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Words: Liz Rountree Picture: Gill Dayton “The Doghouse overall winners of the first leg of the race” Kites popped for a clear start for all 20 starters in the 17th annual Willie Smith Launceston to Hobart Race. The fleet set…
The 2023 Melbourne to Hobart Yacht Race started in sunny conditions on Port Philip Bay today with competitors set for a quick race to Hobart. The fleet started the 51st race in a steady 13 knot southerly breeze under blue skies…
The fight for third place on Line Honours in the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race is unravelling into a thriller, with URM Group looking ahead and behind at their rivals. While buoyed after taking third…
Words: Liz Rountree The 17th annual Willie Smith’s Launceston to Hobart kicks off Wednesday at 11:30am. The 20 entrants start off Beauty Point before heading out the Tamar River and turn right, keep outside of Swan Island through Banks Straight,…
LawConnect continues to stalk Andoo Comanche in the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, but squalls of 30 knots-plus are hampering the crew’s ability to keep their rivals in sight. At 9am, the margin was still tight between the two race leaders…
LawConnect made best of its bid to break a hoodoo of three runner-up finishes in the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race by leading the fleet towards the Heads after this afternoon’s start. The Christian Beck owned maxi led off the…
David Witt warns crews to brace for a wet and cold ride in Rolex Sydney Hobart With the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race start tomorrow, uncertainty remains for crews over the expected conditions – except that a long, wet and…
Peccadillo set to smash the 2023 Melbourne to Hobart Race Record for Multihulls. It’s been 30 years since a multihull has competed in the Melbourne to Hobart Yacht Race, and there’s every chance this year’s only multihull entrant might smash…
For the crew of the Advantedge, this year’s Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race is poised to become a memorable family affair with six of the crew related to another member. The Tasmanian entry’s crew includes three father-and-son pairings: owner and…
Eleven in, Two to go in McIntyre Ocean Globe Race They may not be top of the fleet, but White Shadow ESP (17) could certainly be awarded first prize for the most entertaining arrival. Under a grey, cloudy Auckland sky…
An incredible race year comes to a close with the Notice of Race released for The Ocean Race Europe in 2025 and The Ocean Race 2026-27 along with comprehensive reports on the 2023 event… The year 2023 opened with the…
The Carousel of Depressions in the Southern Seas, Where the Extreme Becomes Ordinary By Margherita Pelaschier / Global Solo Challenge With Andrea Mura on Vento di Sardegna passing the Cape of Good Hope Wednesday afternoon, only two competitors are still…
Toecutter has been a much-missed name in recent Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race fleets. Various iterations of the Robert Hick designed boat have lined up for the traditional Boxing Day start at 1pm; but not since 2005 has it featured in…
Sam Haynes dismisses the notion that there is a target on his back as the owner/skipper of the defending overall Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race champion boat Celestial. Asked on Wednesday as he sat among a panel of contenders for this year’s…
By Marco Nannini / Global Solo ChallengeWe’re in the week approaching Xmas at the Global Solo Challenge and the whole fleet seems to have found the rhythm and pace of the roaring forties. The majority of boats progressed under gray…
Over 200 non-professional sailors are preparing to set sail from Fremantle, Western Australia to Newcastle, NSW as Leg 4 of the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race begins this Tuesday 19 December. The Clipper Race is a global sailing event…
Collectively, Bruce and his son Drew Taylor have spent the best part of a lifetime sailing in the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race. Sailing on Bruce Taylor’s Reichel/Pugh 40, Chutzpah, this year’s race will be their 30th together from a total of 72 starts…
Following the widely successful 50th anniversary race, Melbourne to Hobart Yacht Race skippers and crews are finalising preparations for this year’s event which will once again see several boats in contention for line honours, and the return of the first multihull…
Uncertain forecast makes for a tense lead in to Rolex Sydney Hobart Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race crews face a tense week preparing for myriad race scenarios due the ‘significant uncertainty’ of the long range weather forecast each year. In…
Four Finish Dramatic Race into Auckland in McIntyre Ocean Globe. Ten of Thirteen Iconic Yachts now RESTING AND PREPPING. Neptune FR (56) has taken 7th place in line honours and a provisional 9th in IRC ranking after crossing the line…
Former Whitbread Winner, L’Esprit d’équipe and Triana race into Auckland ready to party – Neptune enroute Triple Whitbread entrant and 1985/86 winner, L’Esprit d’équipe, crossed the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron at 17:40:03hrs (NZDT), December 16th. Skippered by Lionel Regnier…
The fifth edition of the DRHEAM-CUP / GRAND PRIX DE FRANCE DE COURSE AU LARGE will be held from 11 to 21 July 2024. Entries for the race, which is now listed in the French Sailing Federation, RORC and UNCL…
Pen Duick VI second , Spirit of Helsinki third, Maiden fourth across the line with a Steinlager 2 and Lion NZ escort, recreating Whitbread History! It was a wild, wet and windy late-night welcome for the iconic 73-foot Bermudian Ketch,…
The Italians Roar into Auckland In Historic McIntyre Ocean Globe Finish to Leg 2 A perfect finish to the perfect Southern Ocean sailing adventure – and in true Auckland style the triumphant Translated 9 IT (09) were greeted with four…
By Marco Nannini / Global Solo Challenge Every week at the Global Solo Challenge is a whirlwind of fast sailing, technical problems to overcome, frustration, isolation as well as achievements. A week of challenges for each of the 15 skippers…
The Ocean Race, the toughest and longest test of a team in sport, has taken the top prize in the Sustainability category of the 2023 International Sports Awards, hosted by the International Sports Convention. The Award recognises the efforts of the…
By Margherita Pelaschier / Global Solo Challenge Challenges are the order of the day for the fifteen competitors still in the Global Solo Challenge. The attrition that took place even before crossing the starting line has been relentless. Ffrom a list of almost…
McIntyre OGR still fighting after 6,000 miles of Southern Ocean Racing Hours Separate Leaders In Nail-Biting Finish toward Auckland If there was ever an appropriate time to roll out the clichés ‘nail-biting finish’, ‘too close to call’, and ‘down to…
At the start in Le Havre in late October, a series of powerful low-pressure systems were sweeping across the Atlantic. One storm came after another and upset the arrangements. The organisers and Race Directors faced a tricky weather situation which…
65 boats started the penultimate fixture in the six-race 2023/24 Audi Centre Sydney Blue Water Pointscore at 1900hrs on Friday evening. The 172 nautical mile 2023 Cabbage Tree Island Race proved extremely challenging for skippers and tacticians this year as…
Swan 90 Berenice Cube first to finish in 12 days, 13 hours A lucky thirteen years after claiming line honours in ARC 2010, Marco Rodolfi is again first to the finish, this time in a faster 12 days 13 hours…
Starting off Brest, France on January 7th six Ultim skippers will set out to make history by competing in the first solo multihull race around the world On Wednesday evening in Paris all of the skippers mustered at the Workshop des…
Storms, Strategies, and Stunning Sunsets pushing hard toward AucklandIt’s Hold Your Breath Time In Too Close To Call Rankings TWENTY FIVE days out from Cape Town and one could almost describe it as ‘too-perfect’ sailing conditions for the McIntyre Ocean Globe fleet…
Italia Yachts 15.98 Nessun Dorma (ITA) first to finish in 11 days, 18:01:49 Inspired by his motto, ‘Never sleep. Life is too short. Push to the limit’, Andrea Neri and the all-Italian crew on Nessun Dorma (ITA) completed their very first transatlantic…
The Ocean Race is driving an Antarctic science mission in which vital data about the health of the ocean will be gathered at the southern fringes of the planet, where information is extremely sparse. Specialist science equipment, which was developed…
By Marco Nannini / Global Solo Challenge The latest week in the Global Solo Challenge has seen the majority of the skippers at sea confront, some for the first time, the relentless and dynamic Southern Ocean. As the fleet that…
McIntyre Ocean Globe fleet halfway, surfing and driving hard’n fast to Auckland It doesn’t come much better, or closer racing than this at the bottom of the world, deep in the Southern Ocean. Pen Duick VI FR (14), skipped by Marie Tabarly,…
The 2023 Nautilus Marine Insurance Sydney Short Ocean Racing Championship (SSORC) was decided over two offshore windward/leeward courses today and Bob Cox’s Nine Dragons along with Jack Stening and Colin Gunn’s Stormaway, came away the victors, Stenning commenting, “The final…
Words: Liz RountreePhotos: Colleen DarceyORC winner KD4 (and winner of recent Maria)IRC winner Sundowner (winner of last year’s Launceston to Hobart)Line Honours winner Fork in the RoadPHS winner Invincible Bakewell White Fork in the Road took Line Honours in the…
By Margherita Pelaschier / Global Solo Challenge Yesterday, November 23rd at approximately 13:30 local time (12:30 UTC), Kevin Le Poidevin set off in north easterly winds of around 10 knots and a weak late autumn sunshine, from A Coruña aboard his Open 40’…
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