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It is only after having crossed the finish line that Ian Lipinski (Entreprises Innovantes) could savour his victory after the duel with Julien Pulvé (Novintiss). But it was difficult! The last three race days have been hell for those…
Merlin, the Kaiko 52 owned by Olympic gold medallist Dave Forbes and skippered by Joe Earl, has won the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s Port Hacking Race today, after a race-long battle with second placed Swish, Frantic and The Goat….
Tasmania’s fastest ocean racing yacht, Cougar II, has wound up her local preparation for the Rolex Sydney Hobart Race with a decisive line honours victory in the Royal Yacht of Tasmania’s 180 nautical mile Maria Island Race. Skippered by Beaconsfield…
Arriving in the small hours of the Guadeloupean night, the Nautipark skipper finishes as the unchallenged winner of the Mini Transat îles de Guadeloupe. Despite an unscheduled stop on the outskirts of St. Francis, following a chance encounter with a…
ALICANTE, Spain, November 13 – The careers and contributions of two Volvo Ocean Race legends have been celebrated at the ISAF Annual Conference in Sanya, China today. Sailing’s governing body has announced that it is inducting the late Sir Peter…
Frédéric Denis, from La Trinité in Brittany, France, has won the Mini Transat after crossing the finish line off the Iles de Guadeloupe first, at 09:12:30 GMT (05:12:30 local time in Point-à-Pitre) on Friday November 13. After his 3rd place…
For the leaders of the Mini Transat Iles De Guadeloupe, something has changed. The best part of the race lies in their wake and the land is getting imperceptibly closer. The horizon and the sky are filling with colour, while…
The fleet has had another day of exciting downwind sailing, with a front also starting to move over it providing more exhilarating conditions. The prelude to the front will see gusting winds of 50 knots from the north west and…
Paul Meilhat, skipper of the IMOCA 60, SMA, has today confirmed his participation in The Transat 2016. SMA is the first of the IMOCA class to enter the solo classic from Plymouth to New York that sets sail on 2nd…
Middle Harbour Yacht Club is broadening the appeal of the 38th Sydney Short Ocean Racing Championship (SSORC), which is sure to boost even more interest in the annual two day event to be held over the weekend of 28 and…
Lighter winds slowed progress for some yesterday, but depending on their position in the spread out fleet, winds have now built again and the blustery sleigh ride is back on track for the front half of the fleet. The leading…
When the leaders touch land in Guadeloupe, some will still have half of the Atlantic to cross before tasting a restorative ti punch, and meeting their friends and family. To top their misfortune, the trade winds which have blown vigorously…
In both the prototypes and series, the race leaders have opened up the lead. However, behind them, the gaps are closing. That applies to those at the leading edge, as well as most of the peloton. Each one still manages…
In the Wardan Whip’s first bonus opportunity, LMAX Exchange secured the maximum three points for being first across the Scoring Gate at 1425 UTC yesterday. Derry~Londonderry~Doire picked up two points crossing almost seven hours later, and Qingdao, third, claimed the…
Comanche, the super maxi deemed the most likely to dethrone Wild Oats XI in this year’s Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, arrives in Sydney at the start of December with a surprise up its sleeve. Both Comanche and the other…
The wind has finally backed around and is allowing the Clipper Race fleet to get its first real taste of the Southern Ocean sleigh ride that teams have been craving since leaving Cape Town nine days ago. ClipperTelemed+’s Matt Mitchell,…
While the leaders continue to amaze the timers, and while they are no longer counting the distance to the finish in hundreds of miles, the majority of the troops are just starting out on the second part of the race….
LMAX Exchange continues to lead, and Derry~Londonderry~Doire, second, has edged ahead of Qingdao, now in third place. GREAT Britain, Mission Performance, Garmin and IchorCoal follow with Da Nang – Viet Nam, PSP Logistics, Visit Seattle, ClipperTelemed+ and Unicef all striving…
The ‘big purring cat’ of the Roaring Forties is starting to waken gently.Barometers are rising and increasingly wet, windy cold conditions have teams believing they really are now in the Southern Ocean. Dependent on the team’s position in the fleet,…
The competitors are still racing full steam. Who would have thought that a solo sailor could keep up speeds of 11 knots on average (speed on the water)? And yet this is what the leaders of the Mini Transat Guadeloupe…
One just needs to check the statistics to imagine the pace set by leading boat of the Mini Transat îles de Guadeloupe. Since leaving Lanzarote, the boats ahead of the fleet have covered almost 1600 miles, at an average speed…
Passing the 40S line which marks the official start of the Southern Ocean’s ‘Roaring Forties’ brings expectations of big surfs and accelerated boat speeds, however that is not always the case as Clipper Race teams are discovering so far in…
The fleet has been struggling to make decent progress in the light conditions, with fickle winds, squalls and the Agulhas current making sail selection a tricky process. Over the next 24 hours, however, a low pressure gradient that most of…
Paradoxically the thrill of the Mini Transat îles de Guadeloupe lies in a mixture of great joys and severe disappointments and bitter failures. Following the retirement of Davy Beaudart, it is Radek Kowalczyk’s turn to throw in the towel after…
The 2015 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race entries have officially closed and the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia is pleased to announce 111 yachts have entered the testing 628 nautical mile classic, comprising of 83 boats covering every state of…
After 48 hours racing, things are settling down. Aboard the Minis, they are all finding their own pace even if the pressure of the competition, sometimes added to a little seasickness for some, still causes some minor setbacks. The routine…
British sailor Alex Thomson and his co-skipper Guillermo Altadill are looking towards the 2016 Vendee Globe after an extraordinary sequence of events ended their participation in the Transat Jacques Vabre this weekend. The pair were rescued by the Spanish coastguard…
The worst of the storm is over with wind and sea state reducing overnight, and the teams are making some progress east at the start of the Wardan Whip race. The gusty conditions, big waves and swell yesterday made life…
The 2014-15 edition of the Volvo Ocean Race was the most successful ever, figures show in the official Race Report released today. The curtain fell on the 12th edition of the 42-year-old event in Gothenburg on June 27, and today’s…
The start of the Wardan Whip, from Cape Town, South Africa, to Albany, Western Australia, saw strong south easterly winds of 20 knots and gusts of 35 knots on the start line, before some of the fleet contended with lighter,…
A sustained wind, getting their bearings on board after a three-week stopover, a chaotic sea… conditions were favourable for some minor breakages for the fleet. Many solo racers have already planned a pit stop. Favourites as candidates for adventure, not…
The twelve-strong Clipper Round the World Yacht Race fleet has begun the third leg of its 14-race global series in an energetic start from Cape Town in the 4845 nautical mile Southern Ocean crossing to Western Australia, named by host…
The Mini Transat Îles de Guadeloupe competitors set off to conquer the Atlantic with a sustained northeasterly wind and rough seas. Most of the skippers have preferred to play it safe, given the weather conditions (wind of 25 knots on…
Alex Thomson and Guillermo Altadill, skippers of yacht HUGO BOSS in the Transat Jacques Vabre set off their emergency beacon this …afternoon at 13.25UT. The Spanish Coastguard was informed and sent a rescue helicopter to their location 82 nautical miles…
A few hours before the start of the second leg, the pressure is mounting on the pontoons of Lanzarote. Each in their own way, the sailors are looking to dispel the inevitable stress that arises when it comes to crossing…
Newport, Rhode Island, will once again host the North American stopover for the 13th edition of the Volvo Ocean Race in 2017-18 following the success of the sailing-mad coastal town’s hosting of the world’s leading offshore event in May. “We’re…
After 3,400 nautical miles and 15 days racing across the South Atlantic Ocean, Qingdao and LMAX Exchange arrived in Cape Town within hours of each other on Monday 26 October. The pair departed Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on Sunday 11…
Following the damage that happened at around 2300hrs yesterday evening to a mainstay attachment, which holds the mast up from the front, Jérémie Beyou and Philippe Legros, who were in 4th place, were forced to make their way to Roscoff,…
After having lived together in the Paul Vatine harbour in Le Havre for 10 days, the IMOCA 60s have already broken up. Faced with a very active Atlantic depression, the fleet has been split into two groups. The monohull Safran…
Having posted a superb start to the race and whilst leading the westerly group at the last ranking, Sébastien Josse and Charles Caudrelier have just announced their retirement. It’s a terribly tough decision for the two competitors but one dictated…
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