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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…
0800hrs (AEDT) | Friday 30 December For a brief moment in the 2022 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, Thomas Kneen, the British owner of the JPK 11.80 Sunrise, thought: “This is ridiculous. Why are we doing this?” It was on…
1830hrs (AEDT) | Thursday 29 December It was never going to be anything but emotionally charged when Sam Haynes and his Celestial crew were crowned overall winners of the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race. Haynes and some of the same…
Maritimo 11 has won line honours in the Ocean Racing Club of Victoria’s 50th anniversary Melbourne to Hobart Yacht Race in Hobart today. In a time of 2 day 1 hours 22 minutes and 2 seconds, Michael Spies skippered the…
Maritimo, the 54-foot Schumacher skippered by veteran sailor Michael Spies, looks set to take line honours in the 50th anniversary Melbourne to Hobart Yacht Race. On current estimates, Maritimo is expected to cross the finish line around 10am on Thursday…
Calero Marinas – Marina Lanzarote, Arrecife, Canary Islands to Camper & Nicholsons Port Louis Marina, Grenada The New Year heralds a big season for the Royal Ocean Racing Club, including the 14th edition of the RORC Transatlantic Race. The longest…
1600hrs (AEDT) | Wednesday 28 December A year ago, Sam Haynes was on the brink of quitting sailing in disappointment after his hopes of overall victory in the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race were dashed by a protest. Today, Haynes…
The focus of offshore racing is often on the performance of maxi and super maxi yachts, but in the Ocean Racing Club of Victoria’s 50th anniversary Melbourne to Hobart Yacht Race, several of the 35 to 40 footers in the…
1200hrs (AEDT) | Wednesday 28 December The Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race was today treated to an edge of the seat battle for fifth place on line honours between two boats in the fleet – Willow and Stefan Racing. Soon…
Tasmanian Boats in hunt for the prestigious Heemskerk Perpetual Trophy in the 50th Anniversary Melbourne to Hobart Yacht Race Tasmanian boat Rumbeat, skippered by Justin Barr from the Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania, with co-skipper and fellow Farr 1104 yacht…
1000hrs (AEDT) | Wednesday 28 December With Line Honours done and dusted, the focus of the 2022 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race turns to contenders for the Tattersall Cup, awarded to the overall winner, and since the race began on…
John ‘Herman’ Winning Jr has set his sights on back-to-back Line Honours wins in the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race with Andoo Comanche after the maxi claimed this year’s title. Early this morning, Winning Jr skippered the champion 100-footer to…
0130hrs (AEDT) | Wednesday 28 December It may not have been a race record run and it wasn’t a daylight finish, but the 2022 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race was a thriller from start to finish, with Andoo Comanche taking…
Hundreds of spectators crowded Portsea Pier and Port Phillip Bay today to watch the start of the 50th Anniversary Melbourne to Hobart Yacht Race, hosted by the Ocean Racing Club of Victoria, in magnificent conditions on Port Phillip Bay. Under…
On the eve of the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, Craig Neil’s TP52 Quest sits in her pen at the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia, equipped for the strong northerly winds that have been forecast. Sails have been tested, boat…
The 2022 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race got off to a fast and dramatic start today. The assisting downwind conditions once the boats turned right at the Heads could see the first boat cross the finish line as early as…
The 50th Anniversary Melbourne to Hobart Yacht Race is set to be one of the most memorable in history with the weather gods sending a late Christmas gift to the fleet, a swift sail to Hobart and potential entry into…
Representatives from the Australian Sailing Team will be boarding boats on Boxing Day to take part in the iconic 628 nautical mile Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race. Nacra 17 helmsman Jason Waterhouse and 49er crew Joel Turner will be teaming…
The race for Overall victory in the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race can often remain wide open for several days and hinge on the slightest and most unexpected shift in weather conditions. But for the first time, this year the…
Elliott Smith, fortitude incarnate. What a difference an ocean makes. Elliott Smith (USA) had a hard time sailing South, dealing with intense frustration in wind holes. He rose up to the challenge and after numerous repairs and eventually found the…
Skippers and crews from the near 50 boat fleet are counting down the days to the start of the 50th anniversary of the Ocean Racing Club of Victoria’s (ORCV) Melbourne to Hobart Yacht Race and as final preparations are made,…
December 16th at 20H54 hours UTC the Franco-Japanese crew of MILAI Around The World was first across the leg 5 finish line at the entrance to the Beagle Channel, which leads to the Argentinean town of Ushuaia. Hours earlier, Masa…
Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club (RPAYC) has launched the new Australian Ocean Racing Championship (AORC) today, an annual event that will be inaugurated with the Bunbury and Return Ocean Race (Western Australian) in February 2023 and conclude with the Rolex…
The East Coast Classic. Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club (RPAYC) invites competitors to participate in the Pittwater to Coffs Harbour Yacht Race 2023. The race commences on Friday 31 March 2023 at 1300hrs with a race presentation on Sunday at…
Press release n°35 – 12th December 2022 Around 1,000 miles from Cape Horn, the GLOBE40 crews are having to contend with a succession of depressions, the latest one fuelling winds of up to 50 knots. Though the skippers aren’t currently…
Kathy Veel and Bridget Canham are two experienced sailors and the only two-handed female crew from among the 22 entered in the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race this year – and on the second smallest boat in the fleet. Veel,…
The Golden Globe Race fleet is stretched 5000 miles across the Southern Ocean and is not short of stories, with just nine sailors still bound for Les Sables d’Olonne in France – and they are not even halfway! The weather,…
Sandringham Yacht Club’s Gerry Cantwell, skipper of Marten 49 Performance Cruiser Carrera S, credits Victorian boat builder Bernie Webber, with piquing his interest in sailing the Melbourne to Hobart (Westcoaster). “Bernie encouraged me to buy Carrera S and filled me…
It was a clean sweep for co-skippers Nigel Jones and Cam McKenzie on their J111 yacht ‘Ginan’ in the Ocean Racing Club of Victoria’s (ORCV) West Offshore Products Coastal Sprint 2, where thirty yachts enjoyed what could only be described…
Mistral is the first two-handed boat to win overall honours in one of the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s major races, with co-skippers Rupert Henry and Greg O’Shea leading a two-handed sweep of the podium in the 2022 Cabbage Tree…
In October 2023, the Transat Jacques Vabre Normandie Le Havre will celebrate its 30th anniversary in Le Havre ahead of the famous two-handed Transatlantic race heads to Martinique, where the finish of the race, known as the Route du Café,…
Andoo Comanche set a new record time to take line honours in the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s 2022 Cabbage Tree Island Race. The 100-foot maxi, skippered by John Winning Jr, finished the 172 nautical mile race in 12 hours,…
A new trophy is announced for the VO65 one design class in The Ocean Race 2022-23. Along with five confirmed IMOCA teams racing around the world, up to five VO65 teams will be on the starting line in Alicante, Spain…
Switzerland’s 32nd placed IMOCA Oliver Heer: “I had my doubts I would make it back into the race” Swiss skipper Oliver Heer (Oliver Heer Ocean Racing) crossed the finish line of the 12th Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe at 01:37:55hrs TU…
On the eve of her 60th birthday, sailing the famous ‘Cigar Rouge’ – the boat on which she became the first woman to complete the Vendée Globe in 1996/7 – Catherine Chabaud completed a successful, popular return to ocean racing…
With just over one month to go until the start of the 2023 RORC Transatlantic Race, Marina Lanzarote is ready to receive the international fleet which will set off on Sunday 8th of January for the 3,000-mile race across the…
Advantedge (Andrew Jones) may have taken line honours with a new Two Capes Race record of 11hrs 8mins, but it was a clean podium sweep by the smaller teams for the overall IRC win, ORC and PHS handicaps after a…
Today at 15:00 hours local time (01:00 UTC Sunday), the Gobe40 crews set sail on Leg 5 in Matavai Bay to the north of Tahiti, bound for the Argentinean stopover of Ushuaia via the legendary yet feared Cape Horn. A…
Friday night into Saturday’s early hours The Memorial ACTe, Pointe-à-Pitre’s giant structure, dedicated to the history, heritage and memories of the Caribbean slave trade, watched on as the busiest spell of finishers completed the 12th edition of the Route du…
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