by Natalie | Mar 18, 2020 | Daily News, Features
“Due to the COVID-19 outbreak” and “in the abundance of caution” have become phrases that now apply to everything we knew, know, and hope to know again. As guidelines are made, and made again, to thwart the progress of this virus, the shadow of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics...
by Natalie | Mar 17, 2020 | Daily News, Features, Industry Insider 1
When a massive collision occurred between two J Class yachts competing in the 2020 Superyacht Challenge Antigua, this frightening moment for these 130-foot monsters was captured on video. Here is the Protest Decision: Involved parties: TOPAZ – Peter Holmberg SVEA –...
by Natalie | Mar 17, 2020 | Daily News, Features, Regattas News
Ever since the 11 teams of the Clipper 2019-20 Round the World Yacht Race had been on course from Australia to China, the Clipper Race Organizing Committee has been dodging bullets. Expected to arrive by mid-February, the coronavirus outbreak has since required a...
by Natalie | Mar 16, 2020 | Daily News, Features
Considering Great Britain’s unkind winter weather, it looked brilliant for America’s Cup challenger Ineos Team UK to set up a temporary base in Sardinia in advance of the scheduled America’s Cup World Series event on April 23-26. But with that event now postponed and...
by Natalie | Mar 16, 2020 | Daily News, Features
After the Clipper 2019-20 Round the World Yacht Race altered its course route to avoid three Chinese cities due to the coronavirus outbreak, it found a safe haven of Subic Bay in the Philippines. However, that venue has now become tenuous. Due to the COVID-19 outbreak...
by Natalie | Mar 16, 2020 | Daily News, Features
The third day of the 2020 Superyacht Challenge Antigua was both bizarre and eventful. Shortly after the starting sequence the race are was enveloped in low cloud and torrential rain, scattering the wind in every direction. For over four hours, the superyacht fleet...
