Come one, come all to the Pre-Race Ruckus! Let loose like you’re about to set sail for Alaska…with people who actually are about to set sail for Alaska. Help us give the racers a night to remember before their long, wet journey while you put faces (and hulls) to those blips on the tracker screen. See…
Royal Torbay Yacht Club played host to the 2016 RS Aero UK Nationals sponsored by Magic Marine with 70 entries set for a long weekend on the English Riviera. Competitors travelled from as far afield as France and Holland to compete on the Olympic racecourse of Torbay. The Championship opened with a coaching with a…
Tales II skippered by Gonzalo Botín and Pablo Santurde won leg two of the The Atlantic Cup presented by 11th Hour Racing, a 360-nautical mile leg from Brooklyn to Portland. The win marks back to back offshore wins for the team, which puts them on top of the leaderboard heading into the third and final leg a…
By choosing to get close to the Ice Exclusion Zone a couple days ago, the British sailor, Alex Thomson (Hugo Boss) made his break and is now in the most favourable position to get away from the Azores low, which will be sweeping across the north of the islands tonight. Alex is expected to gybe…
The recent announcement of the 2017 Western Caribbean Series reinforces the position of the International IRC rating rule in the Caribbean and southern USA. With the easing of travel restrictions to Cuba for American sailors in December 2014 after 50 years, clubs in the area are welcoming the new opportunities for offshore races. IRC…
With a fleet of nine Class 40s competing in The Atlantic Cup presented by 11th Hour Racing #123 – Tales II skippered by Gonzalo Botín and Pablo Santurde, crossed the finish line first at 12:53:03 p.m. ET on Tuesday, May 31, with an elapsed time of 72:48:03, to complete the 648 nautical mile first off-shore…
12 RS Aeros visited at Haltern am See, near Dortmund, Germany, sharing the weekend with the O’Pen Bic Class. Blessed with two Days of good sun and fresh breezes there were many big smiles evident in the photos. Racing was in ‘7’ rigs with sailors free to decrease to the ‘5’ rig. The German event…
Current leader in the Atlantic Cup presented by 11th Hour Racing Tales II is just 100nm to the finish in Brooklyn, NY and models are showing a 7am ET, Tuesday, May 31 arrival time. Tales is on pace to break the course record of 78 hours 55 minutes 13 seconds set in 2012 by Mare. Tales’ next…
This weekend (28/29 May) saw the Jelf Racing Powerboat Team head to the second round of the Powerboat GP RYA British Championship as they competed in the Lancashire Grand Prix at St Helens. 15 year old Ben Jelf took a break from revising for his GCSEs as he continued his domination in the GT30 class…
Just over 30 hours into the first leg of the Atlantic Cup presented by 11th Hour Racing and the fleet is through the worst of Tropical Storm Bonnie. Overnight last night the teams saw 35+ knots of wind and a very confused sea state, which made for extremely tough conditions and very little sleep. Spanish team Tales and French team Eärendil have consistently led…
