Michael Kitchen, actor, television producer and competitor fired the starting cannon from the Royal Yacht Squadron (RYS) at 0730 this morning to mark the start of the 88th Round the Island Race. Kitchen, known particularly for his role as Detective ...

Organizers from the Yacht Club Marina Portoroz (YCMP) and the Offshore Racing Congress (ORC) are welcoming all owners and teams of racing keelboats between 6.00 – 9.15 m in length, who are less than 2000 kg in weight, and have ...

Five more races in warm sunshine, flat water and a shifty 12-16 knot northwesterly off Lagos on day two of competition, and the leader board is starting to be defined at the GC32 World Championship, taking with the support of ...

The Royal Ocean Racing Club’s race to Dieppe for the Morgan Cup started in the Solent on midsummer’s day in superb conditions. The RORC fleet enjoyed a spectacular downwind start off the Royal Yacht Squadron Line, heading east for the ...

Stormy first night ahead for Transatlantic Race 2019 fleet At 1600 hours ET, four and a half hours after the final start of the Transatlantic Race 2019, the fleet of 13 yachts was south of Martha’s Vineyard and was beating ...

The opening day of the IRC Europeans, hosted by Italy’s Yacht Club Sanremo, got under way under sunny skies, scorching temperatures but nearly no wind. The high-pressure bubble hovering over southern Europe blocking out any breeze from the race area. ...

While crew lists for August’s Rolex Fastnet Race are far from finalised, currently just over 10% of those competing in the Royal Ocean Racing Club’s biennial voyage from Cowes to Plymouth via the Fastnet Rock will be women. While this ...

The passage of the Owers buoy in the middle of last night delivered yet another upset on the 50th La Solitaire URGO Le Figaro as hard won leads were washed away under a massive dark cloud and heavy rain. Eric ...

The first leg of the Nord Stream Race from Kiel to Copenhagen has been decided: after a head-to-head race over 150 miles (around 280 kilometers) Team Denmark was the first to reach the Danish capital. Next, for two days on ...

54 Squibs started the initial day of their National Championship with an early morning start for a practice race prior to the first series race. Weather was overcast and rainy with a lessening easterly wind causing some bouts of illness ...