The 12th edition of the Royal Ocean Racing Club’s RORC Caribbean 600 will start on Monday 24th February 2020 from Antigua. Already the early entries are nudging towards an eclectic mix of 50 boats, with competition expected to be as red hot as ever. Previous overall and class winners are already committed to the thrilling…
Emirates is pleased to announce its appointment as official ‘Presenting Partner’ of the Emirates America’s Cup World Series (ACWS) event in Portsmouth, taking place in June 2020. As Official Presenting Partner of the ACWS Portsmouth, Emirates has helped secure the event during which world-class America’s Cup sailors will return to the Solent for a thrilling…
Cowes Week Limited is delighted to announce that the Official Charity for the 2020 edition of the regatta will be Greig City Academy’s, Scaramouche Sailing Trust. This six year old school sailing club, which became a charity last year, is an amazing initiative which gets young people from North London into the sport which everyone…
French Wally 100 Dark Shadow finished the 2019 RORC Transatlantic Race on Friday 6th December in an elapsed time of 13 days 9 hours 11 mins and 3 secs. Dark Shadow was sailed by Andre Auberton-Herve (FRA) and skippered by Yerin Hobson (AUS). “I did the transat almost 12 years ago with the almost the…
The Royal Ocean Racing Club (RORC), organisers of the Rolex Fastnet Race, announced at a press conference today that the City of Cherbourg will host the finish of the Rolex Fastnet Race for the 2021 and 2023 editions of the biennial race. The move encourages and secures the future development of the race and will…
Most successful Olympic sailor of all time to serve at helm of SailGP’s British entry INEOS joins as Presenting Partner, alongside Belstaff, Grenadier and AFEX, which serve as Supporting Partners of the new-look Great Britain SailGP Team Ben Ainslie – the most successful Olympic sailor of all time – today joined the Great Britain SailGP Team. Beginning…
On Friday 8 November, Alex Thomson and Neal McDonald arrived safely into the Cape Verde Islands onboard the HUGO BOSS yacht. The skippers, who had been racing in the 4,350 mile double-handed Transat Jacques Vabre race from Le Havre, France to Salvador, Brazil, were forced to retire from the race when their IMOCA 60 race…
British sailor Alex Thomson began the Transat Jacques Vabre Normandie Le Havre, his debut race onboard the new HUGO BOSS racing yacht. Thomson and his co-skipper – fellow Briton Neal McDonald – departed from Le Havre, France this afternoon to begin the double-handed 4,350mile race, which finishes in Salvador, Brazil. In what is the 14th edition…
79 RS made the RS Aero UK Inland Champs at Rutland SC the largest weekend RS Aero event yet as the Class continues to grow. Medium breezes prevailed over the weekend and the three RS Aero fleets raced off Class starts with inner and outer loop courses spreading competitors across the lake. Ben Rolfe (Burghfield)…
9 IMOCAs which have passed through CDK Technologies’ workshops will be at the start of the Transat Jacques Vabre (TJV) 2019, whilst 1 ULTIM at the start of the Brest Atlantique will have taken the same route. Since its creation, CDK Technologies has been mastering the implementation of its favourite material: carbon, a high-performance material, which…
