finally down under
Today I finally ticked the box by being on Sydney Harbour for the start of a Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race. A bit of a journey for us. A Chinese friend asked us to find him a boat to do the Race and...
View ArticleSlow Lane for IDEC SPORT in South Atlantic
(December 26, 2016; Day 11, 22:00) – Francis Joyon (FRA) and his five crew on the 31.5m VPLP-designed trimaran IDEC SPORT has lost more ground on their bid to win the Jules Verne Trophy. Their latest...
View Articletruly historic
On Christmas Day the loop was closed on one of the most extraordinary sailing feats in modern history. The French sailor Thomas Coville set a new record for the fastest solo, non-stop circumnavigation...
View ArticleRolex Sydney Hobart Race – Beau Geste’s night of high speed sailing
After a night of high speed sailing in the 72nd Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, Karl Kwok’s Botin 80 Beau Geste was sitting fourth ahead of Scallywag and Black Jack and 10th overall on corrected time,...
View ArticleAeroMedia Drone Video from Rolex Sydney Hobart Race start
Jono Whiity drives the 18-Footer, Line 7, and also pilots the AeroMedia drone that captured these images of the #RSHYR start. For the rest of the story from sail-world.com CLICK HERE! Follow the fleet...
View ArticlePerpetual LOYAL smashes record!
Perpetual LOYAL smashes Sydney Hobart elapsed time for a new race record!!! For the rest of the story from CLICK HERE!
View ArticleRolex Sydney Hobart – Out the Heads and turn right VIDEO
The waters off Sydney Heads can be choppy at the best of times, but on Boxing Day afternoon when the first half of the fleet has rounded the seaward mark on the big race south, the seas are chaotic,...
View ArticlePerpetual LOYAL set to crush Sydney Hobart Record
(December 27, 2016; 18:00 AEDT) – Less than a day and a half after the fleet left the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia in Sydney to begin the 2016 Rolex Sydney Hobart, excitement is building as Act 1,...
View ArticleRolex Sydney Hobart Race – Line Honours Images by Bow Caddy Media
Wild Oats XI’s 2012 Line Honours record race time to Hobart of 1 day 18 hours and 23 minutes has been well and truly consigned to history, with Anthony Bell’s Perpetual Loyal taking the JH Illingworth...
View Articlegreat plastic lakes
Environment Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) researchers have found alarmingly high concentrations of plastic debris in the Great Lakes. According to their latest inventory estimates, nearly...
View Articleclipped
This is a Kiwi 35. Or, at least it used to be. From the owner: “I started to modify the KIWI 35, the infamous light flyer with wings from the 80?s. It took 6 years from original to present...
View ArticleRolex Sydney Hobart – Live coverage from Hobart presented by Zhik
Leading sailing apparel manufacturer, Zhik, has sponsored Nic Douglass – Adventures of a Sailor Girl’s coverage of the Rolex Sydney Hobart Race, live dockside from Sydney. All the interviews and...
View ArticleGiacomo beats Scallywag to second on line in Rolex Sydney Hobart
You could not wipe the grin from Jim Delegat’s face when he arrived at the dock in Hobart after skippering his Volvo 70, Giacomo, to second place on line in the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s...
View ArticleThe agony of a Rolex Sydney Hobart
They say if the Rolex Sydney Hobart ended at Tasman Light the list of winners over the last seven decades would read entirely differently. But it doesn’t. It finishes in Hobart, 11 miles up the cruel...
View Articleit’s science
Scientific wing Analysis By Alessandro Fiumara – Assystem France and ISAE-Supaéro; Julien Senter – Assystem France; Nicolas Gourdain & Vincent Chapin – ISAE-Supaéro; and Prashanth Shankara –...
View ArticleRolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race – Beau Geste’s cloudy bay arrival
Beau Geste’s sprint south in the annual Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race finished with a slow crawl up Hobart’s sometimes-cruel Derwent River in an early morning breeze too trifling to combat an outgoing...
View ArticleRSHYR – Loyal skipper and his crew maintained their faith
The bookies didn’t back Loyal to win line honours in the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, but the crew backed themselves in terms of maintaining their faith in a boat that was built to be the fastest...
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