Optimism strong for RORC Caribbean 600

While raucous celebration come New Year’s Eve is unlikely, there is hope for 2021 to help erase the memory of the pandemic in 2020. However, the reality is health concerns won’t be eliminated until the spread of the illness slows, and that’s not happening without...

SailGP: Bermuda welcomes payday

When the second season of the SailGP global championship gets underway in 2021, the pursuit of the one million dollar prize will begin in Bermuda. While the schedule originally had the high flying F50 catamarans competing in San Francisco, the league’s concern about...

Vendée Globe: The South Atlantic slalom

On a sequence of gybes stepping downwind underneath the Saint Helena high pressure system in the South Atlantic, Charlie Dalin (Apivia) became the new leader of the Vendée Globe this morning. Dalin outmanoeuvred his close rival Thomas Ruyant (LinkedOut) and went on to...

Vendée Globe: Nobody said it’d be easy

Vendée Globe favorite Alex Thomson (GBR) has today been forced to slow his HUGO BOSS to a crawl as he attempts to make a technical repair to a longitudinal beam in the bow of his IMOCA 60. Having been in the lead group since the start, Thomson alerted his team to the...