program found 360 particles of microplastics per cubic metre in the sample from the South China Sea, an area that feeds into the Great Pacific Ocean Gyre. The Great Pacific Ocean…
The Clipper Race fleet is making good progress towards the start line of Race 10: The Garmin American Challenge to Panama, after bidding Seattle a fond farewell. Visit Seattle gave its home port one last show by winning the short course…
Just over a week into Leg 8 from Itajaí, Brazil, to Newport, USA, Charlie Enright’s American crew crossed into the northern hemisphere at 10:39:40 UTC followed closely by Team Brunel and Turn the Tide on Plastic. MAPFRE, Dongfeng Race Team…
Vestas 11th Hour Racing has had a productive 24 hours on Leg 8 of the Volvo Ocean Race, cutting its deficit to leader Turn the Tide on Plastic in half. Now trailing by just 5 miles, and sailing in more…
Dee Caffari’s crew set themselves up as the most easterly boat as the seven-strong fleet climb up the coast of Brazil bound for the finish in Newport, USA, some 4,000 miles away. Caffari and Turn the Tide on Plastic navigator…
Over the past 48 hours each team has thrown their cards on the table, lining up west to east and committing to the routing they think will best fire them towards the steady, favourable breeze the trade winds offer. Team…
The leading pair were the most easterly boats as the seven-strong fleet approached an oil field exclusion zone 100 miles off Rio’s coast, enabling them to continue make headway north for longer while their rivals were forced to tack. At…
Simon Walker has sailed around the world the ‘wrong way’ twice and was skipper of the Toshiba Wave Warrior in the 1996/7 BT Global Challenge, where he was the youngest skipper in the fleet and finished 2nd. He won the…
The famed anticyclone is renowned for dominating the South Atlantic and making tricky sailing for Volvo Ocean Race teams heading north or south. Constantly expanding and contracting, the St Helena High – also known as the South Atlantic High Pressure…
Searching for a Cyclone The ORCV Race Management Team for the 2018 Melbourne to Osaka Double-Handed Yacht Race includes 6 Duty Race Directors and 2 Fleet Weather Officers – Robin Hewitt & Andrew Roberts. Robin and Andrew are on a…
Tony Lawson's Team Concise has entered the Sevenstar Round Britain and Ireland Race starting in Cowes on Sunday 12th August 2018. Both the MOD70 Concise 10 and Class40 Concise 8 will take on the non-stop 1800-nautical mile race – one…
Following a big send-off from Itajai, Brazil, on Sunday, the seven-strong fleet – back up to full complement with the welcome return of Vestas 11th Hour Racing and Sun Hung Kai/Scallywag – faced a tricky opening night of unpredictable weather. There…
It was a familiar sight on Sunday afternoon in Itajaí, where the two red boats at the top of the Volvo Ocean Race leaderboard set the pace at the start of Leg 8 to Newport, Rhode Island on the east…
It is not often that the mainstream media takes an interest in sailing. It is even less often that they write a detailed article. As always, it is disaster that attracts them, but we thought we would share this well-written…
From the Melbourne Osaka Double-Handed Race Facebook page: Chinese Whisper has finished the 2018 Sundance Marine Melbourne to Osaka Double Handed yacht race early this morning, 23rd April 2018 at 04:21:13 AEST. It took them 21d 12h 41m 13s, a…
Team SHK/Scallywag is back in the water and scheduled to take the start of Leg 8 of the Volvo Ocean Race in Itajaí, Brazil on Sunday afternoon. The team had been in a race against time to have its boat…
The Spanish team MAPFRE won the Itajaí In-Port Race on Friday in Brazil, after battling with team AkzoNobel for the lead on the first of three laps of the race course. A large spectator fleet was on hand to watch…
As the front half of the Clipper Race fleet begins the motor through the Puget Sound to Seattle, the chasing pack are fighting for the final positions in the marathon 5,600 nautical mile race across the North Pacific Ocean. Qingdao…
It's been slow going due to a wind hole sitting between the leading teams of the Clipper Race fleet and the finish line, but the end of the epic 5,600 nautical mile race across the North Pacific Ocean to Seattle…
Six teams will be on the start line on Friday afternoon for the Itajaí In-Port Race in Brazil, with Vestas 11th Hour Racing joining the fleet following its dismasting, and subsequent repair and relaunching. Team SHK/Scallywag, who only arrived in…
World Sailing is pleased to announce that the inaugural World Sailing Offshore World Championship will be held in 2019. Announced at World Sailing’s 2017 Annual Conference in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico the World Sailing Offshore World Championship will be a powerful…
The leading Clipper Race teams have entered into what could be their final full day of the epic 5,600nm marathon across the North Pacific Ocean to Seattle, USA. But with a wind hole between them and the Finish Line, the…
Following the Maxi Banque Populaire IX’s capsize in the early hours of Saturday morning during her delivery down to the Mediterranean, all the teams involved in the Nice UltiMed, together with the City of Nice, are giving Armel Le Cleac’h…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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