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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’…
WEDNESDAY 22 NOVEMBER 2023 – DARLING POINT, SYDNEY A diverse fleet, including multiple former winners, will take on the 628 nautical mile Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race on Boxing Day. One hundred and thirteen boats are entered for the 78th running…
Even before the crew of Niksen hoist their sails on Boxing Day, they will have already overcome one of the biggest challenges in offshore sailing. Co-skippers Marc Michel and Logan Fraser are bringing their pocket-rocket Dehler 30od (one design) all…
By Margherita Pelaschier / Global Solo ChallengeOn a gray autumn afternoon in the bay of A Coruña, with light southwesterly winds, Andrea Mura departed on November 18th at 14:00 local time (13:00 UTC) for his Global Solo Challenge, joining the fleet of thirteen competitors…
38th Atlantic Rally for Cruisers sets sail from Gran Canaria A light southerly breeze and bright sunshine accompanied the 156 yachts in the 38th Atlantic Rally for Cruisers as they departed Gran Canaria bound for Saint Lucia, 2700 nautical miles…
21 sailors from 14 countries signed up for GGR 2026 and Kirsten Neuschäfer “Female Sailor of the Year” The third edition of the Golden Globe Race (GGR), a solo non stop retro adventure in small full keel yachts, saw 17…
Wednesday, 15 november, 2023, from the Gitana Team – The duo aboard the Maxi Edmond de Rothschild timed their arrival to perfection! Yesterday, on Tuesday 14 November, it was 17:10 hours (local time), 21:10 hours (UTC) when the five-arrow giant entered Fort-de-France Bay, resulting…
The recently launched JPK 11.80 “Atomic Blonde” made by JPK Pacific for Dr Simon Torvaldsen with Sailing Master Larry Jamieson will present at the start line for the 2023 Hobart. It was the JPK French Founder and Master Mariner Jean…
Middle Harbour Yacht Club’s (MHYC) 2023 Nautilus Marine InsuranceSydney Short Ocean Racing Championship (SSORC) is less than two weeks away and among the emerging entries are two newcomers; Robert Kelly’s Virago and Andy Offord’s Borderline. A Reichel/Pugh 52 one-off, Kelly…
The Monday morning mood is generally upbeat and good among the duos racing on the Transat Jacques Vabre Normandie Le Havre. After Martinique welcomed the first two ULTIM pairs last night there is always a mental lift for the fleet…
French duo Armel Le Cléac’h and Sébastien Josse sailing Maxi Banque Populaire XI crossed the finish line of the 16th edition of the Transat Jacques Vabre Normandie Le Havre off Fort de France, Martinique at 18h19 local time (23h19 UTC)…
With a lead of 150 miles and only twice that distance, 300 miles, to the Martiniqufinish line of the Transat Jacques Vabre, it is hard to imagine victory going to anyone other that the ULTM race leaders Banque Populaire XI…
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