10/08/17 Light winds and strong tide thwart Hamburg opener Mother Nature refused to play ball on the opening day of Extreme Sailing Series™ Act 5, Hamburg, presented by Land Rover, resulting in no scoring races being completed. Conditions in the German venue are predicted to improve from tomorrow. Light winds versus strong tide on the…
10.08.2017 Learning & Skills Solutions Pyefleet Week Big Wednesday Hits The Spot Despite Torrential Rain The heavens opened and the rain never really stopped on Learning & Skills Solutions Pyefleet Week Big Wednesday sponsored by AOC, Just Trays and Deltech, but the competitors and club rose to the occasion to make it one of the…
09.08.2017 Rolex Fastnet Race V and B prevails in the Class 40s as Trentesauxhas a comfy ride Aside from the Volvo Ocean Race seven, another tight competition in the Rolex Fastnet Race has been between the twenty six Class40s racing. These boats are designed to a box rule created in France in the early 2000s….
One year on from Rio 2016: Extreme Finn sailing – Finnally There has been one question on the lips of the many thousands of Finn fans around the world since the Rio Olympics – ‘Where can we see footage of the incredible Finn racing on the courses outside the bay?’ Everyone had heard about it,…
09.08.2017 Day Three Snakes & Ladders At Learning & Skills Solutions Pyefleet Week 2017 CB Rigging Tuesday at Learning & Skills Solutions Pyefleet Week 2017 featured rain, thunder and lightning, no racing for some, paddle boarding for others and a terrific Quiz Night. Brightlingsea, Essex – 8 August 2017 – CB Rigging Tuesday proved to…
August 2017 Boris Herrmann und Pierre Casiraghi holen „Bronze“ beim Rolex Fastnet Race Mit einem glänzenden dritten Rang in der IMOCA-Klasse haben Boris Herrmann und Pierre Casiraghi am Mittwochmorgen (9. August) das Rolex Fastnet Race abgeschlossen. Der Hamburger Segelprofi und sein Co-Skipper aus dem Fürstenhaus Monaco erkämpften sich als Zweimann-Crew mit dem Open 60 „Malizia“…
9. August 2017 Boris Herrmann und Pierre Casiraghi holen „Bronze“ beim Rolex Fastnet Race Mit einem glänzenden dritten Rang in der IMOCA-Klasse haben Boris Herrmann und Pierre Casiraghi am Mittwochmorgen (9. August) das Rolex Fastnet Race abgeschlossen. Der Hamburger Segelprofi und sein Co-Skipper aus dem Fürstenhaus Monaco erkämpften sich als Zweimann-Crew mit dem Open 60…
09.08.2017 Dongfeng win knife-edge battle with MAPFRE in Rolex Fastnet Race The Chinese entry pipped MAPFRE just moments from the line in the Fastnet Race after an intense battle overnight (full story below) China’s Dongfeng Race Team edged out MAPFRE by just 56 seconds in a Rolex Fastnet Race thriller in the early hours of…
09.08.2017 Rambler 88 claims monohull line honours American George David’s Rambler 88 arrived in Plymouth to claim monohull line honours. The silver maxi crossed the finish line off Plymouth breakwater at 22:14:21 BST in a time of 2 days 9 hours 34 minutes and 21 seconds. This was more than six hours faster than they…