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Kiel – Portsmouth: Ready for Leg 1 The opening leg of The Ocean Race Europe, starting this Sunday afternoon, promises to be a demanding one. On the menu between Kiel, Germany and Portsmouth, England: The Baltic Sea, the North Sea,…
The Admiral’s Cup is back – reborn after more than two decades. Following over two years of planning and preparation by the Royal Ocean Racing Club, its revival marked a defining moment in the Club’s centenary celebrations and the 100th…
The Ocean Race Europe has opened in Kiel with sailors, teams, stakeholders and fans enjoying the festivities in Ocean Live Park and the speed runs on the waters off the Kiel Canal ahead of the race start scheduled for Sunday…
COWES, 6 August 2025: The centenary Rolex Fastnet Race delivered all the drama and glory offshore sailing fans could ask for, as over 440 yachts took on the legendary 695-mile challenge. From Léon’s overall IRC victory to Black Jack 100’s…
The Admiral’s Cup is back – reborn after more than two decades. Following over two years of planning and preparation by the Royal Ocean Racing Club, its revival marked a defining moment in the Club’s centenary celebrations and the 100th…
Will Baum didn’t grow up in a sailing family—but that didn’t stop him from falling in love with the sport. At 12 years old, he was “thrown into a cadet” and never looked back. By 16, he was working in…
Cherbourg-en-Cotentin: 31 July 2025: Alexis Loison and Jean-Pierre Kelbert’s JPK 1050 Léon has been crowned overall winner of the Rolex Fastnet Race. No other boat still racing on the 695 nautical mile course can catch the French doublehanded duo for overall…
Source – Marine Rescue Port Stephens Facebook PAN PAN at Sea – Medical Emergency 25 Nautical Miles Offshore At 8:45am on Sunday morning 27 July, Marine Rescue Port Stephens received a PAN PAN call via marine radio — a specific…
CHERBOURG-EN-CONTENTIN, 29 July 2025: Remon Vos’ RP100 Black Jack 100, skippered by Tristan Le Brun, has taken Monohull Line Honours in the centenary edition of the Rolex Fastnet Race. The sleek 100-footer and her 19 crew crossed the finish line…
‘Catch Me If You Can’ – Smuggler Puts Down the Hammer and Goes Unchallenged The reigning Audi Centre Sydney Blue Water Champion, Smuggler, set a clear goal to open her offshore season with strength and continue her streak of top performances. She delivered on…
CHERBOURG-EN-CONTENTIN, 28 July 2025: As dawn was showing its first rays this morning off Cherbourg-en-Cotentin, so the sleek light blue triple-hulled form of the Ultim trimaran SVR Lazartigue sped across the finish line of the 51st Rolex Fastnet Race to…
CHERBOURG-EN-CONTENTIN, 27 July: Compared to the morning after the start of the last two Rolex Fastnet Races, this year’s special centenary edition has seen just a tiny number of retirements as the frontrunners fan out across the Celtic Sea and…
COWES, 26 July: Spectators in their thousands swarmed Cowes Green and the shores of the western Solent to witness the starts of the 51st Rolex Fastnet Race from 1120 until 1320 BST today. This year’s event marks the centenary of…
Noakes Sydney Gold Coast Yacht Race The Weather Gods Promised – and Delivered The start gun for the 2025 Noakes Sydney Gold Coast Yacht Race fired at 1300hrs sharp, sending the fleet off in stunning conditions. The early morning clouds and light…
COWES, 25 July: For the 444 yachts entered in the Royal Ocean Racing Club’s centennial Rolex Fastnet Race all eyes remain on the weather going into the last hours before the start tomorrow (Saturday 26 July). This looks set to be…
Third and final trophy ceremony recognizes overall winners, special awards & more The 2025 Transpacific Yacht Race celebrated its Final Awards Ceremony and Closing Party on Saturday, July 19, at the Kaneohe Yacht Club, in Kaneohe, Hawaii. The last of…
Get ready to celebrate the world’s best sailing photographs of the year The 16th edition of the Pantaenius Yacht Racing Image Award will once again reassemble the world’s best marine photographers from all over the world. The prize giving will…
Cowes, 20 July 2025: The Admiral’s Cup got underway with a light start for the 160nm Channel Race but by the next morning the fleet returned with all of the crews soaking wet and bleary eyed, having gone through the…
Olympian Lisa Darmanin and Rolex Sydney Hobart Winner Jack Macartney to Lead Live Broadcast of Noakes Sydney Gold Coast Yacht Race The Cruising Yacht Club of Australia (CYCA) is pleased to confirm Olympian Darmanin and 2022 & 2024 Rolex Sydney…
IMOCAs in the Rolex Fastnet Race: ocean racing’s state of the art Cowes, 16 July 2025: One of the most historic and eternally ground-breaking oceanic racing yacht classes is the IMOCA. These 60 footers are the world’s most advanced offshore…
Earning the podium: How Transpac’s first finishers did it. From a maxi-sled to a doublehanded keelboat and a 68-foot catamaran, the first teams to reach Diamond Head are as varied as they are inspiring. Few finish lines are more spectacular—or…
Cowes, 14 July 2025: The countdown is on for the return of one of sailing’s most iconic international regattas – the Admiral’s Cup. Revived by the Royal Ocean Racing Club (RORC) for its centenary year and to be held biennially thereafter, the 2025 edition…
The Ocean Racing Club of Victoria (ORCV) is proud to announce Will Farnell as the recipient of the 2025 Youth Sailor of the Year award—a young sailor whose love for the sea runs generations deep and whose commitment to the sport has already made…
Posted by ICARUS Sports 11 July 2025Behind the first wave of finishers yesterday morning, yesterday and last night’s steadier breezes helped sweep in another wave of Monohull and Multihull finishers to the race finish at Cape Sounion. Based on their…
COWES, 10 July 2025: Could two new JPK 1050s upset the apple cart in IRC Two? Jean-Pierre Kelbert (whose initials constitute the brand name of his successful line of boats) has a habit of breaking the mould in IRC racing, and…
10 July 2025 – Lavrion, GRE – As the fastest teams crossed the finish line today at Cape Sounion and made their way to the harbor at Olympic Marine, there were exhausted smiles all around. After nearly 4 days of battle at sea in…
6 July 2025 – Lavrion, GRE – At the very southern tip of the Greek mainland, near Cape Sounion in Attica, the start of the 5th edition of the AEGEAN 600 unfolded in perfect fashion: cloudless blue skies, crystal-clear waters, and a steady 12–15 knots of northerly wind to propel…
Largest boats with the longest waterlines already burning up the miles to Hawaii. The 20 biggest, fastest boats racing in the 2025 Transpac began their offshore sprint from Los Angeles, California, to Honolulu, Hawaii, today. Ranging in length from 51…
Some people drift into sailing. Rachel Mcguigan charged in—eyes up, hands on, no time to waste. When she first spoke to Leo Cantwell, skipper of Aileron, he asked her straight: “What do you want to learn?” Her answer was clear…
Seventeen boats begin the 2,225-mile Pacific Crossing in light air conditions in Transpac’s second start The chase is on in the 53rd edition of the 2025 Transpacific Yacht Race, with 17 boats in three divisions departing Los Angeles today on…
Cowes, Isle of Wight, England — It was rush hour in Cowes on Day 15 of the west-to-east Transatlantic Race 2025, as boats crossed the finish line in Cowes within minutes of each other after an epic 3,000-mile battle for…
Sixteen boats hit the line for the first start of three in the 2025 Transpac. Next stop: Hawaii. The 16 boats that crossed the starting line today in the 2025 Transpac are up against the challenge of a lifetime. As…
COWES, UK: 27 June 2025: One month remains until the 26 July start of the Rolex Fastnet Race, this year celebrating both its centenary as well as that of the club it spawned: the Royal Ocean Racing Club. At present 469…
Volvo 70 Tschüss 2 (USA), owned by Christian Zugel and co-skippered by Johnny Mordaunt, has taken Line Honours in the West to East Transatlantic Race 2025 in an elapsed time of 07 Day 15 Hrs 29 Mins and 10 Secs. Tschüss 2…
Transatlantic Race 2025 – Organized by the New York Yacht Club and the Royal Ocean Racing Club, with support from the Royal Yacht Squadron and the Storm Trysail Club. Six days into the West-East Transatlantic Race, Christian Zugel’s Volvo 70 Tschüss…
The Rushour crew safely returned to Noumea following the capsize of their vessel at approximately 1.15AM Tuesday morning. Timeline of events We commend the professionalism of the authorities, the exemplary solidarity of fellow competitors at sea, and the effectiveness of…
On Saturday at 9:00 AM, as the time limit expired, the long offshore race of the Loro Piana Giraglia 2025 officially came to an end. The 72nd edition was marked by high pressure and light winds yet remained full of charm,…
Loro Piana Giraglia, the Yacht Club Italiano’s offshore race from Saint-Tropez to Genoa via the Giraglia Rock, and fifth event in the International Maxi Association’s 2024-25 Mediterranean Maxi Offshore Challenge, has often seen leader changes in its last miles, but…
The Royal Ocean Racing Club (RORC) has long acknowledged the slow but steady path toward gender inclusion in offshore sailing. For the forthcoming Admiral’s Cup, every boat must have at least one woman, as well as another sailor under 27….
At exactly 11:55 on Wednesday, the starting procedures kicked off on the line off Saint-Tropez, sending the fleet toward the Giraglia rock. A total of 97 yachts are now racing along the 241-nautical-mile course that will take them around the…
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