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The first of four stages of La Solitaire URGO Le Figaro, the 48th edition of the French multi leg solo offshore race started this Sunday afternoon from the Gironde estuary by Bordeaux. But the all too gentle winds which required…
Bonn, Germany, 02 June, 2017: British yachtswoman Susie Goodall has secured DHL Express as her primary sponsor for her 2018 Golden Globe Race entry. Goodall (27) from Bournheath, Worcestershire, is the youngest among a 30-strong entry list and one of…
Every edition of the Mini Transat confirms that it remains, by far, the most international of single-handed races. For the fortieth anniversary of the Mini Transat, there are no fewer than fourteen nationalities set to be represented at the start….
Newport, Rhode Island: The sixth edition of the Atlantic Cup, the longest offshore race in the Western Atlantic and dedicated to the Class40, will start from Charleston, South Carolina one year from today on May 26, 2018. The race culminates…
Ludde Ingvall’s distinctive super maxi CQS has arrived in European waters for a summer tour of races in places as divergent as Finland and Malta. The 98 foot boat, with which Ludde contested last year’s Rolex Sydney to Hobart Race,…
Second-guessing the winner under IRC among the 340 boats competing in August's Rolex Fastnet Race is tough. The outcome of the Royal Ocean Racing Club's biennial flagship event will depend on the weather: A brisk start should favour the big…
The Volvo Ocean Race will embed a Leadership Development and Team Performance Programme in future editions, based on the experience of the pro sailors and including a ‘Global Team Challenge’ race. Sponsors have often asked skippers and crew to provide…
The Volvo Ocean Race will strengthen its historic connection with the Southern Ocean, and the tradition of racing around the world, while boosting its commercial offering to sponsors and host cities, by introducing changes to the racecourse, stopover formats and…
At a glittering but low key presentation last night, Garth Curran’s 58 foot Inglis-designed flyer Walk on the Wild Side took all three major prizes in the Racing Division – Line honours, first place IRC and first place YAH. In…
Hamilton, Bermuda: All teams racing in the Antigua Bermuda Race have now arrived in time for tonight's prize giving to be held at the Royal Bermuda Yacht Club. Tim Wilson's Australian classic ketch El Oro, led the group of Corinthian…
The Royal Bermuda Yacht Club was a popular venue last night as well over a hundred sailors gathered to share a few Gosling's Dark 'n Stormies and tales from their Antigua Bermuda Race. At dawn on Friday May 19, Jeremi…
The race is putting sustainability at its heart and focusing on taking action to help ‘Turn the Tide on Plastic’ – the rapidly growing and critical problem of plastic polluting the ocean, highlighted by the United Nations Environment’s Clean Seas…
The Volvo Ocean Race claims to have solved the question of whether its future should be monohull or multihull – by opting for both. They claim the introduction of a foil-assisted 60-foot (18.29 metre) monohull for the ocean legs plus…
Bermuda, May 18: The magnificent 162ft schooner Eleonora, an exact replica of the 1910 Herreshoff-designed Westward, took Line Honours for the Classic Class, finishing the Antigua Bermuda Race just before sunset yesterday, Wednesday 17th May. Eleonora is one of the…
Bermuda, May 18: Esprit de Corps IV, skippered by Gilles Barbot finished the Antigua Bermuda Race on Thursday May, 18 after seven days at sea. For the last day and a half of the race, the French Canadian Volvo 60 had…
The Antigua Bermuda Race Committee has been informed by RCC Bermuda Radio on Wednesday 17 May that Les Crane's Farr PH 56, Monterey (Bermuda) had been abandoned after taking on water; the cause of which is unknown. The crew…
The fifth entry to the 2017-18 edition of the Volvo Ocean Race will sail under the name Team Sun Hung Kai/Scallywag and will represent Hong Kong, it was announced today. The campaign will be backed by Seng Huang Lee and…
The Esperance Bay Yacht Club's 2016/2017 Harold Browning Memorial Remark Island Race, at 38nm, is the longest event on the club's calendar and involves a picturesque sail through the Recherche Archipelago. The start was recorded by Wells Photography and highlights…
Stephen Murray Jr.'s Volvo 70, Warrior finished the 2017 Antigua Bermuda Race on Tuesday 16 May 2017 just after 08 hrs 30 mins ADT, taking Monohull Line Honours and setting the new race record for the Antigua Bermuda Race. Exact…
Amsterdam, May 15 2017: Team AkzoNobel, the professional ocean racing team representing the Netherlands in the 2017-18 Volvo Ocean Race, has announced Australian Luke Molloy as part of its sailing line-up for the 83,000 kilometer (45,000 mile) around-the-world race. Molloy…
After three days into the Antigua Bermuda Race, strategic decisions have been few, but that is about to change. The fleet will soon feel the effects of a low pressure system to the east and whilst there should be no…
The fleet enjoyed the first day and night of the Antigua Bermuda Race when a light easterly breeze of about 8 knots and a gentle sea state provided glorious reaching conditions. By morning on the second day, all of the…
Sanxenxo, Spain – For Rob Greenhalgh, a true veteran of the race, with four round-the-world races under his belt, it was a dream since he was a small child. He describes the race as, “the toughest and most epic adventure…
Dateline 9th May 2017. Falmouth UK: Antoine Cousot, one of seven Frenchman competing in the 2018 Golden Globe Race, saw his gleaming gold Biscay 36 ketch renamed Goldstar launched last week following a major 8-month refit at Falmouth Boat Co. Cousot (45)…
The Antigua Bermuda Race organised by the Royal Bermuda Yacht Club in association with Antigua Sailing Week is a new fixture in the offshore sailing calendar. The 935 nautical mile race starting from Antigua at noon on Friday 12th May…
Following Saturday’s start of the Fremantle to Bali Ocean Clssic, Garth Curran’s 58 footer Walk on the Wild Side is leading the Bali fleet, enjoying light breezes and warm weather. The race record is now certainly safe for another year…
Australia’s east coast offshore sailing scene will take on a new look with the staging of the Pittwater to Paradise Regatta to start out of The Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club on January 2, 2018. After negotiations with Southport Yacht…
In France, offshore sailors are sporting heroes, up there with footballers and Tour de France cyclists in the national psyche. French sailors Armel Le Cleac'h and Thomas Coville have been awarded the National Order of the Legion of Honour at…
Since the MACIF trimaran was launched on 18 March, François Gabart has done a lot of solo-training to prepare his round the world record attempt at the end of the year. As of mid-May, he will switch to “crew” mode,…
The Round Antigua Race produced a spectacular match race between two magnificent ocean greyhounds with an unbelievable finish. Sir Peter Harrison's British ketch Sojana and Jean-Paul Riviere's French sloop, Nomad IV battled it out for the 52 miles, just a…
April 28, 2017. Yesterday evening, Francis Joyon and the crew of the IDEC SPORT maxi-trimaran, Clément Surtel, Alex Pella, Bernard Stamm, Gwénolé Gahinet, with just Sébastien Audigane missing as he was busy on a delivery trip in the middle of…
ABC News. By Sam Tomlin. Members of a newly-established yacht club in regional Western Australia are not letting the fact they are four hours from the nearest ocean stop them from tackling the country's longest maritime rally. Members of the…
April 25, 2017, Tortola, British Virgin Islands – On the heels of the 2017 BVI Spring Regatta and Sailing Festival, preparations have already begun for 2018. The week of March 26 – April 1 will offer the unique opportunity to race under…
Their sails have powered eight out of nine Volvo Ocean Race winners since 1989-90, with Steinlager 2. Here's everything you need to know about North Sails' sails. 1 ) They're not paneled, they're composites Instead of assembling cloth panels into…
BBC News A famous ocean racing yacht has returned home to Southampton 27 years after it carried the first all-female crew around the world. Maiden made history in 1990 when its female crew, led by Tracy Edwards, became the first…
The Clipper round-the-world ocean race is to return to Liverpool with the start and finish of this unique global challenge moving from the capital back to the River Mersey on the tenth anniversary of its last partnership with the region….
The Golden Globe Race 2018, timed to celebrate 100 years since Robin Knox-Johnston became the first man to sail solo, non-stop and unassisted around the world, starts in Plymouth in just over a year. To date there are three Australians…
The 2018 Golden Globe Race will start from Plymouth on Saturday June 30, 2018. The Race marks the 50th anniversary of Sir Robin Knox-Johnston’s victory in the Sunday Times Golden Globe solo non-stop round the world Race back in 1968/9,…
VENTURA, CALIFORNIA (April 20, 2017) — Over the past 86 years, the iconic Sparkman & Stephens classic yacht Dorade has sailed hundreds of thousands of nautical miles across open water and won more ocean races than any other yacht in…
The UK Government’s most ambitious marketing initiative, the GREAT Britain campaign, has announced it will be entering a team in the Clipper 2017-18 Round the World Yacht Race, the world’s largest ocean race, which starts this August. The partnership…
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