TP52 Super Series Returns To The USA

17TH OF JULY, 2023
52 SUPER SERIES IS BACK IN THE USA IN 2024, FIRST VISIT TO NEWPORT!



After three year spell confined to racing only in Europe, the 52 SUPER SERIES circuit expands its horizons once again for the 2024 season when it will return to race two key regattas in the USA.

While owners and teams have previously loved opening the 52 SUPER SERIES seasons of 2013, 2014 and 2017 in the Florida sunshine of Key West and Miami, in 2024 the world’s...

Sydney Sailor Tim Shaddock is in good health after spending three months lost at sea with no access to food or clean water.

Shaddock lived off raw fish and rain water to sustain himself while being lost at sea with his loyal hound Bella.

The Sydney local ended up stranded in the Pacific Ocean due to a brutal storm damaging his catamaran and wiping out the electronics.

The pair set sail from La Paz in Mexico to French Polynesia in April, but disaster...

When a Rolex yachtsman of the year, Mike Martin, describes the course as ‘terrifying’, locals, including Benjamin Anderson, that sail the bay all the time say they’ve never seen it that rough or chaotic. Chip Wasson even suggested that the windward mark, the red nun, west of the south tower of the Golden Gate Bridge, "had waves the size of vans crashing into each other from all directions." Meanwhile, former National Windsurfing Champion, Steve Bodner...

Drew Freides Is the New Melges 24 World Champion, Ante Botica Claims Corinthian Title
01.07.2023





July 1, 2023 - Middelfart, Denmark - The Melges Performance Sailboats Trophy for the Melges 24 Worlds title goes back to the USA after three exciting races in wind and rain today. Croatians win the Challenge Henri Samuel Corinthian Trophy in non-professional class and take bronze overall.

The 24thMelges 24 World Championship, powered by Bunker...

French sailors continued to shine in Marseille on an action-packed Tuesday at the Paris 2024 Test Event which saw all 10 classes in action.
Axel Mazella, Lauriane Nolot and Nicolas Goyard ended the day top of their respective leaderboards, while Camille Lecointre and Jeremie Mion share the Mixed 470 summit.

Elsewhere, the ILCA 6 saw Emma Plasschaert and Hannah Snellgrove impress, while Snellgrove’s compatriot Michael Beckett continues to lead the way...

More trophy winners arriving at Transpac

July 10, 2023 -- Honolulu, Hawaii -- Over half the fleet of 57 entries on this year’s Transpac course have safely arrived in Honolulu, and among them are some more provisional winners of division titles as well as other trophies.



At just before 0700 this morning Doug Baker’s Dencho/Kernan 68 PELIGROSO crossed the finish at Diamond Head after 8 days 20 hours 59 minutes 54 seconds of sailing in Cal Maritime...

Provisional Barn Door and Kalakaua Trophy
winners announced at Transpac

July 9, 2023 -- Honolulu, Hawaii -- With the finish of 19 out of 52 boats in the fleet this afternoon and no potential rivals on the eastern horizon, the fastest monohulls in elapsed and corrected time have been provisionally determined in the 2023 Transpac.





With an elapsed time of 7 days 13 hours 16 minutes and 38 seconds, the provisional winner of the Barn Door Trophy...

Sunday July 2nd 0800 overall tracker chart clearly demonstrates the have and have nots



Greg Dorn's Dehler 46' Favonius currently is 1st in Line Honors





Another Dehler 46', Ian Edwards Wings is enjoying a pull position in ORR


Good Energy , George Hershman / Mark Comings RP 63' Leads DIV 1 as her and RIO 100' were able to avoid the parking lot and have separated themselves from the division

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Under sunny skies and a light westerly breeze, the second group of entries has started their 2225-mile journey to Honolulu in the 2023 Transpac. Nineteen boats divided in three classes Ocean Navigator Division 4, Cabrillo Boat Shop Division 5 and Pasha Hawaii Division 6 – set off from Point Fermin to first clear the West End of Catalina island 25 miles away and then out into the open Pacific Ocean.



Chris Love Photos

Like the first group of starters...

Notes From Boats Day 4

Christophe Desage (via inReach)
End of D4 - ELMACH: Enfin du soleil ! Shorts, a bit of Gennaker, still catching-up on some sleep. Sea state much easier with .5 to 1m waves.

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Green Buffalo

The wind swung aft at 5am early this morning... AWA went from 70-90 to 100-120 degrees... 14k-16k... spinnaker weather! Watched the wind direction oscillate a bit over a few hours while prepping for...