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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…
The Race of a Lifetime Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club (RPAYC) together with the Royal Akarana Yacht Club (RAYC) invite competitors to participate in the Sydney to Auckland Ocean Race 2023. A dramatic and compelling new ocean (and we mean…
It’s the final weekend in southern latitudes, in the waters the sailors in The Ocean Race call The Southern Ocean. In these Furious 50s, the winds and waves are on a one way track from west to east around Antarctica,…
Cape Horn is just over 1000 miles away, but they will be hard-earned miles… The teams have the end of the hardest part of the longest leg in the history of The Ocean Race in sight. An epic drone ‘movie’…
Way before the start of the Golden Globe Race in Les Sables d’Olonne, the last stretch to Cape Horn was always a concern for Ian Herbert-Jones (GBR) It became more of a worry for him in the South Atlantic when…
The weather is forecast to provide one final taste of Southern Ocean conditions on the approach to Cape Horn. For 50 years of The Ocean Race, sailors have considered the Southern Ocean leg, the racing that takes place between Cape…
It’s a drag race towards Cape Horn with the weather beginning to turn The Ocean Race fleet passed Point Nemo just after 17:30 UTC on Tuesday afternoon, leaving the most remote and isolated place on the ocean in their wake….
QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA: A fleet of 47 offshore racing yachts will line up to make sailing history when they contest Australia’s second oldest blue water yacht race – the Gladstone Ports Corporation 75th Brisbane to Gladstone Yacht Race (B2G) which sets…
The Ocean Race fleet is still racing close together as they approach the most isolated place on the planet The four IMOCAs charging towards Cape Horn are approaching Point Nemo on Tuesday. Defined as the most isolated, remote place on…
The 9th Melbourne Osaka Cup, the longest longitudinal short-handed crewed race in the world, is open for entry. With 152 expressions of interest from around 11 countries, the 5500 nautical miles which traverses the Pacific from South to North is…
Canadian competitor Mélodie Schaffer rounded off her circumnavigation of the globe today by crossing the finish line of the final leg in Lorient at 09H20 hours UTC. Aboard her WHISKEY JACK with American Tom Pierce, she completes the course in…
Incredibly, the 4 IMOCAs are lined up alongside each other in a slow drag race to the east On Saturday it seemed as if the race couldn’t get any closer. By Sunday morning UTC that was proved wrong. Today, all…
Unusual conditions have seen fleet compress further to the point of a ‘re-start’… As forecast, lighter than usual conditions just ahead of the fleet have provided an effective re-start of leg 3, just after the four IMOCAs reached the halfway…
GRYPHON SOLO2: THE END OF THE GREAT ADVENTURE AROUND THE PLANET The American competitor GRYPHON SOLO 2 crossed the GLOBE40 finish line today in front of Lorient at 07:53 UTC. In 3rd position on this leg Joe Harris and Roger…
Appropriately, given the 2023 Rolex Fastnet Race will be the 50th edition of the Royal Ocean Racing Club’s premier event, a significant number of classic yachts are entered, competing for the Dorade Cup. In 2021, Paul Moxon’s Amokura was the…
As four IMOCAs march past the halfway point of leg 3 in southern latitudes, GUYOT environnement – Team Europe starts sailing towards Brazil to rejoin the next leg… Team Holcim PRB retains its lead on Thursday, as the fleet compresses…
Off Lorient, Brittany, the Dutch crew on SEC HAYAI made up of Frans Budel and Ysbrand Endt, crossed the finish line of the 8th and final leg of the GLOBE40 at 19:41 UTC this Wednesday. The Anglo-American crew on AMHAS,…
The race continues while each team battles to keep boats operating in racing trim Following the distribution of points at the scoring gate on Sunday, teams are now consolidating their positions and working through job lists to keep the boats…
Teams focus on ice limits and Cape Horn after collecting points It’s back to work Monday for the IMOCA sailors in The Ocean Race. Following record breaking conditions on Saturday and the leg 3 scoring gate on Sunday, the workaday…
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