Alex Thomson might have hung up his Vendée Globe boots, but 2024 will see one of the most competitive line-ups of British skippers taking on the epic race Pip Hare is a renowned shorthanded offshore sailor. She will be starting her second Vendee Globe in 2024. Photo: Richard Langdon/Ocean Images /Pip Hare Ocean Racing As […]
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It’s not just a race, it’s an event of epic proportions – that’s the way that sailors describe the Evolution Sails Shorthanded Sailing Association of New Zealand’s (SSANZ) Round North Island (RNI) Race, which officially started at 1012 hours on Saturday 25 February with an on-water spectator fleet which was triple the size of the […]
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This year’s RORC Caribbean 600 should feature a number of tight battles across a range for classes with four Volvo 70s and two MOD70s set to fight for monohull and multihull line honours Over 70 teams from 16 different nations are expected for the the 2023 RORC Caribbean 600 the 14th edition of the event, […]
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Pete Goss has sailed more different yachts than most of us could imagine, but it’s a home-built 32ft gaffer that is his chef-d’oeuvre, as Elaine Bunting finds out They won’t come into a marina very often, but when they do, Pete Goss and his wife, Tracey will be doing a lot of talking. They were […]
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One skipper abandons ship after his IMOCA explodes into flames, another is rescued by a fellow competitor after capsizing, and a third has their trimaran shipwrecked on the Spanish shore – the latest incidents in the Route du Rhum 2022 Fabrice Amedeo in the water awaiting rescue It has been another intense 24 hours in […]
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The Route du Rhum 2022 continues to be a tough race for the record fleet with a number of problems overnight as a violent storm front hit all fleets Burton’s Bereau Vallée was previously L’Occitane en Provence, a radical scow-bowed design that impressed in the last Vendée Globe The Route du Rhum’s reputation as one […]
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Is the Route du Rhum 2022 the most impressive offshore race fleet yet? Helen Fretter takes a closer look at the entries and how the race might unfold This Sunday, 6 November 2022, 138 solo skippers will take to a single, 3-mile startline off St Malo for the Route du Rhum 2022 single-handed transatlantic race […]
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The Route du Rhum will start this weekend, 6 November 2022 and will see 138 skippers take to the startline in a variety of classes hoping for victory The Route du Rhum is one of the biggest solo offshore races in the world, and will see 138 singlehanded competitors take to the startline in Saint-Malo, […]
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As the 2022 Route du Rhum approaches, we take a look at some of the top names set to compete in the race. Helen Fretter looks at Conrad Colman’s chances Conrad Colman, or the ‘crazy Kiwi’ as he became known, was the first New Zealander to compete in the Vendée Globe in 2016. Colman studied […]
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Round the world racer Josh Hall explains to Andy Rice how to make the most of your autopilot for downwind sailing to make your boat faster and safer Top-spec autopilots have become very sophisticated, not least in the use of AI (artificial intelligence), so much so that modern autopilot systems on an IMOCA 60 won’t […]
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The Sevenstar Round Britain and Ireland Race was a long, slow affair, eventually decided by just over 7 minutes. YW boat tester Rupert Holmes racing with Richard Palmer on Jangada took the overall win A flurry of competitors in the Sevenstar Round Britain and Ireland Race crossed the finish line in Cowes today after an […]
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The new Globe40 Race has started, with seven double-handed Class 40 teams setting off from the Moroccan city of Tangier on a 30,000-mile circumnavigation. The inaugural Globe40 Race got underway on Sunday, June 26, with seven Class 40 teams starting from the Moroccan city of Tangier on a 30,000-mile circumnavigation. The new double-handed Globe40 Race […]
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