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Red Bull Italy will be led by double Olympic gold medallist Ruggero Tita as driver and Jimmy Spithill as CEO. The Italian team received their helmets by Spanish aerobatic paragliding pioneer Horacio Lllorens as part of the reveal.
Day Two of the iQFOiL Asian Championships and iQFOiL International Games brought a packed schedule of races across all fleets, after a challenging start on the opening day, yesterday. Despite light and inconsistent winds early in the day, organizers and competitors made the most of the conditions, completing a significant number of races.
Racing sets sail tomorrow out of Nanny Cay, Tortola in the British Virgin Islands for the concluding event of the 2024 44Cup. At present the battle for the season’s title looks set to be between Vladimir Prosikhin’s Team Nika and Igor Lah’s Team Ceeref Vaider, lying first and second. Team Nika won the opening event of the season in Puerto Calero, Lanzarote and also the 2024 44Cup World Championshi
31 Teams Ready to Compete from November 20-23 on the Rio de Plata
One week on exactly since Nico Lunven (HOLCIM-PRB) set a new solo 24 hours monohull distance record, Paprec Arkéa solo skipper Yoann Richomme dramatically bettered that mark this morning on the Vendée Globe, before running out of track and hitting the buffers as he and the other leaders of the solo non stop race around the world slowed into the Doldrums.
A typhoon passing not too far from the coast created unstable wind and heavy rain
Having battled for the best part of three days to the escape Doldrum like conditions which have prevailed in place of the trade winds that would normally have been accelerating the Vendée Globe fleet south at speed, now it is time for the real thing.
The second edition of the Asian event is the fourth iQFOiL International Games of 2024 and the last world competition before 2025
The stage is set for an electrifying 16th edition of the RORC Caribbean 600, starting Monday 24th February 2025, from Antigua. The early entries in IRC Zero reveal a fierce battle among some of the most advanced offshore racing machines on the planet. Before the ‘600, the third edition of the RORC Nelson’s Cup Series is now a stand-alone event welcoming more maxi and local corinthian teams into th
The reality of the imminent 5500 nautical mile Melbourne Osaka Cup double handed yacht race has bitten as crews, many of them family members, prepare for their qualifying races – the Ocean Racing Club of Victoria (ORCV) Melbourne to Hobart and Rolex Sydney Hobart yacht races, ahead of the big race in March.
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Vendée Globe leader Sam Goodchild (VULNERABLE) has seen his lead shrink progressively as the skippers chasing behind him and to his west have held on to wind for slightly longer than he has, the British skipper descending south into light, light airs again.
Sébastien Simon (Groupe Dubreuil), the French skipper who grew up in Les Sables d’Olonne with the Vendée Globe as the backdrop to his life, is Sunday’s new leader of the solo non-stop round the world race.
This Saturday, November 16 at 2200hrs UTC when he was sailing in the leading group of the western option Louis Burton informed his shore team and the Vendée Globe race management that he had just heard a very worrying noise: a “big crack” on board the IMOCA Bureau Vallée.
Jean Le Cam, at 65 the oldest and most experienced skipper among the 39 solo racers still competing, leads the Vendée Globe singlehanded non-stop race around the world as the tenth edition completes its first week at sea tomorrow Sunday.
“I can’t go on, I’m abandoning this my second Vendée Globe” grimaced an emotional French Vendée Globe skipper Maxime Sorel early this Friday afternoon from Madeira.
In just five days of the Vendée Globe, Clarisse Crémer has already experienced as many adventures and upsets as she could hope to experience in an entire transatlantic race.
After a nine year absence from the Caribbean, the RC44 fleet will return next week for the 44Cup Nanny Cay, taking place over 20-24 November.
Day four of the Vendée Globe solo non-stop race around the world brings another new leader. As the leaders pass the latitude of the Canary Islands, where they might normally find the trade winds blowing to carry them down towards the Cape Verdes and the Equator beyond, the breeze is lightening and becoming ever more unsettled.
SailGP’s long-awaited UK return will be hosted by the brand new location of Portsmouth when the Emirates Great Britain Sail Grand Prix gets underway on July 19-20, 2025.
The Portuguese islands of Madeira will be passed later today by the leaders of the tenth edition of the Vendée Globe but while the top boats are looking to stay clear and avoid the substantial lee of the island group, the windbreak effect of the high jagged Picos is set to be used by several skippers who need to try and effect repairs to keep their solo non-stop round the world race on track.
Britain’s Sam Goodchild (VULNERABLE) has taken the lead in the Vendée Globe solo race around the world as the leaders of the 40 boat fleet descend south down the Iberian peninsula.
The Black Foils have today announced that rising star Leo Takahashi will be joining the team on a three-season contract as Flight Controller.
Triple SailGP champion Australia is set to lose ‘a key name’ from its established crew line-up as athlete transfers in the off-season continue, according to the league’s pre-season podcast.
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