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…
The Ocean Race will come to Aarhus, Denmark during the spring of 2022, following a popular ‘Fly-By’ of the city during the final leg of the 2017-18 edition of the Race. The success of the Fly-By, where the fleet raced into the inner harbour of Aarhus port and around a turning mark in front of…
Day One of the HYS FAST40+ Nationals started an hour late but it was worth the wait. Three windward leeward races were held in 10-12 knots from the east with glorious sunshine producing fantastic conditions in the easter Solent. Racing was highly competitive, especially in the last race, which featured a course of six legs,…
Today’s racing in an increasing south-southwesterly breeze determined the overall class winners at Cowes Week, as well as those for Black and White groups and the whole regatta. James Wilson and Ed Peel’s Redwing Quail posted a perfect scoreline to win the class, White Group and Cowes Week overall. “It is absolutely fantastic,” Peel said…
Today provided yet more high-adrenaline racing at Cowes Week that saw many competitors coming ashore sporting big grins. While it was a warm and mostly sunny day on land, it was a breezy one on the Solent, with powerful gusts to 25 knots that provided exhilaration at the same time as forcing a string of…
A tricky day on the Solent threw up challenges of a different kind on the third day of Cowes Week. As showers moved across the race area winds from every point of the compass were experienced at some point during the day, while wind speed varied from less than 5 knots to up to 15.…
