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Season 2 of the Pro Sailing Tour, one of ocean racing’s most exciting new competitions, gets underway on Thursday in Bonifacio, Corsica, with two days of inshore racing on the agenda, followed by a round Corsica challenge that kicks-off on…
On Monday February 21, Australian sailor Lisa Blair set sail from Albany, WA in a second attempt to sail solo, non-stop, around Antarctica in record time aboard her yacht ‘Climate Action Now’. Blair is still trying to raise money to…
On Monday February 21, Australian sailor Lisa Blair set sail from Albany, WA in a second attempt to sail solo, non-stop, around Antarctica in record time aboard her yacht ‘Climate Action Now’. Blair is still trying to raise money to…
On Monday February 21, Australian sailor Lisa Blair set sail from Albany, WA in a second attempt to sail solo, non-stop, around Antarctica in record time aboard her yacht ‘Climate Action Now’. Blair is still trying to raise money to…
On Monday February 21, Australian sailor Lisa Blair set sail from Albany, WA in a second attempt to sail solo, non-stop, around Antarctica in record time aboard her yacht ‘Climate Action Now’. Blair is still trying to raise money to…
On Monday February 21, Australian sailor Lisa Blair set sail from Albany, WA in a second attempt to sail solo, non-stop, around Antarctica in record time aboard her yacht ‘Climate Action Now’. Blair is still trying to raise money to…
The first Infiniti 52 Tulikettu, designed by Hugh Welbourn, has been lost in the North Atlantic after colliding with an unidentified floating object. It is the only 52 fitted with a Dynamic Stability Systems (DSS) retracting lateral foil, the same technology…
Team Malizia today presented its sailing crew with two new members, who will be with the team for The Ocean Race. Skipper Boris Herrmann, 40, will be joined by co-skipper Will Harris, 28, who has been part of the team…
The Global Solo Challenge (GSC) is a single-handed, non-stop, unassisted sailing event by the three Great Capes. Racing Rules of Sailing, however, do not apply, nor any class rules such as Imoca, Class40 or similar. Technically speaking, the GSC is not a…
On Monday February 21, Australian sailor Lisa Blair set sail from Albany, WA in a second attempt to sail solo, non-stop, around Antarctica in record time aboard her yacht ‘Climate Action Now’. Blair is still trying to raise money to…
Following recommendations, eligible two-handed entrants will now be able to compete for the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s (CYCA) most prestigious trophies, including the Tattersall Cup and John H. Illingworth Challenge Cup, awarded respectively to the overall winner and line…
Rex, the ORMA60 trimaran previously known as New Zealand’s Team Vodafone, has bettered the previous race record, set by Beau Geste MOD70 in 2019, by more than an hour in this year’s City Winery Brisbane to Gladstone Multihull Yacht Race….
It was announced today that former team watch captain Jack Bouttell (GBR/AUS) will take over the role of skipper for the Mirpuri Foundation Racing Team in the 2022 edition of The Mirpuri Foundation Sailing Trophy in July. A previous Volvo…
On Monday February 21, Australian sailor Lisa Blair set sail from Albany, WA in a second attempt to sail solo, non-stop, around Antarctica in record time aboard her yacht ‘Climate Action Now’. Blair is still trying to raise money to…
The team owned by Sailing Holland is back in The Ocean Race. Sailing Holland and DutchSail have announced that they will compete in the upcoming edition of The Ocean Race with Sailing Team ‘NextGen’ – a Dutch-owned team sailing on…
With just two weeks to go to the start of the Pro Sailing Tour season two (12 May-10 July), one of ocean racing’s most exciting new competitions, a multinational fleet of seven foiling trimarans (the eighth will join in Brest)…
Expectations and entries are running high as the Ocean Racing Club of Victoria (ORCV) prepares to host its 50th Melbourne to Hobart Yacht Race, with Cam McKenzie and Nigel Jones’ recently purchased J/111, Ginan, marking the occasion by being the 50th entry. …
On Monday February 21, Australian sailor Lisa Blair set sail from Albany, WA in a second attempt to sail solo, non-stop, around Antarctica in record time aboard her yacht ‘Climate Action Now’. Blair is still trying to raise money to…
On Monday February 21, Australian sailor Lisa Blair set sail from Albany, WA in a second attempt to sail solo, non-stop, around Antarctica in record time aboard her yacht ‘Climate Action Now’. Blair is still trying to raise money to…
Cowes: On August 7, 2022, a record 15 teams are planning to take on the marathon IRC Two-Handed for the 2022 Sevenstar Round Britain and Ireland Race. Short-handed racing with the RORC has been booming in recent years with 84…
Twenty-nine-years-old at the time of writing, Kevin Delprat from Guadaloupe in the French Antilles, is the youngest entry so far in the Global Solo Challenge 2023/2024. Despite his age, Kevin is one the most experience sailors to have signed up for…
Tim Olding’s Summit 35 Vertigo won the Ocean Racing Club of Victoria’s (ORCV) 55 nm West Offshore Products Coastal Sprint Race on a perfect sailing day. Sailing under beautiful sunshine with 10 knots of SE breeze, 11 yachts competed in…
On Monday February 21, Australian sailor Lisa Blair set sail from Albany, WA in a second attempt to sail solo, non-stop, around Antarctica in record time aboard her yacht ‘Climate Action Now’. In her latest blog post, it was a…
After over a month at sea, and an exceptionally close finish, WTC Logistics has claimed the win in Race 10 of Clipper Round the World Yacht Race: Sailing City – Qingdao Cup, crossing the finish line at 1830 UTC. The team, led…
Australian sailor Lisa Blair set sail from Albany, Western Australia on Monday February 21, in a second attempt to sail solo, non-stop, around Antarctica in record time aboard her yacht ‘Climate Action Now’.Blog Day 59 & 60Latitude 50 22.52SLongitude 07…
*Ten of the Clipper Race teams are racing on the final stretch of Leg 10: Sailing City Qingdao Cup into Seattle, USA after a long and enduring voyage across the North Pacific Ocean and are due to arrive at Bell…
On Monday February 21, Australian sailor Lisa Blair set sail from Albany, WA in a second attempt to sail solo, non-stop, around Antarctica in record time aboard her yacht ‘Climate Action Now’. In her latest blog post, Blair receives an…
The Royal Malta Yacht Club (RMYC) is pleased to confirm that the notice of race for 43rd Rolex Middle Sea Race is available online and yachts may already register their participation. Last year’s race attracted 114 yachts, a remarkable achievement given the ongoing backdrop…
French skipper Paul Meilhat will fulfil a lifelong dream in January 2023 when he leads Biotherm across the starting line of The Ocean Race on the waters off Alicante, Spain. Meilhat and his team will be racing one of the…
On Monday February 21, Australian sailor Lisa Blair set sail from Albany, WA in a second attempt to sail solo, non-stop, around Antarctica in record time aboard her yacht ‘Climate Action Now’. In her latest blog post, Blair gets excited…
With nine months to the start of the 2023 Cape to Rio race, the entries are starting to mount up and the race organisers confirmed that there are still a number of boats who are finalising plans and possible entries. Faros, a…
On Monday February 21, Australian sailor Lisa Blair set sail from Albany, WA in a second attempt to sail solo, non-stop, around Antarctica in record time aboard her yacht ‘Climate Action Now’. In her latest blog post, Blair gets some…
The Race Around, Class40’s official round-the-world offshore yacht race, has named La Rochelle, France as host city for its inaugural event in 2023. A location steeped in offshore sailing history, La Rochelle will become the home of The Race Around…
Matt Allen’s Ichi Ban has won the Gladstone Ports Corporation’s 74th annual Brisbane to Gladstone Yacht Race overall on handicap. Ichi Ban last won the race and the coveted Courier-Mail Cup in 2018, as well as the overall win in the 2021 Rolex Sydney to Hobart…
Blog day 55Latitude 51 17.05SLongitude 18 05.33WBarometer 1003Air Temp 4cLocal time – 0428 UTC-3LIVE TRACKER Hi all, Well I am happy to say that I basically slept the whole day. It was amazing… I went back to bed after finishing up…
Peter Harburg’s 100-foot Black Jack has taken line honours and smashed its own race record in the Gladstone Ports Corporation’s 74th annual Brisbane to Gladstone Yacht Race, crossing the Gladstone Harbour finish line at 3.13am Easter Saturday, 16th April 2022. Black Jack, the largest…
On Monday February 21, Australian sailor Lisa Blair set sail from Albany, WA in a second attempt to sail solo, non-stop, around Antarctica in record time aboard her yacht ‘Climate Action Now’. In her latest blog post, Blair was contemplating…
It was a spectacular spinnaker start for the 37 offshore racing yachts who are now racing 308 nautical miles up the coast to Gladstone for the Gladstone Ports Corporation’s 74th annual Brisbane to Gladstone Yacht Race which started at 11am today (Good…
On Monday February 21, Australian sailor Lisa Blair set sail from Albany, WA in a second attempt to sail solo, non-stop, around Antarctica in record time aboard her yacht ‘Climate Action Now’. In her latest blog post, Blair finds a…
As entries roll in for September’s Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup, the pinnacle event of the maxi racing calendar, the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda, the Yacht Club de Monaco and the International Maxi Association have joined forces to create a novel…
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