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  • GUYOT environnement To Skip Leg 3

    GUYOT environnement To Skip Leg 3

    GUYOT environnement Team Europe has announced they will abandon leg 3 of The Ocean Race and devote their efforts to rejoining the race in Itajai, Brazil ahead of leg 4.



    The release issued by the team said:

    "The decision has been made. We had no choice. If we had resumed the third leg and sailed around the Southern Ocean to Itaja?, we would not have had time to prepare for the next leg. We would then have always been late on the other legs as well. In
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  • Porn Stars Need No Fluffers In Miami

    Porn Stars Need No Fluffers In Miami

    RATED X Pops Champagne After a High-Stakes Finale at the M32 Winter Series Event 3

    MIAMI (March 5, 2023) —Sailors from all around the world descended upon the palm trees, turquoise waters, and colorful foliage of Miami for the third event of the 2023 M32 Winter Series. The three-day event just closed in dramatic fashion after 14 races.



    A big round of congratulations is in order for Jake Julien’s young Rated X team of Stephan Baker, Keith Swinton, Julius
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  • The Stars Align In South Beach

    The Stars Align In South Beach

    TECHNICAL EXCELLENCE FROM J?RGEN SCH?NHERR / MARKUS KOY REWARDS THEM WITH A WIN ON DAY 1 AT 96TH BACARDI CUP




    March 6, 2023 - Miami, USA

    The 96th Bacardi Cup, March 5-11, 2023, kicked off today in Biscayne Bay, Miami with the opening race for the Star Class featuring seventy-three teams from seventeen nations across North and South America and Europe.

    After a one-hour postponement ashore waiting for breeze, followed by a general recall,
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  • Doubt Creeps In For The Forerunner

    Doubt Creeps In For The Forerunner

    Doubt creeps in



    470 miles would appear to be a solid lead, but there is hope for the chasing pack
    Waking up Monday with a 470+ nautical mile lead, one week into leg 3, would appear to be an enviable position for Kevin Escoffier and his Team Holcim PRB.

    But the challenge of a big lead is in how best to cover your opposition, who are sailing in an entirely different weather system and have the benefit of seeing where you are. Looking at the forecast, there
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  • Reeling In The Leader

    Reeling In The Leader


    https://www.theoceanrace.com/en/racing/tracker

    As Team Holcim-PRB continues to set the standard, racing at speed towards the first scoring gate at 143 degrees east longitude, three other boats are - finally - in fast pursuit.

    Biotherm, 11th Hour Racing Team and Team Malizia needed to dive as far south as the edge of the ice exclusion zone to find the wind, but now they're in it and making miles to the east.

    "We have good conditions, flat sea state,"...
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  • The Breeze Stiffens In Sydney Harbor

    The Breeze Stiffens In Sydney Harbor

    18ft Skiffs
    Winning Group 73rd JJ Giltinan 18ft Skiff Championship, Race 2
    Race Sponsor: Andoo
    Sunday, 5 March, 2023
    Sydney Harbour



    In complete contrast to yesterday's light, variable wind conditions, Race 2 of the Winning Group 73rd JJ Giltinan 18ft Skiff Championship was sailed in an 18-20-knot North East wind on Sydney Harbour today and produced some of the best and most spectacular racing action for the spectator fleet following the championship.
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  • Finport Finance Draws 1st Blood At 2023 JJ's

    Finport Finance Draws 1st Blood At 2023 JJ's

    18ft Skiffs
    Winning Group 73rd JJ Giltinan 18ft Skiff Championship, Race 1
    Race Sponsor: Birkenhead Point Marina
    Saturday, 4 March, 2023
    Sydney Harbour



    The recently crowned Australian champion Finport Finance team of Keagan York, Angus Williams and Phil Marshall totally dominated Race 1 of the Winning Group JJ Giltinan 18ft Skiff Championship with an outstanding display of light weather sailing on Sydney Harbour today.

    Finport Finance
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  • Life Is Good In St Maarten

    Life Is Good In St Maarten

    Catching the Breeze at the 43rd St. Maarten Heineken Regatta



    After several days of preparation, the first race day at the 43rd St. Maarten Heineken Regatta saw the competitors streaming out through the lifting bridge into the open waters of Simpson Bay. With two separate course areas set, the fleet split left or right to rendezvous within their classes for their starts off of Cole Bay and Simpson Bay.

    The day’s courses were designed to send the fleet
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  • A Change Of Pace For The Ocean Race Fleet

    A Change Of Pace For The Ocean Race Fleet

    It is still a far cry from traditional Roaring 40s weather, but at least one critical element has returned - the wind.



    Biotherm, 11th Hour Racing Team and Team Malizia are all finally on the move after a frustrating period of unusually light, warm, and calm conditions.

    While the unusual weather suited Team Malizia as they worked through the day and into the night on Wednesday to repair their damaged mast, it was received far less well by the sailors
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    Last edited by Photoboy; 03-03-2023, 01:02 PM.

  • From Despair To Determination And Repair

    From Despair To Determination And Repair

    Yesterday Team Malizia discovered a large rip in the mast



    Since then the team have put together a plan, with their shore team, to fix the issue and to continue sailing. The next 12 hours will be crucial.

    Boris Herrmann commented to friends, partners and family: " Dear friends:

    A very strong metal part holding a sail up broke the evening before yesterday at nightfall. (Code zero lock). When the sail fell down its halyard ripped a 26 cm long
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  • Blasting Towards The Horn
    by Photoboy
    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
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    Yesterday, 10:36 AM
  • Rough Road Ahead As Teams Approach Cape Horn
    by Photoboy
    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...
    03-23-2023, 10:52 AM
  • In Their Own Words: The Captain Of SV Raindancer On The Whale Collision And Rescue
    by Photoboy
    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...
    03-21-2023, 04:20 PM
  • St Bart's Bucket A Win-Win Event
    by Photoboy


    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
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    03-21-2023, 03:44 PM
  • No Matter Where You Go!
    by Photoboy


    There is always one lurking!...
    03-21-2023, 03:30 PM
  • The Battle For Point Nemo
    by Photoboy
    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
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    03-21-2023, 10:58 AM
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