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Alicante, 26th September 2014: The Volvo Ocean 65 “MAPFRE” will be the one who will defend the colours of Spain in the new edition of the Volvo Ocean Race. The sponsorship was confirmed today, Friday, by the insurance company MAPFRE and…
In the Volvo Ocean Race Boatyard, shore crews are going through the final checks and putting the finishing touches to the 7 new one-design boats. In the 1200m2 facility, specifically built for the Volvo Ocean Race fleet, the teams are…
Tony Kirby’s Patrice has provisionally won the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s Flinders Islet Race, but due to an error in her rating certificate, it is believed a revised certificate, due from the UK on Tuesday, will leave her outside…
ALICANTE, Spain – He’s had to wait two long years but French sailor Seb Marsset finally got the news he was waiting for with a call-up to the Team Alvimedica race crew for the Volvo Ocean Race 2014-15 first leg…
We are on the hunt for young adventurous sailors, who we hope to send around the world in a little boat, all by themselves. Imagine the sights they would see, the people they could meet, the horizons they should cross…
With the 70th edition of the Sydney Hobart Yacht Race looming, a large and varied field of 28 boats is entered for Race 2 of the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s Blue Water Pointscore Series (BWPS) to start off Point…
Ten seconds. It’s less than the amount of time that it will take you to read this sentence – and it’s also the whisker-thin difference between the first two Volvo Ocean Race teams to return to Alicante at dawn this…
Sir Robin Knox-Johnston, at 75-years-old will be the oldest competitor in this year’s French single-handed classic transatlantic race the Route de Rhum, having completed the necessary qualification voyage. Sir Robin sailed the 500-mile qualifier solo down the English Channel and…
ALICANTE, Spain: Seven Volvo Ocean Race boats set off together for the two-day Leg Zero on Friday knowing that a series of “crises” loom for all of them – and they have all been planned by the organisers. The fleet will…
The Groupama Race, the 4th sailing tour of New Caledonia, will start on 19th of october. This race is the longest leeward-winward race around the biggest lagoon in the world: 600 milles in paradise. Last day to register is in 8…
Michel Desjoyeaux is France’s best-known sailor and has won many of the sport’s biggest prizes but the lure of joining Team España in the Volvo Ocean Race 2014-15 has brought him back to compete for a fourth time aged…
The tenth anniversary edition of the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race starts in August 2015 and the 40,000 mile route will take almost 12 months to complete. It is the world’s longest ocean race, and also one of the…
Captain Tomas Cichoki, 57, departed Brest, in France, on the 6th September 2014 in a Delphia 47, sailing single handed and non stop around the world, following the clipper route down the Atlantic, around the Cape of Good Hope, then…
With less than 80 days before the start of the 2011-12 Volvo Ocean Race, a dramatic course change was initiated due to concerns of piracy in the Indian Ocean. That year, the Cape Town to Abu Dhabi leg involved all…
Armel Le Cléac’h, who seriously injured his hand and has been forced out of the 2014 Route du Rhum, will be replaced in the solo transatlantic race by Loïck Peyron. The sailor from La Baule, who was forced to retire…
ALICANTE, Spain, Sept 4 – A film-maker with a background of making hit documentaries and dramas, but zero experience in sports programmes, is the surprise choice of the Volvo Ocean Race 2014-15 to direct their flagship half-hour weekly show. Frenchman…
Some of the biggest names in racing underwent intensive safety training with Ocean Safety in preparation for the Volvo Race, one of the world’s most prestigious round-the-world races, which starts on October 11th. Ocean Safety worked with the Volvo Ocean Race…
On November 2, the skipper of Safran will line up at the start of the Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe. This will be Marc Guillemot’s fifth appearance in the queen of the transats. It is a race he has particular affection…
ALICANTE, Spain, September 1 – Chris Nicholson’s Team Vestas Wind crew will enter the Volvo Ocean Race 2014-15 with less time to prepare than any of their rivals but brimming with experience combined with youthful energy. The Australian skipper is…
It’s all about the numbers for this year’s Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, with entries in the 70th edition of the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s blue water classic swelling to 50, including classic yachts such as Love & War…
New technology is changing the face of sailing, rapidly. It seems that every week a new foiling boat concept pops up or an alternative wingsail product enters the market. Yet amidst all this development, offshore racing classes are turning one-design…
Nominations are now open in the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s Ocean Racer of the Year Awards. The awards will be announced on Thursday 11 December 2014 and the CYCA welcomes nominations from fellow offshore clubs that have suitable candidates…
The world’s longest ocean race, uniquely for amateur sailors – the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race is now 70% full for the 2015-16 edition, following a surge of crew sign-ups. The 40,000 mile, eleven month long event, known as…
COWES, Isle of Wight, August 16 (Volvo Ocean Race) – Ian Walker’s Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing fired a huge warning shot across the bows of the Volvo Ocean Race 2014-15 fleet with a record-breaking monohull victory in the Sevenstar Round…
The Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club at Newport on Sydney’s Northern Beaches has announced a new format for its opening event of the 2015 Australian offshore yachting calendar. The club is offering owners of eligible boats a new trimmed-down race…
The wait is over for Spindrift racing. On stand-by since the beginning of June, Dona Bertarelli, Yann Guichard and the rest of the team will abandon their attempt to break the Crewed North Atlantic Record on August 15th and prepare…
Vestas, the world’s leading wind energy company, was today announced as the seventh and final boat for the Volvo Ocean Race 2014-15. Six-time world champion Chris Nicholson, who will be contesting his fifth race, will skipper the boat and work…
COWES, England – Five Volvo Ocean Race boats are currently neck and neck in the Sevenstar Round Britain and Ireland race, which began at 0900 this morning. The fleet of Volvo Ocean 65s is leading the monohulls as they exit…
COWES, England, August 7 – Five Volvo Ocean Race 2014-15 boats will line up against each other in a dress rehearsal of the event proper when they compete in the Sevenstar Round Britain and Ireland Race on Sunday. The race…
Daryl Wislang will be returning to the Volvo Ocean Race onboard Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing’s Azzam with a point to prove after being named in Ian Walker’s race crew on Tuesday. The 33-year-old New Zealander’s call-up coupled with the appointment…
The rulebook? Race Director Jack Lloyd wrote it – and tells us why the new one-design boat isn't the only exciting change to this year's race… So, you’ve said goodbye to the pets. You’ve told your Facebook friends that you’re…
Long-time Royal Queensland Yacht Squadron member Chris Morgan wondered pre-race if his boat’s number one berth allocation at the final resting point, at Keppel Bay Marina, could be an omen. Last night he and wife Bernadette’s 20 year-old J130 Ragtime…
Mark Hipgrave’s Beneteau First 36.7 called The Healer finished the Club Marine Brisbane to Keppel Tropical Yacht Race last in the fleet, at 5.30am this morning, Sunday August 3, 2014. On handicap it’s a very different story, the small Royal…
If the wind holds, by midnight tonight the 8th Club Marine Brisbane to Keppel Tropical Yacht Race should have a line honours victor in Bob Oatley’s supermaxi Wild Oats XI which is steadily chewing through the final 90 nautical miles…
The line honours victor is decided; now the handicap pursuit is on in the Royal Queensland Yacht Squadron’s 8th Club Marine Brisbane to Keppel Tropical Yacht Race. Bob Oatley’s RP100 Wild Oats XI took line honours for the third time…
The gentlemanly midday start of the 8th annual Brisbane to Keppel Tropical Yacht Race on Moreton Bay for the record-equalling fleet of 35 yachts from Tasmania to Townsville was clean and quiet. This afternoon off Caloundra on the Sunshine Coast…
The 384 nautical mile Land Rover Sydney Gold Coast Yacht Race came to an end at 03:02:44:06 yesterday afternoon when the 11.2 metre long Mortgage Choice Rumba, crossed the Main Beach, Southport finish line to rousing applause from other finishers…
Sam Hayne’s Celestial has been declared winner of the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s (CYCA) 384 nautical mile Land Rover Sydney Gold Coast Yacht Race this afternoon. When told of his win, Haynes, representing the CYCA in Sydney said: “It’s…
Four yachts remain at sea in the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s (CYCA) 384 nautical mile Land Rover Sydney Gold Coast Yacht Race this morning, with the last one expected to cross the Main Beach, Southport line shortly after 3.00pm…
Despite its carbon fibre hydrofoil wing breaking off while surfing down waves at speeds in the early hours of this morning, the Mark Richards skippered Wild Oats XI is on the run in the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s Land…
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