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For the Barcelona World Race leaders the descent south towards the Canary Islands and the lifeblood Trade Winds has proven relatively slow over the last 24 hours. The fight for supremacy, such as it is, has been between stable-mates Hugo…
If during the pre-start hours in Barcelona there were fears that one Barcelona World Race duo might conjure up a breakaway in the opening days, so far such worries remain unfounded. Among the 'three musketeers' who are making the pace…
Julian Farren-Price’s evergreen steed of 14 years, About Time, delivered the Sydney owner and crew a third IRC overall handicap win in the Club Marine Pittwater to Coffs Race. “We are pretty thrilled; I can’t believe we’ve taken out IRC…
The yacht SEDUCTION has run aground on the return journey from Hobart to Melbourne. All five crew who were onboard are safe and well. The ORCV Incident Management Team have confirmed the next of kin of all crew have been…
A new record for the 538-mile opening passage from Barcelona to Gibraltar was set by Alex Thomson and Pepe Ribes when they exited the Mediterranean on Hugo Boss on Thursday evening, leading the Barcelona World Race. But their passage into…
Seven yachts are now docked at Coffs Harbour marina or heading back to Sydney and the last is travelling north to put one of the slower races in 34 years to bed. Mark Gorbatov’s Out of Sight, is making good…
ABU DHABI, January 3 – Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing (Ian Walker/GBR) bade farewell to their home port for the hazardous Leg 3 on Saturday by leading the fleet out towards their eventual destination of China from under a blanket of…
Guided by a full moon and making the most of the warm NE breeze, the international crew of 17 on Karl Kwok’s 80-foot maxi Beau Geste took line honours tonight in the protracted Club Marine Pittwater to Coffs Harbour Yacht…
Alex Thomson (GBR) and Pepe Ribes (ESP) on Hugo Boss have passed Gibraltar, crossing the Longitude 5°37W at 18H50 (CET). They have set a new record time for the Barcelona to Gibraltar course of 538 nautical miles of 2 days, 5 hours, 50 minutes. Hugo Boss is the…
ABU DHABI, January 2 – Team Vestas Wind has announced bold plans to rebuild their badly damaged boat and return to the Volvo Ocean Race by June. The Danish team’s Volvo Ocean 65 was dramatically grounded on a reef in…
Promised nor’east winds have so far failed to materialise and line honours in one of the slower Club Marine Pittwater to Coffs Yacht Races in history will be decided sometime late this afternoon or evening. Sean Langman’s giant trimaran Team…
In a sudden disappointing turn of events in the Club Marine Pittwater to Coffs Yacht Race, race leader and multihull record holder Team Australia’s 100-foot mast came down late this morning when the trimaran was 10 miles out to sea…
After yesterday’s light winds start, which tested the patience of the 16 skippers with a busy, if slightly slow-motion, send off from the waters off the Hotel Vela (W-Hotel), there has been a steady building of wind strength, and a…
ABU DHABI, January 1 – Neal McDonald, the performance director of Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing, has been pulled out of retirement to join the crew for the third leg of the Volvo Ocean Race starting on Saturday. The 51-year-old Briton…
The blocking pattern of a huge stationary high pressure system over the Tasman Sea is going to decide conditions for the Club Marine Pittwater to Coffs Yacht Race fleet of 28 yachts. Other than some variation at the start and…
Before the start of the Pittwater-Coffs Race, owner of the ORMA 60 trimaran Team Australia, Sean Langman, said he would try to make up the 15 minutes start the multihull had given the monohulls, then “cover” the 80ft Beau Geste. …
The Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race came to an end on January 1 at the Royal Club of Tasmania, where the Official Prize Giving took place. Welcoming guests, including Her Excellency, the Honourable Kate Warner, A.M. Governor of Tasmania, Commodore…
When Roger Hickman and his crew went to bed last night, it still looked as though his 29-year-old Farr 43 Wild Rose could be pipped for the handicap honours in the 2014 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race. Two smaller yachts,…
The 16 skippers, eight duos, who are set to take on the 2014-2015 Barcelona World Race gathered to face the media at today’s busy official press conference, the last official gathering of all the teams before the race start on…
The West Coast race has been a competitive affair with multiple boats vying for the lead at various times and tactics playing a key role. Laurie Ford’s Cameron De Lange 12m, Spirit of Downunder, was not first out the heads…
Who could have known at any stage of the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race that boats touched by Bob Oatley and both bearing the name ‘Wild’ in their title would take line honours and overall corrected time honours in the…
Have a look at the IRC standings, the list of boats leading the Rolex Sydney Hobart overall on handicap; it’s a long time since such venerable names have graced the top of the list en masse as they do today….
Bruce Taylor and the crew of his Caprice 40 Chutzpah would have been sipping nervously at their beer. In Hobart since 10.49 when they were ranked well below 20th on the IRC table, one by one they have seen the yachts…
Wild Rose has crossed the finish line at Hobart and her owner Roger Hickman now looks likely to win the Tattersalls Trophy for handicap honours in the 2014 Rolex Sydney Hobart. When the 29-year-old Farr 43 finished just before 8pm…
Defending champion The Fork in the Road last night took line honours in the National Pies Launceston to Hobart Yacht Race, slashing three-and-a-hours off the race record. Skippered by former world champion and Olympic sailor Gary Smith, the Bakewell-White 45…
It is inconceivable for most of us to understand the frustration of being within a single nautical mile of the finish and have the wind shut down on you completely. That is what happened to Gusto at the mouth of…
After the exciting finish to the Rolex Sydney Hobart between Wild Oats XI and Comanche, the officials at the finish line had a long night checking in the next 10 competitors. It wasn't until 2.26am that the third finisher, Syd…
The entire fleet of 24 boats in the National Pies Launceston to Hobart Yacht Race should be tied up at Elizabeth Street Pier by lunchtime today – in time for a feed of the sponsor’s famous pies. The 285 nautical…
As the boats dock in Hobart so do the stories. Everyone has a tale to tell, some funny, some of outright terror, some apocryphal to tell about the Rolex Sydney Hobart. This morning Daryl Hodgkinson jumped off his Cookson 50…
Ever wondered about the cost of breaking and damaging gear – and the repercussions of it in a long race such as the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race? Well wonder no longer. Three boat owners confidentially whispered this morning “Don’t…
The New Zealand Volvo 70 Giacomo limped into Kings Street Pier in Hobart at midday today, minus her towering rig, her crew dejected but determined to come back and do the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race again. Owner, Jim Delegat,…
The 10-year-old super maxi Wild Oats XI had a good run during the second night of the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race and now looks to have the defence of her line honours title in hand. Shortly after 7am on…
With fast spinnaker running conditions forecast for all the way from Low Head to Tasman Island, the entire 24 boat fleet in the Launceston to Hobart Yacht Race could finish by Monday evening, with a race record also on the…
If anyone was on their first ocean race they well may be wondering what all the fuss is about when people speak of Bass Strait in reverential terms. No wind reduces it to just another piece of water, photos from…
Bob Oatley's 100ft super-maxi Wild Oats XI was the first of the yachts in the Rolex Sydney Hobart to pass Tasman Island, the southern-most point in the 628nm race. The big silver beast passed the landmark at 11.45 this morning…
The Eastcoaster race fleet have struggled with a complete lack of wind overnight, at the moment the measure at Hogan Island has them in 10 – 12 knots East South Easterlies. In a tactical difference XLR8 has stayed on the…
The crew work and light airs performance of Bob Oatley's 100ft super-maxi Wild Oats XI was just too good for the opposition in the Rolex Sydney Hobart this year. Comanche, the high-tech newcomer from the USA was valiant in defeat…
It was shaping as a race within a race. Peter Harburg's Black Jack from Queensland and Jim Delegat's Giacomo from New Zealand are both Volvo 70s which raced in the last Volvo Ocean Race as Telefonica and Groupama. Ever since…
“This is the sweetest victory by far,” Wild Oats XI skipper Mark Richards declared today after steering the silver-grey thoroughbred to a record eighth line honours victory in the Rolex Sydney Hobart “To rewrite a bit of sailing history doesn’t…
As far as the America’s Cup winning skipper Jimmy Spithill is concerned, there is now unfinished business between Rolex Sydney Hobart line honours winner Wild Oats XI and the US supermaxi she beat across the finish line, Comanche. Spithill was…
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