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#RolexFastnetRace
Rolex Fastnet Race 2019: Victory in IRC Three and in the Two Handed class for Alexis Loison and Jean-Pierre Kelbert on JPK 10.30 Léon
One hundred and seventy one teams in the Rolex Fastnet Race were taking part in IRC Three and IRC Four, close to half of the record Record #sailingrecord -breaking fleet. For these smaller/slower boats endurance is key as they spend four days or more days at sea. The passionate, international collective who complete the arduous task can (...) -
#Imoca #TheOceanRace
Boris Herrmann registers German team for The Ocean Race 2021-22
In November 2020 in Les Sables d’Olonne, France, Germany’s most successful modern-day offshore sailor Boris Herrmann will start the legendary Vendée Globe, the famous solo non-stop race around the world. Since 1989’s very first ever edition of sailing’s pinnacle solo race no German sailor has made it to the start line, (...) -
#GoldenGlobeRace
2018 Golden Globe Race: Jean-Luc Van Den Heede crowned winner of the 2018 race
Exactly 50 years to the day that Sir Robin Knox-Johnston returned to Falmouth UJK after 312 days at sea to become the first man to sail solo non-stop around the Globe, 73-year old Frenchman Jean-Luc Van Den Heede was crowned winner of the second Golden Globe Race Golden Globe Race Golden Globe in Les Sables d’Olonne, (...) -
#OffshoreSailing
Offshore World Championship : L30 adopted BY World Sailing
World Sailing announceD that the L30, a 30-foot one design keelboat, has been selected as the supplied equipment for World Sailing’s Offshore World Championship from 2020. -
#GGR2018
Golden Globe Race 2018 : Van Den Heede receives huge welcome back in Les Sables d’Olonne
Jean-Luc Van Den Heede wrote his name into the record Record #sailingrecord books by not only winning the 2018 Golden Globe solo non-stop round the world race today, but becoming the oldest in history to complete such a race. The 73-year old French veteran of six solo circumnavigations takes over both titles from Britain’s Sir Robin (...) -
#RolexSydneyHobart
Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race : The crew of Alive with owner Philip Turner and skipper Duncan Hine received the Tattersall Cup
For Phillip Turner the dream of winning the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race began “five or six years ago” when he was watching the finish and suddenly thought: “I’d like to win that one day.” -
#VolvoOceanRace
Media: Record-breaking results from 2017-18 Volvo Ocean Race
The latest edition of the Volvo Ocean Race, which started in Alicante, Spain in October 2017 and finished in The Hague in the Netherlands in June 2018, will be remembered as the closest in race history, as well as a record Record #sailingrecord -breaking event on many (...) -
#Class40
Sevenstar Round Britain and Ireland Race: Phil Sharp’s Class40 take the gun
Phil Sharp’s Class40 Class40 #Class40 Imerys Clean Energy has taken line honours in the 2018 Sevenstar Round Britain and Ireland Race in an elapsed time of 8 days 4 hours 14 minutes 49 seconds, winning the Class40 Class40 #Class40 Division and setting a new world record Record #sailingrecord in the race for yachts 40ft or under (...) -
#ClipperRace
Clipper 2017-18 Race: Wendy Tuck becomes the first woman to ever win a round the world yacht race
History has been made as Australian Sailor Wendy Tuck becomes the first woman to ever win a round the world yacht race after clinching the overall victory in the Clipper 2017-18 Race. -
#VolvoOceanRace
Volvo Ocean Race: Dongfeng Race Team win the Race with late pass on final day
Dongfeng Race Team has won the Volvo Ocean Race 2017-18 in the closest finish in race history. Skipper Charles Caudrelier led his team to victory on the final leg of the race, a 970-mile sprint from Gothenburg, Sweden to The Hague. Incredibly, it marked the first leg win for the team — it couldn’t have come at a better (...)