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Matt Donald – the co-owner and skipper of the TP52 racing yacht Gweilo, discusses his and Gweilo’s transformation from newcomers on the Australian ocean racing scene to champions of the Audi Centre Sydney Blue Water Pointscore.
The third episode of the Pro Sailing Tour has gathered the largest ever fleet of the Ocean Fifty trimarans for four days of racing in the waters of Gran Canaria (a Spanish island, located off northwestern Africa). This is the…
On June 29, organisers, partners, media and entrants were delighted to finally meet in person on the occasion of the OGR Conference in Les Sables d’Olonne, home port of iconic ocean races, such as the Vendée Globe, Golden Globe Race…
In August a record fleet of 450 boats is expected to be on the start line of the world’s largest offshore yacht race, the Rolex Fastnet Race. Among the crews of this traditionally male-dominated sport, just over 10% will be…
The Boating Industry Association (BIA) has cancelled the Sydney Festival of Boating, which was scheduled to run from July 29th to August 1st, to support efforts by government in controlling the current COVID-19 outbreak in Sydney. The BIA Board yesterday…
After completing eight Solitaires du Figaro and a solo crossing of the Atlantic, Lyon-born Louis Robein is motivated to move on to the next stage, a single-handed non-stop circumnavigation, and the Global Solo Challenge provides him with the context for…
It is with great regret and disappointment that the Sunshine Coast Yacht Club Management Committee advises that the 2021 SCOR regatta and the B2SC feeder race from Brisbane have had to be cancelled. Entries have been open for a couple…
With the PIC Coastal Classic now four months away, the New Zealand Multihull Yacht Club has published the Notice of Race and opened entries for the 39th Labor-weekend sail from Auckland to Russell. As New Zealand’s largest coastal yacht race,…
Gorka Rozas, who hails from Ortuella in the Basque Country, Spain is the 23rd entry in the Global Solo Challenge with his Northwind 40 produced by the Angus Pimrose shipyard. We put some questions to Gorka: Where does your passion…
Wonderful last day of The Ocean Race Europe with the coastal race in Genoa. It has been a month full of emotions and we have enjoyed it along with the teams!
Class leaders Offshore Team Germany (GER) and Mirpuri Foundation Racing Team (POR) have been confirmed as the respective IMOCA and VO65 winners in the inaugural edition of The Ocean Race Europe, after an exciting final day of coastal racing in…
After three weeks of intense offshore and inshore action that has seen The Ocean Race Europe’s 12-boat fleet race over 2,000 nautical miles from France to Italy with stops in Portugal and Spain, the event’s inaugural edition will come to…
Offshore Team Germany, the non-foiling IMOCA 60 skippered by German Olympian Robert Stanjek, has pulled off a spectacular victory in the third and final offshore leg of The Ocean Race Europe. After almost four days of racing since leaving Alicante,…
The third and final offshore leg of The Ocean Race Europe came to an exciting conclusion in the early hours of Thursday morning in Genova, when the Portuguese entry, Mirpuri Foundation Racing Team, pulled off a come-from-behind victory in the…
The longest yachts in IRC 0 were the first to get away from the Sanremo start today in the Yacht Club Italiano’s Rolex Giraglia. This fourth event of the International Maxi Association’s Mediterranean Maxi Offshore Challenge set sail on time…
Another 24 hours of light wind racing out on the Mediterranean on the third and final leg of The Ocean Race Europe has seen both the VO65 and IMOCA 60 fleets compress significantly as they push towards the finish line…
The crews competing in The Ocean Race Europe have spent a second restless night out on the Mediterranean searching for wind to help them along the race’s third and final leg from Alicante, Spain to Genova, Italy. Racing in two…
xcitement is building for the return of the historic Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, with entries now open for the 77th running of the race. The Cruising Yacht Club of Australia (CYCA) has launched the Notice of Race and is…
In her first outing since the beginning of the pandemic, Jason Carroll’s MOD70 trimaran, Argo, last week blew away the existing record for the passage between Bermuda and Plymouth, UK. The previous record for this 2870 nautical mile course eastbound…
The 12 teams competing in The Ocean Race Europe have been dealing with light and incalcitrant breezes on their first night at sea after setting off yesterday on the inaugural event’s third and final leg from Alicante, Spain to Genova,…
The third and final offshore leg of The Ocean Race Europe got underway on Sunday local time in Alicante, Spain where the 12-boat international fleet of yachts representing nine countries and crewed by sailors from around the world set off…
The Barmouth to Fort William Three Peaks Yacht Race will start from Barmouth on Saturday June 19, when 16 teams of sailors and mountain runners will set out for Fort William. Sailors will navigate through the difficult waters of the…
The 12 international crews competing in the inaugural edition of The Ocean Race Europe will leave Alicante, Spain on Sunday June 13 bound for Genova, Italy, on the final stage of the new three-leg offshore event. The fleet of five…
The second leg of The Ocean Race Europe finished in Alicante, Spain on Wednesday, the culmination of three days of tight racing between the 12 international crews since they left Cascais, Portugal on Sunday afternoon. The second leg of the…
Almost six months after they competed in the world’s most brutal race, the single-handed non-stop lap of the planet that is the Vendée Globe, many of the IMOCA fleet will be returning to the race course for the first time…
The weather experienced by the 12 international professional crews competing in The Ocean Race Europe have moderated considerably from yesterday’s fierce headwinds winds that funnelled against them through the Gibraltar Strait. However, despite the Mediterranean’s gentler breezes and flatter seas,…
A day after leaving Cascais, Portugal on the second leg of The Ocean Race Europe, this afternoon the race’s 12-boat fleet battled fierce headwinds in the Gibraltar Strait – the narrow and congested waterway dividing mainland Europe from north Africa…
Having proved right the old sporting adage of never ever giving up with a surprise win in the VO65 class on Leg 1, the skipper of The Austrian Ocean Race Project, Gerwin Jansen, said his young crew would be giving…
The Ocean Race Europe fleet returned to competitive action in Cascais, Portugal today where the 12 international teams representing nine countries took on the Mirpuri Foundation Sailing Trophy coastal race ahead of the start tomorrow of the second offshore leg…
Enjoy some exhilarating high-speed sailing from the Atlantic Ocean Leg One of The Ocean Race Europe, because why not..?
The opening leg of The Ocean Race Europe came to a nail-biting conclusion today in Cascais, Portugal with the winners in both the VO65 and IMOCA 60 classes decided only in the last few moments of the four-day passage from…
After an adrenaline-fuelled day of power reaching through the Atlantic the 12 weary crews competing in The Ocean Race Europe are facing a challenging final night at sea as they close in on Cascais, Portugal – the finish of the…
Make a note in your agendas that a new edition of the Défi Atlantique, reserved for Class40 crews, will be proposed by Grand Pavois Organisation with the support of the Class40 association and will depart from Guadeloupe at the start…
Following a challenging night at sea, early this morning the 100ft maxi, ARCA SGR, was first to cross the finish line off Punta Ala to take line honours in this 12th edition of the 151 Miglia-Trofeo Cetilar. This is the…
Freshening winds off the north-west tip of Spain have meant significantly faster sailing for the 12 professional crews representing nine countries racing from Lorient, France to Cascais, Portugal on the opening leg of The Ocean Race Europe. After spending much…
Antoine Douguet from Deauville in France is the 22nd entry in the Global Solo Challenge; he has always dreamed of sailing around the world as part of a race or an event, but the budget required to enter any existing…
After a year lost due to the pandemic, the 12th edition of the 151 Miglia-Trofeo Cetilar offshore race set sail today (Sunday) at 1400 CEST from Livorno in Italy with a near-record fleet of 250 yachts, including 13 maxis. Organised…
The 12 international teams competing in the opening leg of The Ocean Race Europe have made steady progress across the Bay of Biscay in their first 24 hours since leaving Lorient, France yesterday afternoon, bound for Cascais in Portugal. Although…
The inaugural edition of The Ocean Race Europe got underway today with a fleet of 12 high-performance ocean-going yachts setting off from Lorient, France on the opening leg to Cascais in Portugal. This new three-stage European race has been created…
Another Ocean Racing Club of Victoria (ORCV) Apollo Bay race has been run and won, with Justin Brenan’s Alien claiming overall race victory, while William Newman’s Goggo took line honours. The fleet of 41 enjoyed a cool but sunny day…
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