The fourth edition of the Aegean 600, a relatively new 605-mile offshore race around the…
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Unprecedented early season Hurricane Beryl set to hit Windward Islands: yachts evacuate
Cruisers and other sailing yachts have been evacuating Grenada and many Caribbean islands as Hurricane…
X-Yachts XR first look: An AI approach to racing yacht design
This model is intended as a serious return to X-Yachts’ racing DNA, following an unprecedented…
British Vendée Globe hopeful Sam Goodchild dismasted in transat race
Sam Goodchild, one of the leading contenders for this autumn’s Vendée Globe solo around the…
Oyster Yachts announce they are back in profit with World Rally proving popular
Oyster returned to profit in January this year and expects to make an overall profit…
Breaking barriers: How UpWind by MerConcept is aiming to usher in an offshore racing transformation
In a newly announced move, MerConcept, the offshore sailing and sustainable tech hub in Concarneau,…
Fifteen round Cape Horn in a week! Round the world racers stream out of Southern Ocean
Armel Le Cléac’h’s 100ft foiling trimaran Maxi Banque Populaire XI became the 15th boat to…
Rolex Sydney Hobart Race winner decided by 51 seconds
Law Connect has won the 2023 Rolex Sydney Hobart Race line honours, after the closest…
Whale ‘pingers’ trialled to deter orcas
A new acoustic deterrent device is to be tested in the waters off Portugal to…
Amazing rescue: Ocean 50 trimaran sails home on one float
Luke Berry and his co-skipper Antoine Joubert were competing in the Transat Jacques Vabre on…
Slingsby and Neuschäfer crowned Sailors of the Year 2023
The 2023 Rolex World Sailor of the Year awards were presented to Tom Slingsby and…
Transat Jacques Vabre 2023: IMOCA 60s are final fleet to start
The Transat Jacques Vabre 2023 officially started on Sunday 29 October, but with a particularly…
‘Boat breaking’ depression disrupts Transat Jacques Vabre start
Yesterday’s scheduled start for the Transat Jacques Vabre – the double-handed race across the Atlantic…
Cruising couple hook an unexploded bomb while at anchor!
A Dutch cruising couple were forced to abandon their brand new anchor and chain off…
Legendary yachts set off on ‘retro’ round the world race as Ocean Globe Race starts
Amost exactly 50 years to the day since the first Whitbread Round the World Race,…
WATCH: Ocean Race yachts ‘attacked’ by orcas following spate of whale collisions
Two VO65 yachts racing in The Ocean Race have become the latest boats to face…
Paddle sports continue uptick in watersports participation
The increase in people participating in watersports in the UK during the Covid 19 pandemic…
Starlink at sea: all change for cruisers
Starlink, Elon Musk’s low orbit satellite network which delivers low cost high speed internet via…
Simon Curwen first finisher in Golden Globe Race (but can’t win overall)
British solo sailor Simon Curwen has crossed the finish line of the Golden Globe Race,…
Clarisse Crémer confirms new Vendée Globe sponsor, Alex Thomson heads team
It has been confirmed that Clarisse Crémer’s Vendée Globe campaign is back on with L’Occitane…