Te Rehutai Back In The Stable

TE REHUTAI RETURNS



Auckland - 21st March 2023

Te Rehutai, Emirates Team New Zealand’s 36th America’s Cup winning yacht is set to return to the waters of Auckland’s Hauraki Gulf just over 2 years since the last time it was sailed for the final race of AC36.






The team’s AC75 emerged from the shed after a long hibernation on Monday for a series of rig and dock checks encompassing a mix of old and new. Visually...

A DEMANDING RACE
ARKEA ULTIM CHALLENGE - Brest



They will potentially be seven "Giants of the Seas" setting off from Brest, with a solo skipper on board, who will attempt to complete a circumnavigation of the world from West to East, via the 3 capes (Bonne-Esperance, Leewin and Horn ). A human and technological challenge carried by the sailors of the Ultim 32/23 Class accompanied by their owners and partners.

Some of them have already completed...

On Saturday it seemed as if the race couldn't get any closer. By Sunday morning UTC that was proved wrong.

Today, all four teams are lined up on a 13 mile line extending north to south, but separated by less than 3 miles on the leaderboard. All this after three full weeks of racing.









The reason for the close racing remains a stubbornly persistent ridge of high pressure and its light winds that is...

Steady progress towards Cape Horn
As four IMOCAs march past the halfway point of leg 3 in southern latitudes, GUYOT environnement - Team Europe starts sailing towards Brazil to rejoin the next leg...




Team Holcim PRB retains its lead on Thursday, as the fleet compresses to within 100 miles.




As per the forecast yesterday, the leader is slowing slightly and the trailing boats are nibbling into the lead, but little has changed...

As planned, at 12:08 this Thursday, the big race for the 20th Solo Maitre CoQ kicked off off Les Sables d'Olonne. The 30 Figarists in the running then set off for a 340-mile loop between R?, Yeu, Belle-Ile and the Rochebonne plateau, propelled by a south-easterly breeze blowing between 12 and 14 knots. It was in close ranks, led by Alexis Loison (REEL Group), that they then began their descent towards the Ile de R?. Where, shortly after the overflow of the Baleines lighthouse, the...

Off Lorient, Brittany, the Dutch crew on SEC HAYAI made up of Frans Budel and Ysbrand Endt, crossed the finish line of the 8th and final leg of the GLOBE40 at 19:41 UTC this Wednesday. The Anglo-American crew on AMHAS, Craig Horsfield and Oliver Bond, preceded them at 15:05 UTC after 19 days at sea. SEC HAYAI’s second place in this leg gives the crew the outright win in this first edition of the GLOBE40, whilst AMHAS posted her 3rd line honours. Ultimately then, just two...

NIMBLE. QUICK. AGILE
Some days on the journey to the America’s Cup are just plain hard and for the New York Yacht Club American Magic Team, Tuesday’s session was a stop-start affair with long stints of foiling brilliance clouded by a few rare errors thrown in to remind everyone that sailing on the ragged edge of control is hard.








Having started the day with a long systems check as the team brought new, unseen tech into...

Frank Slootman's Mod 70' Snow Flake was out practising Sunday, the former Beau Geste, Phaedo3 and Fonica has a storied history and set many records!

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Snow flake will be competing in the California 500 Offshore series in May

The boat in the foreground, was abandoned the last weekend of January, and was traversing the area when she went aground.






( pictured Jeremy Boyette's...

Tuesday morning's tracker display show the the Mod 70's, Argo and Orion finishing
Monday afternoon early evening with Argo claiming Overall Line Honors and Orion arriving almosted exactly 2 hours later. RIO 100' claimed 1st in Mono Hulls, crossing the finish at 08:31 Tuesday, with an elapsed time of 2Days 19hours, 31minutes and15 seconds.
Westerly is now in at 09:51 and claim division E 1st place honors

It appears the Hollywood Down Under, Ramble On and Saga will join Reinrag...

Repairs and racing along the ice limit

The race continues while each team battles to keep boats operating in racing trim




Following the distribution of points at the scoring gate on Sunday, teams are now consolidating their positions and working through job lists to keep the boats in racing condition.

On Monday evening, 11th Hour Racing Team revealed the latest challenge for their crew to overcome - a badly torn mainsail, along a load-bearing...