The Proving Ground Takes It's Toll

Stage 1, Day 1: The fast, the smart, and the broken
Header photo: Team Narwhal by Jim Meyers

First, most important: everyone is ok. Us, you, 100% of this year’s racers, and the brave men and women of the US Coast Guard and R2AK support vessels that affected four rescues in the Race’s first four hours. Everyone is ok.

Bruised egos, dashed dreams, but body and souls intact. Breathe in, exhale slowly. Everyone is ok.

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"THE DAGGERBOARD BOATS CAN STILL BE IN THE MIX AT ICELAND"...RACE DIRECTOR LE GOFF




Of the 24 skippers still racing on the second Vendee Arctique – Les Sables d'Olonne, ten are sailing on IMOCAs with straight daggerboards. Out in the east it is rookies Benjamin Ferre and Guirec Soudee who are the top two on the rankings. Ferre races the 2015 boat which was formerly MACIF and SMA and Soud?e has the 2007 Farr boat which was launched as Estrella Damm...

106 boats registered for the 31st edition of the 65 nm run from Richmond to Stockton in the
31st edition of The Ditch Run. ( the original name) otherwise referred to as "The Redneck Transpac"

With an intensive heat spell in the central valley in the days before the Saturday June 11th start, combined with
an approaching late season weather system dropping down from the northern Pacific, the forces meshed perfectly
to produce on of the better warmth plus wind...

A fast first night of the Vendee Arctique Les Sables d’Olonne has seen the skippers on the latest generation, fast foiling IMOCAs sustain average speeds of over 25 knots in ideal conditions as they charge westwards towards a ridge of high pressure 150-200 miles wide which will see speeds plummet later today.

Separating slightly to the north of his closest rivals Romain Attanasio (Fortinet-Best Western) is judged to be this morning’s early leader – being...

With a weather forecast between seasick and dangerous for the next two days, R2AK High Command is extending the proving ground by 24 hours.
Race start is still 5am, Monday 6/13.
Racers will need to finish in Victoria no later than 5pm on Wednesday 6/15.
No change to any Victoria schedule of events.
Racers missing the Tuesday skipper's meeting will get a make up on Wednesday.
Second start in Victoria is high noon on Thursday
Race hard, be safe.
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David Schumann's Seacart 30' Bottle Rocket exits the bay en route to a hard fought
1st to finish run in the 2022 OYRA Full Crew Farallones

The 2022 Full Crew Farallones Race departed San Francisco Bay on Saturday June 4th with 24 boats in 5 divisions in much more tranquil conditions than would have occurred back in early spring, where gales and 9' plus swells engulfed the Gulf of the Farallones on a regular basis. The light winds on this day were expected to gradually...

Abandoned Infiniti 52 found off Portuguese coast
07/06/2022



Tulikettu, deemed lost at sea in April, has been found and safely returned to shore.

The first Infiniti 52 Tulikettu, designed by Hugh Welbourn, was sailing from Cascais, Portugal, back to the team base in Gosport, England across the Bay of Biscay.

She was sailing with her foil fully retracted when the hull struck an unidentified floating object on Monday, April 18. There was an...

ALINGHI RED BULL RACING WINS THE HOTLY CONTESTED TF35 MIES








Ernesto Bertarelli's Alinghi Red Bull Racing triumphed at the end of a thrilling final day of the TF35 Mies Grand Prix, which came down to a match racing battle with closest rivals Realteam for L?man hope over the last three races of the series.

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Alex Simanis' Pt Bonita 27 Pell Mell Wins Overall California Offshore Race Week




All it took was a year of elbow grease and a little bit of TLC for Alex Simanis to get his newly restored Pt Bonita 27, Pell Mell, back into the water… and titled a winner. The smallest boat on the course for the duration of the 2022 California Offshore Race Week has proved that it is heart and skill that gets you first overall, not size. Simanis’ Pell Mell is the official...

An 83-year-old sailor became the oldest person to cross the Pacific Ocean solo, arriving in Japan 69 days after leaving a San Francisco yacht harbor.




? Kyodo News ViaAssociated Press
He’s 83. He just sailed alone from San Francisco to Japan


83-year-old Kenichi Horie waves from his boat after his trans-Pacific voyage at Osaka Bay on Saturday.

Kenichi Horie sailed into Kii Strait Saturday on his 19-foot aluminum sailboat, the...