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It might have taken the entire first week of the race but the requests for reliable wind have finally been answered, resulting in teams recording their best 24 hour runs, and the North Pacific Ocean is now under 300nm ahead….
The overall race leader, MAPFRE, resumed racing on Friday morning (UTC) following a Cape Horn pit-stop to make repairs to a torn mainsail, as well as a damaged mast track and boom. The move, which cost MAPFRE nearly 13-hours when…
MAPFRE, the overall leader in the Volvo Ocean Race, has suspended racing to attend to damage to their mast track. A section of the mast track came unglued from the mast five days ago, but until now the team has…
Taking into account the political and administrative situation in Catalonia, the organiser of the Barcelona World Race (the FNOB) has taken the decision to cancel the fourth edition of the double-handed round the world race on IMOCAs, which was due…
The following story has been issued on behalf of Team Sun Hung Kai/Scallywag: On Monday 26 March, Team Sun Hung Kai / Scallywag lost John Fisher overboard in the Southern Ocean, approximately 1,400 nautical miles west of Cape Horn. Despite conducting…
Team Sun Hung Kai / Scallywag is heading towards the coast of the Chile, as the team attempt to recover from the devastating loss overboard of John Fisher on Monday. At this point, the team has not confirmed its plans,…
Progress in the race to Seattle has continued to be hampered over the past 24 hours by the high-pressure system which has kept teams in very close proximity of each other. However, the light at the end of the windless…
The main fleet started their run to Osaka in the Sundance Marine Melbourne Osaka Cup on Monday March 26th. Since then, quite a number of the fleet have been in touch. Not long after clearing the Heads on Monday, Grant…
The 2018 edition of the Rolex China Sea Race got underway at 1120hrs today with blue skies and an easterly breeze of 8kts. The start line, located in front of Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club’s Kellett Island Clubhouse, was a…
An update on Sun Hung Kai / Scallywag crew member John Fisher, from Richard Brisius, the President of the Volvo Ocean Race: This morning I am extremely sad to inform you that one of our sailors, John Fisher, from Team…
Six crews in the Volvo Ocean Race fleet are facing challenging conditions as they race towards Cape Horn, still 900 miles and two days away. The seventh team, Sun Hung Kai/Scallywag, is working to recover from the tragic loss of…
Day 4 of Race 9 has been a case of 'Groundhog Day' as the light winds that had been a feature of the previous 24 hours continue to frustrate the teams. Despite not making much progress towards the southern tip…
With just over four months to go before the second edition of LA DRHEAM CUP-Destination Cotentin (21-29 July) and with the Notice of race published, the fleet is growing: already over 60 boats entered, a 40% increase compared to the…
Tortola, British Virgin Islands – March 27, 2018 – “We looked behind us and didn't see anyone at all, we were pretty far ahead of the fleet,” said David Liddell, co-owner of WOW, the Stealth 14GT catamaran and the first…
Race Control for the Volvo Ocean Race has been informed by Team Sun Hung Kai/Scallywag of a man overboard incident, on Monday afternoon at approximately 13:42 UTC. The team, along with the Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre (MRCC), has been conducting…
After winds had moderated over much of the weekend, and provide a much-needed respite to the Volvo Ocean Race sailors, Monday showed the Southern Ocean still has some bite. With 1,400 miles to sail to Cape Horn, the fleet is…
The 2018 Sevenstar Round Britain and Ireland Race starting on Sunday 12th August will feature a wide variety of yachts racing under the IRC rating rule as well as one design and open classes, such as IMOCA, Class40 and Multihulls….
Britain's Ocean City, Plymouth, has won the bid to host the start of the next edition of The Transat in 2020, the first and oldest single-handed transatlantic race in history. The historic port on the Devon coast, which has a…
The Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre (MRCC) is continuing to lead efforts to recover Volvo Ocean Race sailor John Fisher (UK), who was reported overboard off Sun Hung Kai / Scallywag early on Monday afternoon UTC. The Scallywag team, assisted by…
Weather has played a major role in the Sundance Marine Melbourne Osaka Cup this time around. Two out of three starts so far have had to be postponed until the following day because of strong wind. Having had a day…
Things are starting to look up for the Clipper Race fleet on Day 2 of Race 9; glorious sunshine has emerged after a challenging 24 hours for the teams trying to navigate their way through the notorious Chinese fishing fleet,…
As the winds moderate to 20-25 knots on Sunday, the seven Volvo Ocean Race boats racing through the Southern Ocean towards Cape Horn are taking the opportunity to regroup before the next gale. Bouwe Bekking’s Team Brunel had taken a…
Race 9, from Qingdao, China, to Seattle, USA, is officially underway after the thick fog cleared and the wind picked up sufficiently to allow for the delayed Le Mans start to take place at 0800 local (midnight UTC) this morning….
The Southern Ocean is beginning to exact a toll on the Volvo Ocean Race fleet as conditions intensify this weekend. The wind is consistently above 30 knots now, with gusts approaching 40 knots and the sea state is rising above…
The sixth day of Leg 7 of the Volvo Ocean Race dawned with a reshuffle of the rankings as MAPFRE and Dongfeng Race Team shot to the front of the fleet. The two feared red boats were rewarded for choosing…
The Volvo Ocean Race fleet continues its relentless charge east, towards Cape Horn on Thursday, enjoying the best the Southern Ocean has to offer. The teams have been skirting the southern race course boundary and racing in strong but manageable…
Four days into the 7,600-mile leg from Auckland, New Zealand, to Itajaí, Brazil, there has been little let-up for the seven teams as they continue to push ever deeper into the Southern Ocean. A north-easterly wind of 20 and 30…
By Rob Dugdale. BBC Sport. America's Cup captain Sir Ben Ainslie says he has not given up his childhood dream of sailing round the world. Ainslie, 41, who won four Olympic gold medals between 2000 and 2012 as well as…
The seven teams were level with the southern tip of New Zealand on Tuesday, having knocked off more than 1,000 miles since leaving Auckland on Sunday. Throughout the fleet, reports were of a marked change in air and sea temperature…
Single-handed round the word sailors Jessica Watson and Ken Gourlay will be among those who will farewell 30 sailors from Australia and Hong Kong on Sunday when the Sundance Marine Melbourne Osaka Double-Handed Yacht Race fleet of 15 faces starter’s…
An intense start saw the seven-boat fleet – back up to full complement with the return of Vestas 11th Hour Racing – sail straight into a 30-knot easterly just hours after the leg start on Sunday. Monday has brought little let-up…
Monday 19th March sees the first of the Jeanneau Sun Fast racing yachts start in one of the most challenging double handed yacht races, the Melbourne Osaka Cup. Held every four years, the race covers five and half thousand…
As the Volvo fleet left Auckland on Sunday afternoon, bound for Cape Horn and Itajai in Brazil, all was not well on board several of the yachts. A virus has swept through the race village, with members of the media…
It has been a short but tough race from Sanya to Qingdao, which ended in a dramatic finale for the podium positions for Race 8: The Sailing City Qingdao Cup. Six of the eleven Clipper Race teams have now crossed…
When late-starter Sun Hung Kai Scallywag placed fifth, sixth and fifth out of seven boats in the first three legs of the Volvo Ocean Race, many critics smiled. But David Witt and his crew have wiped the grins off their…
Women's Match Racing silver medallist from the 2012 London Olympics, Nina Curtis, was working as a personal trainer at a gym in Washington DC when she received the call from Team Brunel – would she be interested in joining them…
The Clipper Race fleet has been steaming along under spinnaker in a flat sea state towards the finish line of Race 8: The Sailing City Qingdao Cup and it looks like PSP Logistics could secure its second consecutive victory today,…
It was a bittersweet occasion for offshore sailors last weekend, returning to a spot barely ten miles from where their popular colleagues Rob Thomas and Paul Owens died two weeks earlier in a capsize during the Bunbury and return ocean…
As Joanna Breen and Peter Brooks slipped their berth at Sandringham Yacht Club yesterday, readying to start the Sundance Marine Melbourne Osaka Double-Handed Yacht Race at Portsea today, organisers were in the final throws of preparing festivities for the main…
The race to Qingdao is reaching its climax and the Clipper Race teams are pulling out all the stops to gain a tactical advantage in the final stage of Race 8: The Sailing City Qingdao Cup. Stealth Mode has been…
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