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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…
The Arch, competing on the Pro Sailing Tour’s Final Rush, the offshore race between Toulon and Brest, dismasted this morning at 01:23 while leading the race. “We were sailing under full mainsail in 14-18 knots of wind, I was at…
Austrian adventurer and sailor Norbert Sedlacek is set to become the first sailor to ever complete a single-handed, non-stop circumnavigation without assistance through all of the world’s oceans. Sedlacek will depart on board his Open60AAL Innovation Yacht on the 15th of August from Les Sables d’Olonne, France, the home of…
The 355 entrants in the world’s biggest offshore yacht race, the Rolex Fastnet Race in its 49th year, will be gearing up for the start this Sunday, August 8. This year, for the first time since the race was first…
The Ultimes, the world’s fastest offshore racing yachts, may be the pace-setters in next month’s Rolex Fastnet Race with the potential to get around even the new elongated course in less than a day – but not far behind them…
The French town of Toulon is hosting six Ocean Fifty yachts that will compete for the final round of the Pro Sailing Tour, a 1600-mile sprint between the French Mediterranean and Atlantic coasts which will decide the championship. Today the…
The 2021 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race has reached its first major milestone, with more than 50 boats already part of a growing fleet for the return of the Great Race. Among them is the 2017 and 2019 Overall winner Ichi…
Mark Ashmore’s Cal 40 Nalu V may not have had the fastest ride to Hawaii in the 51st edition of the Transpac, having broken their spinnaker a few days in, but they did raise $31K USD for ALS research (a rare neurological disease) in…
Transpacific Yacht Club recognised more than just the top sailors at the Transpac award ceremonies (there were several), but the unsung heroes of the race, including the navigators and most valued crew members. TPYC acknowledges the historic importance of navigators in…
The three great capes that mark a non-stop circumnavigation include the Cape of Good Hope, Cape Lleeuwin and the most legendary and feared of all three capes – Cape Horn. Starting from Europe, the first to round is precisely the…
Honolulu, Hawaii: Several entries in this year’s Transpac, even class winners whose crew lists were peppered with pro sailors, had father-son pairs on board; seeing many father’s passing on the lessons learned in offshore racing to their offspring, including how…
More than half of the fleet of 41 entries of the 51st edition of the Los Angeles-Honolulu Transpac are expected to be in to their berths before another large wave of 18 finishers are expected tomorrow night. Having start dates staggered…
Honolulu, Hawaii : Five days, 16 hours, 53 minutes and 20 seconds since starting off San Pedro in Los Angeles last Saturday, the team on Roy Disney’s turbo Volvo 70 Pyewacket crossed Diamond Head finish line at 2:53am, first to…
Honolulu, Hawaii: All eyes are on the trackers to anticipate the arrival of the first finishers in the 2021 Transpac, as the favorable weather in this year’s 2225-mile race, from Los Angeles to Honolulu, has resulted in shorter distances and…
The 2021 Rolex Fastnet Race is a labour of love for the 500 sailors spread across the 70 plus strong fleet racing in IRC Division Four; especially seeing that many of these yachts consist of amateur sailors competing in boats…
Frenchman Pierre-Etienne Rault is set to turn his childhood dream of sailing around the world into a reality, after becoming the 27th person to enter the 2023 Global Solo Challenge Race. On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the…
The predictions of this year’s 51st edition of the biennial Transpac race from LA to Honolulu as being a fast race appear to be holding true: all teams that left the mainland starting about a week ago through the end…
July 19, 2021, Los Angeles, CA: With less than 1000 miles to go at 0800 Hawaii Standard Time today, Cecil and Alyson Rossi’s Farr 57 Ho’okolohe is the first in the 40-boat fleet to pass the halfway point in this year’s 2225-mile Transpac race from…
Italian architect and the 26th entrant of the 2023 Global Solo Challenge Race, Alessandro Tosetti from Turin, has been sailing since childhood and when he does so he dedicates his attention to the search for harmony between himself, the people,…
With less than a month before the start of the 2021 Rolex Fastnet Race, IRC division three boasts the largest class competing with 88 teams entered from at least 10 different countries. IRC division three has a cornucopia of boat…
Los Angeles, California: Powered by the best breeze of the week – 10-15 knots at the start off Point Fermin – today’s final 19 entries in four divisions vaulted off the start line towards Honolulu, 2225-miles away in the 2021…
Among many hot boats in IRC Two will be the JPK 1180, big brother to the JPK 10.10 Night and Day and 10.80 Courrier Du Leon, which won the Rolex Fastnet Races in 2013 and 2015 respectively. This year, five…
A Welsh sailor from Ceredigion (located on the western coast of Wales) is preparing for a round the world yacht race after reading about it online and thinking “I have to do this”. Dafydd Hughes, of Talybont, is taking on…
Not satisfied with three world records, Australia’s own Lisa Blair is set to depart Western Australia later this year, with the aim of beating Russian explorer Fedor Konyukhov’s 2008 solo and unassisted record sail around Antarctica of 102 days 56…
Yesterday’s announcement by the NSW Government of an extended COVID-19 lockdown in Greater Sydney until Friday 30 July has now confirmed the need for the changes to our racing calendar foreshadowed in Monday’s communications. The Cruising Yacht Club of Australia…
Los Angeles, California – After over a year of careful planning, tremendous uncertainty, yet dogged determination to run this race, the Transpacific Yacht Club today unleashed the first wave of entries on their long westward journey to Honolulu in the…
Considered one of the standouts of the ninth edition of the Vendée Globe aboard his old generation IMOCA, and recent winner of The Ocean Race Europe with Offshore Team Germany, the young Vendée Globe sailor Benjamin Dutreux is on the…
Unsurprisingly due to a year of uncertainty and pandemic impact, this year’s Transpacific Yacht Race entries are down to some 40 boats following a record high of 85 in the race’s 50th anniversary edition in 2019. But that is not…
The Cruising Yacht Club of Australia (CYCA) has been closely monitoring the COVID-19 situation in NSW, particularly Sydney. The situation is fluid, and planning for our races, particularly the upcoming Noakes Sydney Gold Coast Yacht Race (SGCYR) and Audi Centre…
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