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…
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…
