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

    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
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  • Powered Up In Porto Cervo

    Powered Up In Porto Cervo

    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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  • Light Air Forces Shortened Course For Leg 2 Of La Solitaire Du Figaro

    Light Air Forces Shortened Course For Leg 2 Of La Solitaire Du Figaro

    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...
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  • Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup Gets Off To A Roaring Start!

    Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup Gets Off To A Roaring Start!

    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
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  • Yacht Club Italiano Hosts 8 Metre Worlds

    Yacht Club Italiano Hosts 8 Metre Worlds




    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...
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  • ARGO Crushes Honolulu To Yokohama Record

    ARGO Crushes Honolulu To Yokohama Record

    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
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  • Pirates Of The Oakland Alameda Riviera

    Pirates Of The Oakland Alameda Riviera

    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
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  • The 1st Solo Globe Challenger Departs

    The 1st Solo Globe Challenger Departs

    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
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  • About That Solitaire du Figaro!

    About That Solitaire du Figaro!



    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
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  • 2023 La Solitaire du Figaro Off And Running

    2023 La Solitaire du Figaro Off And Running



    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,
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  • 24H Ultim Provides Showcase For Latest Foiling Maxi Innovations
    by Photoboy




    44 is the number of cumulative runs carried out, this Friday off the coast of Lorient, by the four maxi-multihulls on the ranks of the 2nd edition of the 24H Ultim. Despite the conditions not prone to fantastic flights, this exceptional fleet has nevertheless demonstrated its performance potential, displaying speeds nearly three times higher than those of the wind, which has oscillated between 13 and 5 knots today. These trimarans, which accelerate and take off at the...
    Today, 12:04 PM
  • The Mini's Are Amassing In The Atlantic And Canary Island Bound!
    by Photoboy
    Heading for the Canaries!



    After being postponed for 24 hours due to the bad weather conditions forecast off Cape Finisterre for Wednesday, the start of the first stage of La Boulang?re Mini Transat was given this Monday, September 25, at 1:38 p.m. Propelled by a southeasterly flow blowing gently between 4 and 7 knots, the 90 competing competitors then left Les Sables d'Olonne to reach Santa Cruz de La Palma, with a total of 1,350 miles to cover and almost as many traps
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    Yesterday, 02:02 PM
  • Raven Flies Into Uncharted Waters
    by Photoboy
    BALTIC 111 RAVEN REACHES SUSTAINED SPEEDS IN HIGH TWENTIES AS SUCCESSFUL TRIALS ARE COMPLETED IN FINLAND





    Early sailing trials for the foil-assisted Baltic 111 Raven have been described as ‘very successful’ as the super-lightweight sloop showed impressive reliability and reached sustained speeds in the high 20s during 10 consecutive days of sailing off Baltic Yachts’ head-quarters in Jakobstad, Finland

    The revolutionary superyacht, the first sailing...
    09-27-2023, 10:31 AM
  • Lowry And Martin Setting The Pace At 5o5 Worlds
    by Photoboy


    Lowry and Martin lead the pack with random precision

    SAN FRANCISCO, CA—Racing concluded on Sunday, September 24, for the 2023 5O5 Pre-Worlds and North American Championships at St. Francis Yacht Club. The event was held on two sailing areas on San Francisco Bay, with the first day of racing on Saturday held on Race Area A, west of Alcatraz Island, and the second day on Race Area B, just west of Treasure Island.



    On Saturday, after three
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    09-26-2023, 11:13 AM
  • Foiling IMOCA's Speed Runs Blister The Water At Lorient
    by Photoboy


    The 2023 edition of this Azimut Challenge - Lorient Agglomeration marks a turning point for the multi-format event imagined by Jean-Marie Corteville in 2011. By welcoming 34 IMOCAs to Lorient La Base for the biggest poster of the year, the Challenge showed that he had the scale for large gatherings. Review of a breathtaking edition!



    It was in 2018, right here at the D?fi Azimut, that Charal, the first VPLP design of the name, carried out the first takeoffs
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    09-26-2023, 10:21 AM
  • Top IMOCA Boats Charging Towards The Finish
    by Photoboy
    The fleet of 31 has been reduced by 3 boats since the start, while the lead boats, led by Franck Cammas and Jeremie Beyou on Charal are as this writing are all within 100 miles or less, and galloping along to windward at speeds approaching 20 knots!




    Last night, CORUM L'Epargne dismasted 80 miles from Audierne, in the southwest of Brittany. The damage occurred at around 1:30 am, just over 12 hours after the start of the Azimut 48H from Lorient. The boat had just...
    09-22-2023, 12:53 PM
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