News, race results plus editorial coverage from the Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, Vendée Globe, The Ocean Race, ARC, Fastnet, Transpac, Ocean Globe Race, Global Solo Challenge and Offshore Yachting from around the world.
The IMOCA class Annual General Meeting was held in Lorient on Tuesday in the presence of the skippers and their representatives, who took the opportunity to look at the measures that have been taken, to talk about current matters and…
Organisers of next year’s Round North Island Two Handed Race had expected entries to sell out within about four days when they went on sale on Monday night – not 45 minutes. Admittedly it’s capped at only 30 boats, mostly…
Following his night time arrival in La Rochelle in second place of the second stage between Horta and La Rochelle, Aymeric Chappellier wins the Défi Atlantique on the basis of the combined race time for the two legs from Pointe-à-Pitre….
Entries are now open for the 2019 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, with the just-launched Notice of Race (NOR) encouraging sailors from around the world to join the historic 75th running of the ‘Everest’ of ocean racing. First conducted in…
After his incredible victory in the 2018 Route du Rhum this year, Francis Joyon will be tackling some very different challenges; after a tour in the Mediterranean in the spring, he will begin his 2019-2020 IDEC Sport Asian Tour with…
As Tapio Lehtinen, the last of the Golden Globe race skippers, crossed the Equator on Tuesday to start the last part of his solo circumnavigation back to Les Sables d’Olonne, plans are now well advanced for the GGR prize-giving celebrations…
One of the largest fleets of IMOCA 60s ever gathered is due to set off on the Rolex Fastnet Race on Saturday, 3rd August. Twenty-nine of the boats, best known for their use in the Vendée Globe singlehanded non-stop round…
It was exactly 3 pm yesterday when the 10 Class40s taking part in the Défi Atlantique left the port of Horta on the way to La Rochelle 1,300 miles away. The 32* sailors setting out in a crews of two…
A small change to the event rules may make a big difference to the number of boats on the start line for this years’ PIC Coastal Classic yacht race. The NZ Multihull Yacht Club (NZMYC) has announced that boats competing…
World Sailing's landmark decision to select a Mixed Two Person Offshore Keelboat event for the 2024 Olympics and the recent announcement to hold an Offshore World Championship for mixed double-handed sailing in October 2020 has encouraged the RYA and Royal…
Alan Roura’s second campaign for the Vendée Globe is characterised by a huge leap forward. Twelfth in the 2016-2017 race aboard one of the oldest IMOCAs in the fleet, the Swiss sailor has been sailing since then with a foiler…
François Gabart and his co-skipper will endeavour to win the first Brest Atlantiques race on the MACIF trimaran, which sets sail on 3 November 2019. It is a non-stop course running south from Brest in a loop and crossing the…
Greg Evrard (team director, former director of North Sails France), Juan Kouyoumdjian (naval architect) and Michel Desjoyeaux (double champion of the Vendée Globe and building manager) are henceforth supporting the skipper Nicolas Troussel, who will take the helm a brand…
In 2020, Boris Herrmann will become the first German to compete in the Vendée Globe, which he is preparing for, feeling full of confidence, while remaining methodical. After earning fifth place in the Route du Rhum, Boris may take the…
World Sailing has announced that the L30, a 30-foot one design keelboat, has been selected as the supplied equipment for World Sailing's Offshore World Championship from 2020. The L30 is a light, modern, one-design boat with racing at its core,…
LOS ANGELES, CA – The Board of the Transpacific Yacht Club, organizers of this year's 2225-mile Transpac 50 race from Los Angeles to Honolulu, has accepted an offer from the Storm Trysail Club to award a new team scoring trophy: the Storm…
Twelve months work and investment from a highly experienced Australian group has led to the development of a 15.2m fully foiling design intended for the 2019 RSHYR. Performance predictions for the design suggest that, in certain conditions, it is capable…
The 2019 Brisbane to Gladstone Multihull Yacht Race has something the 2019 Sydney to Hobart won’t have – the trimaran Beau Geste. She is a 70 foot (21.2m) trimaran weighing in at nearly 7000Kgs. Karl Kwok bought the MOD70 designed…
The first event on the IMOCA Globe Series calendar for 2019, the Bermuda 1000 Race, will set sail from Douarnenez in Brittany at 1300 hours local time on Wednesday 8th May; on the program is a 2000 nautical mile solo…
Finally, after five months of optimization and preparation, Norbert Sedlacek and the Innovation Yachts team are proud to announce the launching of their Open60AAL Innovation Yachts, to take place on Tuesday 26 March, starting from 8am in commercial harbour of…
The Ocean Race revealed its new brand identity and confirmed two entries during an online launch event hosted in Alicante, Spain. Formerly known as the Whitbread Round the World Race (1973 to 1997) and the Volvo Ocean Race (2001 to…
American Hungarian solo yachtsman Istvan Kopar finally reached the finish line off Les Sables d’Olonne, France at 13:58 UTC today to take fourth place in the 2018 Golden Globe Race. “This is the happiest day of my life…And this [Les…
The most impressive collection of offshore racing hardware from across the globe is set to gather off Cowes for the start of the Rolex Fastnet Race on 3 August. Following the 340 available places in the IRC fleet selling…
Entries continue to flow in for the Inaugural Lendlease Brisbane to Hamilton Island Yacht Race starting on Friday 02 August 2019, with a variety of vessels already looking forward to racing north through the Capricorn Channel in what will be…
Day 260: At 04:00 UTC today, American/Hungarian Istvan Kopar and his Tradewind 35 yacht Puffin was within 250 miles of the finish line and expected to reach Les Sables d'Olonne around 09:00 UTC on Thursday 21st March. Kopar was making 5.1…
Eighteen adventurers, including a professor, an engineer and a student, have been chosen to represent the city of Zhuhai in China as ocean racers in the Clipper 2019-20 Round the World Yacht Race. The candidates, who went through a tough…
Among the newcomers to the IMOCA class, Maxime Sorel and Clément Giraud come from different backgrounds, but share the same dream – they wish to take part in the 2020 Vendée Globe. We found out more about their two projects….
In this modern era of nationalist fervour it would appear there is a growing discord between geographic neighbours Spain and Portugal in regard to who was the first person to circumnavigate the globe. The Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan is often…
Dateline: 10/3/2019 Les Sables d’Olonne, France Uku Randmaa crossed the Les Sables d’Olonne finish line at 09:00 UTC today to secure third place in Golden Globe Race. Thousands lined the river entrance to catch a glimpse of this quiet spoken…
Part of the French Sailing Federation’s Class40 program, this new event, organised by Grand Pavois Organisation, will depart from Guadeloupe on Saturday 23 March. Crews (minimum of two people aboard) will arrive in Horta in the Azores, then in La…
Third placed Estonian Uku Randmaa has survived his last storm – 50knot winds and vicious 5m high seas – on Tuesday. The winds have now receded but the leftover Atlantic swell remains as his Rustler 36 One and All heads…
Early this week, Thomas Ruyant visited the Persico yard in Bergamo (Italy) to see how work was going on his future IMOCA, a Verdier designed boat that is due to be transferred to Lorient in June before she is launched…
While many are still recovering from tragic events of the 2018 race, the 71st Bunbury and Return Ocean Race will be remembered as one that helped in the healing process for the offshore community in Western Australia. To commemorate the…
Third placed Estonian sailor Uku Randmaa is hungry… hungry because he has caught no fish during the past week to supplement the last of his food stocks… hungry to finish… and hungry to see his young family after more than…
Things are starting to move for Sébastien Simon. On Tuesday 26th February, the IMOCA, PRB, was relaunched displaying the colours of her sponsors, Arkéa and Paprec. It is on this foiler the the winner of the last Solitaire du Figaro…
The Cape Horn Race gives both professional and Corinthian sailors an equal chance of winning under IRC handicap, attracting entries from towns and yacht clubs… the race invites teams to participate in the celebrations of the 500th anniversary of discovery…
Giovanni Soldini skippered Maserati Multi 70 across the RORC Caribbean 600 finish line at 20:49:00 AST on Tuesday 19 February in an elapsed time of one day, 06 hours 49 minutes, taking Multihull line honours and setting a new Multihull…
In the early hours of Thursday 21 February, after two and a half days and nights of intense competition and over 600 miles of racing, it all came down to just a few minutes. Catherine Pourre's French Class40 Eärendil won…
The Ocean Race, the crewed round the world race with stopovers raced for the first time on IMOCAs with foils, will start in Alicante in October 2021. With just over two and a half years to go to the start,…
Coppercoat has just signed a contract confirming the company as the Official Antifoul Supplier for the next two editions of the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race in 2019-20 and 2021-22. This partnership both reflects and consolidates Coppercoat’s success in…
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