Oman Air begins her ascent at GC32 Oman Cup
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…
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Clipper Race: Qingdao wins standoff in South Atlantic showdown
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 shatters Mauritius Route record
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…
Mini Transat: Leaders at the midway mark as Ferré excels
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…
Jacques Vabre IMOCA podium battle heats up
After Groupe GCA – Mille et un sourires became the first boat to cross the line in the Bay of All Saints in the small hours of Friday morning under a magical moon, the second – Solidaires En Peloton –…
Spain dominates day 2 of the China Cup
Cheche Team from Spain flipped the switch on day two of the China Cup International Regatta in Shenzhen to dominate racing in the Beneteau 40.7 one-design fleet. Julio Bernardeau Navarro steered his crew to scores of 1,3,1 – by far…
Brest Atlantiques – first gybes, first respite
After more than two days at sea, the four trimarans racing in the Brest Atlantiques are sailing almost at the latitude of the Canary Islands, heading south in average trade winds and a calming sea. And while the erratic nature…
Mini-Transat: Everyone in the trade winds… or almost. Bouroullec in turmoil with technical issues.
The trio of Jambou, Beccaria, Ferré is continuing its route leaving very little room for tactical error, the whole performance posted at a furious pace (an average of around 10 knots over the past 24 hours). In a favourable trade…
Transat weather analysis (#5): the Doldrums change everything
Following on from our weather analysis of the IMOCAS racing in the Transat Jacques Vabre, Christian Dumard today looks at how the boats coped with the Doldrums, the area of instability, which as is so often the case, was kind…
Transat Jacques Vabre – Charal loses 264 miles in two days in the Doldrums
Charal has lost 264 miles in the Doldrums over the last two days to the new leader Apivia, which crossed the Equator at 16:00 UTC and is speeding towards the finish line in Salvador de Bahia, less than 1,000 miles away….
Tom Slingsby helps launch SailGP Inspire Racing in partnership with WASZP
SYDNEY – November 8, 2019 – Olympic gold medalist and SailGP Season 1 champion Tom Slingsby returned to his home sailing club in New South Wales to help launch an innovative new program that aims to create a pathway into…
Francis Joyon smashes Mauritius Route record
Francis Joyon, the skipper of the IDEC SPORT maxi-trimaran shattered the Mauritius Route record between Port Louis (Brittany) and Port Louis (Mauritius) at 0726hrs local time (0326hrs UTC) on Friday 8th November). He smashed the reference time he set in…
Mini Transat: Jambou and Beccaria solid leaders, two sailors set to make a pit stop in the Cape Verde archipelago
Italians Matteo Sericano and Marco Buonanni have both broken a rudder and are making for Mindelo, in Cape Verde, where they’ll make a pit stop to effect repairs before, hopefully, returning to the racetrack. Since the start in Las Palmas…
The final stretch: Francis Joyon expected to finish in Mauritius on Friday
The gybe carried out yesterday evening by François Joyon to move away from the extraordinary low-pressure system that is typical of the Southern Ocean and which propelled him across the South Atlantic from west to east, means that he is…
Brest Atlantiques – flying at over 30 knots off Gibraltar
Thirty hours into racing and all four of the trimarans competing on the Brest Atlantiques race have already reached the latitudes of Gibraltar, most of them averaging around 30 knots with top speeds of at over 40. Ahead lies one…
Alinghi on World Championship winning form at GC32 Oman Cup
With a light forecast, the opening day of the GC32 Oman Cup looked like it might be marginal. However in the end four out of the five scheduled races were sailed just north of the Al Mouj marina with a…
Transat Jacques Vabre: Charal suffers in easy(!) Doldrums as Crédit Mutuel speeds on
An easy Doldrums? Tell that to Jérémie Beyou and Christopher Pratt on Charal, who have watched their 100-mile lead turn into a 50-mile deficit after less than a day in the dreaded Doldrums. It was heartbreaking for Charal, but the air…
‘How Bizarre’ – a clean sweep in Melbourne to Stanley Race
Lord Jiminy has taken line honours in the Ocean Racing Club of Victoria’s (ORCV) Melbourne to Stanley Race, but the most outstanding result came from the Scott Robinson skippered Seaquest RP36, How Bizarre, which pulled off the rare triple of…
Mini-Transat: An epic run towards Martinique
After three days at sea, the fleet of 82 sailors in the second leg of the Mini-Transat La Boulangère is complete once again after Jean Lorre’s return to the racetrack at the start of the afternoon. The speeds are steady,…
A grand departure for Brest Atlantiques
The four Ultim 32/23 Class trimarans took off on Tuesday 5th November at 11am on the Brest Atlantiques race, a new 14,000 mile double-handed race that will take them non-stop to Rio and then Cape Town, before heading back to…
Transat Jacques Vabre – an easy doldrums awaits
The route to victory for Charal and the IMOCA podium in the 14th edition of the Transat Jacques Vabre Normandie Le Havre may have just become lot simpler according to the official race meteorologist. Richard Silvani, from Météo France said…
IMOCA analysis: Charal setting the pace
It is patently obvious now to everyone that Charal is very fast and is setting an incredible pace at the front of the IMOCA fleet in the Transat Jacques Vabre. Since passing the Cape Verde Islands, when they were tacking…
Kiwi woman rescued off Greek coast used plastic shopping bags and lollies to survive
NZ Herald. By: Nikki Preston “I still have one lolly left mum.” They were the first words Kushila Stein shouted through the phone to her relieved mother Wendy after she was rescued from floating on the Aegean Sea near Greece for…
Classic game gets yachtie spin
The Triton. Story and photos by Dorie Cox. Chief Stew Paulina Costa is careful with her money, but fairly risk-tolerant. She likes to buy houses and hotels for each of her properties – in the game Monopoly, that is. “Not too…
Cabbage Tree Island Race set to be the biggest yet
The Cabbage Tree Island Race is expected to have its largest fleet in history when the 67 yachts take to the start line for the fourth race of the CYCA's Blue Water Pointscore on Sydney Harbour this Friday night. The…
Statement from the Finn Class following 2019 World Sailing Conference
The International Finn Association delegation to the 2019 World Sailing Annual Conference in Bermuda has returned empty handed. The eight submissions to reinstate the Finn in the slate for the 2024 Olympic Games were rejected by both the committees and…
Craig Greenhill and Michael Chittenden in final 20 of Mirabaud Yacht Racing Image 2019
November 4, 2019 – No less than 133 professional photographers, representing 29 countries have submitted a picture for the Mirabaud Yacht Racing Image award 2019. The top eighty pictures have been selected last month by the international jury and published…
Brest Atlantiques – all set for an express crossing of the Bay of Biscay
After ten days in Brest, the four maxi-trimarans of the Ultim Class 32/23 are all set for the start of the double handed Brest Atlantiques race, leaving tomorrow at 11am. The 14,000-mile non-stop loop, or the equivalent of sailing halfway…
IDEC SPORT continues to speed along in the Southern Ocean
The huge improvement in the reference time between Port Louis (Brittany) and the Cape of Good Hope (2 days and 19 hours) achieved yesterday has not led Francis Joyon to ease off or modify the pace he has set since…
Mini-Transat: The Atlantic chessboard
A little over 48 hours after the start of the second leg of the Mini-Transat La Boulangère (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria/Le Marin), everyone is positioning their pawns. With little information and few tools at their disposal, the sailors are…
Alex Thomson cuts keel off Hugo Boss to save hull
Hugo Boss said today (Monday) that after exhausting all the options, they had decided to cut the keel off their 60ft monohull after damage forced them to withdraw from the 14 edition of the Transat Jacque Vabre Normandie Le Havre…
MC38 Act 6 to Ginger and season pointscore to Lazy Dog
It’s been a while coming and for the closing Act 6 of the MC38 2019 season pointscore, Leslie Green’s Ginger Ninjas worked their way back to familiar territory, at the top of the class scoreboard. Results from seven races in…
Mini-Transat: The southern expressway – off like a shot
This Sunday, a day on from the start of the second leg of the Mini-Transat La Boulangère, the 81 sailors out on the racetrack are benefiting from trade wind conditions that favour slipping along and long surfs: a fairly stable…
Thirty-seven candidates for the Vendée Globe 2020
Thirty-seven: this is the number of candidates who declared themselves officially and it is already a first record. Old-timers, podium candidates, rookies, foreigners, more women than ever and still as many adventurers, the 2020 vintage is likely to be outstanding….
Francis Joyon rounds the Cape of Good Hope two days and 19 hours ahead of the record pace
Francis Joyon and the IDEC SPORT maxi trimaran crossed the longitude of the Cape of Good Hope, often referred to as the Cape of Storms, this morning at 0454hrs UTC, after 14 days, 19 hours and 48 minutes of sailing….
SMEG takes out Race 4 of 18 Footers Spring Championship
The Smeg team of Micah Lane, Ricky Bridge and Peter Mackie survived an incredible day of survival racing to take out Race 4 of the Australian 18 Footer League's Spring Championship on Sydney Harbour today. In one of the most dramatic…
Brest Atlantiques – the media man, the third man
Is it double-handed or triple ? The addition of a third person on board has been the talk of those visiting the race village this week in Brest. The sailing instructions are clear: “The media man must not under any…
Jon Sanders gets homework from Twiggy on next circumnavigation
WA Today. By Hamish Hastie. Circumnavigating the world at age 80 for the 11th time is a tough ask on its own but now WA sailing legend Jon Sanders has been given an additional to-do list while on the open seas…
Hugo Boss out of Transat with keel damage after hitting UFO
Alex Thomson and Neal McDonald are working on the safest place to navigate their damaged 60ft monohull, Hugo Boss, after announcing their withdrawal from the 14thedition the Transat Jacque Vabre. Earlier in the day they informed the race office that they…
World Sailing’s Annual Conference and AGM wraps up in Bermuda
World Sailing’s Annual General Meeting concluded the 2019 Annual Conference on Sunday 3 November in Bermuda. The ninth and final day of the Conference saw the ratification of the Council decisions made on Friday and Saturday, confirmation of the Election…
