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Even the Baltic didn’t escape last summer’s foul weather – this is Karl Kwok’s TP52 Beau Geste of Hong Kong on her way to winning the ORC World Championship at Kiel on Germany’s Baltic Coast in the first week of August 2023
Afloat.ie’s “Brain Test For The Day” story on Sunday about the introduction of weather routing as a new factor in scoring June 2024’s biennial CCA Newport-Bermuda Race was posted in wonderment (and maybe bewilderment) as much as being the airing…
'awesome sailing, awesome boats, awesome race'…Pip Hare racing today in the Retour à La Base Solo Race
With more than 2200 nautical miles still to sail and at least two more low-pressure systems due before a timely finish into Lorient expected Saturday, there is still a long, long way to go on the Retour à La Base…
Sam Goodchild at Thursday’s start of the Retour à La Base Solo IMOCA Race from Martinique to Lorient
The Retour à La Base solo IMOCA race from Martinique to Lorient, France, is heating up as the leaders complete their curve around the North Atlantic high-pressure system and start to head towards the east. They are seeking to find…
The classic and very successful McCurdy 48 Carina had a sweeping overall victory in the 2010 Newport-Bermuda Race, thanks to taking a flyer 50 miles to the westward of the bulk of the fleet during the 630-mile beat to
The biennial 635-mile Newport RI-Bermuda Race in June is one of the world's offshore classics, and as its route takes the fleet across the wayward Gulf Stream while it is in the process of becoming the North Atlantic Drift, weird…
On board Asian IMOCA 60 DMG MORI Global One
After just over 24 hours of racing since leaving Fort-de-France, Jéremie Beyou is proving his well-optimised Charal is fastest on the northward climb up the Atlantic for the Retour à La Base fleet of solo racers. While the French favourite…
Offshore sailor - Pamela Lee is increasingly recognised as a force to be reckoned with in a tough, competitive environment
The short-handed long-distance offshore racing scene from France is recognised as the world peak in a very specialised area. Design development at all boat sizes is at such a pace that in a hyper-hot division such as Class40, anyone racing…
Ireland's Pamela Lee (right) and French co-skipper Tiphaine Ragueneau, complete the Transat Jacques Vabre Normandie Le Havre in 29th place in Class40
Pam Lee and Tiphaine Ragueneau, the Irish-French duo, who raced the Atlantic under the Cap pour elles initiative, crossed the finish line of the Transat Jacques Vabre Normandie Le Havre off Fort-de-France, Martinique on a beautiful, sunny Sunday afternoon at…
Pam Lee on the helm as the Class40 Engie-DFDS-Brittany-Ferries gets up to speed
Ireland’s Pamela Lee of Greystones, sailing with Tiphaine Rageneau on the Class40 Engie-DFDS-Brittany Ferries, finished 29th in class today (Sunday) at Martinique, having leapt back into the race despite an enforced return to Lorient for an emergency sail repair. Italian…
The second placed Crédit Mutuel of Ian Lipinski and Antoine Carpentier crosses the Transat Jacques Vabre finish line in Forte de France
With Alberto Bona and Pablo Santurde del Arco on the Italian Mach 40.5 IBSA crossing the Class 40 finish line in fourth place on the 16th Transat Jacques Vabre on Thursday afternoon, November 23rd, their aggregate time of 18 days…
Italian skipper Ambrogio Beccaria and French co-skipper Nicolas Andrieu sailing the all-Italian Musa 40 Alla Grande PIRELLI celebrate  Transat Jacques Vabre Class40 first place in Martinique
Italian skipper Ambrogio Beccaria and French co-skipper Nicolas Andrieu sailing the all-Italian Musa 40 Alla Grande PIRELLI took first place in the highly competitive Class40 race on the 16th Transat Jacques Vabre Normandie Le Havre two-handed race when they crossed…
Thomas Ruyant and Morgan Lagravière (For People) cross the finish line to take first place in the Transat Jacques Vabre IMOCA division
When they broke the finish line of the 30th-anniversary edition of the Transat Jacques Vabre Normandie Le Havre off Fort-de-France, Martinique in the inky darkness of this Sunday morning at 0202hrs local time, (0602hrs UTC), Thomas Ruyant and Morgan Lagravière…
Alex from Galiana WithSecure well and truly getting in touch with the Southern Ocean
There are winners and losers in every game — and never more so in the Ocean Globe Race. The 11 yachts that slipped lines in Cape Town on 5 November and who are now surfing down the five-metre waves towards…
Thibault Vauchel-Camus and Quentin Vlamynck (Solidaires en Peloton) crossed the finish line of the Transat Jacques Vabre Normandie Le Havre off Fort de France, Martinique today at 19:07:47hrs local time (00:07:47hrs UTC Friday) to take first place on the Ocean Fifty race
In heavy rain at the end of a day which had been interspersed with squalls and long calm periods, Thibault Vauchel-Camus and Quentin Vlamynck (Solidaires en Peloton) crossed the finish line of the Transat Jacques Vabre Normandie Le Havre off…
RORC member Peter Bacon skippered the Xp44 Lucy Georgina to a win in IRC 2 in the  2019 Transatlantic Race. The New York Yacht Club and the Royal Ocean Racing Club, in partnership with the Royal Yacht Squadron and the Storm Trysail Club, have announced the Transatlantic Race 2025
One of offshore racing’s great adventures will return in 2025. The New York Yacht Club and the Royal Ocean Racing Club, in partnership with the Royal Yacht Squadron and the Storm Trysail Club, have announced the Transatlantic Race 2025, which…
French duo Armel Le Cleac'h and Sebastien Josse celebrate Transat Jacques Vabre in Martinique
French duo Armel Le Cleac'h and Sebastien Josse sailing Maxi Banque Populaire XI crossed the finish line of the 16th edition of the Transat Jacques Vabre Normandie Le Havre off Fort de France, Martinique at 18h19 local time (23h19 UTC)…
There were strong winds for the re-start of the Class 40s in the Transat Jacques Vabre
Class 40 and Ocean Fifty were back in full race mode some eight days after the initial start from Le Havre a week past Sunday; 46 duos aboard their Class40 monohulls and Ocean Fifty multihulls returned to the Transat Jacques…