Cruising in Europe was once the comparatively simple option, negotiating weather systems in Biscay and overcrowded anchorages being the major concerns for anyone planning to cruise Atlantic or Mediterranean shores…
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No OSTAR? No problem! Corinthian sailors set up their own transat
Following the postponement of this year’s OSTAR and TwoSTAR transatlantic races to 2022, a small group of determined solo and double-handed skippers set off on their own challenge, the NOSTAR…
Finn dinghy: Farewell to Olympics
This summer will be last time we see the Finn dinghy at the Olympic Games. In order to meet the directive from the International Olympic Committee for equal participation and events…
Giles Scott: Can the Brit secure a second gold in Tokyo?
Giles Scott is waiting. Like all of this year’s Olympic cohort, he is in a strange pre-Games limbo. Normally at this point in an Olympic cycle only the most finicky…
Pip Hare gets ‘dream’ foiling IMOCA for 2024 Vendée Globe
British Vendée Globe sailor Pip Hare today announced that she has renewed her partnership with Medallia, and bought a foiling IMOCA for her 2024 Vendée Globe campaign. The news will…
New platform to set sailing records on ‘corrected time’
Whilst many events and races have successfully applied rating systems to determine an overall winner across different classes, sailing records have always been dominated by the largest and fastest yachts…
Shirley Robertson on why offshore racing should be in the Paris Olympics
With just three years until the 2024 Olympics take place in Paris, the Olympic sailing classes for the 2024 Games are yet to be confirmed. This week the International Olympic…
Jzerro: The oceangoing Pacific proa
The great Californian Gold Rush of the 1840s and 1850s saw over a quarter of a million people follow the sun to the west of the United States, each dreaming…
Mike Horn: From the Amazon to the Arctic Ocean and beyond
Mike Horn is not a man you forget easily, yet if you were to name the world’s most famous sailors, it’s unlikely Horn’s name would top the bill. For a…
British team confirmed as Challenger of Record for 37th America’s Cup
In what might have been the worst kept secret of the current America’s Cup, the British INEOS Team UK has been confirmed this morning, Friday 19th March, as the Challenger…
Vendée Globe heroes: 10 remarkable sailors who embody the race’s spirit
The Finnish airline pilot was the first Nordic skipper to complete the Vendée Globe and, besides enjoying every minute of the adventure, has become something of a hero in his…
Ben Ainslie: we can out-sail Luna Rossa in Prada Cup
“I think it will be a very, very closely fought final, that’s my expectation,” Ben Ainslie said speaking to Yachting World just days before Prada Cup Final between his British America’s…
Pip Hare is first British skipper in Vendée Globe
Pip Hare crossed the finish line of the Vendée Globe at 0057 this morning to become the first British skipper to finish the 2020/21 race. When the gun went, she…
Vendée Globe rescue: Kevin Escoffier on his sinking and recovery
“I AM SINKING. THIS IS NOT A JOKE. MAYDAY” At 1345 (UTC) on Monday 30 November, on a grey and lumpy South Atlantic some 840 miles south-west of Cape Town,…
Vendée Globe winner: Yannick Bestaven wins after redress
In not only the closest, but also the most complex finish in the Vendée Globe‘s 32-year history, Yannick Bestaven has been declared the 2020/21 Vendée Globe winner. Bestaven was 3rd…
Vendée Globe finish: Epic conclusion to round the world race – updated
There is no such thing as an ‘easy’ Vendée Globe. It is, rightly, considered to be one of the very toughest sporting challenges in the world, and the 2020/2021 edition…
Karma: The Maxi Dolphin 75 cruiser with Mini-Maxi looks
Translated literally, karma does not mean fate, as it is commonly misused, but action. It’s the actions you have taken in the past, take now, and will take in the…
Aiming for the impossible: The inside story of the 2020 Jules Verne contenders
Forty days, 23 hours, 30 minutes and 30 seconds: that is the time that is embedded in the psyche of crews currently challenging for the Jules Verne trophy. The clock…
Vendée Globe rescue: Le Cam plucks Escoffier from liferaft after ‘shipwreck’ sinking mid-Atlantic
Escoffier was adrift in his liferaft for over 11 hours, some 840 miles south of Cape Town, at night in 25-knot winds and 3 metre seas, when Le Cam –…
How to follow the 2020 Vendée Globe
A record fleet of 33 skippers started the Vendée Globe on Sunday, 8 November at 1302 local time (1202 GMT) and three of them have already seen their race ended…