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Offshore racing | Figaro-Bénéteau
Solitaire du Figaro 2023 : Leg 3 line honors for Benoît Tuduri • Overall rankings for Corentin Horeau
“I am not very good at maths but to be better than second there is only one step.” Corentin Horeau told the French sailing media Media #media when he returned to La Solitaire du Figaro Solitaire du Figaro #LaSolitaire in 2021. After a five year break from the multi stage solo offshore race, he was hungry to finally better the (...) -
RORC | Imoca, Class40, IRC
Sevenstar Round Britain & Ireland Race : Pip Hare’s crew took Line Honours
IMOCA Imoca #IMOCA Medallia, skippered by Pip Hare, took Line Honours in the Sevenstar Round Britain & Ireland Race in an elapsed time of 10 days 13 hours 23 minutes and 22 seconds. High pressure had dominated the early part of the race causing the Medallia team to take over seven days to get to Muckle Flugga. The second half of the (...) -
Sport cats
Larsen and Van West are 2014 F18 Champions of the World
The podium may have looked settled even if the positions had not been agreed with 3 races to go. Belfast Lough offered a minefield today for the competitors to make their way through in light variable wind, and unfortunately the young Americans were the first to (...) -
Cowes - Plymouth
Loison father and son made history in the 2013 Rolex Fastnet Race
336 yachts from 20 countries started the biennial race that runs from Cowes to Plymouth via the Fastnet Rock on the south-west tip of Ireland. The line up had everything: professional and Corinthian sailors; some of the world’s fastest, most technologically sophisticated yachts competing against 30-ft family crewed boats; participants (...) -
MOD70 European Tour
Yann Guichard wins the 2nd City Race which took place in Dun Laoghaire
After six City Races it took one exciting Speed Speed #speedsailing Match tie-break finale, a short out-and -back reaching sprint, to decide the overall winner of the Dun Laoghaire City Races. Yann Guichard’s Spindrift racing finish first among equals. -
MOD70 European Tour
Michel Desjoyeaux 1st in Dun Laoghaire ahead of Yann Guichard and Sébastien Josse
After around 1400 miles and three and a half days of hard racing from Kiel to Dun Laoghaire, Ireland just 77 seconds finally separated the top three MOD70 one design trimarans when the MOD70 European Tour leaders broke the finish line in a dying breeze just after midnight on Dublin (...) -
Volvo Ocean Race
Last inshore for Ken Read • Franck Cammas celebrates overall victory
A PUMA team decked out in Irish rugby shirts rounded off the Volvo Ocean Race 2011-12 in style on Saturday, securing victory in the In-Port Race series with a win on the waters of Galway on a day that saw Groupama celebrate overall success in sailing’s toughest (...) -
Volvo Ocean Race
Second in Galway, Groupama Sailing Team win the Volvo Ocean Race 2012
Groupama crossed the finish line in the pitch black Galway night to secure a remarkable overall victory in their debut Volvo Ocean Race campaign and finally settle the closest contest in the event’s 39-year history. -
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 (...) -
Rolex Fastnet Race
Vincent Riou won the IMOCA race
After the Volvo Open 70s arrival early this morning, later there was an equally close finish between the first three IMOCA Imoca #IMOCA Open 60s. This contest for the boats best known for being sailed singlehanded around the world in the Vendée Globe, was won by 2004-5 Vendée Globe winner Vincent Riou in his orange PRB (...)
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