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The Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club (RPAYC) in Sydney and the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron (RNZYS) in Auckland, have named Australia’s most famous sailor, James ‘Jimmy’ Spithill and one of New Zealand’s rising stars, Bianca Cook, as ambassadors for…
Spindrift 2 crossed the start line of the Jules Verne Trophy on Tuesday 3 December 2019 at 20h 55' 54″ UTC to begin their 21,600 miles around the world record attempt. The objective is to beat the existing record of…
Newport Beach, CA – The Notice of Race and Registration pages for entry are now available for the 73rd edition of the 2020 Newport to Ensenada International Yacht Race. These can be found on the event’s new website at nosa.org,…
Rarely during his career as a high-speed ocean racer has Francis Joyon experienced such a long period of light airs and reduced speed. Since they approached the Indonesian coast last Friday, the crew of IDEC SPORT has only managed to…
Spindrift 2 is preparing for a new attempt on the Jules Verne Trophy, the round the world record that starts and finishes in Ushant, leaving the three capes (Good Hope, Leeuwin, Horn) to port. The reference time is the current…
The finish line is fast approaching for Maxi Edmond de Rothschild. Franck Cammas and Charles Caudrelier are now heading straight towards Brest, where they are expected to arrive any time from Tuesday night to Wednesday. Behind them, MACIF and Actual…
While Maxi Edmond de Rothschild is now on track to reach Brest next Wednesday, the battle for second place is well and truly on between MACIF and Actual Leader. With only around thirty miles separating them, it looks like it…
Day 9 Update – 0800 UTC 1 December: Whilst all of the competing yachts are south of the rhumb line in the RORC Transatlantic Race, there is over 900nm of latitudinal separation in the fleet. Jangada is furthest north and…
A blustery 25-knot southerly greeted the competitors for the 10am start of the Audi Centre Sydney Blue Water Pointscore Bird Island Race, making for a spectacular downwind start on Sydney Harbour on Saturday. Colourful spinnakers and code zeros made a…
With less than 2000 miles to go before the finish of the Brest Atlantiques, Maxi Edmond de Rothschild is now racing against the clock to reach the Azores as quickly as possible and then head straight for Brest. Meanwhile, for…
Barring any protests, Bob Steel and Craig Neil’s two-time Sydney Hobart winner, Quest, has won the Bird Island Race from Matt Allen’s Ichi Ban and Julian Farren-Price’s About Time, while Peter Harburg’s Black Jack took line honours from InfoTrack by…
At 10:02am today, Actual Leader crossed the equator, which means that all three boats racing on the Brest Atlantiques are now sailing in the northern hemisphere, with maxi Edmond de Rothschild more than a day ahead of its two rivals….
Eight days after setting sail from Mauritius, Francis Joyon, Christophe Houdet, Bertrand Delesne, Antoine Blouet and Corentin Joyon have reached the Sunda Strait, which is the gateway to the Karimata Strait, that narrow stretch of water between the Java Sea…
After crossing the equator last night, Maxi Edmond de Rothschild is now making its way across the Doldrums, with a comfortable lead over its competitors. Meanwhile, MACIF’s decision to head west has proved to be a very good strategy, and…
A lot happened in the 2019 season to the sailors in the IMOCA class. There were three events on the calendar in the Globe Series: the Bermudes 1000 Race (solo), the Rolex Fastnet Race (double-handed) and more recently the Transat…
The front-runners in the CYCA's Blue Water Pointscore have had their ups and downs throughout the series, and this Saturday’s Bird Island Race – a crucial lead-up to the Rolex Sydney Hobart – will be sure to see further changes…
Day 5 Update: 0800 UTC, 27 November, 2019: Five days into the RORC Transatlantic Race, the international fleet is experiencing shifty conditions with a light to moderate wind oscillating between nor' east and east. All of the teams are south of…
All three trimarans racing on the Brest Atlantiques are continuing today to head towards the west, with Maxi Edmond de Rothschild, in first position, expected very soon to cross the equator and arrive in the Northern Hemisphere. Even though Brest…
That is how Christophe Houdet, Francis Joyon’s faithful friend and one of the crew of four aboard IDEC SPORT for the ASIAN TOUR, described the situation. Slowed down to horribly low speeds yesterday and completely stopped for around seven hours…
LONDON, 26 NOVEMBER 2019 – The Royal Ocean Racing Club (RORC), organisers of the Rolex Fastnet Race, announced at a press conference today that the City of Cherbourg will host the finish of the Rolex Fastnet Race for the 2021…
After three weeks racing on the Brest Atlantiques, the two leading trimarans, Maxi Edmond de Rothschild and Actual Leader, are now following a similar route and heading towards the equator at a moderate pace. Meanwhile MACIF, which headed west on…
The Cruising Yacht Club of Australia (CYCA) is pleased to announce that the fourth-largest fleet in the history of the race will take part in the 75th running of the Sydney Hobart Yacht Race; owners and crews coming from far…
The Ocean Race will return to Cape Town for the 12th time as the most challenging offshore race in the sport comes to South Africa in the 2021-22 edition. Cape Town has been an iconic stop in the race since…
On a route that they deliberately prolonged by almost 1500 miles in comparison to the Great Circle Route, the IDEC SPORT maxi trimaran IDEC SPORT has managed to get ahead of what was forecast by taking a long route down…
Bilbao, November 25, 2019: Don McIntyre, Chairman of the Ocean Globe Race, announced at the Yacht Racing Forum today the addition of a “CLASSIC Challenge”. This new class will open another eight entries to former Whitbread Maxis over 71 feet and…
After almost three weeks at sea, the three trimarans still racing on Brest Atlantiques are continuing towards the equator, which they should cross on Thursday. While all the teams have followed a fairly similar route until now, MACIF yesterday decided…
Lisa Blair, a high-profile yachtswoman and adventurer on a mission to break records and leave her mark on the world, is joining the fleet for the Ocean Racing Club of Victoria’s (ORCV) 2019 Melbourne to Hobart, and in doing so,…
The arrival of the final competitor, Georges Kick, on Saturday night through into Sunday, marked the official closure of the finish line for this second leg of the Mini-Transat La Boulangère 2019 between Las Palmas de Gran Canaria in the…
With just over 4,000 miles to go to the finish of the Brest Atlantiques race, the Ultim 32/23 Class trimarans continue their northward progress up the middle of the South Atlantic. The unstable conditions are giving the crews a lot…
The 2019 RORC Transatlantic Race is now into the second day with the entire fleet anticipated to leave the Canary Islands and head into the remote Atlantic Ocean on Sunday 24 November. As expected, Swedish VO65 Childhood 1, skippered by…
Derwent Sailing Squadron Race Director, Ron Bugg, is pleased with the number of entries in this year’s Riversdale Estate Wines Launceston to Hobart (L2H) race and anticipates plenty of rivalry on the water in Tasmania’s longest offshore yacht race. “We…
Following Sodebo Ultim 3’s retirement, the three trimarans still racing in the Brest Atlantiques are embarking on a third Atlantic crossing, this time between the Namibian coast and Brazil, to round the St Helena high to the north. This section…
The 6th edition of the RORC Transatlantic Race got underway on time, with the fleet starting from outside Marina Lanzarote at 1100 UTC on Saturday 23 November, sailing into a stiff breeze gusting up to 25 knots. After the start,…
Arrecife, Lanzarote: On the penultimate day before the start of the 6th edition of the RORC Transatlantic Race, crews of the international fleet have eyes on the weather for the 3,000 nautical mile race across the Atlantic Ocean to Grenada…
Yann Guichard and his crew will be back on standby early next week, awaiting a favourable weather window to set sail on their third Jules Verne Trophy record attempt. Since October 29th, the team had been focused exclusively on repairing…
Thomas Coville and Jean-Luc Nélias, who have been in Cape Town since Thursday, today announced their decision not to continue on the Brest Atlantiques, as the damages to their boat are too serious to carry on safely. At the head…
After just over 15 days of racing, Maxi Edmond de Rothschild, the leader of the Brest Atlantiques fleet since Rio, will reach the second and final race marker of the course, Robben Island. MACIF and Actual Leader are hot on…
The 2019 RORC Transatlantic Race will start from Marina Lanzarote on Saturday 23 November, bound for Camper & Nicholsons Port Louis Marina, Grenada. Race crews are busy getting themselves and their boats ready for the 3,000nm race across the Atlantic…
And that makes two! At 19:16 UTC, this Wednesday 20 November, the Maxi Edmond de Rothschild was first around Robben Island, the second course mark in the Brest Atlantiques. In this way, Franck Cammas and Charles Caudrelier consolidate their lead…
After the Mauritius Route record between Port Louis (Brittany in NW France) and Mauritius that was smashed on 8th November with a time of 18 hours, 14 minutes and 45 seconds, today, Francis Joyon and his crew are tackling the…
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