Back In The Atlantic, New Challenges Await

Cape Horn In Rear View, Challenges Ahead



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After passing Cape Horn and escaping the south, the big weather challenges haven't quite ended for The Ocean Race sailors yet.

The leading pair - Team Malizia and Team Holcim-PRB - found themselves in what Malizia's Will Harris called some of the most challenging weather of the leg when they turned north. Gale force winds and sharp, confused seas....

Team Malizia first boat at Cape Horn!
The German team led by BorisHerrmannRacing passed the iconic landmark at 16h 23m UTC in an elapsed time of 29 days 4 hours and 8 minutes.


Team Holcim - PRB second boat at Cape Horn!
The Swiss team led by Escoffier Kevin passed the iconic landmark at 17h 40m UTC in an elapsed time of 29 days 5 hours and 25 minutes.

Boris Herrmann's Team Malizia lead fleet around Cape Horn
The German team rule the south,...

Privateer, Blitz, Flying Jenny, Lady M, Bill T & FiDeLa Class Winners @ 49th St. Thomas International Regatta




St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. Smart starts. Minimal mistakes. Fast finishes. These are among the successful strategies of class winners at the 49th St. Thomas International Regatta (STIR). Nearly 50 yachts, racing in CSA handicap and one-design classes, spanning from 24- to 70-foot vessels, and with skippers and crews hailing from the Caribbean, USA,...

After 48 hours of building wind and seas, with gusts over 40 knots and waves approaching 7 metres, conditions are starting to moderate on Sunday with the IMOCA fleet turning south to squeeze between Cape Horn and the ice exclusion zone.






The wind is in the 18-22 knot range and the waves are 5 metres and decreasing. That's still plenty of motion on an IMOCA, making movement on board difficult, but slightly better than over...

Lining up for the Horn

Cape Horn is just over 1000 miles away, but they will be hard-earned miles...
The teams have the end of the hardest part of the longest leg in the history of The Ocean Race in sight.






On Friday afternoon UTC, the most iconic of landmarks to offshore sailors - Cape Horn - lies just over 1000 miles to the east.

But those miles won't come easily. Gale force winds and 6-8 metre seas are on the menu...

Big conditions ahead on the way to Cape Horn

The weather is forecast to provide one final taste of Southern Ocean conditions on the approach to Cape Horn.




For 50 years of The Ocean Race, sailors have considered the Southern Ocean leg, the racing that takes place between Cape Town and Cape Horn, deep in the southern latitudes, as the biggest milestone in the event.

Rounding Cape Horn marks the end of the southern conditions, where deep low...

The people on sunken boat SV Raindancer in the Pacific are safely aboard SV Rolling Stone after 10 hrs in a lifeboat.
Great job by them and all the other yachts incl SV Far that went to the rescue.

Most of the rescue was coordinated by WhatsApp using Starlink which is a game changer when it comes to safety. At least 8 yachts, mainly World Arc rally members plus a large ship responded.




Update from the skipper of Raindancer Rick added in photos...

Day 1

Sailing counterclockwise around the island in an 18-25 knot northerly, 25 Superyachts sailed their first of three racing days at the St. Barths Bucket Regatta 2023. The testing conditions forced three entries to withdraw due to equipment failure and some to limp across the finish line; however, others seemed to have the luck of the Irish with them (after all, today is St. Patrick’s Day) and spun that into gold over the 20-26 nautical mile courses that were...

There is always one lurking!...

Close together, far from home



The Ocean Race is still racing close together as they approach the most isolated place on the planet

The four IMOCAs charging towards Cape Horn are approaching Point Nemo on Tuesday.



Defined as the most isolated, remote place on earth, Point Nemo is a spot in south Pacific Ocean, 2,688 kilometres from the nearest land. In fact, the closest sign of civilisation is the International Space Station, orbiting...