Instant reactions to the closing of the Clipper 2023-24 Race. And just like that... 326 days, 40,000nm, six oceans and six continents later... Race 14, and the Clipper 2023-24 Race is complete. What an incredible eleven months. Here's what our….
10 Must-See Sailboat Races around the World
10 Must-See Sailboat Races around the World The America's Cup. Known as the oldest international sporting trophy, the America's Cup is an iconic yacht race and a gem in the sailing crown. It started back in 1851 and has held onto its reputation ever since. This race involves an intense competition between two sailing yachts - one defending ...
7 Global Sailing Races to Follow
The Vendée Globe is a single-handed (solo) non-stop yacht race around the world without assistance. It takes place every four years and is an extreme form of sailing. It is said that more people have been into space than have finished the Vendee Globe. First held in 1989, the race starts and ends in Les Sables-d'Olonne, a small town on the ...
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What is the Vendée Globe? The Vendée Globe is a single-handed, non-stop, non-assisted round-the-world sailing race that takes place every four years. It is contested on IMOCA monohulls, which are 18 metres long. The skippers set off from Les Sables-d'Olonne in Vendée and sail around 45,000 kilometres around the globe, rounding the three ...
The Ocean Race
One year to the start of The Ocean Race Europe in Kiel !! Franck Cammas is awarded the 2024 Magnus Olsson Prize. The French 'sailor of the decade' is recognised for his spirit and impact on the sport. The event will feature mixed crews and a strong ocean health component as teams race between two iconic cities.
Global Solo Challenge: around the world, single-handed, by the 3 capes
The Global Solo Challenge (GSC) is proud to announce the 6th official entry for the 2027-2028 edition: Belgian sailor Jérôme Delire. With over 100,000 nautical miles sailed and a deep-seated. Global Solo Challenge and Cofradía Europea de la Vela in strategic partnership. Francisco Quiroga, president of the Cofradía Europea de la Vela (CEV ...
Ocean Globe Race
The Ocean Globe Race (OGR) is a fully crewed retro race in the spirit of the 1973 Whitbread Round the World Race. It marks the 50th anniversary of the original event. It's an eight-month adventure around the world for ordinary sailors on normal yachts. Racing ocean-going GRP production yachts designed before 1988, there will be no computers ...
The Ocean Race
Race participants in Baltimore Inner Harbor, 2006. The Ocean Race is a yacht race around the world, held every three or four years since 1973. Originally named the Whitbread Round the World Race after its initiating sponsor, British brewing company Whitbread, [1] in 2001 it became the Volvo Ocean Race after Swedish automobile manufacturer Volvo took up the sponsorship, [1] and in 2019 it was ...
About the Clipper Round The World Yacht Race
The Clipper Race is one of the biggest challenges of the natural world and an endurance test like no other. With no previous sailing experience necessary, before signing up for the intensive training programme, it's a record-breaking 40,000 nautical mile race around the world on a 70-foot ocean racing yacht. The next edition will be the ...
IMOCA Route
The start of the 14th edition of The Ocean Race will follow the Reyes holiday period in Spain, and sees the foiling IMOCA fleet departing on a 32,000 nautical mile (60,000 km) race around the world. The first leg is a 1,900 nautical mile sprint from Alicante to Cabo Verde, the first time the Race has stopped at the African archipelago.
The Top 10 Most Epic Sailing Races in the World
The best epic sailing races are the Volvo Ocean Race, America's Cup, Barcolana Regatta, Fastnet Race, Vendée Globe, Transpac Race, Rolex Middle Sea Race, Around the Island Race, Cowes Week, and Cape2Rio Yacht Race. These races define sailing's pinnacle of challenge and adventure. As an avid sailor with decades of firsthand experience and a ...
What is The Ocean Race?
The Ocean Race is the toughest test of a team in sport - and sailing's greatest round-the-world challenge. Since 1973, winning the Race has been an obsession for the world's best sailors - Olympic champions, record breakers and pioneers. With teams racing through the most extreme spots on the planet - closer to the astronauts in the Space Station than anyone else on land - and calling ...
10 things to know about the 2022 Golden Globe Race
The 2022 Golden Globe Race is a solo, nonstop yacht race around the world with no assistance and without the use of modern technology. This means the skippers can't use GPS, chartplotters, electric winches, autopilots, mobile phones, iPads or use synthetic materials like Spectra, Kevlar or Vectron. Their only means of communication is via ...
She went around the world in 235 days to win sailing's most grueling
After 235 days alone at sea in a tiny fiberglass boat, South African Kirsten Neuschafer sailed to victory on Thursday in the 2022 Golden Globe nonstop, round-the-world race, crossing the finish ...
The 2024 calendar of major sailing races and regattas
The 2024 calendar of major sailing races and regattas. 2024 will be the year of solo round-the-world races. It begins with the start of the Arkéa Ultim Challenge - Brest and ends with the start of the Vendée Globe. But it will also be the year of the one-designs, with the Olympic Games being held in Marseille, France, and the America's Cup ...
Full Circumnavigation
Full Circumnavigation. To complete the Clipper Race you will need to stay mentally focused and competitive, keep in top physical shape and cope with living on a 70-foot stripped down ocean racing yacht for eleven months. Nothing can fully prepare you for a circumnavigation of the globe; the range of emotions you'll go through while racing and ...
Clipper Round the World Yacht Race
Having raced across the iconic mighty North Pacific, the fleet of eleven 70-foot stripped-down Clipper Race sailing yachts arrived in Seattle after nearly a month at sea and a 5,580 nautical mile sprint from China. Race supporters welcomed these extraordinary crews to the Emerald City and Bell Harbor Marina with opportunities to tour the iconic ...
Vendée Globe: Two-month solo sailboat race around the world ...
And... ready for the off! We're on board one of the yachts competing in the Vendee Globe - The solo circum-navigation - dubbed the Everest of the Seas.Subsc...
3 Months And 24,000 Miles Later, Vendée Globe Competitors Complete Race
After sailing 24,000 miles nonstop in a nearly three-month journey, competitors in the Vendée Globe — an around-the-world solo yacht race — are expected to finish at a French port on Wednesday.
The Toughest Sailing Race in the World
See the Volvo Ocean 70s and their crews slamming through some of the roughest, most terrifying, and dangerous conditions on the planet while competing in the...
This race is a nonstop sail around the world. Cassette tapes are
Sports. This race is a nonstop sail around the world. Cassette tapes are allowed, but no GPS. South African sailor Kirsten Neuschafer, the only woman in the 2022 Golden Globe Race. All but three ...
Around the world sailing record
The Golden Globe Race has returned since 2018 as a retro sailing race without the use of modern technology for navigation. Former races including: The Sunday Times Golden Globe Race, held in 1968-1969, the first round-the-world yacht race. The BT Global Challenge, was a race held every four years and followed the westward route. The Race, was a ...
Forty solo skippers taking part in the Vendée Globe race 2024
IMOCA teams have been anxiously counting the qualification miles for this year's around the world race after 44 skippers initially entered, but organisers stood firm on a limit of 40 competitors ...
Maine's Cole Brauer becomes first American woman to race sailboat alone
When she and her 40-foot sailboat arrived Thursday in A Coruna, Spain, the 29-year-old Boothbay, Maine, resident and New York native became the first American woman to race nonstop around the ...
The Annapolis J/105 Women's Regatta
Crump was previously ranked number two in the ISAF Women's World Match Race circuit, was crowned twice as Danish Match Race Champion, pursued an Olympic campaign in Ynglings in 2004, and was part of the winning J/80 Championship team in 2021 after also having won it in 2013. ... Mirage leading a close-knit pack around the offset mark. Photo ...
Louis Vuitton Cup Day 4: American Magic Pushes New Zealand in Nail
Racing in around 10 knots of northeasterly wind with an offset easterly running sea state, which complicated conditions for the AC75 crews, the two teams made fast entries into the start box. The American boat "Patriot" hurtled in at the port end at just over 40 knots while the Kiwis approached from the right at around 38 knots.
What did we learn on day 4 of the Louis Vuitton Cup Round Robin?
Alinghi Red Bull Racing vs. Emirates Team New Zealand. The Swiss team had problems with their mainsail hoist, when the bolt rope came out of the track, resulting in them being late sailing into the race area. As Alinghi Red Bull Racing was over 100 metres from the boundary at two minutes to go the start, they were disqualified.
Washington, DC
ABOUT THE PORT. Arriving into Washington, DC Race Crew will be delighted to see the warm welcome that is awaiting them at The Wharf. Their journey here will have been testing, with the teams having battled their way across the pacific from the West Coast of America. A newcomer to the Clipper Race circuit, this vibrant capital city is filled ...
Cup Spy: Louis Vuitton Cup
Welcome to Sail-World's coverage of September 4, 2024 of the Louis Vuitton Cup in which all racing has been cancelled. From The America's Cup Media Centre: "Good morning, today's racing has been cancelled due to weather. The plan is to race tomorrow (September 5), schedule to follow". The new schedule has been announced and appears below.
American and British boats into America's Cup playoffs. Swiss and
The British booked their spot in the playoffs by beating Switzerland's Alinghi Red Bull Racing. The boat skippered by Olympic great Ben Ainslie then dealt Italy's Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli its first loss in competitive racing in the opening round robin. INEOS improved to 5-2 while Luna Rossa remained atop the standings with a 6-1 record.
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Instant reactions to the closing of the Clipper 2023-24 Race. And just like that... 326 days, 40,000nm, six oceans and six continents later... Race 14, and the Clipper 2023-24 Race is complete. What an incredible eleven months. Here's what our….
10 Must-See Sailboat Races around the World The America's Cup. Known as the oldest international sporting trophy, the America's Cup is an iconic yacht race and a gem in the sailing crown. It started back in 1851 and has held onto its reputation ever since. This race involves an intense competition between two sailing yachts - one defending ...
The Vendée Globe is a single-handed (solo) non-stop yacht race around the world without assistance. It takes place every four years and is an extreme form of sailing. It is said that more people have been into space than have finished the Vendee Globe. First held in 1989, the race starts and ends in Les Sables-d'Olonne, a small town on the ...
What is the Vendée Globe? The Vendée Globe is a single-handed, non-stop, non-assisted round-the-world sailing race that takes place every four years. It is contested on IMOCA monohulls, which are 18 metres long. The skippers set off from Les Sables-d'Olonne in Vendée and sail around 45,000 kilometres around the globe, rounding the three ...
One year to the start of The Ocean Race Europe in Kiel !! Franck Cammas is awarded the 2024 Magnus Olsson Prize. The French 'sailor of the decade' is recognised for his spirit and impact on the sport. The event will feature mixed crews and a strong ocean health component as teams race between two iconic cities.
The Global Solo Challenge (GSC) is proud to announce the 6th official entry for the 2027-2028 edition: Belgian sailor Jérôme Delire. With over 100,000 nautical miles sailed and a deep-seated. Global Solo Challenge and Cofradía Europea de la Vela in strategic partnership. Francisco Quiroga, president of the Cofradía Europea de la Vela (CEV ...
The Ocean Globe Race (OGR) is a fully crewed retro race in the spirit of the 1973 Whitbread Round the World Race. It marks the 50th anniversary of the original event. It's an eight-month adventure around the world for ordinary sailors on normal yachts. Racing ocean-going GRP production yachts designed before 1988, there will be no computers ...
Race participants in Baltimore Inner Harbor, 2006. The Ocean Race is a yacht race around the world, held every three or four years since 1973. Originally named the Whitbread Round the World Race after its initiating sponsor, British brewing company Whitbread, [1] in 2001 it became the Volvo Ocean Race after Swedish automobile manufacturer Volvo took up the sponsorship, [1] and in 2019 it was ...
The Clipper Race is one of the biggest challenges of the natural world and an endurance test like no other. With no previous sailing experience necessary, before signing up for the intensive training programme, it's a record-breaking 40,000 nautical mile race around the world on a 70-foot ocean racing yacht. The next edition will be the ...
The start of the 14th edition of The Ocean Race will follow the Reyes holiday period in Spain, and sees the foiling IMOCA fleet departing on a 32,000 nautical mile (60,000 km) race around the world. The first leg is a 1,900 nautical mile sprint from Alicante to Cabo Verde, the first time the Race has stopped at the African archipelago.
The best epic sailing races are the Volvo Ocean Race, America's Cup, Barcolana Regatta, Fastnet Race, Vendée Globe, Transpac Race, Rolex Middle Sea Race, Around the Island Race, Cowes Week, and Cape2Rio Yacht Race. These races define sailing's pinnacle of challenge and adventure. As an avid sailor with decades of firsthand experience and a ...
The Ocean Race is the toughest test of a team in sport - and sailing's greatest round-the-world challenge. Since 1973, winning the Race has been an obsession for the world's best sailors - Olympic champions, record breakers and pioneers. With teams racing through the most extreme spots on the planet - closer to the astronauts in the Space Station than anyone else on land - and calling ...
The 2022 Golden Globe Race is a solo, nonstop yacht race around the world with no assistance and without the use of modern technology. This means the skippers can't use GPS, chartplotters, electric winches, autopilots, mobile phones, iPads or use synthetic materials like Spectra, Kevlar or Vectron. Their only means of communication is via ...
After 235 days alone at sea in a tiny fiberglass boat, South African Kirsten Neuschafer sailed to victory on Thursday in the 2022 Golden Globe nonstop, round-the-world race, crossing the finish ...
The 2024 calendar of major sailing races and regattas. 2024 will be the year of solo round-the-world races. It begins with the start of the Arkéa Ultim Challenge - Brest and ends with the start of the Vendée Globe. But it will also be the year of the one-designs, with the Olympic Games being held in Marseille, France, and the America's Cup ...
Full Circumnavigation. To complete the Clipper Race you will need to stay mentally focused and competitive, keep in top physical shape and cope with living on a 70-foot stripped down ocean racing yacht for eleven months. Nothing can fully prepare you for a circumnavigation of the globe; the range of emotions you'll go through while racing and ...
Having raced across the iconic mighty North Pacific, the fleet of eleven 70-foot stripped-down Clipper Race sailing yachts arrived in Seattle after nearly a month at sea and a 5,580 nautical mile sprint from China. Race supporters welcomed these extraordinary crews to the Emerald City and Bell Harbor Marina with opportunities to tour the iconic ...
And... ready for the off! We're on board one of the yachts competing in the Vendee Globe - The solo circum-navigation - dubbed the Everest of the Seas.Subsc...
After sailing 24,000 miles nonstop in a nearly three-month journey, competitors in the Vendée Globe — an around-the-world solo yacht race — are expected to finish at a French port on Wednesday.
See the Volvo Ocean 70s and their crews slamming through some of the roughest, most terrifying, and dangerous conditions on the planet while competing in the...
Sports. This race is a nonstop sail around the world. Cassette tapes are allowed, but no GPS. South African sailor Kirsten Neuschafer, the only woman in the 2022 Golden Globe Race. All but three ...
The Golden Globe Race has returned since 2018 as a retro sailing race without the use of modern technology for navigation. Former races including: The Sunday Times Golden Globe Race, held in 1968-1969, the first round-the-world yacht race. The BT Global Challenge, was a race held every four years and followed the westward route. The Race, was a ...
IMOCA teams have been anxiously counting the qualification miles for this year's around the world race after 44 skippers initially entered, but organisers stood firm on a limit of 40 competitors ...
When she and her 40-foot sailboat arrived Thursday in A Coruna, Spain, the 29-year-old Boothbay, Maine, resident and New York native became the first American woman to race nonstop around the ...
Crump was previously ranked number two in the ISAF Women's World Match Race circuit, was crowned twice as Danish Match Race Champion, pursued an Olympic campaign in Ynglings in 2004, and was part of the winning J/80 Championship team in 2021 after also having won it in 2013. ... Mirage leading a close-knit pack around the offset mark. Photo ...
Racing in around 10 knots of northeasterly wind with an offset easterly running sea state, which complicated conditions for the AC75 crews, the two teams made fast entries into the start box. The American boat "Patriot" hurtled in at the port end at just over 40 knots while the Kiwis approached from the right at around 38 knots.
Alinghi Red Bull Racing vs. Emirates Team New Zealand. The Swiss team had problems with their mainsail hoist, when the bolt rope came out of the track, resulting in them being late sailing into the race area. As Alinghi Red Bull Racing was over 100 metres from the boundary at two minutes to go the start, they were disqualified.
ABOUT THE PORT. Arriving into Washington, DC Race Crew will be delighted to see the warm welcome that is awaiting them at The Wharf. Their journey here will have been testing, with the teams having battled their way across the pacific from the West Coast of America. A newcomer to the Clipper Race circuit, this vibrant capital city is filled ...
Welcome to Sail-World's coverage of September 4, 2024 of the Louis Vuitton Cup in which all racing has been cancelled. From The America's Cup Media Centre: "Good morning, today's racing has been cancelled due to weather. The plan is to race tomorrow (September 5), schedule to follow". The new schedule has been announced and appears below.
The British booked their spot in the playoffs by beating Switzerland's Alinghi Red Bull Racing. The boat skippered by Olympic great Ben Ainslie then dealt Italy's Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli its first loss in competitive racing in the opening round robin. INEOS improved to 5-2 while Luna Rossa remained atop the standings with a 6-1 record.