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Class 40
Ned Collier Wakefield and Sam Goodchild on Concise 2 triumph in a race to the wire in Caen
The young British sailors, Ned Collier-Wakefield and Sam Goodchild secured the win in the 3rd edition of the Normandy Channel Race this Saturday evening at 1737 UTC off Ouistreham aboard their Class 40 Concise. Ultimately they completed the course just 10 minutes and 20 seconds ahead of the driving forces of the event, the Norman-English duo, (...) -
Global Ocean Race
Marco Nannini and Sergio Frattaruolo finish 2nd in Les Sables d’Olonne
With almost 40 knots blowing and an enormous swell rolling in from the Atlantic, the Italian-Slovak duo of Marco Nannini and Sergio Frattaruolo crossed the finish line of the double-handed Global Ocean Race (GOR) with Class40 Financial Crisis off the French port of Les Sables d’Olonne, taking second place overall in the fleet of the four (...) -
Global Ocean Race
Conrad Colman and Scott Cavanough win the GOR
After 150 days of racing around the planet, Conrad Colman and Scott Cavanough have taken first place in Leg 5 of the double-handed, Class40 Global Ocean Race (GOR) and have also won the circumnavigation event overall with their Akilaria RC2 Cessna Citation. -
Grand Prix Guyader
Michel Desjoyeaux on his MOD 70 won the offshore division in Douarnenez
The Bay of Douarnenez Douarnenez #Douarnenez uninhibitedly unveiled all its charms for the final day of the Grand Prix Guyader and the Défi Nautic. And it was a picture postcard setting that surrounded the offshore race boats and their leader of the pack, the unique Michel Desjoyeaux on his MOD 70 (...) -
BTBoats
Third Kiwi 40FC set sails in the Wellington harbour
Bodacious Dream, the third Kiwi 40FC launched in December last year, has completed the sea trial and will be shipped to Florida (United States) at the beginning of February. -
Global Ocean Race
Josh Hall : "I shall never forget the unique atmosphere and welcome that Les Sables d’Olonne provides for round-the-world sailors"
The Global Ocean Race 2011-12 (GOR) can confirm that the finish port for the 30,000-mile, double-handed, Class40 circumnavigation will be Les Sables d’Olonne in the Vendée region of France. -
Global Ocean Race
Ross Field : "It’s been tough, but very enjoyable"
At 05:13 on Friday 28th October, Ross and Campbell Field on board BSL, crossed the finish line in Cape Town claiming pole position in leg one of the 2011-2012 Global Ocean Race. After 32 days, 17 hours, 13 minutes and 25 seconds spanning 6,700 miles, the duo are currently the only pair to have finished the race, with Champagne de France (...) -
Class 40
Tanguy de Lamotte and Sébastien Audigane win the Normandy Channel Race
Tanguy de Lamotte and Sébastien Audigane (Initiatives Saveurs) took pole position in 1st, with Bruno Jourdren and Fabien Delahaye (Port de Caen Ouistreham) in 2nd and Damien Seguin and Yohann Richomme (Des Pieds et Des Mains) in 3rd. All were aboard their tried and tested Rogers Class 40 (...) -
Yacht Design
VPLP designs its first Class 40
It is the start of a new adventure for VPLP, Van Peteghem-Lauriot Prévost. The naval architects and engineering group, designer of record Record #sailingrecord -breaking maxi trimarans, of the America’s Cup America's Cup #AmericasCup and ocean races, of Orma and Multi 50 multihulls and of IMOCA Imoca #IMOCA 60 monohulls, is now (...) -
Global Ocean Race
2013-14 Global Solo Race edition for solo sailors
Following the enormous interest in the double-handed, Class40 Global Ocean Race 2011-12 (GOR), the GOR Race Organisation Organisation #organisation team can now confirm a single-handed circumnavigation for Category Zero compliant Class40’s in 2013-14. Due to the increasing frequency of serious enquiries for a solo, Class40 (...)
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