Ocean Race – Aarhus Leg start preview
At 800 nautical miles, Leg 6 may be the shortest of the race but it is also one of the most complex. From the start in Aarhus the fleet will head south for a fly-by in Kiel before turning north…
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Women in the Rolex Fastnet Race
Prior to the last few editions of the Rolex Fastnet Race we have featured some of the key women competing in that year’s event, demonstrating how female participation in offshore yacht racing is very much alive at every level, albeit…
Champagne sailing along the Emerald Isle
Tuesday 6th June 2023 The bulk of the fleet in this 14th CIC Normandy Channel Race has now rounded the Tuskar Rock course mark. Alla Grande Pirelli (181) had the edge at the south-east tip of Ireland after being the…
Normandy Channel Race
Virtually all the CIC Normandy Channel Race fleet has now reached Land’s End. After a tactical passage along the south coast of England, Groupe SNEF’s strategic decision to hunt down more breeze offshore before heading back to the coast to…
Spectacular start for Normandy Channel Race
After a little less than a week on show in the port of Caen in northern France, the crews were more than excited to put pedal to the metal! In teams of two, ultimately some 60 sailors set sail today…
Biotherm and WindWhisper are the winners in Aarhus
A great day of In Port racing in Aarhus highlighted by two comeback winners The sun was shining on Sunday, as it has been throughout the entire Aarhus stopover, and that meant a building sea breeze would be the order…
Ocean Race – Biotherm finish leg 5 on shortened course
Leg 5 is complete while Aarhus stopover is off to a bustling start… In accordance with the Sailing Instructions, which allow the Race Committee to shorten the course for boats still racing, the finish line for Biotherm has been moved…
2023 Sydney Gold Coast Opens
Entries have now opened for the 37th Noakes Sydney Gold Coast Yacht Race, hosted by the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia (CYCA). Competitors will start the challenging 384NM offshore race on Sydney Harbour at 1pm (AEST) Saturday 29 July, before…
11th Hour Racing Team wins critical double-pointer
In brief: Aarhus, Denmark At 0256 UTC (0456 local), 11th Hour Racing Team crossed the finish line of Leg 5 of The Ocean Race 2022-23 in Aarhus, Denmark, closing out the critically important double-pointer leg in first place, bagging the…
Pressure on as leaders duel into Aarhus
11th Hour Racing Team is looking for its second consecutive leg win and the overall lead in The Ocean Race Change may be coming to The Ocean Race. Since the opening leg from Alicante, Spain to Cabo Verde, skipper Kevin…
Koesio wins 2023 Pro Sailing Tour
Erwan Le Roux and his Koesio team have emerged as winners of the 2023 Pro Sailing Tour after a sometimes complex and challenging 1,650-mile ‘Final Rush’ leg from Alghero in the northwest of Sardinia to Brest in Brittany, France. Erwan…
Ocean Race – 24 hour record now with Malizia
The leading trio are setting a blistering pace into the final 48 hours of leg 5 Records are being set and then broken again on leg 5 of The Ocean Race. First it was 11th Hour Racing Team, powering to…
VO65 fleet returns to race in The Ocean Race VO65 Sprint
The last time we saw the VO65 fleet in The Ocean Race was in January and the teams had just completed the opening stage of the VO65 Sprint, from Alicante, Spain to Cabo Verde. The Polish-flagged WindWhisper Racing Team won…
Ocean Race – Team Holcim-PRB blows past records
The team at the top of the overall race leaderboard has set a new monohull record Skipper Kevin Escoffier and his Team Holcim-PRB have shattered the existing 24-hour distance records in the monohull class. First to fall was The Ocean…
Ocean Race – Incident onboard 11th Hour Racing
At 1541 UTC on Thursday, May 25, while racing in Leg 5 of The Ocean Race, 11th Hour Racing Team activated its Hazard Button to alert Race Control and the wider fleet they had hit something, suspected to be a…
Ireland’s Pam Lee prepares for Transatlantic Jacques Vabre
Cap pour Elles, Ireland’s Pam Lee prepares for first big racing challenge on course to autumn’s Transatlantic Jacques Vabre Less than three months after being selected for the “Cap sur Elles” initiative – which provides support for a pair of…
Ocean Race – Dancing around the low
The leaders are approaching the middle of the low pressure system that has them racing north at a 500-mile day pace… It’s been a bumpy ride for the past two days of The Ocean Race as winds in the 25-30…
CYCA to adopt a single rating rule
Cruising Yacht Club of Australia to adopt single rating rule for the 2023/24 Audi Centre Sydney Blue Water Pointscore Over the years, IRC and ORCi rating rules have diverged. The complexity and workload for owners and crews in maintaining adherence…
Almost 500 entries for 50th Fastnet Race
The 50th anniversary edition of the Royal Ocean Racing Club’s flagship event, the Rolex Fastnet Race will set sail in just under two months’ time on Saturday, 22nd July from Cowes to Cherbourg-en-Cotentin in northern France via the Fastnet Rock….
Ocean Race – Speeding towards the target
The boats are taking advantage of favourable conditions to leave Newport behind, with Aarhus in their sights It’s been a fast 24 hours in The Ocean Race, with teams making around 500 miles towards the target of the finish line…
Talk turns to weather for inaugural Sydney to Auckland Ocean Race
As interest builds in the inaugural Sydney to Auckland Ocean Race, to start Saturday 7 October 2023 on Sydney Harbour, talk has turned to likely weather patterns, so organisers at Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club (RPAYC) naturally turned to world-renowned…
Ocean Race – 11th Hour Racing Team leads into the Atlantic
The IMOCA fleet moves east into the open ocean It’s 11th Hour Racing Team at the head of the fleet on Monday as the four racing IMOCAs push east into the Atlantic Ocean. After being squeezed between two Marine Mammal…
Team Malizia wins Newport In Port Race and leads fleet towards the open Atlantic
It was a picture-perfect day in Newport for the start of leg 5 across the Atlantic Ocean to Aarhus, Denmark Newport, Rhode Island earned its title as one of the great homes of sailing on Sunday providing beautiful conditions for…
Pro Sailing Tour’s testing second leg sets scene for dramatic ‘Final Rush’
A shortened course, racers just a minute apart, and a second victory for Erwan Le Roux and Keosio — the challenging second stage of the Pro Sailing Tour has set the scene for Sunday’s dramatic finale. The five Ocean Fifty…
Ocean Race – Newport In Port Race postponed
Due to deteriorating weather, Saturday’s In Port Race in Newport has been postponed and will now be incorporated into the start of Leg 5. Safety is a top priority for The Ocean Race. With a forecast for increasing winds, deteriorating…
Plymouth Fastnet 500 set to be a regular feature
The 2nd edition of the Plymouth Fastnet 500 takes place on Sunday 13th August. Starting on and finishing from Plymouth Sound, this is a great option to see the Fastnet rock in all its splendour without the logistical headaches before…
Ocean Race – The fight for first starts in Newport
Three teams are within one point at the top of the leaderboard… Four IMOCA teams will compete in the Newport In Port Race on Saturday before heading off across the Atlantic as The Ocean Race leaves the Americas and returns…
Pro Sailing Tour 2023 sees dramatic end to the first stage
The first leg of the 2023 Pro Sailing Tour concluded in dramatic fashion on Sunday with the leading two trimarans separated by less than one minute after 42 hours of high-intensity racing. Erwan Le Roux on Koesio – racing with…
Pro Sailing Tour 2023 is off to a flying start
The 2023 edition of the Pro Sailing Tour got off to a flying start today as a quintet of high-performance foiling trimarans were launched from La Seyne-sur-Mer in southeastern France on what promised to be a frenetic first leg across…
GGR – Day 249 – Capt. Gugg finishes 2022 GGR!
Dateline: Les Sables d’Olonne, Friday, 12th of May, 2023 Michael Guggenberger (AUT) started the race with a few impediments compared to other entrants in the GGR. First, he is coming from land-locked Austria when most of the other entrants grew…
Fourth time lucky for Fastnet Race monohull line honours?
While the top prize in the Rolex Fastnet Race is the Fastnet Challenge Cup for the winner of IRC Overall, considerable kudos comes with finishing first on the water. This will be especially true for the monohull line honours winner…
Ocean Race – Biotherm complete the Leg 4 podium
With Leg 4 now finished, three teams are within one point on the overall leaderboard… Skipper Paul Meilhat and his Biotherm team had a long wait to get to the finish on Thursday morning in Newport, Rhode Island. With an…
Ocean Race – 11th Hour Racing Team wins with Malizia second
Leg 4 results mean the leaderboard is close heading into the transatlantic leg 11th Hour Racing Team won Leg 4 of The Ocean Race, leading the fleet into their hometown of Newport, Rhode Island on a spectacular spring afternoon in…
Final push to Newport sees 11th Hour Racing Team and Malizia fighting for first
The leaders are within sight of each of other, racing in very light winds on the final morning of Leg 4 Wednesday has dawned with a beautiful morning in Newport, Rhode Island. It’s a cool, crisp, spring day, with bright…
GGR – Day 247 – Capt Gugg set for podium tomorrow
Capt Gugg Set for GGR Podium Tomorrow, Last of Three from 16 Starters! Dateline: Les Sables d’Olonne, Wednesday, 10th of May, 2023 With just under 200 miles to the finish in Les Sables d’Olonne and nearly 30,000 miles sailed over…
Ocean Race – GUYOT environnement dismasted in strong winds as 11th Hour leads
All safe on board GUYOT environnement – Team Europe as the fleet emerges from a heinous North Atlantic storm The GUYOT environnement – Team Europe crew is safe and working on a jury rig after dismasting in a fierce north…
Ocean Race – GUYOT environnement – Team Europe has dismasted, all onboard are safe
GUYOT environnement – Team Europe has dismasted in the north Atlantic, just over 600 miles east of Newport, Rhode Island. The team on board reports all crew are safe and are working to secure the boat. The team has been…
Ocean Race – Brutal hours ahead for the fleet
The forecast is for winds gusting near 50 knots as the leaders approach their penultimate night at sea on Leg 4… As the leading boats get within 600 miles of the finishing line off Newport, Rhode Island, the crews are…
Ocean Race – Battling towards the finish
11th Hour Racing Team and Team Malizia continue their cat and mouse duel towards a Wednesday morning finish… The competition level is high as 11th Hour Racing Team and Team Malizia duel towards the finish. “11th Hour Racing Team is…
Ocean Race – Strange days at sea
A gap between the forecast and the reality brings challenges to the IMOCA fleet While the IMOCA fleet is making progress towards the finishing line at Newport, Rhode Island on Saturday, it hasn’t all been smooth sailing. 11th Hour Racing…
