Professional offshore outfit 11th Hour Racing Team to complete two transatlantic crossings in 2022 as they build up to the round-the-world Ocean Race 2022-23. "2022 is our year for testing reliability and pushing performance," Mark Towill, CEO. Two months of training at the home of the Te...
with a busy, if slightly slo-motion, send off from the waters off the iconic Hotel Vela (W-Hotel), there has been a steady building of wind strength, and a smooth acceleration of pace for the transition into offshore racing mode for the eight boats competing in the Barcelona World Race...
The Rolex Fastnet Race is the world’s largest offshore yacht race. This is largely because of it being open to the complete cross section of the sailing community; from first timers, family, club and sailing school teams, to IRC racers, doublehanders and multihulls, to the professional entr...
Somewhat larger (23.16 m), the sloop was an example of the latest trend, fitting out a Maxi IOR (International Offshore Rule) to secure a win on both elapsed and corrected time. His crew included Frenchman Daniel Wlochovski in charge of navigation, as well as a 20-year-old New ...
Entries are steadily increasing for the 2025 Transpac, with John Raymont’s Ker 52Fast Exit IIthe 30th boat to register and one of several veteran competitors to commit to a repeat offshore run from Los Angeles to Honolulu. The Transpac is so many things to so many sailors. It’s a lon...
The regatta will consist of offshore races and inshore races and a long distance race. 9 Schedule The schedule is as the following: 9.1. No more than three races are scheduled for inshore races per day. 9.2. Totally 3 offshore races are scheduled. And 6 inshore races are scheduled in Ch...
Graham Daltonwho finally re-joined the fleet after his 2000-mile offshore qualifier, equally missed the prologue and needed to set out on his communications check sail, but he now has failed his final medical stress test earlier this week and his medical file is under review. ...
2.5 GGR Route 2.5.1 The Race course is around the world east about. The start of the GGR will be in the general area offshore from LSO. The entrants will sail down the Atlantic from North to South. Leaving: ● An inshore Canary Island mark (TBA) to port ● Island of Trindade to ...
TRUMP: His mantra for one of his top policy priorities: “DRILL, BABY, DRILL.” Trump, who in the past cast climate change as a “hoax” and harbors a particular disdain for wind power, says it’s his goal for the U.S...
Named one of Sailing World magazine’s 14 greatest sailing events in North America, each August, 1,200-plus sailors arrive on Nova Scotia’s scenic Mahone Bay to compete in one of 15 fleets racing simultaneously on five different race courses. Our fleets accommodate everyone from offshore big...