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...

Sailing in The Paradise

A heaven of tranquility, Ibiza is nature in its purest state. The island boasts a series of treasures that make it the perfect place to disconnect and reconnect, from Dalt Vila in Ibiza Town (the best preserved walled fortification in the Mediterranean) to the...

More events for SailGP Season 4

The fourth season of the global sports league SailGP has released its tentative schedule, expanding from 11 to 14 events through 14 months in 2023-2024. The number of events is nearly triple that of Season 1 in 2019. SailGP Season 4 will launch in Chicago on June...