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…
Round-the-world sailor Pip Hare today announced her co-skipper for the Transat Jacques Vabre race, Ysbrand Endt. The race is an important qualifying stage for Pip’s bid to compete in the 2020-2021 Vendée Globe with her IMOCA 60 Superbigou. With thousands of miles on his CV, Ysbrand has sailed a huge range of yachts from Mini…
Next year, for the first time in many years the course of Barbados Sailing Week’s signature event – the Round Barbados Race – will track the fleet anti-clockwise. This means as well as the 22 records already on offer, the original outright anti-clockwise record of 10 hours and 15 minutes set by a schooner in…
It was all on for today. The final two fleet races to decide the third place podium following by the climax to the season-long rivalry between Australia and Japan for the $1m prizemoney and the title of SailGP Season 1 Champion. The British team were ready for the battle and went into the day on…
The First day of the Land Union September Regatta was bathed in glorious sunshine and a light southeasterly wind averaging seven knots. PRO Peter Bateson and his race team organised a full quota of racing in the Eastern Solent, with up to four races for the impressive fleet . Over 300 sailors were reaching for…
The Darwin Escapes 2019 J/70 World Championship kicked off yesterday with three races in Torbay. Big wind shifts and changes in wind speed tested the 78 teams competing as well as the Race Management team led by Stuart Childerley. In the Open Class, Joel Ronning (USA) racing Catapult, leads the championship after three races. Second…
