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Two organisations who pride themselves on the wellbeing of New Zealanders at sea are due to square off as part of next week’s PIC Coastal Classic yacht race from Auckland to the Bay of Islands: it’s the New Zealand Defence…
The Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe “Rhum” multihull division is made up of 21 catamarans and trimarans that range in size from 39-59ft and are sailed by skippers who are almost all amateurs. The fleet includes sisterships of the first winner…
Jean-Luc Van Den Heede reached the BoatShed.com Hobart film gate at 07:30 local time on Saturday (21:30 UTC Friday) to drop film and letters before heading out of Storm Bay to resume his lead in the Golden Globe Race. The…
Accessible to interested teams since 1st October, the preliminary version of the Sailing Instructions for the next crewed round the world race with stopovers (previously known as the Volvo Ocean Race) has given us an insight into this event, which…
At 6pm Friday, Tasmanian time, French Race leader Jean-Luc Van Den Heede was 40 miles from the BoatShed.com film gate at Hobart, Tasmania, his Rustler 36 Matmut making 3.7 knots. The 73-year old skipper is expected to sail in to…
Today marks one month to go until the start of the Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe. On November 4, 124 skippers will be leaving St Malo in Brittany to take on the 3,542-nautical mile course to Point-à-Pitre on the French Caribbean…
The next edition of the Volvo Ocean Race, scheduled to start in 2021, will include two dynamic classes of boats, more women racing than ever before, and a youth challenge trophy. Initial details have just been released with the Preliminary…
Ahead of the start of the 2018 Route du Rhum, we headed to Lorient, France to catch up with Volvo Ocean Race winner Jérémie Beyou. Having finished third in the 2016 Vendée Globe, he knows the IMOCA class well –…
Geoff Boettcher's stranglehold on the Teakle Classic Adelaide to Port Lincoln Yacht Race will be tested next year, as Australia's most in-form racing yacht enters the premier South Australian offshore event for the first time. Reigning Rolex Sydney Hobart…
Nearing the halfway stage of the inaugural Limeburners Point Laser Sailing Club Australia to Fiji shorthanded yacht race Anaconda Australia, a Beneteau First 44.7 with Laser Anaconda 208323 strapped to the deck, as sole entrant, is set for line honours…
Gregor McGuckin arrived into Rockingham, Perth, Western Australia today aboard the Australian frigate HMAS Ballarat following the dismasting of his Biscay 36 yacht Hanley Energy Endurance during a southern ocean storm on 21st September. Speaking at a press conference, the…
Times Columnist. By Jeff Bell. After a two-year wait, 76-year-old Jeanne Socrates is ready to make another attempt at a solo around-the-world sail, without touching land. In 2016, she started the journey twice from Victoria but had to stop both…
Five days after leaving the dock in Newport, Rhode Island, to set sail for her home port, the maxi trimaran Spindrift 2 returned to La Trinité-sur-mer in Brittany, France after completing her second transatlantic training in as many months. This…
The Australian frigate HMAS Ballarat will be within helicopter range of Ile de Amsterdam at first light tomorrow (Thursday) and will commence operations to pick up Gregor McGuckin, one of two Golden Globe Race skippers dismasted during a fierce storm…
Two MOD70s have entered the RORC Transatlantic Race for a thrilling high-speed multihull match race from Lanzarote to Grenada. Giovanni Soldini's much modified Maserati (now called a Multi 70) and Peter Cunningham's PowerPlay (formerly Concise 10) have both confirmed that…
At 20:00 UTC on 26th September, Golden Globe Race HQ in Les Sables d'Olonne received a request from the manager of the 32ft sailing yacht Selene for assistance from any GGR yacht in the area because her skipper Kjell Litwin is…
The Joint Rescue Co-ordination Centre (JRCC) in Canberra has just confirmed that Gregor McGuckin, the second Golden Globe Race solo sailor to have been dismasted in the South Indian Ocean, was picked up safely from his yacht at 12:10 UTC today….
Monday, September 24, 2018 | Copenhagen, Denmark: Two months after completing the 2017-18 Volvo Ocean Race around the world in fourth place aboard team AkzoNobel, two key members of the squad have set their sights on competing in the next…
Christmas is a busy time for Melbourne’s Ocean Racing Club of Victoria and among its high profile events is the 195 nautical mile Melbourne to Devonport Race for the Rudder Cup, starting 27 December each year. Colloquially known as the…
A multinational search operation is now under way to rescue injured Indian solo sailor Abhilash Tomy from his dismasted yacht in the Southern Ocean some 1,900 miles SW of Perth at the extreme limit of immediate rescue range. The 39…
Day 4 of the rescue of injured Indian Golden Globe Race solo sailor Abhilash Tomy from his dismasted yacht Thuriya approximately 1,900 miles SW of Perth Western Australia. The French fisheries patrol vessel Osiris reached Tomy’s yacht at 05:30 UTC…
Early today, Golden Globe race headquarters finally received a satellite text message from Abhilash Tomy, the injured Indian solo sailor dismasted in the South Indian Ocean some 1,900 miles south-west of Perth, Australia on Friday. “ACTIVATED EPIRB.CANT WALK.MIGHT NEED STRETCHER…
Solo sailors in the 2018 Golden Globe Race have been hit by a vicious storm midway across the South Indian Ocean and the 70 knot winds and 14m seas have left India's Abhilash Tomy, and Ireland's Gregor McGuckin, dismasted, and…
The Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe – one of the classic races in solo ocean sailing – is set for a record entry this year as it celebrates its 40th anniversary. Charting a 3,542-nautical mile course from Saint-Malo in Brittany to Point-à-Pitre…
73-year old Jean-Luc Van Den Heede continues to defy his age and best efforts of the chasing pack of Golden Globe Race skippers to extend his lead across the South Indian Ocean to 9+ days over the past week. The…
It is 100 days out from the 1pm Boxing Day start of the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s (CYCA) 2018 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race and already a fleet of 48 includes last year’s winner, three super maxis, nine internationals…
Matt Allen’s TP52 Ichi Ban has claimed IRC and ORCi Division victories in this year’s Flinders Islet Race, the second event in the Blue Water Pointscore (ACSBWPS) series. This year’s race became a 90-nautical-mile maritime drag race, and with the…
Jim Cooney and Samantha Grant's 100-footer Comanche has broken the race record and claimed line honours in the Flinders Islet Race, competing in the race for the first time. Crossing the Sydney Harbour finish line just 6 hours, 28 minutes…
Expected to sail well in forecast favourable conditions, Comanche, Jim Cooney and Samantha Grant’s super maxi, could smash the record in Race 2 of the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s Audi Centre Blue Water Pointscore series, which starts Saturday at…
At the prestigious international Beyond Sport Awards, in New York, the programme won in ‘The Best Corporate Campaign or Initiative in Sport for Good’ category. The judges commended the programme for its ‘fantastic use of a global platform to spread…
The new owner of Nandor Fa’s IMOCA, the Belgian skipper, Denis Van Weynbergh hopes to be able to compete in the Globe Series and reach a climax by taking part in the 2020 Vendée Globe. While for a long time,…
With the Summer season of sailing now open, here’s what to expect from the Blue Water Pointscore series in 2018. Through the major expansion of tracking technology previously reserved for ocean races such as the Rolex Sydney Hobart, across all…
Encouragingly for this year’s Club Marine Pittwater to Paradise Regatta is the level of interest from Queensland boat owners planning to cruise to Sydney then race back north as part of a competitive field. Drew Carruthers’ Rushour is the first…
Day 71: Dateline 10.9.2018 – Les Sables d’Olonne, France As Jean-Luc Van Den Heede continues to set the pace across the South Indian Ocean, fellow Frenchman Loïc Lepage docked his Nicholson 32 Laaland in Cape Town, and Finland’s Tapio Lehtinen…
San Francisco (USA) and Rotterdam (the Netherlands), September 8, 2018 – The Ocean Cleanup, the Dutch non-profit organization developing advanced technologies to rid the oceans of plastic, today launched the world’s first ocean cleanup system from San Francisco Bay. The…
The 2019 edition of the Rolex Fastnet Race will start on Saturday 3rd August 2019, which is two weeks earlier than the original published date. Unusually, the race will now run the week before Lendy Cowes Week, whose dates remain…
Are Wiig, the Norwegian GGR skipper dismasted eight days ago after his OE 32 Olleanna was rolled through 360° in the Southern Ocean, arrived in Cape Town at 21:06 UTC on Sunday, having sailed the 400 miles under jury rig…
Following the completion of the sailing event, the groundbreaking science element of the Sustainability Programme revealed the spread of microplastic pollution. Only three of the 75 samples collected during the race, south of Australia, east of Argentina and west of…
DAY 58: Dateline 20:00 UTC – Les Sables d’Olonne, France Golden Globe Race skipper Are Wiig made a satellite phone call to Race HQ at 16:30 UTC today to report that his 32ft yacht Olleanna had been rolled through 360°…
Giles Redpath's Lombard 46 Pata Negra is the overall winner of the 2018 Sevenstar Round Britain and Ireland Race. Pata Negra scored the best corrected time for yachts racing under the IRC Rating Rule for the 1,805 nautical mile non-stop…
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