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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…
Tracy Edwards, Sam Davies, Miranda Merron, Adrienne Cahalan, Emma Westmacott, Mikaela Von Koskull, Frederique Brule, Helena Darvelid and Hannah Harwood, nine of the eleven women in 1998 who made up the only female crew to attempt the Jules Verne Trophy,…
It is not every day that you come across a sporting campaign sponsored by a TV crime drama. But that is exactly the case for British yachtsman Sam Goodchild as he prepares to compete in the eleventh edition of the…
Hamilton, Bermuda: October 23, 2018: The Royal Bermuda Yacht Club announces that the third edition of the Antigua Bermuda Race will start on the May 8, 2019 and will be part of the 2019 Atlantic Ocean Racing Series (AORS). …
With ten days to go to the start of the Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe, twenty IMOCAs are moored up in Saint-Malo in the Duguay-Trouin dock. Among them, the local contender, Louis Burton’s Bureau Vallée 2. At the age of 33,…
French solo yachtsman Loïc Lepage was successfully transferred from his dismasted yacht Laaland by the Japanese bulk carrier Shiosai at 00:53 UTC Monday. The rescue, which took place in the South Indian Ocean some 670 miles SW of Perth, commenced…
The big day is approaching and with just 12 days to go until they set sail across the Atlantic, the 123 entries in the 11th Route du Rhum are making for Saint Malo and its famous ramparts en masse. The…
French solo yachtsman Loïc Lepage is expected to be evacuated from his dismasted yacht Laaland shortly after first light on Tuesday (23:30 UTC Monday). By then both the bulk carrier Shiosai and the sailing yacht Alizes II will have reached…
Dateline 21.10. 2018 – Hobart, Tasmania. SITUATION UPDATE At 15:00 UTC on October 21. At 18:27 UTC on Saturday 20th Oct. the Joint Rescue Coordination Centre at Canberra (JRCC Aus.) picked up a distress beacon alert from French solo skipper Loïc…
At 18:30 UTC, French solo yachtsman set off the Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon (EPIRB) on his yacht Laaland after being dismasted earlier in the day some 600 miles SW of Perth Western Australia. The incident began 5 hours earlier when…
The Waitemata put on a dazzling display of sailing for spectators of the 36th PIC Coastal Classic yacht race this morning, with 165 boats starting the epic journey from Auckland to Russell in the Bay of Islands. Every year since…
At 08:00 UTC Friday, (18:00 local time Hobart) Dutch sailor Mark Slats was 230 miles from the BoatShed.com Hobart film drop, making 7.4 knots in what he describes as excellent conditions. “Flying along. Just made contact with Tasman Maritime,” the…
Get ready for the most spectacular show on water as six of the world’s fastest multihulls prepare to rampage across the Atlantic in the 40th anniversary staging of the Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe. Setting sail from Saint Malo in Brittany…
Considering that the fleet was on the wind for the entire race from Auckland to Russell, the PIC Coastal Classic was deemed “a good one”, by competitors who were enjoying the Bay of Islands’ sunshine after the race. As the…
Prospective entrants for the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s (CYCA) 2018 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race have just one week before entries close, when they can join the 80 already submitted, inclusive of a record five super maxis and 12…
Crew from all over the world will be competing in the 2018 RORC Transatlantic Race which sets off from Marina Lanzarote, Arrecife on Saturday November 24th. The 3,000 nautical mile-long race to Grenada is the final challenge in the Royal…
It was a forlorn Anthony “Captain” Kirke who arrived at Geographe Bay Race Week in February 2017. The plan had been for his Farr 40 “Enterprise” to sail in IRC Racing Division. The entry was paid up, the crew was…
Competitors at a ‘winning strategy’ information session to prepare for the Friday morning start of the PIC Coastal Classic yacht race have learned one key thing from the experts: It won’t be easy, and it never is. With a wind…
Jean-Luc Van Den Heede continues to extend his lead over the seven remaining Golden Globe Race yachts, now stretched across 4,800 miles of the Southern Ocean. This last weekend saw the 73 year old Frenchman follow in the wake of…
On Saturday, October 20, yachtswoman Lisa Blair will embark on her latest adventure, in an attempt to become the first woman to sail solo, non-stop and unassisted around Australia. The Australian is no stranger to such a challenge and holds…
Matt Allen’s Botin-designed TP52 Ichi Ban has again proven its current dominance in the ocean racing circuit with another IRC and ORCi Division win in the Blue Water Pointscore series, this time in the Newcastle Bass Island Race. The current…
Comanche, owned by Jim Cooney and Samantha Grant, has claimed a second race record in as many outings, taking line honours in the Audi Centre Sydney Blue Water Pointscore Series Newcastle Bass Island Yacht Race. After a fast trip to…
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