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600 nm Offshore Race | Antigua
RORC Caribbean 600 : Christopher Sheehan’s Pac52 Warrior Won was the overall winner
The 2022 RORC Caribbean 600 attracted 74 teams with 738 sailors from 32 different nations. The Caribbean classic is back with the most impressive fleet in the 14-year history of the race. Moderate trade winds faded to a lighter breeze during the five days of the race, but that did not stop Jason Carroll’s MOD70 Argo setting a new (...) -
Racing inshore | Persico 69F
Youth Foiling Gold Cup: Team Argentina wins first act of four
The 69F swapped the cool mountain water of Lake Garda for the sultry seas of Miami’s Biscayne Bay with the opening act of the Youth Foiling Gold Cup last week, and by all accounts it was a brilliant success. The first act of four in the 2022 season that splits events between the United States and Europe saw a mix of American, European (...) -
New York Yacht Club American Magic
37th America’s Cup: American Magic and the NYYC "hungry and highly motivated"
American Magic is pleased to confirm that it intends to compete in the 37th America’s Cup America's Cup #AmericasCup (AC37) and represent the New York Yacht Club (NYYC) against the field of challengers and the Defender Emirates Team New Zealand for the most coveted prize in (...) -
Inshore racing | Sport Cats
M32 World Championship: Convexity with helm Don Wilson was able to defend their title
The M32 World Championships came to an exciting close on Sunday. Eleven teams came from all over the world for 18 races in conditions ranging from 6 to 22 knots on the warm waters of Miami, Florida. When the dust settled, Convexity with helm Don Wilson was able to defend their World Title. The celebrations were barely over before talk of the (...) -
Racing | RC 44
44Cup : the 2021 title to Chris Bake’s Team Aqua
Over four of the most difficult days of racing in 44Cup history, an impressive seven races were still held at the 44Cup Calero Marinas Lanzarote frequently in 5-6 knots wind, conditions, frankly, in which most other yachts would have been unable to race. Nonetheless it produced two worthy winners with Team Aleph winning the event and Team Aqua (...) -
Transatlantic Race | Class Globe 5.80
Globe 5.80 Transat : All skippers and yachts in Lanzarote now preparing for the start of the 2nd leg to Antigua
With late starter Jim Schofield from Ireland arriving safely in Marina Rubicon Lanzarote on the 10th of November, all entrants of this eventful inaugural qualifier are now gathered in Lanzarote (Spain), including Class Globe 5.80 Class Globe 5.80 Class Globe 5.80 Class founder Don (...) -
Inshore Racing | GC32
GC32 Racing Tour: Ernesto Bertarelli’s Alinghi team won both the Menor Mar Cup as well as the Tour title
This week’s GC32 GC32 #GC32 Mar Menor Cup has been supported and hosted by the Club Náutico Lo Pagán with the support of Turismo Region Murcia, Autoridad Portuaria de Cartagena and local municipalities San Pedro del Pinatar, Cartagena, San Javier and Los (...) -
Imoca Hugo Boss
Alex Thomson: "This is the start of a new chapter, with a new skipper"
British sailor Alex Thomson has announced he won’t compete as a skipper in the 2024 Vendée Globe, the solo, non-stop race around-the-world, but doesn’t rule out returning to the race in 2028. Thomson has competed in the IMOCA Imoca #IMOCA circuit for 19 years including five successive Vendée Globe’s with two podium (...) -
Racing | Foiling catamarans
2021 GC32 World Championship: Roman Hagara and Hans-Peter Steinacher win in Villasimius
Sport is all about emotions, highs and lows. Nowhere was this more evident today than at the conclusion of the third GC32 GC32 #GC32 World Championship, held in Villasimius. The Sardinian resort town saved its best conditions to last today, with flat water, a cloudless blue sky and a warm wind gusting into the high teens enabling five races (...) -
Offshore racing | Italia
Barcolona: the RoundItaly Genova-Trieste officially started
With the cannon shot from the Race Committee Boat – the Beppe Croce of the Yacht Club Italiano – the first edition of the RoundItaly Genova-Trieste officially started yesterday at 5pm. The chairman of the YCI, Gerolamo Bianchi, and the chairman of the Società Velica di Barcola e Grignano, Mitja Gialuz, launched the longest regatta (...)