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Peter Cunningham, Ned Collier Wakefield and the MOD70 PowerPlay crew just broke the Fastnet record set by the MOD 70 Phaedo 3's 2015 time of 27h 42m 26s .
PowerPlay's new record is now 25 hours 4 min and 18 sec on the 595 miles ...

The big stage of the Solo Maître CoQ promised to be complete as well as complex. The point is that it kept all its promises with both tiny erratic airs and strong wind. Extreme conditions, particularly technical, which naturally made the business of the big guys of the circuit. Indeed, after having made a first break on the Ile de Ré side, they widened the gap even further on the second half of the peloton on the Birvideaux side where they took to the skies at supersonic speeds when their adversaries fought for a long time upwind. In this phase of the race, in "submarine" mode, however, it was necessary to manage to keep up hellish pace, firmly riveted to the helm, to get out of the game. Pierre Quiroga (Skipper ...

Giovanni Soldini and Maserati Multi 70’s Team arrived in Porto Cervo at 9:09 38” on March 21st, setting a new Monaco to Porto Cervo multihull record, sailing 195 miles in 7 hours, 50 minutes ...

Spanish, French and Israeli crews top the rankings early on at the 470 World Championship in Vilamoura, Portugal.
Three races were sailed in all three fleets on the opening day, as 76 teams from 24 nations competed across the Men's, Women's and Mixed events.

And three teams who stood on the podium at the 2019 World Championship have made a blistering start to the regatta.

In the Men's fleet, Jordi Xammar ...

LIGHT WINDS, PRESSURE BUILDING
Qualifiers are over, the real work begins now.
The light, shifty wind brought the flying Persico 69Fs back down to earth, but the unstable conditions allowed for plenty of opportunities for wily opportunists to move up through the fleet, or for others to slip down.

In the first race of the day, a last-second wind shift before the start meant that only ...

Gaeta, Italy (March 3, 2021) – The first Grand Prix of the inaugural Liberty Bitcoin Youth Foiling Gold Cup got underway today for the eight teams competing in the Persico 69F class. After light winds postponed the start of the qualification round, each team completed three races in variable 7-9 knot winds.

The challenging conditions benefited the three teams with the most experience in the Persico 69F who now lead the rankings, although the USA team of Langston Goldenburg, Riley Gibbs, and Anna Weis, which are new to the boat, sit in fourth.

Qualifying continues to March 8 after which the ...

Meanwhile, on the Portuguese coastal village of Vilamoura, The 2020 European Olympic Championships or Trials if you
will. AKA The Portuguese Grand Prix 2020 Part 1 has been underway with Lasers, Laser Radial, 49ers and 49er FX's,
and RSX men and women's, (November) taking charge in boisterous ...

On the south coast of Portugal lays Marina de Vilamoura with an excellent sailing facilities and direct access
to the Atlantic, where a fleet of International Dragons have gathered for the 1st of a series of winter
competitions.

Today the fleet of 14 were challenged by a sizable swell and winds up to 25 knots, leading up to
some wild ...

October 28, 2020

The Biggest Waves In, Oh, Forever, Maybe, Are Pounding Portugal’s Coast



Hurricane Epsilon has been churning the North Atlantic into a maelstrom of very, very angry seas for days now. As the raw energy of the swell spaces itself out and organizes itself into a proper swell train, it has steamed straight into Europe’s ...