Offshore racing Archives

Sam Davies: Still getting better and ready for challenge of her first new boat

- 1st August 2022

She has waited a long time for a new boat, but now she has it – a gleaming bright red Sam Manuard-designed flying machine, in

100 days to start of La Route du Rhum – Destination Guadeloupe 2022 race

- 29th July 2022

Today Friday July 29, at 1302hrs CEST marks exactly 100 days before the start of the 12th edition of La Route du Rhum – Destination

Entries open for 16th Transat Paprec

- 25th July 202225th July 2022

Plotting a course of nearly 3,900nm between Concarneau in Brittany, France and Saint-Barthélemy in the Caribbean, the Transat Paprec, formerly the Transat Ag2r - la

Rolex Sydney to Hobart race lives up to its gruelling reputation

- 5th January 20225th January 2022

The lead up to the 2021 Sydney Hobart Race was overshadowed by the prospect of a brutal first 24 to 48 hours of strong southerly

The IMOCA 60 skippers itching to return to the class

- 7th December 2021

There is nothing like an IMOCA sailor who is stuck on land. Just ask Pip Hare, the British Vendée Globe finisher who did not take

Transat Jacques Vabre: Redman takes Class 40 win

- 30th November 2021

The Class 40 victory in the Transat Jacques Vabre has gone to Redman, co-skippered by Frenchman Antoine Carpentier and Pablo Santurde Del Arco of Spain.

Transat Jacques Vabre: IMOCA 60 pairings fight to the finish

- 26th November 202126th November 2021

The IMOCA podium will soon be complete as the battles in the chasing fleet intensify. The damaged Ultime, Sodebo 3 is expected to end her

Transat Jacques Vabre: Ruyant and Lagravière storm to victory in IMOCA 60 class

- 26th November 202126th November 2021

On a beautiful morning off Fort de France in Martinique, the blue and white Guillaume Verdier-designed IMOCA LinkedOut, sailed by Thomas Ruyant and Morgan Lagravière