Six Metres Dance On The Solent Currents At Cowes For World Championship

A STELLAR DAY FOR STELLA IN THE OPEN DIVISION AND A CLASSICS THREE-WAY TIE ON DAY TWO OF THE SIX METRE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS 2023



Violeta Alvarez’ Stella takes a two-point lead in the Open Division at the halfway stage in the International Six Metre World Championship at the Royal Yacht Squadron in Cowes.

Dix Ao?t, Bribon and Silvervingen in a three-way tie at the top of the Classic Division.

Tanker ship movement causes abandonment of fifth...

Surprise Spirit of Lorina double bullet as lumpy conditions challenge Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup fleet
Press release issued by the International Maxi Association on 05/09/2023


After a near perfect opening to the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup, day two was more challenging. Conditions had dropped to a 20 knot northerly come start time, but there had been big onshore breeze overnight and a left-over sea state remained, made more lumpy by waves bouncing back off the rocky shoreline.
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Dhallene is 'cock of the north' at Chicken Rock


The reward for rounding Chicken Rock light among the lead group early this morning has been a modest slingshot southwards, sailing downwind at almost double the speed of those who had still to complete this long climb from Kinsale to this most northerly turning mark of this Stage 2 course.




Hugo Dhallene, stage leader, was making 11.5kts at 0800hrs local time, already nearly passing the NW tip of...

Supreme start to the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup as multihulls make their debut
Press release issued by the International Maxi Association on 04/09/2023






With conditions off the Costa Smeralda that started at 10 knots from the north and built to more than 20, the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda’s Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup, organised in conjunction with the International Maxi Association, got off to the best possible start today.

Courses were...

After yesterday's long day, spent waiting in vain for an improvement in the weather conditions, this morning at 12 the 8 Meters put to sea for the first day of racing in the World Championship. The Race Committee started the departure procedures around 13:00 in perfect weather conditions: north wind around 20 knots with higher gusts, clear skies and sea with steep and short waves which then flattened out over the course of the day. First regular departure on a route that from...

The Argo crew cast off in Hawaii on Monday August 21, after 3 weeks of stand-by. A longer stand-by than initially planned and which will have seen its crew largely reworked for the largely successful attempt, on the Honolulu / Yokohama course. A crew that could count on the weather advice, ashore from Mark Michelson, with a Brian Thompson who was present for the important decisions.





The record had been held since August 1995 by the crew of Steve Fosset on...

Jonathan DeLong was sleeping in a berth of his sailboat at the shore of Oakland’s Jack London Square when he heard a thump. Startled awake, he knew trouble was right outside.

A woman stood on the dock in the inky darkness while a man glided toward DeLong’s sailboat in a dinghy, both seemingly intent on boarding. To DeLong, the scene was familiar: Countless times, he’d seen people prowl the bay on small watercraft, using bolt cutters or angle grinders to burglarize...

Dafydd Hughes set sail raising the curtain on the Global Solo Challenge



The flags of the Global Solo Challenge fly at Marina Coru?a: the great adventure has begun. Today 26th August 2023, at 15:00 local time (13:00 UTC), the Welsh skipper Dafydd Hughes, aboard his S&S 34 Bendigedig, crossed the starting line, embarking on his solo, non-stop journey around the world. About fifteen knots of wind from the west-northwest and a blue sky, occasionally covered by rapidly...

In 1970 the first edition of La Solitaire du Figaro took place; it was then called the Aurore race because it was organized by the newspaper of the same name. In 1980, Le Figaro bought the event that now bears his name.

Its founders, Jean-Louis Guillemard and Jean-Michel Barrault wanted to create a solo race with two stages and without assistance open to both the best professionals and amateurs.

Over the years, it has become one of the most prestigious sailing...

Pirouelle sets pace as Channel Islands challenge beckons.

After a relatively quick, express sprint across the Channel from Sunday’s start off Caen to pass the Isle of Wight early this morning, the leaders of the first stage of the 54th La Solitaire du Figaro Paprec are finding their return path – heading to a turning mark off Paimpol – increasingly challenging.

On the second afternoon of the 610 nautical miles first course from Caen to Kinsale,...