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The first entries have been received for the Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club (RPAYC), and Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron (RNZYS) hosted inaugural Sydney to Auckland Ocean Race, due to start on Saturday, 7 October 2023, at 1pm. Postponed in…
The IMOCA fleet is sailing fast towards Cabo Verde, with the VO65s holding close The Swiss-flagged Holcim-PRB team remains at the head of the IMOCA fleet on Wednesday as all five boats are setting a blistering pace directly towards Cabo…
Plymouth Fastnet 500 – entry opens on Wednesday Jan 18th 2023. The Royal Western Yacht Club will once again host the Plymouth Fastnet 500 race in August 2023. RWYC Commodore, Chris Arscott said, “The ‘500’ had its inaugural race in…
Crews break out of Med and into the Atlantic after two days of gruelling conditions… Day two of The Ocean Race had the fleet searching for calmer waters by heading towards the Spanish coastline to avoid the worst of the…
The Polish National Foundation’s Volvo 70 I Love Poland (POL), skippered by Grzegorz Baranowski crossed the finish line outside Camper & Nicholsons Port Louis Marina, Grenada on Tuesday 17th January 2023. Taking Monohull Line Honours in under nine days, the…
Both fleets head into extreme conditions on approach to Gibraltar The opening 24 hours has been challenging, but not unexpected. After running into a quiet spell overnight, during which both fleets concertinaed the forecast has played out its threat with…
The 14th edition of The Ocean Race started on Sunday – both on the water and on your screen of choice! How to follow the start of The Ocean Race – click here Annie Lush, crew member of Guyot Environnement…
The 14th edition of The Ocean Race, the fully-crewed, around the world yacht race, started from Alicante, Spain on Sunday. As The Ocean Race celebrates its 50th jubilee anniversary, a fleet consisting of the best sailors in the world set…
The iconic around the world race is confirmed to start every four years, with intermediate races now added to the calendar. One day ahead of the start of the historic 50th Jubilee edition of The Ocean Race, race organisers have…
Saturday 14 January, Grenada: An impromptu RORC Transatlantic Race Multihull Awards was held at Camper & Nicholsons Port Louis Marina. Crew from Maserati Multi70, Snowflake and Zoulou gathered dockside. Past RORC Admiral and the Secretary General of the IMA, Andrew…
13 January 2023 – Grenada RORC Transatlantic Race – Multihull Line Honours Giovanni Soldini’s Maserati Multi70 crossed the finish line outside Camper & Nicholsons Port Louis Marina, Grenada on Friday 13th January 2023 at 19:46:26 UTC. Maserati Multi70 elapsed time…
Friday January 13, 2023 – Friday the 13th, a lucky day? The Maxi Edmond de Rothschild left her base in Lorient to head for Brest shortly after 12 noon local time today. Objective number one for Charles Caudrelier, Franck Cammas…
For some teams, the date of the skippers’ press conference sat amid an intensely hectic period as they prepared for the 32,000 mile, seven-leg, race around the world. For others, the date for facing the world’s cameras and microphones en…
12th January, Race Update: Day Five: At 0800 UTC on the fifth day of the RORC Transatlantic Race, three 70ft trimarans are under 1,000 miles from the finish at Camper & Nicholsons Port Louis Marina Grenada. Giovanni Soldini’s Maserati Multi70…
Michael Guggenberger (AUT) on NURI sailed through the Hobart Gate on January 3rd having sat becalmed for two days within sight of Tasmania. He was happy to arrive and decided to stay for two days to “tidy the boat, sleep,…
10th January, Update: Day Three 1200 UTC: At 1200 UTC on the third day of the RORC Transatlantic Race all of the teams have now left the Canary Islands and should not see land again until they arrive in the…
In 2021, TP52 Celestial was denied the honour of winning the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race on IRC corrected time due to a penalty for an infringement of the racing rules. But in 2022, Celestial owner and skipper Sam Haynes…
9th January, Update: Day Two 1000 UTC: At 1000 UTC on the second day of the RORC Transatlantic Race, three 70ft trimarans are now powered up on a tight reach, blasting through the Atlantic Ocean. The monohull fleet, racing for…
A quick look at the action on the water at start of the 9th edition of the RORC Transatlantic Race, which set off from Arrecife, Lanzarote on Sunday 8th January. After the teams competing in 20 boats from around the…
8th January 2023 Leg 6 of the GLOBE40 departed Ushuaia today at 10:00 hours local time. With the first competitor making landfall at the heart of the Argentinean region of TIERRA DEL FUEGO on 16 December, participants in the GLOBE40…
A light wind day in Alicante proved testing for both fleets on first day of competition in The Ocean Race. The Ocean Race 2022-23 started this weekend in Alicante, Spain with the opening of Ocean Live Park and the first…
Sunday 9th January, Lanzarote: A flotilla of spectator boats and a huge crowd in Marina Lanzarote witnessed the start of the 2023 RORC Transatlantic Race, which is supported by Calero Marinas, the International Maxi Association and the Yacht Club de…
The opening shots will be fired in The Ocean Race 2023 on Sunday with the start of the In-Port Race Series The battle for The Ocean Race begins this Sunday, 8 January, as the fleet prepares for the first In…
7 January 2023Today the World ARC 2023-24 fleet set off from Saint Lucia at 12 noon beginning their adventure of a lifetime following years of dreaming, thinking, planning and preparations. 19 yachts took the start from the 23 strong fleet…
The 9th edition of the RORC Transatlantic Race starts from Marina Lanzarote on Sunday 8th January, supported by Calero Marinas, the International Maxi Association and the Yacht Club de France. Crews are in final preparation for the 3,000-mile race to…
By Monte Bovill and James Dunlevie – ABC News A yacht abandoned during the Sydney to Hobart yacht race has washed ashore on one of Tasmania’s most remote beaches after drifting for a week, with concerns for the area’s culture…
Calero Marinas – Marina Lanzarote, Arrecife, Canary Islands to Camper & Nicholsons Port Louis Marina, Grenada Marina Lanzarote, 4 January 2023: Near perfect, record conditions are forecast for the start of the RORC Transatlantic Race, supported by Calero Marinas, the…
A sunny Cape Town provided the perfect backdrop for the Cape2Rio start on Monday 2 January. 16 teams left Royal Cape Yacht Club in and a light westerly wind of 10 knots for a 14h00 start just off Granger Bay….
11 boats are assembling in Alicante, Spain this week in final preparation for the start of The Ocean Race 2022-23. And the activity on shore is ramping up as well, with Alicante’s Ocean Live Park opening on Saturday 7 January….
Dateline: Les Sables d’Olonne, Sunday, 1st of January 2023 Boxing Day is always a special day in Australia as the Sydney to Hobart race fleet rushes south towards Tasmania. This long-standing sailing event is famous for its Maxi Yachts competing…
1330hrs (AEDT) | Saturday 31 December It took Carlos Aydos and co-skipper Peter Grayson half a day on the two-handed entry Crux to overcome the frustration of their botched start to the 2022 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race. Crux, an…
0830hrs (AEDT) | Sunday 1 January 2023 The arrival of Kathy Veel and Bridget Canham in Hobart last night was like something out of a fairytale; the last arrivals in the 2022 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race slipped into the…
1500hrs (AEDT) | Saturday 31 December Peter Langman sailed Maluka, the oldest and smallest yacht in the 2022 Rolex Sydney Hobart fleet, across the Castray Esplanade finish line in Hobart at 03:39:16pm yesterday afternoon – a huge achievement for the…
5pm, 31 December 2022 Maritimo 11 has been through the highs and lows of racing over the last few weeks, but capped 2022 off perfectly by winning line honours and every handicap category in which they were entered, in the…
2030hrs (AEDT) | Friday 30 December Rupert Henry and Greg O’Shea have sailed Henry’s Lombard 34, Mistral, to victory in the Two-Handed Division of the 2022 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, the pair also claiming the Two-Handed ORCi win and…
1800hrs (AEDT) | Friday 30 December It was an emotional ‘last drinks’ for the crew of White Bay 6 Azzurro as they sat on board the 34-footer for the last time after finishing the 2022 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race…
3pm 30 December 2022 Champagne sailing, storms, repairs and smiles – stories from the 50th Melbourne to Hobart Yacht Race 2022 As the Hobart docks fill with the 50th Melbourne to Hobart fleet and families hug and reunite, stories are…
1230hrs (AEDT) | Friday 30 December Sam Haynes has pledged to return for the 2023 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race in a bid to defend his TP52 Celestial’s title as the overall winner and holder of the Tattersall Cup. Haynes…
Fork in the Road limps in for Line Honours, Sundowner wins Overall FOR THE 2022 Willie Smith’s Launceston to Hobart Yacht Race. Bagging their 9th Line Honours win, Fork in the Road drifted by the Iron Pot at 11:00am yesterday…
7:30am 30 December 2022 While the crew of line honours winner Maritimo 11 is celebrating their win and have their fingers crossed for a clean sweep of all handicap divisions, half of the fleet is still at sea in the…
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