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Giraglia Rolex Cup
Franck Nöel’s TP52 Near Miss has been confirmed as the overall winner of the 2012 Giraglia Rolex Cup
A big boat race was predicted ahead of the historic 60th edition of the race from Saint-Tropez to Sanremo. And so it proved. Yesterday morning, the 100-foot Maxi Esimit Europa 2 (SLO) smashed the four-year old race record Record #sailingrecord by over three hours, completing the circa 242-nautical mile course in 14 hours, 56 minutes and 16 (...) -
Mapfre PalmaVela regatta
Azzurra, Iberdrola and Jethou as the TP52, Soto 40 and Maxi winners respectively
Four days of picture-perfect sailing conditions have decided the winners of the 7th edition of the Mapfre PalmaVela regatta, which has gathered 115 boats of 16 countries in the bay of Palma. The event’s closing day has confirmed Azzurra, Iberdrola and Jethou as the TP52, Soto 40 and Maxi winners respectively, and the Mapfre PalmaVela as (...) -
Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race
Stephen Ainsworth’s Loki declared overall winner of Rolex Sydney Hobart
This morning at 8.40am Stephen Ainsworth’s Loki was declared the overall winner of the Cruising Cruising #Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, the race he has been trying to win for 12 years finally coming to fruition on his 14th (...) -
Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race
Anthony Bell : "It is an against-the-odds victory for us"
Following a three hour hearing at the Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania before the International Jury, the Race Committee’s protest against Investec Loyal was dismissed and Anthony Bell and the crew of his 100ft maxi were finally declared the line honours victors in the 2011 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht (...) -
Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race
Anthony Bell’s maxi won by 3 minutes and 8 seconds
The closest finish in the last 29 years of the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race took place this evening when Anthony Bell’s maxi Investec Loyal fended off repeated challenges from Bob Oatley’s perennial line honours victor Wild Oats XI to win by just 3 minutes and 8 seconds, after 2 days 6 hours 14 minutes and 8 seconds of racing on (...) -
Rolex Sydney Hobart
Bob Oatley’s Wild Oats XI led the rest of the 88 boat fleet through Sydney Heads
Despite her electric mainsail winch failing just 11 minutes before the start of the 2011 Rolex Sydney Hobart, Bob Oatley’s Wild Oats XI led the rest of the 88 boat fleet through Sydney Heads. -
Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race
Wild Oats XI starts as favourite this year to beat her own record
Over its sixty-seven year history, the race record Record #sailingrecord at the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race has only been broken ten times, an average of once every six and a half years. Given that the current fastest elapsed time of one day, eighteen hours, forty minutes and ten seconds was set in 2005, statistics suggest that the feat (...) -
Transatlantic Superyacht Regatta
Karuba 5 victorious in Virgin Gorda
The Transatlantic Superyacht Regatta & Transatlantic Maxi Yacht Cup concluded with the arrival of the final participant and the official prize giving ceremony, held at the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda’s Caribbean base in Virgin Gorda. The 20 metre X-Yachts X65 Karuba 5 (CRO) took overall victory on corrected time ahead of the 66 metre (...) -
Rolex Middle Sea Race
The maxi Esimit Europa 2 takes lines hours in Malta
Early this morning, at 0054 CEST, the maxi Esimit Europa 2, crossed the finish line of the 2011 Rolex Middle Sea Race in Marsamxett Harbour, Valetta, Malta, to take the line honours win. The Slovenian maxi completed the course in an elapsed time of 61 hours, 24 minutes and 35 seconds. In 2010, Esimit Europa2 was also the line honours winner, (...) -
Rolex Fastnet Race
Rambler 100 has capsized between the Fastnet Rock and the Pantaenius Buoy
The yacht Rambler 100 has capsized between the Fastnet Rock and the Pantaenius Buoy. All 21 crew have been rescued.