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Thirty-two teams get set for Sevenstar Round Britain & Ireland Race
The Sevenstar Round Britain and Ireland Race starts at midday on Sunday 7th August. Thirty-two teams from around the world will be racing, equalling the record entry for the non-stop version of the tough 1,805nm race.
2024 ORC Mediterranean Championship Open for Entry
The 2024 ORC Mediterranean Championship is now open for entries and organizers at the Circolo del Remo e della Vela Italia (CRVI) are pleased to offer a new format of competitive inshore racing over 9-11 May 2024 followed on 17-18 May 2024 with offshore racing in the 69th edition of the 150-mile Regata dei Tre Golfi (3G).
Sunrise performs a horizon job as therapy is needed after Scilly Isles ‘glass out’
Tom Kneen’s JPK 11.80 Sunrise has sewn up IRC Two in this 49th Rolex Fastnet Race. The Devonshire team crossed the Cherbourg finish line at 1004 BST this morning. Sunrise’s
Ian Southworth’s Team Hamble on Protis Retain The Quarter Ton Cup
From a nailbiting finale, a fitting conclusion to what felt like a long, hard three-day 12 race regatta that enjoyed winds from 5kts to 18kts Ian Southworth and Team Hamble
The Drheam-Cup: Groupe Snef and SL Energies groups win the race
With almost the entire fleet safely in port at midday Saturday 20 July, three new winners of the DRHEAM-CUP / GRAND PRIX DE FRANCE DE COURSE AU LARGE arrived in the last 24 hours: defending champion Groupe Snef (Xavier Macaire) kept hold of his title, and the first race of the new Sun Fast 30 One Design was won by SL Energies Groupe (Laurent Charmy).
Women’s Open Keelboat Championship 2021 teams up with RYA/British Keelboat League
The Women’s Open Keelboat Championship will be returning to Hamble for its 12th edition in June 2021. After sadly having to cancel the 2020 edition of the event we can’t
A solid podium but will opportunities knock for Pirouelle and Faguet?
As the leading trio sail south west this Sunday afternoon, two weeks exactly since the Concarneau start of the Transat Paprec mixed tow handed race to Saint Barth’s, they are crossing in front of fourth placed Guillaume Pirouelle and Sophie Faguet (Région Normandie) who are about 17 miles astern.
La Solitaire du Figaro – Veteran Loison in Control
Wily race veteran Alexis Loison (Groupe REEL) took the lead of Stage 2 the 54th La Solitaire du Figaro Paprec this afternoon as the fleet race back down the Saint George’s Channel – between Wales and Ireland – after rounding the Isle of Man’s Chicken Rock lighthouse in the very early hours of the morning.
Three In A Row For Charisma As Poons Is Crowned RC44 World Champion
While racing in 44Cup events usually goes to the wire, decided in the last few metres of the final race, this hasn’t been the case this year when the dominant force has been Monaco-based Dutchman Nico Poons and his Charisma team.
Youth Foiling Gold Cup – Act 2, end of qualifying series
The qualifying phase of the Youth Foiling Gold- ACT 2, hosted in the French waters of La Grande Motte, ended today on a day marked by stormy weather that offered strong winds for the first four of the eight races contested, and then dropped for the remaining four.
Tom Dolan: “A joyous slam-dunk of a leg victory!”
This Wednesday 4 September, at 2:06 pm, Tom Dolan crossed the finish line in the second leg of the Solitaire du Figaro Paprec, securing a fabulous victory (prior to the jury’s decision) after a three-day sprint from Gijón to Royan. The race saw him shoot into the lead from the opening night and masterfully control the fleet all the way to the finish line
2023 ORC World Championship starts with windy Coastal Race
Based on a forecast of west-northwest gale-force winds of 25 to over 40 knots in the Kiel Bucht region tomorrow, race managers from Kiel Yacht Club have amended the format of the 2023 ORC World Championship to start with a shorter Coastal Race rather than the Offshore long-distance race.
The Drheam-Cup: Good start! The game is on!
The start of the fifth edition of the DRHEAM-CUP / GRAND PRIX DE FRANCE DE COURSE AU LARGE was given on Monday 15 July at 16:30 in Cherbourg-en-Cotentin in a steady Southeasterly breeze. On the agenda for the 70 boats taking part, two 630 and 490 mile courses to La Trinité-sur-Mer, with varied conditions and great battles in store in the different classes.
Transatlantic Race Returns to Sailing Calendar for 2025
One of offshore racing’s great adventures will return in 2025. The New York Yacht Club and the Royal Ocean Racing Club, in partnership with the Royal Yacht Squadron and the Storm Trysail Club, are proud to announce Transatlantic Race 2025, which will start from Newport, R.I., on June 18, 2025, and finish off Cowes, England.
The Drheam-Cup: Shortened courses and changeable weather
The skipper’s briefing for the DRHEAM-CUP / GRAND PRIX DE FRANCE DE COURSE AU LARGE was held on Sunday afternoon, an opportunity for the Race Manager, Hervé Gauthier, to announce a shortening of two courses: the Class40 and the large monohull will race on the DC 600 and the Multi 2000, IRC, Sun Fast 30 One Design and Classic Yacht classes will sail a total of 490 miles.
22 Questions with Oldsie and Ben Newton
Welcome to our second episode of 22 Questions! Throughout this series, we will chat with sailors from all walks of life giving them the chance to quickly (in 22 questions,
Dolan and Bloch’s Smurfit Kappa-Kingspan fifth into Brest on Tour de Bretagne
Ireland’s Tom Dolan and his French co-skipper Kevin Bloch took a hard earned fifth place today at the end of the first offshore leg of the Tour de Bretagne a la Voile, racing from Saint Quay-Portrieux to Brest via a turning mark, Hands Deep, off Plymouth.
Guillaume Pirouelle leads, Dolan top six on Stage 1
After a relatively quick, express sprint across the Channel from Sunday’s start off Caen to pass the Isle of Wight early this morning, the leaders of the first stage of the 54th La Solitaire du Figaro Paprec are finding their return path – heading to a turning mark west off Paimpol peninsula– increasingly challenging.
Roschier announced as RORC Baltic Sea Race title sponsor
A new era of offshore racing in the Baltic Sea begins in 2022 with the Royal Ocean Racing Club’s new 630 nautical-mile race, starting from Helsinki, Finland on 21st July and heading around Gotland before returning to the tranquil harbours of Helsinki.
SSL Gold Cup QS Round 5: The Final 4 Spots for Bahrain at Sake
After racing each other in September at the Test Event 1 in Grandson, on Lake Neuchatel in Switzerland, SSL Team Thailand and SSL Team Ukraine meet again in Group 8 of SSL Gold Cup Qualifiying Series Round 5.
