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Louis Burton and co-skipper Davy Beaudart reached the port of St Malo tonight with their damaged boat Bureau Vallée. They are the first boat forced to abandon this 15th edition of the Transat Jacques Vabre race following a dramatic dismasting…
The fleet competing in the 23rd Mini Transat EuroChef now boasts a lateral separation of nearly 600 miles. That is a colossal figure, which is also reflected in the gaps between the competitors. To the north, Antoine Bos (825 –…
On November 7 at 1327 CET, 11th Hour Racing Team’s two boats crossed the start line off Le Havre, France in the 2021 edition of the double-handed Transat Jacques Vabre. With two entries in the IMOCA Class, the team’s four…
David Griffith’s JV62 Whisper set the early tone to open the 2021/22 Audi Centre Sydney Blue Water Pointscore, winning fully-crewed overall and line honours in the Flinders Islet Race. Jules Hall and Jan Scholten were the first ever two-handed overall winners in…
This Saturday local time, after eight days of racing, the leaders in the 23rd Mini Transat EuroChef fleet are at the midway point in this second leg between Santa Cruz de La Palma and Saint-François. Though the remaining 1,350 miles…
In less than 48 hours’ time, the 15th Transat Jacques Vabre will set sail off Le Havre, below the high cliffs of Cap de la Hève, and in the Bassin de l’Eure, where the maxi Edmond de Rothschild has been…
As expected, those in the south have regained the advantage on the leader board in both the prototype and production boat fleets in the Mini Transat this Friday local time. The reasoning behind this is that the front runners are…
11th Hour Racing Team is getting ready for take off on the Transat Jacques Vabre offshore transatlantic race, starting on November 7 from the French port of Le Havre. Taking part in the 5,800-nautical mile marathon (10,750 kilometres), which finishes…
The next edition of The Ocean Race will feature the longest Southern Ocean leg in the 50-year history of the event, an incredible 12,750 nautical mile marathon between Cape Town, South Africa to Itajaí, Brazil. This is just one of…
This Thursday, the competitors further south in the 23rd Mini Transat EuroChef fleet have hung a right and are now on a direct route to the West Indies, propelled by the north-easterly trade winds. Sailors started the second leg of…
A fleet of over 26 yachts will contest the Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron’s Gascoigne Cup, one of the oldest and most prestigious short offshore races on the summer calendar, off Sydney Heads this Saturday. This will be the 112th running…
This Wednesday, with the competitors in the 23rd Mini Transat EuroChef strewn laterally across the race course for nearly 350 miles, it’s only natural that not everyone is enjoying the same conditions. For those favouring the most direct route from…
There has been little to no change in the scenario between the Canaries and Cape Verde over the past two days. A stationary low-pressure system is continuing to sprawl lazily across the Atlantic and to its south lies a band…
First organised by the Royal Ocean Racing Club in 1976, the 1,805nm Sevenstar Round Britain & Ireland Race is a true marathon of epic proportions. Held every four years, the next edition will start on Sunday 7th August 2022. Roughly…
The monohulls make up the largest fleets in this year’s Transat Jacques Vabre race. Lining up on the start line will be 22 60 foot IMOCAs and 45 Class40 boats. We asked the skippers for their race favourites. IMOCA 60s – An impossible…
Right now, it is anyone’s game among the 84 competitors still out on the racetrack in the 23rd edition of the Mini Transat EuroChef. Competitors are lining themselves up as best they can in anticipation of a long band of…
Melbourne turned on the perfect weather for the Ocean Racing Club of Victoria’s (ORCV) ‘Return to Racing Celebration’ race, with Leo Cantwell’s Cavalier 350 Sl Magic Bullet taking first place on AMS and the overall win. A fleet of 21 yachts from six Port Phillip Bay clubs sailing in perfect conditions participated in the race. “I’ve been lucky enough to…
Only three women have ever won the Transat Jacques Vabre. Incredibly, for a race so embedded in the French sporting psyche, only one of those women is from France, the other two are British. You have to go back 22…
Whilst making headway offshore off the coast fringing the Western Sahara, the fleet competing in the 23rd Mini Transat EuroChef has scattered every which way. Indeed, it now spans over 180 miles in latitude and 130 miles in longitude, evidence…
After setting sail mid-afternoon yesterday local time from Santa Cruz de La Palma, bound for Saint-François, those competing in the 23rd Mini Transat EuroChef have endured some tricky opening miles and each has had to deal with the wind shadows…
Montego Bay, Jamaica: It is with great regret that the Montego Bay Yacht Club announces the unavoidable postponement of the 2022 Pineapple Cup – Montego Bay Race, which was scheduled to take place January, but has been moved to January…
Lagos, Portugal: The Race Director of the G580T, Lutz Kohne, has delayed the start of the McIntyre Adventure Globe 5.80 Transat by 24 hours to Monday 1 November at 1200hrs UTC. While the weather was acceptable for this Sunday, the…
As planned, the second leg of the 23rd Mini Transat EuroChef kicked off this Friday at 14:00 UTC, and propelled along by a light north-easterly breeze, the remaining 86 participants left Santa Cruz de La Palma bound for Saint-François with…
Super maxi Comanche (CAY), skippered by Australian Mitch Booth, has been confirmed as the overall winner of the 42nd Rolex Middle Sea Race after taking line honours and breaking the race record. An exceptional crew of 23 included in its…
The stage is set for the return of the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, with a fleet of 112 boats confirmed for the 2021 running of the prestigious race. Among them is Matt Allen’s Botin 52 Ichi Ban, the 2017…
This year’s Rolex Middle Sea Race was tough, especially for the smaller boats, and at times during the 606 nautical mile expedition, gale force winds and tumultuous seas battered the fleet. Eleven teams were racing in the Double-Handed class, adding…
On Friday 29 October at 14:00 UTC, the 87 participants still competing in the 23rd edition of the Mini Transat EuroChef will take to the start line for the second leg of the event. After casting off from Santa Cruz…
The McIntyre Adventure Globe 580 Transat is the first event for the new amateur build: the plywood one design 5.80 Mini Ocean Racer. It is attracting strong interest with 165 builders in 27 countries. The first six launched from five…
Specialist marine underwriting agency RedSky Insurance have announced they will support solo sailor Lisa Blair with a generous sponsorship package and in-kind support to achieve her dream of circumnavigating Antarctica in world record time. Lisa and her yacht Climate Action…
The Royal Ocean Racing Club (RORC) together with the Ocean Racing Alliance (ORA) are delighted to announce a new offshore race to start on July 21 2022. The RORC Baltic Sea Race is open to boats racing under IRC, MOCRA,…
The 42nd Rolex Middle Sea Race continues to live up to its billing as a blockbuster thriller. Over Monday night the list of finishers had lifted from seven to 18 by 0900 CEST and is now up to 31 as more…
Building on 10 years of sponsorships focused on the power of sport to create change, 11th Hour Racing announced today its support of the 2021 Transat Jacques Vabre Normandie Le Havre as an official partner of the race. 11th Hour Racing will…
With seven yachts in harbour, and no more expected until much later tonight (Monday) or the early hours of Tuesday, one might be excused for thinking the Rolex Middle Sea Race is over. Far from it. Close to 100 yachts…
British sailor Alex Thomson has announced he won’t compete as a skipper in the 2024 Vendée Globe, the solo, non-stop race around-the-world, but doesn’t rule out returning to the race in 2028. Thomson has competed in the IMOCA circuit for 19 years including five successive Vendée Globe’s with two podium…
Jason Carroll’s MOD70 Argo (USA) crossed the finish line of the 2021 Rolex Middle Sea Race at 20:39:28 CEST on Sunday October 24 to take Multihull Line Honours in an elapsed time of 33 hours 29 minutes 28 seconds. Argo has smashed both the existing multihull record of…
With 114 boats scheduled to cross the start line of the 42nd Rolex Middle Sea Race, tomorrow, Saturday 23 October, offshore yacht racing fans are in for a real treat, as the Royal Malta Yacht Club has once again attracted…
The SAEM Vendee, the organising entity behind the Vendee Globe, has published the Notice of Race, detailing the rules for competing in the 10th edition of the Vendee Globe. Applications for the Vendee Globe 2024 will open on Monday February…
On November 7 2021, 81 boats will take to the start line of the 15th edition of the Transat Jacques Vabre Normandie Le Havre. Created back in 1993 and run biennially, this legendary two-handed race enables some of the big…
The Yachting Malta Coastal Race started at 10:00 CEST on Wednesday October 20. Forty two teams entered the race representing 17 countries. Royal Malta Yacht Club Principal Race Officer, Peter Dimech, sent the competitors on a course of approximately 30 nautical miles northwest to Comino. The…
On Wednesday October 20, the international jury responsible for examining the protests from 19 racers competing in the 23rd edition of the Mini Transat EuroChef, which were filed at the end of the first leg, has returned its verdict. The…
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