France wins war at Spain SailGP

In the closest-ever finish to a SailGP event, Quentin Delapierre led the France SailGP Team to a stunning victory by just three seconds over Jimmy Spithill’s U.S. team to wrap up Spain Sail Grand Prix in Cádiz on September 24-25. This was the French team’s first event...

Back in the saddle at 52 SUPER SERIES

The fourth regatta of the five event 2022 52 SUPER SERIES season will be the Royal Cup 52 SUPER SERIES Scarlino on September 27-October 1 in Scarlino, Italy. It is familiar grounds for the world’s leading grand prix monohull circuit, but the teams will need to flip...

Golden Globe: Southbound along Africa

Damien Guillou, the French favorite for the Golden Globe Race, made it through the Lanzarote Rubicon Marina film drop under his biggest spinnaker on a tight reach this morning. A wind vane repair returning to Les Sables d’Olonne had cost him six days on the rest of...

American on rocks in Golden Globe Race

Guy deBoer (USA), a competitor in the 2022 Golden Globe Race, has run aground on the North coast of Fuerteventura in the Canary Islands. It was South African GGR entrant Kirsten Neuschäfer (SA) who relayed deBoer’s VHF radio Mayday call to GGR Race Control on...

First and last test for 11th Hour Racing

It’s been a year since the US-based 11th Hour Racing Sailing Team launched the IMOCA they will use in The Ocean Race 2022-23, and they just finally got a measure of it at the 2022 Défi Azimut – a multi-stage event on September 14-18 in Lorient, France. Here is their...