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Sanxenxo (Spain), 27th July 2017: Yesterday MAPFRE set sail from their base in Sanxenxo, Galicia en route to England, where they are set to take part in the legendary Rolex Fastnet Race, to sail a distance of 605 nm(1120.46 km), which starts in…
BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA (July 27, 2017) : The 86-year-old Sparkman & Stephens classic yacht Dorade made yacht racing history in the 1930s and holds a competitive edge over its modern counterparts to this day. The 52-foot wooden yawl arrived in Brisbane earlier…
Australia’s most successful ocean racing supermaxi yacht, Wild Oats XI, will return to competition tomorrow as a starter in the 384 nautical mile Land Rover Sydney Gold Coast race. The 30-metre long, silver-hulled racer, which is owned by the Oatley…
Among the 400 boat fleet setting off from the Solent on 6 August in the Rolex Fastnet Race will be three of offshore racing's most prestigious classes. Grabbing the headlines will be the one design VO65s as the Rolex Fastnet…
Juan Vila, one of the best navigators in the world, will return to the Volvo Ocean Race with MAPFRE in 2017-18, some 15 years after becoming the first Spanish sailor to win the coveted trophy. One of the most decorated…
After a successful sojourn in the Baltic, Ludde Ingvall’s eye catching super maxi CQS is back in Gosport on the south coast of England, preparing for Lendy Cowes Week and the Rolex Fastnet race. During her brief tour of the…
Black Jack 100, the revamped Alfa Romeo/Esimit Europa II, has left the McConaghy facility in Sydney and has been trucked to Sydney City Marine. She has a busy schedule ahead of her, including Brisbane – Keppel, Hamilton Island Race Week,…
While the Judel-Vrolijk 115 Nikata will be the largest yacht competing among the 350 or so yachts starting the Rolex Fastnet Race on Sunday 6 August, the battle for line honours glory looks set to be between two titans of…
Honolulu, Hawaii: Today a Transpac legend that came to symbolize the Fast is Fun philosophy in ocean racing crossed the finish line at Diamond Head 40 years after she did it the first time. Bill and Lu Lee's venerable Lee…
New Zealand’s Blair Tuke is joining MAPFRE in the Volvo Ocean Race in 2017-18, and could become the first sailor in history to win the ‘Triple Crown’ of an Olympic gold medal, the America’s Cup and the Volvo Ocean Race….
With exactly 100 days to go before the Volvo Ocean Race fleet departs Alicante to tackle 45,000 nautical miles around the world, Vestas 11th Hour Racing have unveiled their crew for the 2017-18 edition – and have built a mixed,…
HONOLULU, HI – In the pre-dawn hours this morning, Manouch Moshayedi's Bakewell White-designed Rio 100 crossed the finish line at Diamond Head to be the first-to-finish monohull without powered assistance, and thereby winner of the historic Barn Door Trophy in…
International entries from seven countries mark the first sign ups for the 8th Hong Kong to Vietnam Race; the 673nm predominantly downwind run to Nha Trang Beach, Vietnam. Racing kicks off on 18 October 2017 on Victoria Harbour in front…
HONOLULU, HI – As the first wave of record-breaking boats have finished, there is a break in the action at race HQ in the Ala Wai Marina before the second wave is soon to arrive in the 2017 Transpac. Among…
French sailor Francis Joyon crossed the longitude of the Lizard at 0137 hrs UTC this morning (Wednesday 12th July 2017). This marks the finish line for the North Atlantic crossing from Ambrose Light off New-York. With a race time…
HONOLULU, HI – Due to wind conditions veteran navigator Stan Honey described as a “surprisingly strong breeze,” both the multihull and the monohull first-to-finish race records have fallen in the 2017 Transpac. Over a 2225-mile course that starts from Pt…
Monday, July 10th looks to be our first finish day. Howard Enloe's ORMA 60 Mighty Merloe continues to perform outstandingly, maintaining a lead over the MOD70s Phaedo3 and Maserati. At the July 10th 0500 HST real time position report, Mighty Merloe was 251nm…
HONOLULU, HI – One week after the first wave of starters and four days after the last wave, the bulk of the 55 entries in this year's 49th edition of the Transpac are at about their halfway points to the…
LOS ANGELES, CA – The second wave of three starts to the 49th edition of the 2017 biennial Transpac Race left Pt Fermin today in a pleasant 8-10 knot Southern California seabreeze, en route to a finish line awaiting them…
As ocean racing enjoys rising entry lists around the world, the classic Fastnet Race is expecting more than 400 boats from over 20 countries on the startline on August 6, 2017. Among them are four strong Australian entries. CQS, Maxi,…
LOS ANGELES, CA – Another perfect Southern California summer day yielded perfect conditions for the final wave of 17 fast monohulls and five fast multihulls to set off on their 2225-mile odyssey to the finish in Honolulu of the 2017…
Imperiet II is the overall winner of ÅF Offshore Race – round Gotland 2017. Early Wednesday morning it was clear that none of the boats behind would be able to catch up. The boat from Stockholm with skipper Paul Nord…
LOS ANGELES, CA – Seventeen yachts in three divisions set off yesterday in the first wave of three starts to the 49th edition of the 2017 biennial Transpac Race. Under sunny skies and light winds the fleet left the start…
Sydney based John Bacon and one of his core MC38 and Melges crewmates David Sampson have linked up for their first Melbourne to Osaka Double-Handed Race in 2018, an epic 5,500 nautical mile ocean adventure aboard Bacon’s Class 40. Designed…
Hamilton, Bermuda: July 3, 2017: The Royal Bermuda Yacht Club announces that the second edition of the Antigua Bermuda Race will start on the May 9, 2018. The 935-mile offshore race is organized in association with Antigua Sailing Week and is…
The MACIF trimaran should cross the finishing line of The Bridge in New York, on Monday night (UTC+1), after 8 days at sea. Just under 100 miles from the Big Apple on Monday Morning, the crew led by François Gabart…
Ludde Ingvall with crew on the 100-footer CQS set a new speed record in ÅR Offshore Race – round Gotland, when entering the port at Sandhamn Monday evening. Twenty years since he last broke the record he did it again….
François Gabart and his crew were clearly in a hurry to see New York! In fact, it was a little ahead of schedule that the six “MACIF boys” took victory in The Bridge 2017 beneath Verrazzano Bridge on Monday at…
ÅF Offshore Race 2017 has started. Tacking starts in light winds on the sunny Stockholm waters meant that the crews on the 241 boats had to make difficult decisions between taking time consuming manoeuvres or sail on in inferior winds…
Stockholm, Sweden: Ludde Ingvall and his CQS team created a spectacle today as they trained close to the Stockholm waterfront, in preparation for tomorrow’s start of the Gotland Runt race, now known as the AF Offshore Race. The team, some…
Stockholm, Sweden: It’s another ‘homecoming’ for Ludde Ingvall as he brings the distinctive super maxi CQS back to Stockholm in preparation for the Gotland Runt this weekend, the boat arriving in Swedish waters recently from Finland, where she contested a…
Bouwe Bekking, the most experienced sailor in Volvo Ocean Race history, will return to skipper the seventh confirmed team in the 2017-18 edition – and give himself another chance at claiming an elusive first victory at the eighth attempt. No…
The East Coast Blue Water Pointscore Series (BWPS) is the The Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club’s premier offshore Series, conducted along the east coast of Australia between September and April, which now includes the new Pittwater to Paradise Regatta. The…
One year from today, up to 30 sailors will set out from Plymouth UK to recreate history at the start of a solo circumnavigation in small traditional long keeled yachts using just paper charts, a sextant and wind up chronometer…
The Race Village for the offshore race Round Gotland – ÅF Offshore Race 2017 – opened om Thursday in central Stockholm. The race will start on Sunday and take the boats through the archipelago, around the island of Gotland and…
On the third day at sea, the MACIF trimaran is leading The Bridge fleet, followed by IDEC Sport, who clocked in just twenty miles behind. There is still a long way to go for François Gabart and his crew. They…
LOS ANGELES, CA – The first wave of three starts to the 49th edition of the 2017 biennial Transpac Race starts next Monday, July 3rd, when 17 yachts in three monohull divisions will cross the line at Point Fermin in…
The Royal Motor Yacht Club Broken Bay, in association with the Coffs Harbour Yacht Club, has announced that the Pantaenius Newport to Coffs Coast Yacht Race will start in Pittwater on 27th December 2017. The race, previously run by Royal…
The Cruising Yacht Club of Australia (CYCA) today released the Notice of Race for the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race 2017, inviting eligible yacht owners to enter what is widely regarded to be one of the world’s toughest offshore racing…
After a week of festivities in Nantes, France, MACIF arrived in St. Nazaire on Thursday evening, with François Gabart and his crew now concentrating on the start of The Bridge, at 7pm on Sunday local time in St.Nazaire. Joining three…
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