30 September, 2017 Volvo Ocean Race holds landmark sustainability workshop Over 100 Volvo Ocean Race sailors, shore crew, stakeholders and industry leaders came together at the Volvo Ocean Race Boatyard in Lisbon to learn more about ocean health and share ideas on how to tackle plastic pollution in 2017-18 (full story below) The Volvo Ocean…
02.10.2017 Day 4 RC44 Cascais Cup – Come from behind win for Katusha in Cascais https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pE4jFSJL9SI&feature=youtu.be – Video Cascais laid on an action-packed day for the conclusion of the 2017 RC44 Championship’s penultimate event, the RC44 Cascais Cup. At the beginning of it, Igor Lah’s Team CEEREF held a slender lead, but lost it to…
Press release, Friday, September 29 Consistency pays Last racing day for the 44-boats strong Dragon fleet, that closed the event in style. UK’s Yvan Bradbury was declared the winner of the 39th Régates Royales de Cannes, with Russia’s Anatoly Loginov getting silver. Classic yachts had one more race on a triangular course, better defining the…
28.09.2017 Tight at the top A good breeze of around twelve knots and flat seas made for an ideal setting of day 3 of the Régates Royales de Cannes – Trophée Panerai. Classics had their double-lap triangular course set in the Bay of La Napoule, with the overall scoreboard taking a more defined shape. In…
28.09.2017 MARINA LANZAROTE PREPARES FOR TRANSATLANTIC RACE FLEET Start Leg 1 – RORC Transatlantic Race Marina Lanzarote, Canary Islands to Port Louis, Grenada Setting off on an epic Atlantic race on Saturday 25 November from Marina Lanzarote, the 4th edition of the RORC Transatlantic Race is the lengthiest race in the Royal Ocean Racing Club’s…
Press release, Wednesday, September 27 Step-by-step One lap for the classics, two for the big boats, three races for the 5.5 and the Tofinou, two for the Dragons: a lot of action on the Bay of Cannes today, despite a very light northerly, not exceeding eight knots. Mid-way through the Régates Royales de Cannes, in…
27.09.2017 Volvo Ocean Race – mehr Frauen an Bord das Volvo Ocean Race gilt als eine der härtesten Segelregatten der Welt. In der 13. Auflage des Rennens starten die Teams in Alicante und werden mit Stopps in elf Häfen rund 45.000 Seemeilen zurücklegen, bevor sie im Sommer 2018 in Den Haag erwartet werden. In diesem…
13.08.2017 Norddeutscher Regatta Verein gewinnt Act 1 der SAILING Champions League in St. Petersburg Frederikshavn Sejlklub aus Dänemark auf Platz 2 vor dem Gastgeber Saint Petersburg Yacht Club Am letzten Tag der SAILING Champions League Act 1 in St. Petersburg (11.- 13.8.2017) hat sich der Norddeutsche Regatta Verein (NRV) aus Deutschland mit einem ersten Platz…
25.09.2017 A war of nerrves So much that at mid-afternoon most of the fleet were still out on the water looking for the slightest puff of air to get to the finish, despite a shortened course. Aeolus was not co-operating much today on the Bay of Cannes. A very light wind, a flimsy 3 to…