13/07/17 Extreme Sailing Series™ set for spectacular Barcelona debut In one week’s time the Extreme Sailing Series™ will make its debut in the iconic capital of Spain’s Catalonia region, Barcelona, for the fourth stage of the 2017 season. The international fleet of GC32s will be bolstered by Spanish-flagged wildcard entry FNOB Impulse, skippered by local…
14.07.2017 Olympic champion Blair Tuke joins MAPFRE in the Volvo Ocean Race New Zealand’s Blair Tuke is joining MAPFRE in the Volvo Ocean Race in 2017-18, and could become the first sailor in history to win the ‘Triple Crown’ of an Olympic gold medal, the America’s Cup and the Volvo Ocean Race (full story below)…
The second ever IRC European Championship took place in the south of France over four days last week for an international fleet of 53 boats. While last year the inaugural event was incorporated into Volvo Cork Week, this year’s IRC European Championship was a stand-alone affair, held off Marseille, the 2017 European Capital…
FRANCIS JOYON HAS SMASHED THE SOLO NORTH ATLANTIC RECORD French sailor Francis Joyon crossed the longitude of the Lizard at 0137 hrs UTC this morning (Wednesday 12th July 2017). This marks the finish line for the North Atlantic crossing from Ambrose Light off New-York. With a race time of 5 days, 2 hours and…
Foiling Week GARDA 2017 – Final Day Class Racing The local ‘Peler’ Garda breeze filled in early in the morning on the final day of Foiling Week to bring the class racing to a fitting finale. The northerly breeze lasted until mid day before fading, the southerly ‘Ora’ never able to materialise. The Moths were…
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Finn format trials survey: The pros and cons Following requests to trial a ‘first across the line’ race format, the Finn class carried out trials at two events early in 2017 – the Trofeo Princesa Sofia in Palma and the European Championship in Marseille. Both were designed around a winner-takes-all final race where the…
11.07.2017 Gäbler News Best of Balaton – Vier spektakuläre Rennen. Viermal auf dem Podium. Was für eine fantastische Woche am Balaton. Vier spektakuläre Rennen. Viermal auf dem Podium. Das alles mit dem großen und schnellen SL33 Katamaran (10m Rumpflänge) und den Youngstern des Team Black Jack aus Ungarn. White Ribbon Race (Das Weiße Band des…