In competitive sailing’s brave new world, where ultra-fast foiling boats grab the majority of the headlines, the evergreen TP52 fleet and its 52 Super Series regattas stand out as a bastion of the gold standard of ‘conventional’ yacht racing. The '26 worlds in Porto Cervo look set to be a thriller.
Terribly sad news from France today of the death at the age of 42 of solo sailing legend Charlie Dalin, who won the Vendée Globe 2024-25, despite battling gastrointestinal cancer throughout the gruelling singlehanded around-the-world race.
The start of the Vendée Arctique may have been a quiet affair when the fleet set off from les Sables d'Olonne on Sunday 7 June, but it didn't take long for the pain, stress, sea sickness and breakdowns to start.
British sailor Alan Roberts has been based in France now for several years as part of his quest to find a financial backer to help him make his dream of participating in the Vendée Globe solo around-the-world race.
PlanetSail’s Matt Sheahan heads to the start of the Vendée Arctique in the infamous town of les Sables d'Olonne on the west coast of France to talk to skippers and find out how and why they are setting up for the big race to the north.
French solo skipper Nicolas Lunven has won the 57th edition of La Solitaire du Figaro Paprec nine years after his last participation and seventeen years after his first victory.
Magnus Wheatley and I try to make sense of the crazy goings on in New York at the sixth event of SailGP Season 6 in New York City last weekend.
With only four teams able to race and then a match race between two for the opening day in the Big Apple, the New York stage of SailGP opened with chaos and uncertainty for the spectators and teams alike.
No practice day on Friday, three boats racing on Saturday, a three-boat pile-up on Sunday – SailGP’s Big Apple weekend did not go according to plan. Despite all the chaos, season-leaders the Bonds Flying Roos took their third consecutive win after a superb battle with Emirates Team GBR in the final.
Elvstrøm Sails has discovered that Technora fibres and thermoset resins are a winning combination in the quest to improve its sailcloth materials.