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The Roland Smith Ocean Race opened the Quantum Sails Blue Water Series for the Siska Trophy on Saturday 10 October. Conducted by Royal Freshwater Bay Yacht Club, the 80 nautical mile race began off Fremantle and took the yachts south…
The Clipper fleet is making good progress in some fairly gruelling conditions, with strong winds and gusts around 50 knots predicted for the eastern group over the next twelve to 24 hours. For the two western boats, Qingdao and LMAX…
Spindrift 2. Photo Eloi Stichelbaut. To undertake the crewed around-the-world record is as much about the human adventure as it is a technical and sporting challenge. The men and women working alongside Dona Bertarelli and Yann Guichard at Spindrift racing…
Some of the fleet have been experiencing a period of light winds, but strong conditions associated with the front appearing are due to fill in over the next 24 hours with gusts of up to 50 knots being predicted for…
The weather is set to be complicated over the next few days, creating the first major transition area of the race, and some tactical dilemmas for the teams. The eastern group of the fleet is about to sail into an…
As the crew gradually settles into the life of ocean racing again, attention has now turned to the tactical decision of whether or not to go for the Scoring Gate (shown on the Race Viewer). This would allow the first…
For the second year in succession, Julian Farren-Price has sailed his Cookson 12, About Time to victory in the Lion Island Race, the opening race of the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s 2015-2016 Ocean Pointscore (OPS). Farren-Price, who won his…
As the crews continue to acclimatise to the tumultuous conditions in the South Atlantic Ocean, the strong winds are helping the fleet make steady progress towards Cape Town, with leader Garmin closing in on the 500 nautical mile mark in less than…
The Real Club Nautico de Arrecife hosted the prize giving awards ceremony for the first stage. Ocean racing seems much better in fine weather. This was certainly the case for the competitors taking part in the Mini Transat îles…
7 October 2015: Rio de Janeiro: The second race in the Clipper 2015-16 Round the World Yacht Race series, The Stormhoek Race to the Cape of Storms, started off the Brazilian coast today for its 3,417 nautical mile voyage to…
Former Australian Cricket Captain, Michael Clarke, has joined the Perpetual LOYAL yacht racing team for the 2015 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race. “I competed in my first ocean race with Anthony and his team in the annual Sydney to Gold…
After the effort comes the comfort. In celebrating the arrival of Maxime Eveillard, the Mini Transat îles de Guadeloupe racers put a full stop at the end of this first stage. Only the Spanish sailor, Nacho Postigo (Vamos Vamos), whose…
The winner of the first leg of the Clipper Race, LMAX Exchange has run aground 42 miles southwest of Marina da Gloria, in Rio de Janeiro while transitting to another marina to have new hull branding applied. Clipper Ventures advises…
As we have witnessed in Race 1, after racing more than 5000 nautical miles across the Atlantic Ocean, and at times travelling at speeds of 20 plus knots, the conditions around Cabo Frio have seen the ocean racing teams grind…
With less than three weeks until the start of the 36th Rolex Middle Sea Race on Saturday, 17 October, over 100 teams from 22 nations are preparing for another historic edition of the most important offshore race in the Mediterranean….
At 6.30am EST, Australian Katrina Ham was one of five Mini sailors still at sea. She had just over 100nm to sail. Here's the media release from the organisers: The pontoons that previously seemed strangely empty, with the notable exception…
Bob Oatley’s record-holding Wild Oats XI relevantly became the 50th entry received by the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia for the 2015 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, and the third super maxi to enter the 71st edition of the iconic…
Despite there being seven boats still racing, it has been an anxious 24 hours for Clipper Race followers with up to four teams opting to activate Stealth Mode over the same period. This is a tactical rule introduced by the…
They arrived in flurries in the port of Arrecife on the western coast of the island of Lanzarote. Little by little, the Mini-ists moored their monohulls alongside those of their friends. It was a chance to go over the course,…
After 5600 nautical miles of racing, four teams made it to the Marina da Gloria yesterday within 14 hours of each other. Winners LMAX Exchange had to wait 36 hours to greet second placed Qingdao, but it was followed by…
A highly varied fleet with fascinating competitors will set off on 28th November from Lanzarote – the most eastern island in the Canary Islands chain – bound for the island of Grenada in the Caribbean in the RORC Transatlantic Race, organised…
Race one of the Grant Thornton Short Ocean Pointscore and race two of the Grant Thornton Short Haul Pointscore Series was contested today in rough and choppy conditions just outside the Heads. While the wind was nowhere near as strong…
Davy Beaudart (Flexirub) winner of the first stage of the Mini Transat Iles de Guadeloupe, crossed the finish line today, Saturday 26th September at 10:34:46 local time. The solo skipper sailing on Flexirub took 6 days 19 hours 04 minutes…
First to cross the finish line in the Atlantic Trade Winds Race to Rio was LMAX Exchange at 1718 UTC yesterday, having led the Clipper Race fleet for most of the first leg from London. Among the rest of the…
The fleet has cleared the Doldrums Corridor and is charging down the eastern coast of South America at a speed of 9 to 12 knots. Visit Seattle became the sixth team to start the Ocean Sprint at 0616 UTC and…
Royal Freshwater Bay Yacht Club is now home to two magnificent Grand Prix racing yachts, a Carkeek 47 and a new TP 52. The two yachts have been rivals on the water since Craig Carter purchased Indian. Now the rivalry…
With a strong following wind, the Minis bowled along the portuguese coast, with the same worry in each person’s mind: the best way to attack, whilst also keeping the boat under control. In this constant game, it’s experience that makes…
As the 2015 Mini Transat fleet depart France at the start of this year’s race, Kiwi sailor Cory McLennan has officially announced his intention to represent New Zealand in the 2019 Mini Transat. McLennan made the announcement at the official…
Spirit of Europe has won the 2015 Nord Stream Race after extending an early lead near Flensburg across 800 nautical miles through the Baltic Sea to finish as champions in Saint Petersburg, Russia today. Bronenosec has finished in second with…
Qingdao, Derry~Londonderry~Doire, GREAT Britain and Garmin are all in the Ocean Sprint phase of the course, headed south in steady south-easterly Trade Winds. The teams are focused on careful trimming and helming as they beat upwind in an attempt to…
As often happens, the Gulf of Gascony has made its choices through testing the resolve and spirit of the sailors. While the leaders continue to skip along quickly and to burn up the miles in their boats, those behind are…
It is the great innovation of the new generation IMOCA 60. And the first monohull equipped with foils to be launched, Morgan Lagravière’s Safran, has led the way; the other five VPLP-Verdier designed boats launched since are also equipped with…
There has been a decided chance of scenery on Mini Transat îles de Guadeloupe. With the arrival of a front, rain and wind have joined the party whilst the boats reach speeds in double digits. Aboard the Minis, they dropped…
The Transat – the oldest race in professional sailing – is now open for entries as the build-up to the 2016 renewal of this North Atlantic solo classic continues apace. With over 40 skippers competing in four classes expected on…
More ceremonies with King Neptune have been taking place as the leading pack crosses the Equator. Garmin, Derry~Londonderry~Doire, GREAT Britain and Qingdao have all crossed into the Southern Hemisphere. The frontrunners are now in stronger southerly Trade Winds and are…
Seven fast offshore racing yachts started theNord Stream Race 2015 on the Flensburg Fjord today. Under perfect sailing conditions they ventured out on the challenging sailing race across the Baltic Sea. The route of the race, which is being organised…
The flapping of the sails has been replaced by a far sweeter music: that of the hull starting to swish through a calm sea. It’s a privileged moment for the sailors: it marks the end of a time of doubt…
WA’s offshore opener, the George Law Memorial Race, started in southerlies gusting over thirty knots, forcing the race committee to use the heavy weather course to keep the fleet between Garden Island and the mainland. Peter Hickson’s new acquisition, the…
It’s hard to imagine better conditions for the start of the Mini Transat îles de Guadeloupe. The President of the racecourse fired the starter’s pistol, and the competitors launched themselves into the westerly to north-westerly 8-10 knot wind. By the…
Victoire is back in form, Darryl Hodgkinson’s Cookson 50 taking overall honours in the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s Flinders Islet Race overnight, while the new kid on the block, Chinese Whisper, took line honours and missed the race record…
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