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#AC36 #AC75
36th America’s Cup : Stars & Stripes Team USA confirm acceptance as 5th Challenger
The Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron is pleased to confirm that the identity of the 5th accepted challenger for the 36th America’s Cup is the Long Beach Yacht Club, another historic and internationally respected yacht club. -
#GoldenGlobeRace
2018 Golden Globe Race: cargo ship MV Tian Fu successfully rescued Susie Goodall
The crew of the Hong Kong registered cargo ship MV Tian Fu successfully rescued the distressed British yachtswoman Susie Goodall Friday, some 2,000 miles west of Cape Horn after a tense operation to get her 36ft yacht DHL Starlight alongside the 38,000 ton general cargo vessel. The first news that she was safe onboard came with a text (...) -
#GC32 #extremesailing
2018 Extreme Sailing Series: Psarofaghis, Charbonnier, Lapauw, Mettraux & Detrey win the championship for Alinghi
For the fourth time in their eight-year history of competing in the Extreme Sailing Series™, Swiss team Alinghi took the coveted championship title after a remarkable final in Los Cabos, Mexico. This phenomenal feat makes them the joint most successful team ever to participate in the world-class, globe-trotting foiling circuit, level (...) -
#RORCTransatlanticRace
RORC Transatlantic Race : Giovanni Soldini’s Maserati Multi 70 has taken Multihull Line Honours
After an intense 3,000 mile battle across the Atlantic from Marina Lanzarote to Camper & Nicholsons Port Louis Marina, Giovanni Soldini’s Maserati Multi 70 has taken Multihull Line Honours in the 2018 RORC Transatlantic Race in an elapsed time of 6 days, 18 hours, 54 minutes and 34 seconds. The team completed the 5th edition of the (...) -
#VolvoOceanRace
Media: Record-breaking results from 2017-18 Volvo Ocean Race
The latest edition of the Volvo Ocean Race, which started in Alicante, Spain in October 2017 and finished in The Hague in the Netherlands in June 2018, will be remembered as the closest in race history, as well as a record-breaking event on many levels. -
#RC44
2018 RC44 Championship: Nico Poons won the Cascais Cup and the overall ranking
Giant waves kicked up by an Atlantic gale oddly combined with no wind in the vicinity of Cascais resulted in racing being cancelled on the final day of the RC44 Cascais Cup. This made for a surprise, come-from-behind winner of both this last event of the 2018 season for the high performance, one design race boats and in the 2018 RC44 (...) -
#WorldSailor
Carolijn Brouwer (NED) / Marie Riou (FRA) and Pavlos Kontides (CYP) crowned female and male Rolex World Sailors of the Year
Held at the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall, eight Awards were presented. The highlight of the Awards is the Rolex World Sailor of the Year Awards and Brouwer / Riou were recognised for their success in the Volvo Ocean Race and Kontides for winning consecutive World Championship (...) -
#GC32
GC32 Racing Tour 2018: Ainslie wins in Toulon, as Cammas claims his second GC32 Racing Tour title
Large seas rolling into the Rade de Toulon’s open southeasterly side prevented racing on the final day of the 2018 GC32 TPM Med Cup, last event of the GC32 Racing Tour. The eight foiling catamarans ventured out on to the race course ready for a midday start. While 18-20 knots of wind is usually sailable for GC32s, building waves (...) -
#wmrt
World Match Racing Tour 2018: Dackhammar Takes His First WMRT Title in Portugal
Nicklas Dackhammar and his all-Swedish Essiq Racing Team wrote their name in the history books today as they became the first name to be scratched on to the WMRT Regata de Portugal Trophy, a great moment for the team to take their first win at a Championship level (...) -
#TP52
Quantum Racing 52 SUPER SERIES Champions for 2018, Luna Rossa Win Valencia Title
Quantum Racing may have won the 2018 52 SUPER SERIES championship title, but unsailable light winds on the last day of the 52 SUPER SERIES Valencia Sailing Week denied them the chance to pitch for their fourth regatta win of the season. Luna Rossa, the Italian America’s Cup challengers of record, lift the Valencia regatta title, which (...)
