The Four Oarsmen have just over 700 miles to row for the Antigua finish of the 3,000-mile Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge, which started in La Gomera in the Canaries on December 14th. Estimated to land in Antigua on January 14th, The Four Oarsmen have maintained a blistering pace, leading right from the start. Under constant pressure…
My name is James. In early 2017 I was looking for a new adventure to get involved in and my parents found dinghy sailing at Llangorse Lake. I started sailing during the spring half term holidays with cadet training, I didn’t know a thing about sailing so, starting from the beginning I was introduced to…
Team AkzoNobel has arrived in Melbourne, Australia at the end of the third leg of the Volvo Ocean Race around the world – a punishing 12,000 nautical-mile passage through the wilds of the Southern Ocean from Cape Town, South Africa. The international crew of seven men and two women led by Netherlands yachtsman Simeon Tienpont…
At noon on the 25th November 2017, after a week of boat preparation and much appreciated social activities at Marina Lanzarote in Arrecife, a record 23 yachts started the 2017 RORC Transatlantic Race bound for Grenada. Teams from nine different nations took part including: Australia, Belgium, Canada, Chile, France, Germany, Great Britain, the Netherlands and…
Close racing from beginning to end of Leg 3 challenged the crew of Vestas 11th Hour Racing since departing December 10th from Cape Town, South Africa and finishing on Christmas Day in Melbourne, Australia. The sailors clenched another podium finishing in third place at 8:52 Local Time or 21:52:11 UTC. This was a double points…
The Caribbean race season’s opening regatta is now to be known as Barbados Sailing Week, which replaces its former title – the Mount Gay Round Barbados Series writes Sue Pelling. Organised by Barbados Cruising Club in association with Barbados Tourism Marketing Inc, and Mount Gay, Barbados Sailing Week 2018, which runs from 16-24 January, is…
The 2018 RORC Caribbean 600 will start on Monday 19th February and teams from all over the world will be competing, lured by the thrilling conditions to race 600 miles around 11 Caribbean islands. Two months prior to the start, 53 entries have already been received and the race starting from Antigua is on course…
Sanya Serenity Coast claimed victory in a thrilling finale to Race 4: The ClipperTelemed+ Tasman Test, the first stage of the All-Australian Leg of the Clipper 2017-18 Round the World Yacht Race. It was one of the tightest ever Clipper Race finishes into Sydney, which saw the top three teams finish with an hour and…
Eric de Turckheim’s French Nivelt-Muratet 54 Teasing Machine was today declared the overall winner of the 2017 RORC Transatlantic Race. Whilst a number of the record 23 yacht fleet are still racing, none of them can better Teasing Machine’s corrected time under IRC. Teasing Machine is the smallest yacht to win the RORC Transatlantic Trophy,…
Ludde Ingvall’s CQS suffered a setback in the RORC Transatlantic Race; the westbound leg of the Atlantic Anniversary Regatta. “We got caught in a bad squall of probably 40 knots which resulted in a number of issues,” Ingvall reported from on board on day 10 of the race. “There has been damage to sails and…
