Tour card skippers announced for WMRT
— 22 January 2021The World Match Racing Tour (WMRT) announced the six skippers awarded WMRT Tour Cards for the 2021 championship season….
Continue Reading ...The World Match Racing Tour (WMRT) announced the six skippers awarded WMRT Tour Cards for the 2021 championship season….
Continue Reading ...Same actors, same uncertainties and same fierce battle. Nine skippers are leading the race, with a slight advantage for two men: Charlie Dalin and Louis Burton. While the second continues on a westerly route, all eyes are on the weather files.
Continue Reading ...With measured steps, Boris Herrmann (SeaExplorer – Yacht Club de Monaco) crossed the South Seas by hand, without causing fortune. Here he is, perched on a boat he announces in perfect working order, equipped with latest generation foils, in third place in the Vendée Globe behind Charlie Dalin (Apivia), leader full of authority and Louis Burton (Bureau Vallée 2 ).
Continue Reading ...Longitude 180 °: the antimeridian! This early afternoon, Yannick Bestaven was able to see on his GPS that the degrees of longitude East had taken two more letters, West.
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 ...Entering day six, the leading duos in the Transat Jacques Vabre Normandie Le Havre are now a third of the way through this 4,350-mile biennial double-handed race from Le Havre, France to Salvador de Bahia.
Continue Reading ...This morning, after weeks of valiantly battling serious damage, Sébastien Destremau threw in the towel. Merci’s skipper has been heading since this morning to the port of Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand, or to Christchurch, which is easier to access and where he will find the equipment to repair.
Continue Reading ...This Sunday, after 7 full weeks of racing, and while the leaders’ roads have finally converged, Yannick Bestaven (Maître CoQ IV) leads the fleet with 101 miles ahead of Charlie Dalin who, discreetly but surely, wins day after day like a contender for victory.
Continue Reading ...Samantha Davies (Initiatives-Cœur) formalized her retirement this Saturday morning. She reached the port of Cape Town, like Alex Thomson (HUGO BOSS) the day before and Sébastien Simon (ARKÉA-PAPREC) in the middle of the afternoon.
Continue Reading ...Skipper Taylor Canfield and Team Stars+Stripes – Mike Buckley, Victor Diaz de Leon, Mike Menninger and Eric Shampain – won the 70th Bermuda Gold Cup and 2020 Open Match Racing World Championship with a penalty-marred victory over Ian Williams’s Team GAC Pindar.
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.