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In a 5-10 knot building nor ‘east breeze on Sydney Harbour this morning, the 40-boat fleet packed-out boat-end at the start of the Bird Island Race, Comanche and Black Jack leading the way out of the Heads to the small…
Jim Cooney sailed Comanche to line honours and a new record in the Bird Island Race, crossing the finish line at 04:08:27 hours on Saturday, in the time of 6hrs 8mins 27secs, just 25 minutes ahead of Peter Harburg’s Black…
Giovanni Soldini's Italian Multi 70 Maserati was the first to cross the line in the fifth edition of the RORC Transatlantic Race, taking multihull line honours and completing the 3,000 nautical mile race between Lanzarote and Grenada in an elapsed…
Following an intense 3,000 nautical mile battle across the Atlantic from Marina Lanzarote to Camper & Nicholson's Port Louis Marina, Giovanni Soldini's Maserati Multi 70 has taken Multihull line honours in the 2018 RORC Transatlantic Race in an elapsed time…
It's game on in the thrilling race for multihull line honours in the RORC Transatlantic Race, with Giovanni Soldini's Maserati Multi70 and Peter Cunningham's MOD70 PowerPlay expected to arrive at Camper & Nicholson’s Port Louis Marina in the early hours…
At 1200 UTC on 29 November, Giovanni Soldini's Multi70 Maserati and Peter Cunningham's MOD70 PowerPlay were into the sixth day of their high-speed duel in the RORC Transatlantic Race. Both teams were just under 1,000 miles from the finish at…
Race 5 of the CYCA's Blue Water Pointscore series, the Bird Island Race – the final event in the series before the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race – starts this weekend. At 10:00 on Saturday 1 December, a 41-strong fleet takes the…
The leading multihulls are now approximately halfway along the course in the RORC Transatlantic Race having already sailed 1,700 miles. Conversely, the smaller boats have only covered between 500 and 600 nautical miles and still have around 2,500 miles to…
The latest edition of the Volvo Ocean Race, which started in Alicante, Spain in October 2017 and finished in The Hague in the Netherlands in June 2018, will be remembered as the closest in race history, as well as a…
Giovanni Soldini's Maserati Multi 70 and Peter Cunningham's MOD 70 PowerPlay have pulled the trigger, launching into the trade winds during the third night at sea in the RORC Transatlantic Race. It will be a wet and wild ride on…
The Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s 2018 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race promises to be another pot boiler, with one of the strongest-ever fleets chasing line honours and the overall win to secure the Tattersall Cup. A fleet of 91…
The battle between the multihulls has entered another phase, with both Giovanni Soldini's Maserati Multi 70 and Peter Cunningham's MOD70 PowerPlay crossing the rhumb line at sundown on day two. As dawn broke on the third day of the RORC…
Jean-Luc Van Den Heede led the Golden Globe Race fleet of solo sailors round Cape Horn at 19:16 UTC on Friday having extended his lead on all but second placed Dutchman Mark Slats during a week when those trailing up…
Giovanni Soldini's Maserati Multi 70 and Peter Cunningham's MOD 70 PowerPlay have been swapping the multihull lead right from the start. On the first day, the duo headed northwest, tacking southwest in unison, 73 miles above the rhumb line. A…
On a perfect sunny Sunday afternoon off Pointe-à-Pitre, the French sailing hero Loïck Peyron completed his personal tribute to transatlantic racing pioneers Mike Birch and Eric Tabarly when he brought his small yellow trimaran, Happy, through the finish line of…
Finnish sailor Ari Huusela crossed the finish line of the Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe solo transatlantic race this morning to take 11th place in the IMOCA division. Huusela, who is a career airline pilot with Finnair, completed the 3,542-nautical mile…
The damaged rig on race leader, Jean-Luc Van Den Heede’s yacht Matmut, has weathered two more southern ocean storms during the past week, and the 73-year old Frenchman is now within 400 miles of Cape Horn. He is on course…
In a race full of twists and turns, at the end of the Route du Rhum Paul Meilhat achieved his first major solo victory, and after a short rest, analysed his race and that of his rivals too. Meilhat also…
Jean-Luc Van den Heede, the 73-year old French sailor leading the Golden Globe Race on his Rustler 36 yacht Matmut, is set to round Cape Horn at approx. 20:00 UTC tonight. Seventeen solo sailors set out from Les Sables d’Olonne…
The 5th edition of the RORC Transatlantic Race in association with the International Maxi Association, will start from Marina Lanzarote at 1200 UTC on Saturday 24 November 2018. Two record-breaking trimarans will go head-to-head in a 3,000 nautical mile match…
21 NOVEMBER 2018 (Sydney, Australia) – In a bid to encourage stronger female representation in Australian sailing, and to promote ocean health and sustainability, an all-female professional crew to enter the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race has announced its campaign…
As he finished third in the highly competitive Class40 division of the Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe solo transatlantic race, British skipper Phil Sharp did all he could to hide his feelings. The smiles and jokes with the media and VIPs…
Two days into the third week of the 2018 Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe, Pointe-à-Pitre was able to celebrate two great winners in the Rhum Multi class and in the hotly-fought Class40 division of the 3,542-nautical mile solo transatlantic race. In…
The damaged rig on Golden Globe Race leader Jean-Luc Van Den Heede’s yacht Matmut has weathered two more southern ocean storms during the past week and the 73-year old Frenchman is now within 400 miles of Cape Horn. He is…
Whitehall, London, November 17, 2018 – The 2018 Royal Ocean Racing Club Annual Dinner and Prize Giving was held at the Royal Horseguards Hotel, with over 200 guests attending the spectacular black tie event and where prize winners, competitors, crews,…
Eleven nautical miles down the River Derwent from the finish of the 180 nautical miles Maria Island ocean race early Sunday morning it looked like a potential winning day for two of the smaller boats in the fleet, Off-Piste and…
French solo skipper Paul Meilhat at the helm of SMA was crowned the unexpected winner of the IMOCA class in the 2018 Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe solo transatlantic race today from Saint Malo in Brittany to Pointe-à-Pitre in Guadeloupe. The…
When he crossed the finish line in Pointe-à-Pitre at 0023hrs UTC last night, Paul Meilhat won the Route du Rhum in the IMOCA category, taking into account the 24-hour penalty given to Alex Thomson for starting his engine after running…
There has been a huge upset in the race between the IMOCAs, as comfortably leading the Route du Rhum and on his way to a clear victory, British sailor Alex Thomson ran aground last night at the foot of a…
The British yachtsman Alex Thomson stood on board his damaged yacht, Hugo Boss, moored to the quayside in Guadeloupe this morning and told the assembled media that he did not deserve to win the Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe. Thomson had…
It is shortly after midnight in Europe that Alex Thomson is expected off Tête à l’Anglais island to the north of Basse-Terre. He will then have the tricky task of sailing around Guadeloupe. The skipper of Hugo Boss appears to…
An operation is under way to rescue Lalou Roucayrol, the French skipper who capsized 1,000 nautical miles east of Guadeloupe early yesterday morning (Wednesday). The plan to recover Roucayrol from the upturned Multi50, Arkema, will involve fellow Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe skipper…
Blessed with bright Caribbean sunshine and a 20-knot trade wind for the final passage around the island of Basse Terre, French solo skipper Armel Tripon today won the Multi50 class in the 2018 Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe. The 43-year-old solo…
Following initial reports that Alex Thomson’s Hugo Boss had grounded on rocks during the final miles of the Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe and while leading the IMOCA class, Race Direction has contacted the British skipper to check his status. They…
It will soon be coming to an end for the leading IMOCA. Ruling supreme, Alex Thomson has kept a good lead over his closest rivals. Paul Meilhat, Vincent Riou and Yann Eliès are fighting it out to make it to…
Plymouth City Council and the Royal Ocean Racing Club (RORC) have confirmed that Plymouth will host the finish of the 2019 Rolex Fastnet Race. Plymouth has marked the end of the biennial yacht race since its inception in 1925. Starting…
NEWPORT, R.I. – For Joe Mele, a 55-year-old retired doctor of internal medicine in New York City and fantastical stunt diver, ocean racing is about more than the competition. “I love the fact that it's not just a race, but…
Armel Tripon, the runaway leader in the Multi50 class, is hoping to be the third skipper to finish the 2018 Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe solo transatlantic race from Saint Malo in Brittany to Pointe-à-Pitre in the French Caribbean. Tripon on…
Alex Thomson continues to extend his lead in the trade winds. Now less than 1000 miles from the finish in Pointe-à-Pitre, the British skipper seems well placed, even if Paul Meilhat, Vincent Riou and Yann Eliès will remain a threat…
Dateline 12:00 UTC 13.11.2018 – Les Sables d'Olonne, France Jean-Luc Van Den Heede may have to earn his passage around Cape Horn. The embattled French leader, nursing a damaged mast on his Rustler 36 Matmut after the yacht was pitchpoled…
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