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Moderate trade winds have the teams speeding north Moderate easterly tradewinds have provided a speedy 24 hours of racing for the four IMOCAs charging north towards the doldrums. 24 hour distance runs have nearly doubled (although are still far off…
The fleet is slow and the only relief will come from stronger tradewinds ahead of the doldrums early next week The four boats racing north are in a challenging position. The wind is very light and unstable. The result? 24…
Charlie Enright’s team is heading the fleet, while Kevin Escoffier is under jury rig to Rio and a race to rejoin It’s been a long speed contest for the four IMOCA racing to the northeast, away from the Brazilian coast….
Dateline: Les Sables d’Olonne, Friday, 28th of April, 2023 It’s been a long time in the making for Kirsten Neuschäfer who got becalmed just hours before going through the finish line, off the coast on the world’s solo sailing capital…
Kevin Escoffier’s team is down but not out after dismasting while leading Leg 4… Near 0500 UTC, while the boat was racing east in moderate northerly winds and sea state, the mast on Team Holcim-PRB came crashing down. Skipper Kevin…
The fleet is squeezing between the coast and an exclusion zone, keeping the racing tight… The five IMOCAs in The Ocean Race fleet are short tacking up the coast of Brazil, squeezed between the land to the west and an…
Dateline: Les Sables d’Olonne, Tuesday, 25th of April, 2023 The trio of Simon, Kirsten and Abhilash are close now sailing within 170 miles of each other as they approach the Bay of Biscay and the final run toward Les Sables…
The fleet is still close, but small differences are emerging as the navigators seek the strongest winds It hasn’t been a straightforward start to leg 4 of The Ocean Race as the IMOCA teams zig-zag away from the coast of…
Teams are in a pure speed contest, with the five boat fleet racing within sight of each other It was GUYOT environnement – Team Europe sailor Annie Lush who said the opening days of Leg 4 would be a “trim…
The second half of The Ocean Race is on as the fleet races north out of Brazil Nearly 350,000 fans visited the Ocean Live Park in Itajaí, Brazil this month to celebrate The Ocean Race stopover. And on Sunday, Leg…
After thirty-five days at sea, Team Malizia has won the third leg of The Ocean Race. It was the longest ever stage in this team race around the world, clocking up 12,750 nautical miles. This superb performance from Boris Herrmann…
Dateline: Les Sables d’Olonne, Friday, 21st of April, 2023 229 days from the start with just one week till the finish in Les Sables d’Olonne with 29.000 miles under the keel, Abhilash Tomy (IND) BAYANAT and Kirsten Neuschäfer (ZAF) are…
It was start to finish domination by 11th Hour Racing Team in Brazil 11th Hour Racing Team led the In-Port Race from start to finish in Itajaí, Brazil on Friday. The win moved the American team to the top of…
There are changes up and down the leaderboard as teams rotate crew ahead of leg 4 start Crew rotation is proving to be a big feature in this edition of The Ocean Race. For Leg 4, some big crew changes…
It’s always good to make friends with your neighbors … Witness a remarkable exchange between sailors racing against the forces of nature in the Southern Ocean and NASA astronauts on the largest modular space station in low Earth orbit. These…
An extraordinary phenomenon of modern day yacht racing, especially considering their cost and complexity: 40 IMOCAs are due to compete in the next Vendée Globe in 2024. The majority of these 60 footers, many of them foil-born flying machines, will…
James Irvine is the latest to sign on for the inaugural Sydney to Auckland Ocean Race and represents the first interstate entrant for the Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club’s (RPAYC) race, which starts on Saturday, 7 October 2023 and finishes…
It was 1740 UTC when Ian Herbert Jones first saw the Taiwanese Fishing Vessel ZI DA WANG arriving from the North. 26 hours before, the Shropshire sailor closing the GGR fleet in the southern Atlantic was unable to make contact…
Dateline: Les Sables d’Olonne, Monday, 10th of April, 2023 At 1540UTC Ian Herbert Jones SKIPPER PUFFIN rang the GGR Race Office on Iridium phone to advise that he was in extreme weather and confused sea, 50 knots, gusting over 70…
The classic pint-sized yachts have proven their might weathering this year’s brutal and long 75th Brisbane to Gladstone Yacht Race which set sail on Good Friday (7 April) with the oldest yacht in the race fleet winning overall on corrected…
Celestial was the first yacht across the Gladstone Harbour finish line at dawn on Sunday morning in what has been a historic but brutal 75th Brisbane to Gladstone Yacht Race (75th B2G). 2022 Rolex Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race overall…
QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA: There are still 38 of the original 46 starting fleet out on course racing one of Australia’s oldest and most iconic yacht races, the Gladstone Ports Corporation 75th Brisbane to Gladstone Yacht Race which set sail on Good…
In the northern hemisphere, it’s been tense for Kirsten Neuschäfer (ZAF), in less wind than her runner-up for longer. Every time it looks like she’s losing the lead, she finds the resources to grab some miles back, or clutch to…
It was a wet start today for one of Australia’s oldest yacht races, the Gladstone Ports Corporation 75th Brisbane to Gladstone Yacht Race which set sail at 11am on friday from Moreton Bay. Challenging conditions lie ahead for the 46…
9 months of competition, 8 unprecedented stopovers, 25 competing skippers, 35,000 nautical miles sailed around the planet… the Globe40 film in english version is online! IMAGE IN FRANCE is offering viewers a wonderful 38-minute showcase of this extraordinary human and…
11th Hour Racing Team earn final podium position for Leg 3 with Biotherm taking fourth place in the longest Leg in race history… As skipper Charlie Enright put it, this wasn’t the finish they wanted, but it was a massive…
Biotherm and 11th Hour Racing Team are fighting for third place points as they race towards Itajaí With leg 3 winner Team Malizia and second-place finisher Team Holcim-PRB safe in Itajaí, the battle on the water for third place has…
The Ocean Race leaderboard is beginning to take shape after two teams crossed the finishing line in Itajaí on Sunday morning. The Leg 3 winner is Team Malizia. Led by skipper Boris Herrmann, the Malizia crew fought hard for the…
Rupert Henry’s Mistral, co-skippered by Greg O’Shea, has been announced winner of the 2023 Pittwater to Coffs Harbour Yacht Race from another double-handed crew, Jules Hall and Jan ‘Cloggs’ Scholten on Disko Trooper Contender Sailcloth. The two boats from the…
Brutal weather overnight on Friday night was another hard blow to the sailors… It was the last thing they needed. A quick, deepening low pressure system bringing winds in excess of 40 knots, a sickening sea state, and another massive…
It’s been an eventful week throughout the fleet. The last entrant Ian Herbert-Jones restarted yesterday from Chile joining the Chichester Class. While in the Northern Hemisphere, at the other end of the fleet stretching 4,000 miles, the battle for first…
Nobody can break free on final push towards a Sunday finish Tension, exhaustion, and extreme emotional swings through elation and despair. That’s likely to be the mood on board Team Holcim-PRB and Team Malizia all the way to the finish…
Dale Mitchell and his crew on Rex, the ORMA 60 multihull from Queensland, early this morning broke the multihull record in the 2023 Pittwater to Coffs Harbour Yacht Race – by 5 seconds – it seemed to suit the occasion…
LATEST UPDATE – New Race Multihull Record …REX finished 06:08:00 this morning. A lovely 8-10 knot westerly marked the start of the Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club’s 37th Pittwater to Coffs Harbour Yacht Race, when it started off Barrenjoey Headland…
Offshore yacht racing’s greatest evolution recently has been the rise of doublehanding. No better demonstration of this is there than the Royal Ocean Racing Club’s 50th Rolex Fastnet Race, which sets sail from Cowes bound for Cherbourg on 22 July:…
Top pair engaged in close quarters battle off the coast of Argentina… As the calendar ticks over to the 33rd day of competition on Leg 3 of The Ocean Race, Team Malizia and Team Holcim-PRB are as close as ever….
When the gun fires sending the fleet on its way in the 2023 Pittwater to Coffs Harbour Yacht Race at 1pm, on Friday 31 March, Andoo Comanche’s crew will be chasing the race record of 17 hours 10 minutes 31…
All four boats are now in the Atlantic again, leaving the south behind, with Malizia at the head of the fleet Team Malizia continues to head the leaderboard in leg 3 of The Ocean Race after leading the fleet around…
The German team rule the south, leading past the iconic Cape Horn and winning the Roaring Forties trophy Team Malizia, who were contemplating a return to Cape Town after mast damage in the first days of leg 3, and who…
The fleet is expected to make Drake Passage and Cape Horn on Monday After 48 hours of building wind and seas, with gusts over 40 knots and waves approaching 7 metres, conditions are starting to moderate on Sunday with the…
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