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Different strategies through the Azores see the two Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe leaders Charles Caudrelier (Maxi Edmond de Rothschild) and François Gabart (SVR Lazartigue) less than 15 miles apart and on converging tracks as they negotiate the island group, looking to get through the next cold front and into the fast reaching conditions which will accelerate them towards Guadeloupe.
Belgian Class40 skipper Jonas Gerckens has been forced to retire from the Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe this Friday evening due to a combination of technical problems which are exacerbated by his poor state of health.
Quarter-final Heats Up with Sunny Skies in Auckland City for the 2022 Barfoot & Thompson Women’s Match Racing World Championship
While title favourite Charlie Dalin (APIVIA) has been enjoying something of a rich-get-richer scenario at the front of the 36 strong Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe IMOCA fleet, his lead of 60 miles ahead of Thomas Ruyant (LinkedOUt) increasing by the hour, Charles Caudrelier on the Verdier designed Ultim 32/23 Maxi Edmond de Rothschild, the out-and-out race pacemaker still has a race on his
Damien Seguin dismasted at 0330hrs this morning after being hit by a cargo ship. His starboard foil was damaged but there was no ingress of water. The skipper of Groupe APICIL is motoring to Lorient. He has not requested assistance, but has been forced to retire from the Route du Rhum – Destination Guadeloupe
After their first night at sea, the remaining 36 skippers in the IMOCA fleet of the Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe are heading out into the north Atlantic with a complex weather pattern ahead of them and some tricky decisions to make.
The second night of the Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe has seen strong winds for most of the fleet on the Bay of Biscay as they punch into an active front with gusts over 40kts and big, messy seas. Most of the fleet have chosen a moderate southerly route, seeking to limit their exposure to the strongest conditions in the west.
Exhilarating racing sees Pauline Courtois ‘Match in Pink’ continue to lead the charge into day three of the 2022 Barfoot & Thompson Women’s Match Racing World Championship Round Robin series.
Today marks day one of the 2022 Barfoot & Thompson Women’s World Match Racing Championship hosted by the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron, as 14 of the world’s top female match racing teams showcase their talents in Elliott 7m keelboats.
The Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron is currently hosting the Barfoot & Thompson Women’s Match Racing World Championship in Auckland, with 14 teams from around the world competing for the title
British skipper Sam Goodchild,32, solo skipper of the Ocean Fifty Leyton, has been injured during the start of the 12th Route du Rhum -Destination Guadeloupe race.
The Waitemata Harbour stage is set for its second consecutive week of world-class sailing with the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron hosting the Barfoot & Thompson Women’s Match Racing World Championships (WMRWC) from the 9th to the 13th of November 2022.
American Magic and Quantum Racing are to join forces and form a high-performance partnership for the 2023 season – the first time both teams have formally collaborated.
After a rather tricky start, the models suggest that the fastest classes will be able to take advantage of favourable conditions allowing them to make fast miles on a course close to the Great Circle Route. Although finishing first is the aim of the competitors, smashing the race record would be the icing on the cake.
Four-time World Champion?Pauline Courtois and her dominant Match in Pink by Normandy Elite team have won the New Zealand Women’s Match Racing Championship regatta on November 6th 2022, continuing their fine form from a long string of match racing regattas.
At the 53rd meeting of the ORC Congress today representatives from 46 nations and World Sailing met to approve recommended improvements to the ORC rating system, the world’s largest, that has issued nearly 14,000 certificates for monohulls, multihulls, and Superyachts this year to date in 2022.
The start of the 3542 miles Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe solo race across the Atlantic from Saint Malo to Guadeloupe, which was due to be on Sunday at 1302hrs local time has been postponed, because of the forecast for storms which would have hit the 138 boat fleet during the first hours of the course and particularly in the English Channel.
Following a very successful 2022 season, celebrating 10 years since the world’s leading grand prix monohull circuit started in Barcelona in 2012, the 52 SUPER SERIES again follows the preferences of its passionate, committed owners in 2023 with an itinerary which is a mix of popular proven locations which offer a good variety of racing conditions plus one exciting new venue which, though well know
The opening shots of the 2020/21 Vendée Globe fleet, ghosting along before the start in dense fog, sets the scene and imprints on the viewer’s mind the idea that these sailors are about to enter another world.
Deep in the Southern Ocean battling 12 mtr seas and 70kt winds in a GGR yacht, you need to know your self-steering gear will keep working. If it fails you are seriously struggling to keep the odds in your favour that you will still be smiling when it blows over!
Approaching her first Route du Rhum-Destination Pip Hare is taking a necessarily cautious approach, especially for the first 24-36 hours. The British skipper lit up the last Vendée Globe with her effervescent joie-de-vie during her first adventures in the Southern Ocean and her tenacious attack with one of the oldest boats in the race.
World Sailing today – 1 November 2022 – released the final fleet rankings of 2022, giving sailors an accurate record of their progress throughout the year.
Entries are ramping up for the ninth edition of the RORC Transatlantic Race, promising thrilling battles right through the fleet. Twenty one teams from nine nations have so far expressed their intention to race 3,000-miles across the Atlantic Ocean.
The Waitemata Harbour is the stage for two weeks of world-class women’s sailing this November, with the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron hosting the New Zealand Women’s Match Racing Championship (NZWMRC) from the 3rd to the 6th of November leading into the Barfoot & Thompson Women’s Match Racing World Championships (WMRWC) from the 9th to the 13th of November 2022.
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