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The latest Global Solo Challenge (GSC) entrant Olivier Jehl lives in Brest, Brittany – the centre of the French offshore sailing scene. Jehl worked his way up the sailing world first by becoming an instructor for the famous Glénans sailing…
Alerted to the issuing of a severe weather warning affecting the areas of North Finisterre and South Finisterre, all but a few competitors in the 23rd Mini Transat EuroChef have taken the decision to take shelter – and for one,…
While the top four prototypes in the Mini Transat EuroChef are continuing to power along in the Portuguese trade wind offshore of Nazaré, and Cape Finisterre now in the wake of the first production boats, a large part of the…
While the front runners of the first leg of the 23rd Mini Transat EuroChef fleet, taking competitors from Les Sables d’Olonne to Santa Cruz de La Palma, have negotiated Cape Finisterre and are now powering along in the Trade Winds,…
As expected, the front which swept across the Bay of Biscay last night during the first leg of the 23rd Mini Transat, taking competitors from Les Sables d’Olonne to Santa Cruz de La Palma, whipped up some strong winds, gusting up…
Having left Les Sables d’Olonne on Monday afternoon in 15-20 knots winds, the 90 sailors in the 23rd Mini Transat EuroChef saw the wind abate a few hours after the start as forecast. At that point, they began weaving their…
The first leg of the Mini Transat EuroChef started on Monday afternoon in France. Propelled along by a NW’ly breeze between 16-20 knots, the 90 competitors set sail from Les Sables d’Olonne bound for Santa Cruz de La Palma, with…
Italian team Claudia Rossi & Pietro D’Alì have been crowned winners of the 2021 Hempel Mixed Two Person Offshore World Championship after a hard-fought final leg to Venice. When the final leg started at lunchtime on Friday, Rossi and D’Ali were slow out of the starting blocks of the 100-mile overnight race…
With two years to go until the start of Class40’s official round-the-world race, The Race Around’s organisers, 5 Ocean Sports Marketing and their US counterpart Manuka Sports Event Management, are delighted to officially open registration. The event’s preliminary Notice of…
Australian sailing legend Lisa Blair is preparing her yacht, Climate Action Now, at Rivergate Marina, Brisbane for her next world record. Lisa sets off in December to sail solo, non-stop and unassisted around Antarctica. The team at Rivergate Marina invite…
Eighty-year-old Italian offshore sailor Pasquale De Gregorio reflects on his sailing career; most notable is his completion of the 2000/01 Vendée Globe race, where De Gregorio was considerably older than the other competitors. “I was born in Abruzzo, on the…
Giovanna Valsecchi & Andrea Pendibene have sailed to a resounding victory on leg two of the 2021 Hempel Mixed Two Person Offshore World Championship in Italy. The crew representing Marina Militare (Italian Navy) crossed the finish line at Marina di…
Offshore racing yacht owners in south-east Queensland looking to qualify for major events, including the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, have had their task made much easier thanks to a new event organised by Southport Yacht Club. Titled the South-East…
Giovanna Valsecchi and Andrea Pendibene have sailed to a slender but useful lead on day two of leg two of the 2021 Hempel Mixed Two Person Offshore World Championship in Italy. Valsecchi and Pendibene are both members of Italy’s Navy service, and are proud to carry the name Marina Militare on their Figaro 3 keelboat. Before the…
Relatively unknown Victorian sailor Rain Forbes has a dream to join the ranks of famous Australian adventurers Jon Sanders, Kay Cottee, Jesse Martin and Jessica Watson, some of whom she has admired from afar and who have helped drive her…
The SAEM Vendée, the organisers of the Vendée Globe, will also organise the Vendée Arctic – Les Sables-d’Olonne which will be the first qualifying stage for the Vendée Globe 2024. The Arctic Vendée Les Sables-d’Olonne will leave from Port Olona,…
Entry is still open for the 2022 Royal Ocean Racing Club (RORC) Transatlantic Race, starting from Puerto Calero, Lanzarote, Canary Islands on Saturday January 8, 2022. In association with the International Maxi Association (IMA) and the Yacht Club de France,…
During a press conference organised by the Yacht Club Italiano on Sunday evening, the Italian Minister of Tourism, Massimo Garavaglia, gave his full support for an Italian entry in the next edition of The Ocean Race, scheduled to start in…
Victory in the Speed Runs and the runner’s-up spot in the double-handed 48-hour race were the highlights for the 11th Hour Racing Team, as it competed with two boats in the Défi Azimut regatta in Lorient on the French Brittany…
The Cruising Yacht Club of Australia, home of the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, remains hopeful the ‘Great Race’ will return in 2021. With 100 days until the start of the race, Noel Cornish AM, CYCA Commodore, provided an update…
Sydney sailors are anxiously awaiting news of Sydney’s lockdown coming to an end and after an enforced four-month hiatus from yacht racing, there is now a light on the horizon. Middle Harbour Yacht Club has announced the first major keelboat…
French skipper Pierre Quiroga (Skipper Macif 2019) crossed the finish line off Saint Nazaire on France’s Loire Atlantique coast at 22:23:30pm on Thursday evening to win (subject to jury), the 52nd La Solitaire du Figaro, the longest and toughest edition of…
The Russian team won the penultimate leg of the Nord Stream Race from Stockholm to Helsinki, ahead of the Finns by 15 minutes. The German crew crossed the line in front of the Finnish capital another 12 minutes behind the Finns. This means the…
François Gouin from Pornic in France is the 35th entry in the Global Solo Challenge (GSC) with his Pogo 40S Kawan3, a first generation Class40 (Finot-Conq) built in 2008 by Structures. He wanted to participate in a round-the-world circumnavigation by…
The leadership of the decisive fourth stage of the 52nd La Solitaire du Figaro was in the balance as the top group passed the northwestern tip of Brittany, on track to the finish line at Saint Nazaire on the Loire-Atlantic coast. …
French rookie Jules Delpech (ORCOM) is the breakaway leader of the fourth stage of the 52nd La Solitaire du Figaro, taking a lone, solo route more than 25 miles to the east of the main body of the fleet as they…
For the first time in the history of the Nord Stream Race, a collision between the Danish and Swedish boats led to their retirement, resulting in only three out of five teams able to compete in the third leg from Stockholm to Helsinki and all…
It is two years until the start of the Ocean Globe Race (OGR) and a return to Corinthian round the world racing to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first Whitbread round the world race back in 1973/74. Sir Chay Blyth,…
French skipper Jérôme views the 2023 Global Solo Challenge as a magnificent opportunity to live an extraordinary, unique adventure. Organisers are delighted to welcome him as the 34th entry in the GSC, 10th among the French skippers. For the full…
11th Hour Racing Team has officially named their two 60-foot round the world offshore race boats in Concarneau, France. Drawing on the Hawaiian heritage of team CEO, Mark Towill, the brand new IMOCA 60, previously nicknamed ‘11.2’ has been named…
The furthest Graham Collins sails his boat is along the coast of Nova Scotia, so the Haligonian was stunned when he got a call from the U.S. Coast Guard on Friday, asking if he was sailing through the eye of Hurricane…
Irish skipper Tom Dolan leads Stage 4 of La Solitaire du Figaro towards the Fastnet Rock and the waters where he did his first real offshore sailing as a sailing instructor out of Baltimore more than a dozen years ago….
On Friday, one single-handed sailor got very lucky: after a week-long search, a U.S. Navy patrol aircraft located him off the coast of Oahu and vectored in other assets to assist. The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter William Hart rescued 67-year-old…
In Latitude 38‘s August issue, Michelle Slade caught up with Bill Erkelens to learn about the future of sustainability in ocean racing. We talk about the need to reduce our impact and get to net-zero in 2050 — what will yachting…
Corentin Horeau (Mutuelle Bleue pour l’Institut Curie) led the La Solitaire du Figaro fleet out of Bay of Morlaix this afternoon at the start of one of the longest legs in the recent history of the 52nd edition of the…
The final stage of the 52nd La Solitaire du Figaro promises to be a long, slow, complex finale 685 miles from the Bay of Morlaix around the Fastnet to a finish line off Saint Nazaire on the Loire Atlantic coast…
When he crossed the finish line off Roscoff on Thursday morning at 11:59:54am (local time) to win Stage 3 of La Solitaire du Figaro, Pierre Quiroga (Skipper Macif 2019) crucially extended his lead at the top of the General Classification…
The Danish team made full use of their home advantage to come out on top following the three inshore races during the Copenhagen stopover of the Nord Stream Race. Racing in light winds the Danes won two out of the three windward/leeward short…
With just over 100 nautical miles to go to the finish line at Roscoff on the Bay of Morlaix, Pierre Quiroga (Skipper Macif 2019) was maintaining a slender lead of just under one mile after passing Bishop Rock at the…
Racing this afternoon in waters which are not at all well-known to most of La Solitaire du Figaro competitors – the outer reaches of the Bristol Channel, along the north Cornish and Devon coastline are presenting a new set of…
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