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The yacht Frantic’s demise on the rocks at Grassy Island during the last race of Airlie Beach Race Week in August could easily have meant the withdrawal of the first Queensland entry for the Club Marine Pittwater to Southport Yacht…
The National Hurricane Center (part of the United States NOAAS) is issuing advisories on recently upgraded Hurricane Gaston, located about 1215 miles west of the Cabo Verde Islands. A broad area of low pressure located about 200 miles northwest of…
In what was a remarkable display of high speed offshore sailing, the Oatley family’s supercharged supermaxi, Wild Oats XI, has demolished the course record time she set in the Brisbane to Keppel race in 2011. After covering the 348 nautical…
American sailor Lloyd Thornburg has set a new world record for the fastest circumnavigation of the island of Ireland.* His MOD70 trimaran Phaedo 3 crossed the finish line at Kish Lighthouse, Dún Laoghaire, just after 4am today (Friday 5th August…
As the Clipper 2015-16 Round the World Yacht Race teams returned to the UK capital at the weekend one of the twelve teams was presented with a very special award. Following its 40,000 nautical mile, eleven month long challenge of a…
Matt Allen has sailed his TP52, Ichi Ban, to an extraordinary victory in the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s 2016 Land Rover Sydney Gold Coast Yacht Race, crossing the finish line in third place, beating many larger yachts to the…
The two entries representing South Australia in the 2016 Land Rover Sydney Gold Coast Yacht Race became early casualties after both sustained bow damage in separate incidents, joining a NSW yacht that was involved in one of those incidents, all…
LMAX Exchange, Skippered by Frenchman Olivier Cardin, was confirmed last night as winner of the tenth edition of the world’s longest ocean race, the Clipper 2015-16 Round the World Yacht Race. The team’s victory comes despite finishing the final race…
This Friday 29 July, there are exactly 100 days until the start of the eighth Vendée Globe, which will set sail from Les Sables d'Olonne on France's Atlantic seaboard on 6 November at 13:02pm local time. Thirty sailors have signed…
Comanche, the 100 foot racing yacht owned by Jim Clark and Kristy Hinze-Clark, will depart this evening from New York (USA) and point her bow East to Britain as the record-breaking monohull takes on the Atlantic in a bid to…
Wendy Tuck, the first Australian female Skipper to compete in the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race, has claimed her second podium result of the global series, arriving third into Den Helder, the Netherlands this morning in the penultimate race…
There are just hours remaining until phase one of the Volvo Ocean Race Onboard Reporter recruitment campaign closes – and thousands of hopefuls from around the globe have already responded to the Race's call. The storyteller search – which ends…
The second-ever Around Australia Yacht Race is set to depart Sydney Harbour on the 5th August 2017. Being the longest coastal race in the world makes it unique, however, there is another feature of this race that will set it…
After 50 hours at sea on leg two of the 2016 Solitaire Bompard Le Figaro, Yoann Richomme on Skipper Macif 2014 is holding onto the lead he grabbed earlier in the 430-miles stage from Gildas Morvan on Cercle Vert. This…
Already approaching Start Point this morning after a brisk, upwind first night of Stage 2 of the Solitaire Bompard Le Figaro, the solo skippers are having to work hard because the gusty southwesterly breeze is so irregular, oscillating back and…
Just three days after reaching Cowes on the Isle of Wight after one of the toughest opening legs in the long history of the Solitaire Bompard Le Figaro, the fleet set sail this afternoon on what promises to be another…
Having barely had time to recover from one of the hardest opening stages in the long history of La Solitaire Bompard Le Figaro, the 39 skippers in this four-stage solo grand prix are now readying to leave on stage two….
A Clipper Round the World Yacht Race crew member has been successfully medevaced off a yacht in the North Atlantic Ocean with the help of ClipperTelemed+, the race’s Emergency Medical Support Partner, and the Canadian Defense Department, which carried out…
Nearly six days since the off, American businessman George David’s world-famous maxi yacht Rambler 88 has been officially declared the outright winner of the 2016 Volvo Round Ireland Yacht Race. In what has been one of the toughest ever editions…
The top French sailors in the Figaro class dominated the first leg of this year’s Solitaire Bompard Le Figaro, with Erwan Tabarly, nephew of the great Eric Tabarly, winning the stage on board Amor Lux. This was an incredibly tough…
Stage 1 of the 2016 Solitaire Bompard Le Figaro from Deauville to Cowes looks set to be one of the longest and most taxing of recent memory according to Yoann Richomme who is pacing Erwan Tabarly the stage leader. (See…
LA Times. By Hannah Fry. Three sailors delivering a 45-foot racing yacht from Hawaii to its new owner in Newport Beach had to be rescued 150 miles offshore when the boat began to sink. A 41-year-old man, a 56-year-old man…
For one tantalising hour this afternoon Britain’s Figaro solo skippers held five places among the top 12 in what is proving to be a painfully slow first stage of the Solitaire Bompard Le Figaro. As the fleet negotiated Lizard Point…
Hamilton, Bermuda: June 21, 2016 — High Noon has captured ‘traditional’ line honours in the combined St David’s & Gibbs Hill Lighthouse Divisions in the 2016 Newport Bermuda Race. This is an amazing accomplishment for the Young American Junior Big…
ALICANTE, Spain, June 21, 2016 – The Volvo Ocean Race has made key changes to its Leadership Team, including the appointment of race management expert Phil Lawrence as new Race Director. The re-shuffle, which follows Mark Turner’s appointment as CEO…
The Atlantic Homecoming Leg is underway and after the first twelve hours, just five nautical miles currently separate the first eleven teams in the Clipper 2015-16 Race’s final ocean crossing. Following last night’s Le Mans start, the fleet is very…
Aussie sailor Patrick Conway, sailing on Mini number 523 Matador, is currently competing in the Mini Fastnet race, from Douarnenez, France, with Italian co-skipper Alessandro Torresani. Pat and Ale are off the coast of England at the moment, coming up…
After a tough, physically and mentally demanding first 24 hours of Stage 1 of the Solitaire Bompard Le Figaro, the solo skippers racing to Wolf Rock – to the southwest of Land’s End – will have given themselves a short…
Entries in the Land Rover Sydney Gold Coast Yacht Race have topped 50 and officials from the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia (CYCA) remind prospective competitors that entries close in 17 days’ time on Friday 8 July. This year’s fleet…
Newport RI: June 20, 2016— The 50th Thrash to the Onion Patch, the 2016 Newport Bermuda Race, has not been a dash. Following Comanche’s record-breaking run to Bermuda, chopping almost five hours off the 2012 numbers, the fleet stalled against…
Clipper Round the World Yacht Race teams have departed New York on the final leg of the circumnavigation, the ‘Atlantic Homecoming’. Following a Departure Ceremony and Parade of Sail in front of the New York skyline and Statue of Liberty,…
An historic new record for the fastest-ever sail around Ireland has been set. The Sultanate of Oman’s flagship trimaran Musandam-Oman Sail has completed the full 704-mile course in just 38 hours, 37 minutes and 7 secondssmashing their own2015 record by…
Patrick Conway has returned to the French short-handed sailing scene, this time on a smaller budget and therefore a smaller yacht. Pat is participating in this Sunday’s Mini Fastnet race out of Douarnenez, Brittany The Mini 6.50 class is extremely…
Less than 24 hours into the race, Comanche is already through the Gulf Steam and pressing to break Rambler’s elapsed time record from 2012. “We’re in Champagne conditions, making 20-25 knots,” said skipper Kenny Read. At press time 7:00PM in…
Hamilton, Bermuda: June 19, 2016— Comanche has set a Newport Bermuda Race record celebrating her line honours victory in the 50th Thrash to the Onion Patch, Newport Bermuda 2016. Jim and Kristy Hinze Clark’s 100 foot screamer, skippered by Ken…
I was told once that when two yachts are sailing in the same direction, then you have a race. Based on that solid theory, WE HAVE A RACE. Not long after posting the announcement that an Around Australia Yacht Race…
Lindsay Owen-Jones 100-ft Maxi Magic Carpet Cubed (GBR) has claimed line honours at the 2016 Giraglia Rolex Cup. Crossing the finish line in Genoa at 15:02:56 CEST today (Thursday), Magic Carpet Cubed completed the offshore race from Saint-Tropez, France in 26 hours, 48…
British sailors have made consistent, notable inroads into the highly charged world of La Solitaire Bompard Le Figaro, the solo multi stage offshore race, in recent years not least establishing a solid record in the challenge to be top ‘bizuth’…
Dateline Newport RI: June 16, 2016 — As nearly 1,700 sailors who will soon race to Bermuda make their preparations, loading food and gear into their boats and lining up to pre-clear Bermuda customs and immigration, all of them have…
The offshore race of the 64th Giraglia Rolex Cup got underway today at midday, with 268 yachts departing from Saint-Tropez for Genoa, via the Giraglia rock. Following three days of blissful warmth and generally clear skies, the Cote d’Azur went…
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