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Lanzarote ready to test top Olympians
More than 360 of the world’s best sailors are ready to compete at the Lanzarote International Regatta, which takes place in the south of the Canary Island from 9 to 17 February.
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DN 2023 Grand Masters Day 1 & 2 Report
Hej from Lake Siljan in Rattvik, Sweden, and the fourth annual DN Grand Masters regatta. The Grand Masters regatta is open to DN sailors 60 years and over. Competitors must start each race with one leg on the plank; no track meet running is allowed.
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ClubSwan 80 My Song Wins Naval Architecture and Interior Design at 2023 Superyacht Design Festival
The judges of the Boat International 2023 Superyacht Design Festival declared the ClubSwan 80 – My Song winner of the Naval Architecture and Interior design categories.
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Paris 2024 presents the Pictograms of the Olympic Games
Paris 2024 has unveiled the Look of the Games as well as pictograms for each event at the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games.
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Registrations officially open for the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup 2023
Registrations for the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup 2023, an internationally renowned sailing event organised by the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda with the support of title sponsor Rolex and in collaboration with the International Maxi Association (IMA), are now open
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STORM ALERT! Golden Globe Race leaders face a big one
With 20.000 miles and five months at sea, 70% of their voyage is complete. The leading yachts are starting to show little signs of fatigue requiring constant maintenance, just as they are undertaking the most difficult part of the course.
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OPINION: Clarisse-gate
Clarisse Cremer is a really, really good yachtie. She finished 12th in the last Vendee Globe, beating 16 men and 5 women and claiming the title of fastest solo woman around the world, in an epic fleet of world class solo sailors.
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Globe40 – A Penultimate Leg Ahead
At 15:00 hours local time today, the GLOBE40 skippers took the start of the 7th and penultimate leg of the event, which will lead the fleet to the island of Grenada in the West Indies.
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The ILCA Dinghy is definitely a class for life
Ahead of the ILCA 6 and ILCA 7 Masters World Championships in Thailand, we have a look at the age ranges of those who are racing.
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Vendée Globe Organisers React to Banque Populaire’s Skipper Change
The Vendée Globe Organisation has just learned that Team Banque Populaire has decided to change skipper, on the basis that Clarisse Crémer’s participation in the next edition is not guaranteed.
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Banque Populaire Drops Clarisse Crémer as Skipper for the 2024 Vendée Globe
On February 2nd, 2023, Clarisse was “left at the dock” by Banque Populaire as they dropped her as their skipper for the 2024 Vendée Globe. While we don’t know all of the behind the scenes details, their statement suggested they had to move on as Clarisse missed too much sailing due to her pregnancy and is too far behind to make up the qualifying miles. They want to be on the 2024 start line with o
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Multi Dimensional Sustainabiity Programme Is a 2022 Success Story For the 52 Super Series, Now For 2023!
As it has been since virtually the beginning of the circuit, sustainability was a central pillar of the 2022 season on the 52 SUPER SERIES which collaborated for the first time with multi-sport NGO Kick Out Plastic.
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A record-breaking start for Canada Ocean Racing on their journey to the Vendee Globe in 2028
The Canadian flagged team, led by President & Skipper Scott Shawyer from Ontario, has broken the Royal Ocean Racing Club Transatlantic (RORC) Transatlantic Course Record in the doublehanded class by more than 8 hours.
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Long Beach Yacht Club Announces Lineup for 2023 Congressional Cup
The world’s top match racing skippers will return to Long Beach, Calif. April 18 to 22, 2023 for the 58th Congressional Cup regatta – presented by Long Beach Yacht Club, and a premier event on the prestigious World Match Racing Tour.
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Globe40: Ahmas Wins in Recife in the Brazilian Heat
The Anglo-American team AHMAS (Class40 n° 127) crossed the finish line of leg 6 of the GLOBE40 in Recife today at 11:48 p.m. local time. After 20 days and 10 hours of racing and 3,803 miles covered (7417 km), Craig Horshield and James Oxenham brilliantly conclude a particularly difficult leg which put the GLOBE40 crews to the test
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Recreating Robin Knox-Johnston’s Suhaili
In a makeshift tin shed in Newcastle, NSW, marine surveyor Mike Smith is building a replica of the legendary Suhaili, the cutting ketch made famous when Robin Knox-Johnston sailed non-stop around the world to win the 1968 Sunday Times Golden Globe Race.
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GC32 Racing Tour 2023 announced
Competition for the one design flying catamarans of the GC32 Racing Tour will take place over three events and two venues in 2023.
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Kirsten Neuschäfer takes lead in Gruelling Golden Globe
149 days ago, on Sept 4th 2022, 15 men and one woman set out from Les Sables d’Olonne. Their dreams and aspirations were to circumnavigate solo in the extreme Golden Globe Race.
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Heartbreak for Para Sailors…
We all supported #backthebid to get sailing reinstated into the Paralympic Games – however the efforts of sailors around the world has fallen short, and sailing won’t be included in the Paralympic Games in Los Angeles in 2028.
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Major Windvane failure for GGR leader Simon Curwen on HOWDENS
After more than a hundred days at sea, only six of the original 16 entrants who departed Les Sables d’Olonne in France are likely to pass through the Hobart gate which shuts on January 31st.
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Going Down! Cape Horn, cold, wet and challenging Golden Globe Race.
After more than a hundred days at sea, only six of the original 16 entrants who departed Les Sables d’Olonne in France are likely to pass through the Hobart gate which shuts on January 31st.
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Open letter from World Sailing CEO David Graham to Para Sailors around the world
Dear Para Sailors around the world, I am writing an open letter to you all at this time because the decision on whether sailing is reinstated to the Paralympic Games for LA28 is expected in the coming days.
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World’s First Hydrogen IMOCA Yacht Construction Announced by Phil Sharp and OceansLab
Phil sharp, one of Britain’s most competitive and successful ocean racers, has today announced the build of a new zero emission IMOCA ahead of the 2024 Vendée Globe.
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Cape to St Helena 2022: an epic ocean adventure to one of the world’s remotest islands
St Helena Island may be one of the most remote inhabited islands on the planet, but for the crews who have just tackled the 2022 Cape to St Helena yacht race, it’s been a thrilling trip of a lifetime.