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Converging disturbances wreaked have on the Bold'Or Mirabaud on Lake Geneva Saturday, with winds in excess of 50 knots, hail lightning and thunderstorms, before clearing out. Many DNF's litter the course yet the race continues...


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The Bol d’Or Mirabaud is the most important inland lake regatta in the world.
Started in 1939, it welcomes mono-hulls and multihulls each year on Lake Geneva, starting in Geneva, ...

Caleb Paine getting his giddy up on! ...

With the breeze off Roscoff shutting down to become very light yesterday evening and through the night,
the later finishers on Stage 2 of La Solitaire URGO Le Figaro struggled against the tide and unfortunately
saw big increases in the time differences behind the leaders and some of their rivals.











Such is the uncompromising nature of this race, the combination of missed tides and light winds,
means hard earned minutes can very suddenly turn to hours.

Even so this 50th edition of La Solitaire ...

OC Sport confirms the closure of Extreme Sailing Series™

OC Sport, the international event organiser and rights holder which owns the Extreme Sailing Series™, has confirmed all operations for the global circuit have ceased after they were unable to reach a successful Management-Buy-Out.

OC Sport, the international event organiser ...

Racing towards a depression which has brought them strengthening winds and heavy rain as they reach eastwards up the Channel, the fleet on the second leg of La Solitaire URGO Le Figaro are being led by Yoann Richomme (Hellowork-Groupe Telegramme), who has eked out a lead of nearly four miles on second placed Armel Le Cléac’h (Banque Populaire) early this morning.

Richomme. Leg 1 winner, reported gusts of more than 35-knots and short, steep confused seas as he battled towards the Needles Fairway buoy which ...

Team Angry Beaver finished the 2019 Race 2 Alaska @ 14:56 today to claim the $10,000.00
cash prize, a 12 pack of cold beer and the 1st to ring the bell honors.

The team of Matt Pistay, Gavin Bracket, Brent ...

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The remoteness of the BC coast has always been key to this thing. A big part of why the R2AK needed to exist was to get more people into the self-supported adventure that can only happen when you’re outside of your comfort zone and in a place where no one will hear you scream.

There’s a fleeting rarity and holiness to being beyond the reach of communication. Doubt ...

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Very thick sea with waves between 4 to 6 meters. Winds of 65 knots which is equivalent ...

Report by Bill Wagner


Prospector, the Mills 68 that was chasing the Annapolis-to-Newport Race record, was dismasted in the wee hours of Sunday morning.

Prospector was sailing upwind in 20-25 knots of wind and pounding into eight-foot seas in the Atlantic Ocean when the rig failed around 3 a.m.

Annapolis resident Marty Roesch, one of four owners of the high-tech racing machine, said the headstay parted at the mast and the entire rig came down.

“The tang for the forestay sheared off for reasons we don’t know yet,” Roesch said. “We were pounding upwind in heavy air and high seas. There was 20,000 pounds of load on the backstay. When the forestay failed the backstay pulled the rig down.”

Roesch said the mast fell ...