Fisherman
— 5 September 2015It is the staysail between the tow masts of a ketch or a schooner.
Continue Reading ...It is the staysail between the tow masts of a ketch or a schooner.
Continue Reading ...The race for victory is more open than ever: there are at least seven who can still claim it when they are expected to reach the Azores overnight.
Continue Reading ...The long game of surfing and leapfrogging between the southern depressions has started for the first 15 boats of the fleet which sail downwind near the Cape of Good Hope.
Continue Reading ...The French duo of Charlie Dalin and Yann Eliès on the latest generation 60ft foiling monohull, Apivia, appeared to be coasting to victory, literally, in the Transat Jacque Vabre Normandie Le Havre on Saturday afternoon.
Continue Reading ...At 9.30 thrusday morning, the Groupama team France training boat, in preparation for the 35th America’s Cup, was launched. 6 months were required for the French ansd Swiss divisions of the Carboman Group to combine all the elements needed in this concentration of technology.
Continue Reading ...Powerful dreams came true, ambitions were realised when We Are Water and One, Planet One Ocean & Pharmaton rounded Cape Horn last night and very early this Sunday morning.
Continue Reading ...The seat of the leader, Yannick Bestaven, is not a throne, but rather a rocking chair. All the attention today is on the advance of the skipper of Master CoQ IV along the ice barrier, a virtual line imposed by the Race Direction to limit the encounter of IMOCA with icebergs and growlers.
Continue Reading ...Act 3 of the IDEC SPORT ASIAN TOUR started early this morning for Francis Joyon and his crew, who left Vietnam (Ho Chi Minh City) at 0255hrs UTC and crossed the start line off Port Saigon in light winds and calm seas.
Continue Reading ...French skipper Romain Attanasio, sailing Famille Mary-Etamine du Lys, took 15th place in the Vendee Globe non stop solo race around the world this morning (Friday 24th February) when he crossed the finish line at 1006hrs UTC.
Continue Reading ...The irony is not lost. The closest, most engaging and longest running battle of this edition of the Barcelona World Race is between four of Catalonia’s favourite, and nicest sailors. The good guys are fighting for fourth. In every sense it is almost ‘who cares who wins?’
Continue Reading ...Monday 31st May 2021, the launch ceremony of the new RSY 38m EXP took place in the presence of the owners and their family, in full compliance with the COVID measures, which did not hinder the important operations of launching a new boat.