K-Challenge Team France was the dominant force for the first half of this GC32 World Championship, held in Lagos, Portugal, but for the second half it was Christian Zuerrer’s Black Star Sailing Team which overtook the French after today’s third of four races.
This year’s second edition of the Hellenic Offshore Racing Club’s (HORC) AEGEAN 600 has secured this race’s place among the world’s important offshore challenges.
The two top boats edged further away from the eight other flying catamaran teams on the penultimate day of the GC32 World Championship, being held in Lagos, on Portugal’s Algarve coast.
At the half way stage of this fourth GC32 World Championship, the full 10 race schedule has been achieved, half of the fleet have won races and there is an unexpected stand-out race leader in K-Challenge Team France.
SSL Team South Africa recovered from a bad start to open their campaign with an impressive victory. Fighting hard all the way, SSL Team Malaysia had to settle for 2nd place, with SSL Team India crossing the line in 3rd.
At 05:17:20 local time this morning, the canting-keeled Elliot 52 RAFALE (GER) skippered by Phillip Kadelbach, crossed the outer limit of the finish line to establish a new monohull elapsed time course record
At an average speed of 11.3 knots around race course, Adrian Keller’s 78-foot Nigel Irens-designed performance luxury catamaran ALLEGRA (SUI) crossed the finish line at 19:36:02 local time today
Australian Sailing is aware of the recent incident involving the FarrX2 “Nexba” when the yacht capsized off Wollongong on the NSW South Coast.
With a 18-22 knot Meltemi wind blowing from the north generating white-capped seas under bright blue skies, race managers from the Hellenic Offshore Racing Club(HORC) got the fleet off to a fast start today in the 2nd edition of the AEGEAN 600.
After many days of preparation at the Olympic Marine facility, and well-attended safety training and social events, the teams entered from 14 nations will be ready at 1400 local time to start the second edition of the AEGEAN 600.
An impressive fleet from 13 nations is assembled at the Olympic Marinain final preparations for the second edition of the AEGEAN 600, the premier 600-mile ocean race of the eastern Mediterranean region.
Following on from mid-June’s GC32 Lagos Cup, the GC32 World Championship, annual highlight of the GC32 Racing Tour and the only official World Sailing-endorsed championship for foiling catamaran ‘yachts’, will take place over 13-17 July in Lagos, Portugal.
At 2000 local time, all remaining entries in all three classes in the ORC Double Handed World Championshipare close to the halfway point in the 358-mile Gotland Runt,
A miserable day weather-wise off the west coast of Sweden turned magnificent, like the fortunes of Nico Poons’ Charisma, which after three races today claimed the 44Cup Marstrand over Igor Lah’s Ceeref powered by Hrastnik 1860 and Chris Bake’s Team Aqua.
When nine times JJ Giltinan world 18 footer champion Seve Jarvin recently presented the prizes to the junior sailors of the Vaucluse Amateur 12 Foot Sailing Club, he was not only returning to his former club, he was also reinforcing the link between the Vaucluse Amateur club and the Australian 18 Footers League.
With a second place in today’s final short coastal race, the Swedish flagged Svea are overall winners of the J Class at Superyacht Cup Palma after four days of racing.
From southwesterly winds gusting up to 20 knots, and one of the sharpest sea states the class has endured, dropping to five to six knots and the lightest conditions sailable by the nimble RC44:
Atoning for a less than perfect race Thursday when they finished a distant fourth, Velsheda today won a 22 nautical mile coastal round-the-buoys course, an upwind downwind which spanned the full width of the Bay of Palma.
Svea won the first round-the-buoys ‘coastal’ race for the J Class at Superyacht Cup Palma today, a 22.7 nautical mile course which took the fleet on a long upwind SW across the bay, reaching and running back to complete a couple of smaller circuits between Enderrocat and Arenal.
Njörðr, the Norse god of the sea and the wind was clearly smiling upon both the 44Cup Marstrand and local team Artemis Racing for the first day of the 2022 44Cup’s third event off western Sweden’s holiday hotspot of Marstrand.
Today was all about the medal races in Kiel, with light winds delaying the starts until late morning when the both the temperature and the pressure ramped up.
The GC32 Lagos Cup, the pre-Worlds for next month’s GC32 World Championship, concluded in big breeze
Lagos, the port on Portugal’s Algarve the GC32 Racing Tour has been bringing its world class sailors to since 2018, laid on flat water, despite a 20+ knot offshore northwesterly in the final race,
Cascais remains one of the most rewarding venues for the Quantum Racing team as Doug DeVos’ US flagged crew today lifted the 2022Rolex TP52 World Championship title
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