Day 2 of the Casa Vela Cup at the St. Francis Yacht Club finished with the ten competing all-women’s teams all vying for a valued spot in the semi-finals. Local sailor Nicole Breault and her Vela Racing team lead the ...
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The Ocean Race
Near 0500 UTC, while the boat was racing east in moderate northerly winds and sea state, the mast on Team Holcim-PRB came crashing down. Skipper Kevin Escoffier had a message sent to Race Control that the crew was safe and ...
Read More »Antigua Classic Yacht Regatta 2023 Overall
24 Apr. final race of the 2023 Antigua Classic Yacht Regatta was held with the sun beating down on a slight swell of deep blue Caribbean sea. The trade winds, which typically blow out of the east, swung to the ...
Read More »Racing Tour Casa Vela Cup 2023
Nicole Breault (USA) and her Vela Racing team of Molly O’Bryan Vandemoer, Dana Riley Hayes, and Maggie Bacon are undefeated on Day 1 of the 2023 Casa Vela Cup, the opening stage of the 2023 Women’s World Match Racing Tour. ...
Read More »54th Semaine Olympique Française
Mistral makes for fast, fun (and sometimes furious) opener The 54th Semaine Olympique Française de Hyères – TPM opened in classic Côte d’Azur conditions with unending sunshine and a 25-knot Mistral mixing it up across fleets. It was a day ...
Read More »IMA Caribbean Maxi Challenge 2023
Les Voiles de St Barth-Richard Mille concluded yesterday with a regatta of straight bullets for Roy Pat Disney’s modified VO70 Pyewacket 70 on her first visit to the Caribbean. Following this and her line honours and overall IRC victory in ...
Read More »Antigua Classic Yacht Regatta 2023
Race one of the 2023 Antigua Classic Yacht Regatta was sailed on the Old Road Course in perfect sailing conditions in English Harbour, Antigua today. Competitors reported superb 15-20 knot trade winds with moderate swells on the race course and ...
Read More »Itajaí In Port Race
11th Hour Racing Team led the In-Port Race from start to finish in Itajaí, Brazil on Friday. The win moved the American team to the top of the In Port Race Series leaderboard. Light winds of 8 to 10 knots meant ...
Read More »IMA Maxi European Championship 2023
The start of the second IMA Maxi European Championship, organised by the the Naples-based Circolo del Remo e della Vela Italia (CRVI) in conjunction with the IMA, the body officially tasked by World Sailing to administer and develop maxi yacht ...
Read More »Solo Tasman Yacht Challenge
Malcolm Dickson and the beautiful Sarau have taken Line Honours and first place in the 2023 Ray White Solo Trans-Tasman Yacht Challenge in the Adventure-Monohull division at 1453. Malcolm Dickson finished in a race time of 10 days, 1 hour, ...
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