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The weekly satellite phone calls are quite revealing. For me as the person usually answering, I must manage a safety call that is not part of the GGR philosophy. It is a satellite phone. The entrants crave the very real…
Big breeze has returned to the Sevenstar Round Britain and Ireland Race; the leading teams are blasting downwind along the wild west coast of Ireland as the chasing pack round the famous Fastnet Lighthouse, cracking sheets for Mizen Head. Phil…
The cold front that brought tough conditions to the start of the Sevenstar Round Britain and Ireland Race has now passed, with the fleet enjoying bright sunshine yesterday and a relatively calm second night at sea. However, the intensity on…
DAY 44: Dateline 13th August 2018 – Les Sables d’Olonne, France Over the weekend, French yachtsman Philippe Péché has fashioned a repair to the aluminium tiller on his Rustler 36 PRB, but without self steering, has decided to head to…
The international fleet are licking their wounds after a tough first night in the Sevenstar Round Britain and Ireland Race. The leading Class40s and IRC rated yachts have broken away from the rest of the fleet and are expected to…
Twenty eight teams with crew from 18 different countries started the 2018 Sevenstar Round Britain and Ireland Race, organised by the Royal Ocean Racing Club, when the cannon fire from the Royal Yacht Squadron Line signalled the start of one…
Fifty seven year old Philippe Peche made an emergency call to the Golden Globe Race HQ at 18:10 UTC yesterday to report that the tiller on his Rustler 36 yacht PRB had broken in 45-50 knot winds and he had…
The 2018 Sevenstar Round Britain and Ireland Race has a record entry of Two Handed and Class40 teams. Twenty-nine teams in total will line up for the start on the Royal Yacht Squadron line in Cowes at noon on Sunday…
Australia is a BIG place and being brought up in South Australia you must sail through the Southern Ocean getting out to sail the world. In the 70’s when I started sailing, your only safety link was High Frequency long…
This week should determine who leads the Golden Globe Race. Forget the computer standings. As this fleet of singlehanders bash their way through the South East Trade winds towards the Roaring Forty latitudes of the South Atlantic, all eyes are…
Wild Oats XI has taken line honours in the 2018 Club Marine Brisbane to Keppel Tropical Yacht Race followed 40 minute later by Black Jack in a drifter finish. It’s getting very busy at Keppel Bay Marina as Alive is approaching the finish, and within sight…
Andrew Wiklunds Farr 40 Crankster is the Overall Winner of the Brisbane to Keppel Tropical Yacht Race after great closing run up the Capricornia coast. The team from the Royal Queensland Yacht Squadron completed the race just after Sunset on…
As expected, super maxi’s Black Jack and Wild Oats XI are leading the pack in the Brisbane to Keppel Tropical Race, but at 9.5-knots, it’s cruising speed only for these 100ft yachts and the rest of the pack. No wind…
Renowned Coffs Harbour sailor Pierre Gal is putting the finishing touches to a bespoke, “home-made” IRC 34-footer with the aim of using the 2018 Pantaenius Newport Coffs Coast race as its maiden offshore outing. The French expat has spent the…
Skipper Norbert Sedlacek has decided to stop his record attempt this morning at 10.30 a.m. west of Ireland and to come back to the port of departure, Les Sables d’Olonne. “Sometimes it is necessary to take note of the reality…
Bruce Taylor’s Victorian 40-footer called Chutzpah has been officially declared the IRC overall winner of the Noakes Sydney Gold Coast Yacht Race after a 15-hour wait for the only challenger still on the course to drop out of contention. “They…
It’s the Friday before the Brisbane to Keppel yacht (B2K) race and the Keppel Bay Marina is buzzing. Supermaxi’s Black Jack and Wild Oats XI are preparing to sail into town and the stakes are high. For Keppel Bay Marina…
Day two of the Noakes Sydney Gold Coast Yacht Race has Jim Cooney’s 100ft Comanche eating up the miles and holding a 10 nautical mile buffer to the nearest challenger, the Oatley family’s Wild Oats XI. Comanche’s ETA at the…
Today, at 10:18 a.m. local time the extreme sailor Norbert Sedlacek started from Les Sables d’Olonne, France to circumnavigate the world single-handed, non-stop and without assistance through all five oceans including the Arctic oceans and the Northwest Passage. It will be…
In a gripping finish to the Noakes Sydney Gold Coast Yacht Race, Queensland supermaxi Black Jack match-raced and beat Wild Oats XI to the finish line by just under two minutes over a 384 nautical mile course. Peter Harburg’s 30m…
The first battle in the Noakes Sydney Gold Coast Yacht Race went to Jim Cooney’s Comanche, the imposing black and red super maxi narrowly leading the Oatley’s same-length Wild Oats XI to Sydney Heads on a mild winter day, closely…
History has been made as Australian Sailor Wendy Tuck becomes the first woman to ever to lead a team to win a round the world yacht race after clinching the overall victory in the Clipper 2017-18 Race. And in an…
The Beatles may be Liverpool’s biggest claim to fame, but at 2.40pm local time in Liverpool (9.50pm in Sydney tonight) Sydney’s Wendy Tuck received a hero’s welcome when she stepped ashore, the first female to ever win the Clipper Round…
The end is in sight and the kites are flying after the Clipper Race fleet rounded Fastnet Rock and began the final surge through the Irish Sea to the Finish Line in Liverpool. The two teams gunning for the overall…
The 2021-22 edition of the world’s premiere fully-crewed around the world race will feature two classes of boats, the IMOCA 60 and the VO65 class. Each class has its distinct characteristics, and the inclusion of both means the race will…
Noakes Sydney Gold Coast Yacht Race handicap fortunes look set to favour the mid-size boats in the 384 nautical mile run north to Southport, a light-wind start and first 24 hours then a 20-25 knot southerly change on Sunday to…
The thirteenth and final race of the Clipper 2017-18 Race remains anyone's, with the fleet still tightly packed as the upwind beat down the western Irish coast continues. And with now less than 36 hours left until the teams reach…
The second day of Race 13 has been dominated by a continued tough upwind beat as the fleet races south down the West Coast of Ireland, separated by just 15nm. With the teams tacking and trimming to keep Virtual Mark…
The final race of the Clipper 2017-18 Round the World Yacht Race got underway yesterday following a spectacular stopover and send off from Derry-Londonderry. The start line, positioned between Greencastle and Magilligan Point was tightly contested. First to cross was…
On July 21, 2018, which marks the birthday of Varuna VI's owner and skipper, Jens Kellinghusen (NRV), the Race Committee confirmed that Varuna's overall win of the Bermuda Hamburg leg after corrected time is not at jeopardy anymore. In theory,…
ABC7. By Diane Pathieu Sunday, July 22, 2018 10:37AM CHICAGO (WLS) — A sailor who went overboard into Lake Michigan during the Race to Mackinac remains missing and the search has turned into a recovery mission Sunday. Jon Santarelli,…
After two months of busy preparation, our Innovation Yachts Open60AAL and skipper Norbert Sedlacek are ready to go. With the help of all our partners we were able to build and prepare a unique racing boat for a unique world…
With yet another sunny day on the North Sea coast, in a little gentler winds than in the last few days, another two inshore races were held in The Hague Offshore Sailing Worlds. The completion of the first race prompted…
It was the last chapter of an epic 3,500nm transatlantic rivalry between Jens Kellinghusen's Varuna VI, and Boris Herrmann's Malizia – Yacht Club Monaco. In the end, Malizia was the fastest boat on the water and first after elapsed time,…
As the leading trio of Philippe Péché, Jean-Luc Van Den Heede and Mark Slats position themselves to cross the Doldrums, the dramas continue at the back of the Golden Globe Race fleet. Nabil Amra, the US based Palestinian sailing the…
While there's no change at the top of the leaderboards in each of the three classes in The Hague Offshore Sailing Worlds, the fight for the other podium positions remains keen as the points totals tighten up going into tomorrow…
In contrast to the past few days of light shifty winds, today's superb 12-17 knot southerly breeze made for fast and furious racing on all courses of The Hague Offshore Sailing World Championship 2018. And so even with a later…
French leader Philippe Péché and his Rustler 36 PRB is being pushed hard by Dutch rival Mark Slats (Ophen Maverick) as the Golden Globe Race fleet enjoy glorious trade wind conditions on the run south towards the Cape Verde Islands….
The sun continued to shine today at the start of racing in The Hague Offshore Sailing World Championship, with many thousands of beachgoers watching nearly a thousand sailors on their boats in the fleet start the long offshore race portion…
Under bright sunny skies and a gentle 10 knots of wind, many entries in the 86-boat fleet from 15 nations made it out to the race areas today to test the waters of the North Sea in preparation for tomorrow's…
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