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In the closest finish since it was first staged in 1978, the French ocean racing veteran Francis Joyon won the 40th anniversary Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe solo transatlantic race from Saint Malo to Pointe-À-Pitre early this morning. In the clammy…
With less than 800 nautical miles to sail to the finish of the 2018 Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe solo transatlantic race – from Saint Malo in Brittany to Pointe-à-Pitre in Guadeloupe – the French sailor François Gabart is on course…
ith just a handful of boats left at sea, Noel Cornish’s St Jude has won the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s 180 nautical mile Cabbage Tree Island Race – the big leveller before the Rolex Sydney Hobart in December –…
On the sixth day of racing in the Route du Rhum, British skipper Alex Thomson is still leading the fleet of IMOCAs, and in the trade winds, he is being chased by three skippers, Paul Meilhat, Vincent Riou and Yann…
After five days of tough racing in the 2018 Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe solo transatlantic race from Saint Malo to Pointe-à-Pitre in the French Caribbean, Britain’s Alex Thomson is in good spirits and looking to put the hammer down on…
On Friday, eleven IMOCAs are continuing to race towards Guadeloupe, but Yannick Bestaven has unfortunately been forced to retire, while Jérémie Beyou, Alexia Barrier, Fabrice Amedeo, Manuel Cousin and Romain Attanasio intend to set sail again after carrying out pit…
Jim Cooney and Samantha Grant’s 100-foot Comanche has surged to the finish line to capture line honours in the Cabbage Tree Island Race today. Comanche finished an hour and 20 minutes in front of Wild Oats XI, while Black Jack…
On Nov.6 at 0200hrs, French solo yachtsman Jean-Luc Van Den Heede, the current Golden Globe Race leader, rang GGR organisers to advise that his yacht Matmut had sustained mast damage, that all was OK, and that he intended to sail…
The fourth race of the CYCA Blue Water Pointscore series is set to be a thriller with 39 extremely competitive entrants taking the line for the 19:00 start this Friday evening on Sydney Harbour. With three super-maxis competing this year,…
Out of the twenty IMOCA skippers who set sail four days ago from Saint-Malo, twelve are continuing on their way towards Pointe-à-Pitre after Yannick Bestaven set off again today from Cascais. While only two competitors have officially retired (Louis Burton…
Dateline 15:00 UTC 08.11.2018 – Hobart, Tasmania: Jean-Luc Van Den Heede, the embattled race leader struggling with a damaged mast sustained during a storm 1,900 miles west of Cape Horn, has decided to continue in the race back to Les Sables…
Way down south, more than 1,800 nautical miles southwest of Saint Malo, in the warmer climes and flatter seas west of the Canaries, François Gabart continues to blaze a trail to Guadeloupe chased by Francis Joyon. But as the days…
With such a big fleet now spread over a large area of ocean, skippers in the solo transatlantic Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe are beginning to experience wide variations in weather conditions after three very challenging days at sea. While there…
The first three days of the Route du Rhum certainly sorted out the boats. After the tough conditions yesterday which inflicted damage on Samantha Davies (Initiatives Cœur), Yannick Bestaven (Maître Coq) and Fabrice Amedeo (Newrest – Art & Fenêtres), on…
The 2019 RORC Caribbean 600 is set to be a spectacular edition of the fantastic 600 nautical mile race around 11 Caribbean islands. Of the early entries, the largest yacht competing will be the 203ft schooner Athos, returning to the…
As she faced very rough seas in the depression sweeping the Bay of Biscay yesterday, Sam Davies diagnosed a delamination of the bottom of the hull of her 60ft monohull, Initiatives-Cœur. Given the expected weather conditions off the Iberian Peninsula…
At the end of the second day of the Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe an Atlantic storm that had been forecast at the start has been making itself felt across the whole fleet with one boat capsized, two dismasted and many…
After Isabelle Joschke’s boat was dismasted during the night, Romain Attanasio announced this lunchtime that he was turning back, as his sails have suffered a lot of damage. Still led by British stalwart, Alex Thomson, fourteen IMOCAs are continuing on…
Whilst facing a very rough seas in the depression sweeping the Bay of Biscay, Sam Davies informed her team on Tuesday, November 6 at 17:00 (French time) of troubling and persistent noises coming from the hull of her 60ft monohull…
The majority of the 123-strong Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe solo transatlantic fleet has enjoyed a brisk first 24 hours of racing as they head west into the Atlantic. But while most have settled into the race without major problems, there…
With Alex Thomson leading the way and Jérémie Beyou suffering from some worrying steering damage, Marc Guillemot offers us his look as a specialist and gives us his personal analysis of the first day of the Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe…
STOP PRESS: Race leader Jean-Luc Van Den Heede suffers knock-down and mast damage At 1500hrs UTC 5th NOV. Jean-Luc Van Den Heede called GGR Founder Don McIntyre to advise that his Rustler 36 Matmut had been knocked down badly to…
British skipper Sam Goodchild has dismasted during the second night of the Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe whilst racing in third place in Class40 on Narcos Mexico. Goodchild, 28, was racing well in strong conditions, sailing in around 30 knots of…
The 11th edition and 40th anniversary staging of the Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe solo transatlantic race got underway in spectacular style today off the Brittany port of Saint Malo, as a record entry of 123 skippers set sail for Guadeloupe….
Marcus Grimes is stepping into a new level of technology and style of racing with the purchase of the Judel/Vrolijk that was Elena Nova, now called Insomnia and racing from the Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club in Sydney’s north. Grimes…
Shortly after 4:30 GMT, Sébastien Josse alerted his team manager to major damage aboard the Maxi Edmond de Rothschild. Leading the Route du Rhum – Destination Guadeloupe fleet after an outstanding start to the race, the solo sailor came to…
For once, as they are not competing in this edition of the Route du Rhum – destination Guadeloupe, some of the skippers in the IMOCA class will be offering their personal outlook on the race and analysing each day the…
All is set in the Brittany port of Saint Malo for the start of the 11th edition of the Route-du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe solo transatlantic race, which features a record entry of 123-skippers who will tackle very rough conditions in the…
The 2018 Pantaenius Newport Coffs Coast Yacht Race has been reluctantly cancelled as entries failed to meet target. Having resurrected the race last year with a fleet of 12, organisers from the Royal Motor Yacht Club (RMYC) Broken Bay and…
The Ultime class is going to produce a fast race in the 2018 Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe from Saint Malo in Brittany to Point-à-Pitre in Guadeloupe and it features the rock stars of French solo ocean racing – here, sailing…
The trimarans of the Ultime class will take off from St Malo in the direction of Point-à-Pitre, at fabulous speeds probably never achieved before, this Sunday at 2 pm. François Gabart, skipper of the MACIF trimaran and his design office…
In three days, at exactly 13:00 GMT, the Route du Rhum – Destination Guadeloupe fleet will set sail from offshore Saint Malo. The race start is approaching then and the weather patterns are taking shape. Indeed, this 2018 edition is…
29-year old Golden Globe Race skipper Susie Goodall made good use of her time in Hobart to repair her wind vane self-steering and dive to clear barnacles clinging to the bottom of her Rustler 36 yacht DHL Starlight. Looking fit…
On Sunday 4th November in Saint-Malo, 20 monohulls from the IMOCA Class will be lining up at the start of the Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe, the first solo event in the IMOCA Globe Series, the class’s new world championship. A…
The veteran British ocean racing sailor Sam Davies loves to remind people that she is a “rookie” when it comes to the Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe but she is eager to get going and see whether she can spring a…
When Uku Randmaa set off from the BoatShed.com Film gate in Hobart in third place within the Golden Globe Race fleet last Saturday, he was not thinking about closing the gap between second placed Dutchman Mark Slats, but how to…
November was originally planned as the month for Spindrift racing to complete their inshore racing season and then move to standby mode for the team’s attempt on the Jules Verne Trophy. However with the M32 championship event, originally scheduled to…
The 2018 Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe fleet consists of a record-breaking entry of 123 sailors, six of whom are female, with three each racing in the highly-competitive IMOCA and Class40 divisions. The organisers would be delighted to see more women…
The Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe has historically been a predominantly French affair – even if the first race was won by a Canadian in Mike Birch – but the 40th anniversary staging of the event features the strongest contingent of…
Alex Thomson will start the Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe solo transatlantic race on Sunday week, armed with what he considers to be the fastest, best-optimised IMOCA 60 in the race’s record-sized fleet of 20 boats. With Hugo Boss, he has…
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