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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
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. -
12 Metre North American Championships
Ted Turner wins in Newport : A blast from the past
Media Media #media mogul Ted Turner returned to the sport he mastered many decades ago when he helmed the iconic American Eagle - the 12 Metre he once owned and raced around the world - in the 2011 12 Metre North American Championships held in Newport, R.I. over September 23-25. Turner’s well-honed skills earned him first place in the (...) -
Rolex Big Boat Series
Last day’s 14-17 knots on San Francisco Bay was a piece of cake
After enduring yesterday’s high wind survival conditions, the hundreds of sailors on 81 teams at the 47th annual Rolex Big Boat Series would no doubt agree that handling today’s 14-17 knots on San Francisco Bay was a piece of cake. And rich was the cake’s icing: sunshine unobstructed by fog, with temperatures that had warmed (...) -
Rolex Fastnet Race
Niklas Zennström’s Rán is once again the overall winner of the Rolex Fastnet Race
For the first time in more than 50 years, the Rolex Fastnet Race has a back-to-back handicap winner. Following on from her victory under IRC in 2009, this afternoon the Royal Ocean Racing Club has confirmed that Niklas Zennström’s Rán (GBR) is once again the overall winner of the Rolex Fastnet Race and the prestigious Fastnet Challenge (...) -
Transatlantic Race 2011
Videos : The starts from Newport
One of the greatest moments in the history of offshore racing took place Sunday, July 3 with the final start of the Transatlantic Race 2011, setting six yachts on their course from Newport to The Lizard off the southeast coast of England. -
Transatlantic Race 2011
Rambler 100, ICAP Leopard, Beau Geste and Mar Mostro on their way to Lizard
The final start of the Transatlantic Race 2011 set six yachts on their course from Newport to The Lizard off the southeast coast of England. And as the six yachts hoisted their sails you could almost feel the huge crowd of spectators gathered at Castle Hill hold their breath as they observed the fastest ocean-going monohulls to have ever been (...) -
Giraglia Rolex Cup
Dominique and Michel Heyraud won 59th Giraglia Rolex Cup
The surprise overall winner of the 59th Giraglia Rolex Cup is the 37ft-Foxy Lady (FRA), co-skippered by brothers Dominique and Michel Heyraud. Foxy Lady finished the race in a time of 48 hours and four minutes, at 12:08 CEST today, and went on to win on corrected time by 11 minutes, 30 seconds ahead of a fellow 37-footer Jeminy (FRA) with (...) -
Normandy Sailing Week
Morvan, Petithuguenin, Berjon, Hill and Guedon winners in Havre
In the port of Le Havre, the boat hoists are beginning their dance. The 6th edition of Normandy Sailing Week has reached and end. After four days of races in some very varied conditions, today the winners of each series received their prizes in glorious sunshine… -
NYYC Annual Regatta
Ken Read won IRC1 class at NYYC’s 157th Annual Regatta
With 135 boats competing, the New York Yacht Club’s 157th Annual Regatta presented by Rolex, held June 10-12, broke all of its past attendance records, and with winds whipping into the high teens for buoy racing over the weekend, it certainly is in line for being the most memorable Annual Regatta in recent (...)
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