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Monday 11 November 2019 A major Solent emergency involving a sinking yacht led to Cowes RNLI lifeboat joining a number of vessels racing to its aid just after mid-day today. The 40 foot yacht, with three Swiss men on board,…
Following Maxi Edmond de Rothschild’s pitstop on Tuesday, MACIF remains in the lead of the Brest Atlantiques, but tonight will be making a stop themselves in Rio de Janeiro for repairs to their central hull rudder. Sodebo Ultim 3 is…
Jon Sanders, who is now 80 years, is a multiple circumnavigator from Australia – and he can’t stop circling the globe. As the first and only person to have sailed three times in a row, nonstop and solo around the…
After the traditional end of season round of national championships across Europe, there is no movement in or out of the top 10 of the final OK Dinghy World Ranking List of the year. Thomas Hansson-Mild, still leads from Fredrik…
The wait in Le Marin (Martinique) for the first competitor to complete the Mini-Transat La Boulangère is about to enter its final day. François Jambou is expected to make landfall tomorrow (from 18:00 UTC). Indeed, barring calamity, he’s set to…
Salvador de Bahia is preparing to welcome the next IMOCA and the only couple on a boat in this race, Britain’s Miranda Merron and her French partner on land and sea, Halvard Mabire on Campagne de France at the end of the…
This morning at 9:18am, the Maxi Edmond de Rothschild arrived at Salvador de Bahia where Gitana’s technical team has been working to repair its daggerboard. MACIF has now taken the lead in the Brest Atlantiques, but will also have to…
François Jambou is this morning less than 500 miles from the finish in Le Marin in Martinique. As such, the leader in the prototype category now has a glimpse of what looks set to be a victorious finish within the…
11 November 2019 – Puerto Portals, Mallorca – The fourth and final event of the Dragon European Grand Prix circuit, the Dragon Grand Prix Spain hosted by the Club de Regatas Puerto Portals, began today in the Bay of Palma…
The newest shark deterrent product by Ocean Guardian will be featured by SOS Marine at the 2019 METSTRADE Show – the world’s largest trade exhibition of marine equipment, materials and systems. SOS Marine is a multi-award-winning Australian company with over…
Australia’s biggest celebration of sailing Festival of Sails will have a distinctive rock ‘n’ roll flavour in 2020 with renowned Aussie singer/songwriter Richard Clapton headlining the line-up for the Australia Day long-weekend event. As many as 30 different acts, including…
After the winners, Charlie Dalin and Yann Eliès finished yesterday on Apivia, the top 10 was decided in the IMOCA category during the night in Salvador da Bahia (Brazil), with some closely fought duels for the podium, the top five…
A quarter of the total distance of Brest Atlantiques has now been covered in more or less six days by the four trimarans of the Ultim Class 32/23. The second week of the race promises to be a busy one,…
François Jambou (865) in the prototype category and Ambrogio Beccaria (943) in the production boat fleet are still utterly dominating the competition. Earlier this morning, Russian sailor Irina Gracheva (579) and Julien Berthélémé (742) both announced to Race Management that…
International competitors have started to arrive in Melbourne for what promises to be a massive summer of Laser sailing in Australia. Turkey was the first country to send their boats, via airfreight, while the German team had to unload their…
Our canvas bimini, dodger, clears and covers, although not the first to be installed on FriendShip II, had come near to the end of useful life after constant restitching and patching had became a common endeavour. It was time to…
It will be on for young and old, literally, when the upcoming Australian 16ft Skiff & 13ft Skiff Championships get underway at Port Stephens from January 4. The stage was set for an intriguing, rivalry-tinged tussle after last year’s national…
A lightning fast and very professional response by the highly experienced crew aboard the supermaxi Wild Oats XI when its mast failed at the weekend saved the yacht from the likelihood of considerably more damage. The 30-metre long sloop, which is…
At the head of the fleet in the Brest Atlantiques since Thursday morning, the duo on the Maxi Edmond de Rothschild has masterfully negotiated the passage through the famous Doldrums – always a rather perilous exercise when you’re leading the…
Cheche Team conquered the Beneteau 40.7 one-design fleet at the China Cup International Regatta after a lack of wind meant no racing in Shenzhen on the final day of competition. The only fleet that managed a race on Sunday was…
After a little over eight days of racing, the fastest of the fleet have already completed two thirds of the 2,700 miles between Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and Le Marin in Martinique. According to the latest routing from Race…
After a blustery and fast paced start in Sydney Harbour on Friday evening, teams blazed away into the night towards Cabbage Tree Island at full pace. The frontrunners and pace setters were the 100-foot super maxis, Black Jack, Wild Oats…
The Appliancesonline.com.au team of Brett Van Munster, Phil Marshall and Kurt Fatouris only have to appear at the starting line next Sunday to take of the Australian 18 Footers League's 2019-2020 Spring Championship after a totally dominant performance in both…
It was a challenging start to leg one of ARC+ 2019 today from Las Palmas de Gran Canaria as a large north easterly swell gave the boats a rolling send off. In total 90 of the 95 strong fleet took…
After Apivia coasted to a moonlit victoryin the IMOCA class 15 hours earlier, the Bay of All Saints witnessed one of the closest podium finishes in the history of the Transat Jacques Vabre Normandie Le Havre in glorious sunshine on…
Stuff.co.nz. By Duncan Johnstone. Team New Zealand won't hesitate to incorporate good ideas from rival teams as they step up the design of their second boat which will be used to defend the America's Cup. The four heavyweight syndicates –…
The Boxing Day broadcast of the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race will remain an Australian tradition for years to come, with the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia (CYCA) and the Seven Network signing an agreement to telecast the race start…
My yacht is the first of the Hanse 455 in Australia previously reviewed in CH December 2015 and Australian SailingAug/Sept 2015. The Hanse boats are built with the European bareboat charter fleet in mind and, as such, lacked a bit…
Half a century ago on an island nation in the middle of the Atlantic, the idea was born to create an event for Finn sailors over 40 years old. At the class AGM during the 1969 Gold Cup in Bermuda,…
In yet another flawless display by the world’s top catamaran sailing team, Alinghi today won the GC32 Oman Cup and the 2019 GC32 Racing Tour. This Ernesto Bertarelli’s Swiss team adds to their GC32 World Championship title and victory in…
Peter Harburg’s 100 foot super maxi Black Jack took line honours in the Audi Centre Sydney Cabbage Tree Island race this morning, slipping just outside the race record, in a time of 13 hours, 30 minutes and 12 seconds, with…
Shenzhen, China: Another race win for Cheche Team has virtually wrapped up victory for the Spanish crew with a day to spare in the Beneteau 40.7 one-design fleet at the China Cup International Regatta. Rayco Tabares Alvarez and his crew…
Despite a smooth race for the Ultim 32/23 class trimarans since the start of Brest Atlantiques, in the early hours of this morning, trimaran MACIF hit an unidentified floating object (UFO) which damaged the central rudder and could mean that…
The French duo of Charlie Dalin and Yann Eliès on the latest generation 60ft foiling monohull, Apivia, appeared to be coasting to victory in the Transat Jacque Vabre Normandie Le Havre on Saturday afternoon local time. At the 15:00 UTC…
Shenzhen, China: Cheche Team from Spain extended its lead in the Beneteau 40.7 one-design fleet on day three of the China Cup International Regatta, but it was Craig Monk’s young crew on ChinaOne.Ningbo who won the last race of the…
The ’Brest Atlantiques’ race is in full swing this Friday with the boats, currently led by Maxi Edmond de Rothschild, speeding towards the equator – and Friday evening's challenge is managing the wind off the Cape Verde Islands before the…
While it may have been their turn to be top scoring boat on day three of the GC32 Oman Cup, the math is not looking great for Oman Air in its fight with Alinghi to become 2019 GC32 Racing Tour…
The second stage of the Clipper Race’s global circuit, The Spinlock South Atlantic Showdown, delivered what it promised, as an intense standoff between the 11 identical yachts played out along the entire 3,555 mile racecourse before Qingdao clinched the win…
Francis Joyon has just beaten his own record, set 10 years ago in this stretch of the Route to the Indies referred to as the Mauritius Route – and he made it all look so easy – 19 days, 18…
François Jambou (865 – Team BFR Marée Haute Jaune) and Ambrogio Beccaria (943 – Geomag), the respective leaders in the Prototype and Production boat category in this second leg of the Mini-Transat La Boulangère 2019, are at the midway mark…
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