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British rower with incurable cancer sets new world record with two friends for Atlantic crossing
Three British women, one of whom has incurable cervical cancer, have shattered the world record for rowing across the Atlantic.
Kat Cordiner and teammates Abby Johnston and Charlotte Irving arrived in Antigua on Sunday evening.
The women completed the 3,000-mile crossing from La Gomera in the Canary ...

18ft Skiffs
NSW Championship, Race 7
23 January, 2022
Sydney Harbour

Another brilliant finishing burst by the current Australian champion Tech2 team to win Race 7 of the NSW 18ft Skiff Championship on Sydney Harbour today has set the scene for a match race type finish to the series as only one point separates Tech2 and Yandoo going into next Sunday's final race.

Tach2's team of Jack Macartney, Charlie Wyatt and Lewis Brake had to recover from a slow start, which saw the team back in seventh place at the windward mark ...

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The modified Volvo 70 L4 Trifork (DEN) finished the RORC Transatlantic Race in an elapsed time of 9 days 10 hrs 27 mins and 58 secs on the 10th day of the race © Arthur Daniel/RORC

DAY 11 - 18 JAN

At sunset on the tenth day of the RORC Transatlantic Race, the modified Volvo 70 L4 Trifork (DEN) finished the RORC Transatlantic Race in an elapsed time of 9 days 10 hrs 27 mins and 58 secs. L4 Trifork ...

75 boats in 10 divisions braved the elements and heinous conditions over the MLK Holiday weekend, for the 1st edition of the 2022
Corinthian Yacht Clubs annual party circuit midwinters. With an early morning warning issued for a potential tsunami from an underground volcano
explosion in the Kingdom of Tonga, a near full moon ebb on tap and north northeast winds gusting to the low teens, the brave sailors departed ...

January 15th, 2022 – At 01:51:41 local time (05:51:41 UTC, 06:51:41 Italian time), Maserati Multi70 was the first to cross the finish line of the 8th edition of the RORC Transatlantic Race, organized by the Royal Ocean Racing Club in collaboration with Yacht Club de France.

Skipper Giovanni Soldini sailed together with Vittorio Bissaro, Oliver Herrera Perez, Thomas Joffrin, ...

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KEY WEST, Fla. - Always remember to tip your server, if you know what's good for you.

A tourist made a big impression in a Key West bar by ordering drinks three times on New Year's Eve without leaving a tip. That enabled the staff to easily ...

1,900 nm from Grenada -at 0900 UTC on day four of the RORC Transatlantic Race Comanche was doing 24 knots of boat speed! Drone shot credit: Shannon Falcone @racingSF


DAY FOUR - 11 JAN (0900 UTC)

Peter Cunningham’s MOD70 PowerPlay (CAY) is over halfway and just two hours outside multihull race record pace. The 100ft Maxi Comanche (CAY), skippered by Mitch Booth, is 1900 miles from Grenada and well inside monohull race record pace. The majority of the RORC fleet are north ...

Standby period extended
Still awaiting a favourable weather window, the Sails of Change team has decided to extend its standby period until the end of January: a very welcome extra fortnight due to the currently unfavourable situation in the Atlantic.

Throughout the autumn, there hasn’t been a single opportunity to try to beat the round the world record under sail ...