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With the new year around the corner and nine months before the start of the Golden Globe Race 2022, the skippers and organisers are keeping busy. While most boats get in the shed for their winter refit, some sailors prefer…
The International Maxi Association is to introduce a new European Championship for maxi yachts in 2022. Taking place over 14-20 May out of Sorrento, Italy with racing based around the Gulf of Naples and Capri, the IMA Maxi European Championship…
Australia’s innovative technical apparel brand Zhik is delighted to announce they have partnered with Christian Beck’s LawConnect, the Australian based Super Maxi, for the next three seasons. Going into the 2021 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, owner and skipper Beck…
A record fleet of 69 boats is expected to take on the Audi Centre Sydney Blue Water Pointscore’s Cabbage Tree Island Race on Friday 3 December. The 172 nautical mile race will provide an early preview for the Rolex Sydney…
A dramatic rescue at sea has seen three people saved after their 11-metre catamaran began taking water after hitting a sunfish 13 nautical miles off Green Island near Ulladulla on Monday afternoon, November 30. The three people on board were…
The dream of completing the Transat Jacques Vabre race has become a reality for Olympic skier Ivica Kostelic and Japanese sailor Masa Suzuki. Former world champion skier Ivica Kostelic and his French co-skipper Calliste Antoine also turned their dream of…
After several days of calm weather that tested everybody’s nerves, the Globe 580 Transat fleet has finally caught the trade winds. The four leading boats are currently leaving the Cabo Verde Islands in their wake while Jim Schofield (Ireland) in…
The 2021 Royal Ocean Racing Club Annual Dinner and Prize Giving was held to celebrate a spectacular season of racing. Dubbed the RORC Oscars, over 300 attendees enjoyed a cocktail reception and a three-course gourmet dinner. A glittering array of…
The Class40 victory in the Transat Jacques Vabre has gone to Redman, co-skippered by Frenchman Antoine Carpentier and Pablo Santurde Del Arco of Spain. Second place went to Banque Du Léman, third to Seafrigo-Sogestran. The pair, who started the race as…
On November 28 at 2204 local time, 11th Hour Racing Team’s brand new 60-foot race boat ‘Mālama’ crossed the finish line of the Transat Jacques Vabre in Fort-de-France, Martinique, taking 13th place in the 22-strong IMOCA Class. Starting in Le…
John Strahan’s and his True Colours crew are celebrating after winning both AMS and ORCc divisions in the season opening Ocean Racing Club of Victoria offshore race. The 55 nautical mile Bass Strait race, starting off Queenscliff, was a real test for crew and equipment in windy and choppy conditions. Sailing an easterly course to Cape Schanck with a 25 knot south easterly the fleet set sail with reefed mainsails. It was a quick refresher course of sailing into the wind in Bass Strait. “The conditions were challenging,…
After more than twenty days at sea the difference between fourth ( Britain’s Sam Davies on Initiatives Coeur) and fifth (an all-French crew aboard Arkéa-Paprec) in the Transat Jacques Vabre IMOCA class was just 21 minutes 40 seconds. Italian Pedote took sixth (Prysmian Group)….
Charal’s arrival in Martinique completes IMOCA podium of Transat Jacques Vabre, but the racing rages on, especially for fourth and fifth between Initiatives Coeur and Arkéa-Paprec, while the front of the Class 40 remains incredibly close with the current leader…
The winner of the last edition of the Transat Jacques Vabre in the Class 40 has sustained keel damage, whilst bad weather off Martinique may delay the finish for the leading IMOCAs. Class 40 Late last night Ian Lipinski’s Crédit…
Dona Bertarelli, Yann Guichard and their nine crew will begin a fresh Jules Verne Trophy record attempt this Thursday. Early in the morning, the maxi-trimaran Sails of Change will cast off from her port of registry in La Trinité-Sur-Mer (Morbihan)…
The Ultime podium for the 2021 Transat Jacques Vabre is complete. Late last night SVR-Lazartigue took second place ahead of Banque Populaire XI. The leading IMOCAs are due in Martinique on Thursday as the Class 40 make good progress across…
The start date for leg one of The Ocean Race 2022-23 has been confirmed with both IMOCA and VO65 fleets scheduled to burst from the starting blocks on Sunday, 15 January 2023 from Alicante on Spain’s Mediterranean coast. There will…
A diverse and competitive fleet will chase history in the 2021 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, headlined by the battle for the Tattersall Cup and the introduction of the Two-Handed Division. Six Australian states and territories are represented in the…
They waited for the sun to shine over Martinique before lining the Maxi Edmond de Rothschild up with Diamond Rock, taking full advantage of their crushing victory in the Transat Jacques Vabre. At 10 hours 16 minutes et 16 seconds locale (14…
Primonial has taken line honours and the Ocean Fifty multihull title in the 2021 Transat Jacques Vabre race. French pair Sébastien Rogues and Matthieu Souben crossed the line in Martinique ahead of Koesio in second. Britain’s Sam Goodchild was third…
The first boats competing in the Transat Jacques Vabre are expected to arrive in Martinique overnight. The three fastest classes are slipping slowly through an area of light winds whilst the Class 40s are loving the trade winds. Ultimes –…
What goes down must come up; and the boats that race to the Onion Patch next June in the 2022 Newport Bermuda Race—the vast majority of them, at least—must make their way back home to the Eastern Seaboard of the…
All four classes are on a direct route to the finish of the Transat Jacques Vabre in Martinique. The Ocean Fifty multihulls lead the race with just 645 miles to the finish line but the doldrums await them for a second time as…
The hoped-for grandstand finish of the Transat Jacques Vabre in Martinique is beginning to look likely as the Ultimes and Ocean Fiftys begin their approaches to the line, as the IMOCA leaders continue their high-speed cat and mouse chase whilst…
A group of four Spanish boat builders planned a trip to Lanzarote to surprise the Globe 5.80 Transat entrants before their Atlantic crossing, only to find out the start was moved forward before their landing time! Just as they decided…
Whilst one Ocean Fifty celebrates a birthday, another suffers the huge frustrations of a blown spinnaker, just when it’s most needed in the final stages of the Transat Jacques Vabre. As the fleet speeds towards Martinique, Solidaires En Peloton-ARSEP has…
This morning, the Maxi Edmond de Rothschild rounded the rocks of São Pedro and São Paulo; this final course mark of the Transat Jacques Vabre was first negotiated on the outward leg early afternoon on 15 November by the Cammas-Caudrelier…
A breakage aboard HBF-Reforest’Action forces her to become the first Class 40 boat to abandon the race. Sam Davies chases the IMOCA leaders whilst Leyton wins a night-time duel in the Ocean Fifty. Class 40 – down to 44 The…
The next two days could be crucial in deciding the winners of the Transat Jacques Vabre. Lead changes are expected across three of the four classes today as the weather roles the dice. Ocean Fifty – searching for a way out…
After nine days of racing in the Transat Jacques Vabre, the monohulls are still bunched together in cat and mouse battle in which any mistake will prove costly. Maxi Edmond de Rothschild keeps getting faster at the front of the Ultimes…
Due to a weak weather forecast for the scheduled start on November 18th, the Race Director and the five remaining entrants of the inaugural Globe 5.80 Transat agreed to move the start date forward to Wednesday 17 November at 10:00 am…
The Clipper Round the World Yacht Race has announced it will be resuming its 2019-20 edition in March next year after receiving a Special Event Permit from the Philippines. After sailing halfway around the world, the sailing event was suspended…
Over a week in the Transat Jacques Vabre and the Doldrums are reducing Maxi Edmond de Rothschild’s lead in the Ultime class, whilst Primonial is extending her lead over the other Ocean Fifty boats. Meanwhile the monohulls are feeling the…
Rarely in the history of the Mini Transat has it been so tight among the production boats. Indeed, right to the last minute, a large proportion of the fleet were embroiled in a close-contact race and (virtually) all the way…
We’re exactly one week into the 15th edition of the Transat Jacques Vabre race. Overall the racing is close, with many of the leading boats bunched together across the four classes. The fleet of 79 boats has been reduced to…
The first three boats in the TasPorts Maria Island Race crossed the finishing line at Castray Esplanade soon after midnight on Sunday morning within half an hour after a shade over 29 hours of close racing. Brent McKay’s Jazz Player…
Strong winds sparked an exciting sprint in the 2021/22 Audi Centre Sydney Blue Water Pointscore’s Bird Island Race, with Ichi Ban, Disko Trooper_Contender Sailcloth and URM all taking away wins. A blustery 12-25 knot westerly provided an entertaining start to…
After six days of racing, the first signs of wear and tear are appearing on board the boats and fatigue is putting the sailors to the test in the Transat Jacques Vabre. Imoca: decisionsIt’s bombing southwards and it’s the new…
With a lead of more than 142 nautical miles over their closest pursuer, and 256 miles over the third boat at 2pm Saturday local time, Charles Caudrelier and Franck Cammas have increased their lead at the head of the race…
While Pierre Le Roy (1019 – TeamWork) has taken the outright win (prior to the jury’s decision) in Saint-François, the fight continues at every stage of the fleet in the 23rd Mini Transat EuroChef. In the prototype category, Fabio Muzzolini…
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