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Montego Bay Yacht Club
Pyewacket70, the modified Volvo70 owned by Roy P. Disney crossed the Appleton Estate finish line of the 35th Pineapple Cup - Montego Bay Race this morning at 08:20:19 to capture line honors. Pyewacket70 sailed the course in an elapsed time of 2 days 18 hours 20 minutes and 19 seconds. The winner of the Pineapple Cup is awarded to the team (...)
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Imoca OceansLab
Phil Sharp, one of Britain’s most competitive and successful ocean racers, has today announced the build of a new zero emission IMOCA Imoca #IMOCA ahead of the 2024 Vendée Globe. This new monohull designed by Manuard is currently under construction at Black Pepper Yachts, a specialist in the construction of high-performance boats. The (...)
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Transat Lanzarote - Grenada
On Friday 13th January 2023 at 19:46:26 UTC, Giovanni Soldini’s Maserati Multi70 Multi70 #multi70 took Multihull Line Honours in the 2023 RORC Transatlantic Race. Maserati’s elapsed time sets a new Multihull Race Record Record #sailingrecord for the RORC Transatlantic Race of 5 days 5 hours 46 mins 26 secs, smashing the (...)
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Offshore racing | Australia
Andoo Comanche, skippered by John Winning Jr, has taken Line Honours in the 2022 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race. Crossing the finish line off Hobart at 00:57 on Wednesday, 28 December, the 100 foot (30.5 metre) maxi completed the 628nm course in a time of one day 11 hours 56 minutes 48 (...)
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RORC | Imoca, Class40, IRC
IMOCA Imoca #IMOCA Medallia, skippered by Pip Hare, took Line Honours in the Sevenstar Round Britain & Ireland Race in an elapsed time of 10 days 13 hours 23 minutes and 22 seconds. High pressure had dominated the early part of the race causing the Medallia team to take over seven days to get to Muckle Flugga. The second half of the (...)
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600 nm Offshore Race | Antigua
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 (...)
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Transatlantic Race | Class Globe 5.80
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 (...)
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Imoca Hugo Boss
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 (...)
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Offshore racing | Italia
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 (...)
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MULTI 70 Maserati
Maserati Multi 70 and Giovanni Soldini crossed the finish line of the Fastnet original course on May 8th at 19:14:11 GMT (21:14:11 Italian time), conquering a new record Record #sailingrecord : 595 miles from Cowes to Plymouth in 23 hours, 51 minutes and 16 seconds, with an average speed Speed #speedsailing of 24,94 knots. The previous (...)
Sea, Sail & Surf
