First organized by the Transpacific Yacht Club (TPYC) in 1906, the Transpacific Yacht Race…
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The Newport Ocean Sailing Association is happy to announce that the 73rd Newport to Ensenada race will start off the Balboa Pier on April 23, 2021. They’re planning for the historical full fleet sail to Ensenada with courses to San Diego and Dana Point.
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The Vendée Globe 2020 has provided many amazing memories of solo sailors taking on the challenge of sailing around the world alone. Although regulations have prevented the thousand-strong crowds to line the canal welcoming finishers into Les Sable-d’Olonne, the finishes were no less dramatic.
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Exactly two years in advance of the race we will be running a virtual Cape2Rio ocean race. Online navigation is a great way to hone your skills, to understand the science of weather routing and the interpretation of data now so readily available via the advent of cloud computing. Register now.
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Sail + Leisure contributor, Jeff Ayliffe chats to Sam Davies onboard Initiatives-Couer in Cape Town. On December 2nd the Vendée Globe skipper hit an unidentified floating object, and picked up significant damage to the framework supporting the keel. After consultation with her team, she made the decision to stop in Cape Town.
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This weekend was eventful in the Vendée Globe Race: 3 official retirements, the safe transfer of Kevin Escoffier, and a new Antarctic Exclusion Zone was set.
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West Coast Offshore Race 2020 The Race: The West Coast Offshore is a race…
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2020 made it necessary to host virtual regattas, virtual boat shows and virtual racing. Joining in on this trend, the Cape2Rio Race 2023, sailonline.org and designer Mark Mills launch an exciting online platform for virtual racers with a custom one-design boat.
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The latest generation IMOCA’s will no doubt deliver a new Vendée Globe time. But with record speeds expected due to the new generation foils, what technology has been introduced to protect both the boats and the sailors? Since the last Vendée Globe, speeds on all points of sail have increased thanks to major innovations in three main areas: foils, data capturing, and skippers’ safety.
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Off Watch chats to Carolijn Brouwer, a three-time competitor in The Ocean Race, who sailed to victory with Dongfeng Race Team in that epic final leg of the last race, finishing in her home port of The Hague. Watch this interview for an in-depth and honest talk about her very successful sailing career. Did you know that before she was an offshore sailor, Carolijn was an incredibly accomplished dinghy sailor in the 470, Laser Radial, Europe and Tornado class? She won World Sailor of the Year in 1998 and raced in the Olympics in 2000, 2004 and 2008.
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