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The third stage of the 52nd La Solitaire du Figaro, a 624 nautical mile race from Fécamp in France to the Bay of Morlaix in Brittany, commenced on Sunday afternoon in warm conditions with a light easterly wind. The leg opened…
Stage 3 of the 52nd La Solitaire du Figaro starts at midday Sunday local time and will take the 34 solo racers a marathon 624 nautical miles from Fécamp in France to the Bay of Morlaix in Brittany. The route…
Jean-Luc Van Den Heede, the last seadog, the man of records and the “long route” talks to the team at Global Solo Challenge (GSC) about the mother of all non-stop solo circumnavigations, an in-depth analysis of solo sailing and the…
There are four international rookies among the 11 sailors who are taking on La Solitaire du Figaro for the first time; and as well as all originating from different countries all of them have different sailing backgrounds and cultures. Thirty-three-year-old…
The Ocean Race, the round-the-world sailing competition known as the toughest test of a team in sport, is set to play a leading role in one of the world’s most important environmental conferences. Starting on Friday in Marseille, France, The IUCN…
Following his Stage 2 win of the 52nd La Solitaire du Figaro, Pierre Quiroga (Skipper Macif 2019) now takes the overall lead by 1 hour and 36 minutes after Stage 1 winner Xavier Macaire (Groupe SNEF) had to dive on Monday…
Xavier Macaire (Groupe SNEF), the French skipper who last Thursday conclusively won the marathon first stage into Lorient was this afternoon battling to get back on terms with the leading peloton of the 52nd La Solitaire du Figaro’s Stage 2, a…
Javier Lapresa from Palma de Mallorca, Spain, is the 31st person to enter the 2023 Global Solo Challenge. From a young age Lapresa has inherited his family’s passion for sailing. He has entered the GSC with a competitive spirit, it…
Sailors have well and truly passed the halfway point in Stage 2 of La Solitaire du Figaro, the course taking competitors from Lorient to Fécamp, where the winner will most likely be decided on early Wednesday morning. Pierre Quiroga (Skipper…
Genoa, Italy: The first official act of the 2021 edition of the Marina Militare Nastro Rosa Tour coincided with the start of the fleet of the European Double Mixed Offshore Championship, seeing the Beneteau Figaro 3 fleet set sail for Civitavecchia in a light…
After only a few days rest, sailors were back in action on Sunday afternoon for the start of Stage 2 of the 52nd La Solitaire du Figaro, an intense 490-nautical-mile coastal passage. From this afternoon’s Lorient start there is a 100…
The 490 nautical mile Stage 2 of the 52nd La Solitaire du Figaro, from Lorient to Fécamp, starts Sunday afternoon and it is a tricky, technical coastal stage requiring the passage of key tidal sections, such as the Raz de…
Just as he won the first leg of the 2020 edition of the race, Xavier Macaire (Groupe SNEF) has triumphed again in the gruelling 627 mile opening stage of the 52nd La Solitaire du Figaro. The 40-year-old who originates from the…
With its new course and giant fleet, the Royal Ocean Racing Club’s Rolex Fastnet Race this year provided an even greater test of racing and seamanship skill for its competitors. At 695 miles, the new course to Cherbourg was 90…
With less than 100 miles to the finish line of the 627-mile race course that makes up Stage One of the 52nd La Solitaire du Figaro, Xavier Macaire’s (Groupe SNEF) lead has narrowed to just 1.8 miles. However the 40-year-old…
Amaury de Jamblinne from Grez-Doiceau in Belgium dreams of participating in a Vendée Globe, but he is aware it is an event that is out of reach for most, unless you are a top professional sailor. The Global Solo Challenge…
An Alloa man has completed an epic solo sailing adventure round the UK, raising thousands for charity and inspiring many along the way. At the age of 82, the Scotland’s Murdoch McGregor set off on the challenge earlier in June…
Under a full moon just before the clock struck midnight last night, the 100ft grand prix maxi Arca SGR ghosted through the finish to claim line honours in the Palermo-Montecarlo race, the fifth and concluding event of the International Maxi…
Katie McCabe has finished sailing around Great Britain in her quest to become the youngest person to have ever done so. The 14-year-old from Devon set off from Exmouth in her eight-metre long wooden yacht, Falanda, on June 30. It…
After careful review of the materials submitted to support his application, a review panel from the Transpacific Yacht Club have determined that Jesse Osborn wins the Mark S. Rudiger Celestial Navigation Trophy for the recently completed 2021 Transpac. Osborn was navigator aboard Justin Waite’s Stevens 47 Mikmaks. The trophy is…
Today fans, colleagues and sailing aficionados saw innovator and skipper Norbert Sedlacek set sail on his lifetime mission to set a world record, unassisted, single-handed and nonstop around the world. This is his third attempt to tackle the biggest challenge of his career as a sailor. A trip around…
With nine JPK 10.10s in action in IRC Four, the smart money was on a fifth in a row win for the highly successful model from Jean-Pierre Kelbert’s boatyard, however, this year’s IRC Four podium did not contain a single…
Tom Kneen’s JPK 11.80 Sunrise has been crowned overall winner of the Rolex Fastnet Race after being confirmed runaway winner of IRC Two division yesterday, and now no other boat still racing on the 695 nautical mile course can catch…
One of the most intense battles, both on the water and under IRC corrected time, in this year’s Rolex Fastnet Race played out in IRC Three, where the scratch boat was unquestionably the JPK 1030 Léon. Skippered by the defending…
Tom Kneen’s JPK 11.80 Sunrise has dominated IRC Two in the Rolex Fastnet Race, beating her closest rival by 120 nautical miles. The Devonshire team crossed the Cherbourg finish line at 1004 BST this morning. Sunrise’s corrected time of 4…
Royal Ocean Racing Club top brass, including former Commodore Michael Boyd, out-going and in-coming CEOs Eddie Warden Owen and Jeremy Wilton, got together last night to welcome in the present RORC Commodore James Neville whose Judel/Vrolijk-designed HH42 finished the Rolex…
Frenchman Philippe Delamare from Le Mans always knew he would someday sail solo around the world and thanks to the Global Solo Challenge, Delamare can now achieve his lifelong ambition. He is the 29th registered entry for the challenge. Interview…
Double-handed French sailors Charlie Dalin and Paul Meilhat have won the the 13-strong IMOCA fleet in the Rolex Fastnet Race on the yacht Apivia. This came as some small vindication after Dalin suffered victory slip through his fingers in this…
France dominated the 2019 Rolex Fastnet Race, winning nine of the 10 classes; but times have changed in the 2021 edition of the race with two British boats and one German in contention for the IRC Zero podium. Two British…
Dmitry Rybolovlev’s ClubSwan 125 Skorpios took line honours in the Rolex Fastnet Race, after crossing the finish line in Cherbourg at 2015 BST. Their total elapsed time for completing the 695 nautical mile course from Cowes to Cherbourg was 2…
As the mighty Ultime trimaran Maxi Edmond de Rothschild was arriving in Cherbourg for the finish of the Rolex Fastnet Race having completed the 695 mile course in just over one day, Alaistair Cooke’s Sigma 36 Sundance was heading backwards…
The extraordinary 32 metre long Ultime Maxi Edmond de Rothschild showed a clean pair of heels to the rest of the fleet in the 49th Rolex Fastnet Race arriving this evening (Monday 9 August) at 20:24:54 BST, setting a new…
Almost 10 hours after the lead Ultime trimaran, Russian Dmitry Rybolovlev’s new ClubSwan 125 Skorpios became the first monohull to round the landmark. Due to this year’s mostly upwind conditions being more ‘typically Rolex Fastnet Race’, even the massively fast…
While the majority of the Rolex Fastnet Race fleet is still toughing it out in the Channel, at 0800 BST this morning Maxi Edmond de Rothschild was the first Ultime to reach the Fastnet Rock. Since yesterday’s dramatic departure from…
Despite undergoing several re-groupings throughout the race, skipper Sam Goodchild and the Leyton crew came out on top yesterday evening after a five-and-a-half day sail in the closing offshore leg of the Pro Sailing Tour. Having skippered their yacht from…
William Croxford, from Kettering, England, has dreamed of sailing around the world since childhood, and after a difficult 2020 he has decided that now is the time to turn that dream into a reality. Croxford is the 28th entry in…
A total of 337 boats from 24 nations, including the largest ever turn-out from France, crossed the start line in strong south-westerly winds as part of the Royal Ocean Racing Club’s premier event – The Rolex Fastnet Race. The Fastnet…
Like a trial run for tomorrow’s start of the Rolex Fastnet Race, today the Solent has been in a blustery mood with an overcast sky, rain and perpetual gusty winds – and the forecast for the start of the 49th…
The start of the Rolex Fastnet Race will take place from the Royal Yacht Squadron line off Cowes on Sunday, with the first Warning Signal for the multihull classes at 1100, followed at 15-minute intervals by the IMOCAs/Class40s, and then…
The Rolex Fastnet Race starts on Sunday 8th August, 2021 from the Royal Yacht Squadron line, Cowes, Isle of Wight, UK. The first warning signal of the 49th edition of the race is at 1100 (first start 1110) and the…
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