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Now 21 years old, Violette Dorange could be the youngest woman to line up at the start of a Vendée Globe. Aiming for the next non-stop, unassisted round the world race in 2024, the sailor from La Rochelle has acquired the IMOCA Hubert, the boat on which Jean Le Cam finished fourth in 2020.
A quick look at the action on the water at start of the 9th edition of the RORC Transatlantic Race, which set off from Arrecife, Lanzarote on Sunday 8th January. After the teams competing in 20 boats from around the world had enjoyed their time at Marina Lanzarote, it was time to head out to the start and their 3,000nm race across the Atlantic to Camper & Nicholsons Port Louis Marina in Grenada.
Day Two 1000 UTC: At 1000 UTC on the second day of the RORC Transatlantic Race, three 70ft trimarans are now powered up on a tight reach, blasting through the Atlantic Ocean.
The Canada Ocean Racing IMOCA 60 team co-skippered by Scott Shawyer and Alan Roberts and accompanied by onboard reporter Richard Mardens started the 3000-mile Transatlantic race today at 14:10 GMT. The race left from Lanzarote, Canary Islands, and the fleet is heading to Grenada in the Caribbean.
Leg 6 of the GLOBE40 departed Ushuaia today at 10:00 hours local time. With the first competitor making landfall at the heart of the Argentinean region of TIERRA DEL FUEGO on 16 December, participants in the GLOBE40 have relished this stopover in what is a truly unique setting, coloured by a backdrop of sea and mountains at the gateway to the Antarctic.
The Canada Ocean Racing team led by founder and skipper Scott Shawyer, and the team’s mentor, British offshore sailor Alex Thomson, have been in Lanzarote over the past two weeks preparing their IMOCA 60 ahead of the Royal Ocean Racing Club Transatlantic Race 2023.
Annual awards presented by 100-year-old Cruising Club of America highlight ocean-sailing accomplishments of sailors from Japan to South Africa and the United States
Kenichi Horie, Japan’s best known ocean sailor, has been named winner of the 2022 Blue Water Medal by the Cruising Club of America (CCA) for a lifetime of ocean-crossing achievement. His most recent voyage began in March, 2022, when he sailed alone from San Francisco to Chiba, Japan, at age 83.
11 boats are assembling in Alicante, Spain this week in final preparation for the start of The Ocean Race 2022-23. And the activity on shore is ramping up as well, with Alicante’s Ocean Live Park opening on Saturday 7 January.
Boxing Day is always a special day in Australia as the Sydney to Hobart race fleet rushes south towards Tasmania. This long-standing sailing event is famous for its Maxi Yachts competing for line honours, and notorious bad weather in the Bass Strait between Australia and Tasmania.
The Royal Ocean Racing Club is pleased to announce the appointment of Steve Cole as the new Racing Manager from 1st January 2023, succeeding Chris Stone who will continue as a consultant to the Race Management team for the new Nelson’s Cup series in Antigua and the 50th edition of the Rolex Fastnet Race.
The arrival of Kathy Veel and Bridget Canham in Hobart last night was like something out of a fairytale; the last arrivals in the 2022 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race slipped into the docks amid the crowds ringing in the New Year, under a sky lit up by fireworks and hooters sounding to welcome in 2023.
For the six crew of Gun Runner, the Army entry in this year’s Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, their turnabout of fortune provided them with a poignant reminder of the value of resilience.
Peter Langman sailed Maluka, the oldest and smallest yacht in the 2022 Rolex Sydney Hobart fleet, across the Castray Esplanade finish line in Hobart at 03:39:16pm yesterday afternoon – a huge achievement for the 29-year-old who cut the umbilical cord when he rejected an offer to do the race with his father on Moneypenny.
It took Carlos Aydos and co-skipper Peter Grayson half a day on the two-handed entry Crux to overcome the frustration of their botched start to the 2022 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race.
Rupert Henry and Greg O’Shea have sailed Henry’s Lombard 34, Mistral, to victory in the Two-Handed Division of the 2022 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, the pair also claiming the Two-Handed ORCi win and third place in the Corinthian IRC division.
Twenty nine years ago, David Lyons designed and sailed in the harsh 1993 Sydney Hobart on the winner, Cuckoos Nest, owned by Nigel Holman. This year his son and daughter competed in their first Rolex Sydney Hobart on separate yachts – State of Origin style.
It was an emotional ‘last drinks’ for the crew of White Bay 6 Azzurro as they sat on board the 34-footer for the last time after finishing the 2022 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race this afternoon.
Sam Haynes has pledged to return for the 2023 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race in a bid to defend his TP52 Celestial’s title as the overall winner and holder of the Tattersall Cup.
For a brief moment in the 2022 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, Thomas Kneen, the British owner of the JPK 11.80 Sunrise, thought: “This is ridiculous. Why are we doing this?”
Balint and Agoston Sipos were overcome by emotion after hearing and witnessing the applause from shore after their all-Hungarian crew finished the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race today.
We spoke to and messaged yachts still racing in the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race this morning to get their various views on the race.
The rivalry between NSW yachts Khaleesi and Pretty Woman played out to a thrilling end in the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race today, with less than four minutes separating them at the finish.
Celestial wins the 2022 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race!
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