In this episode of the Yacht Racing Life podcast, I speak with navigator Will Oxley about his recent experience racing the foil-assisted superyacht Raven in a transatlantic race.
The latest video from PlanetSail takes a closer look at how the closing stages of this season's two Jules Verne Trophy around-the-world record attempts played out for Thomas Coville's Sodebo and the all-women crew of The Famous Project CIC.
Rather than simply enlarge an existing model to increase its payload, Balance Catamarans took the opportunity to carry out a full redesign.
The Spanish leg of SailGP Season 6 will take place in the Mediterranean city of Valencia over the weekend of September 5-6, 2026 as part of a three-year deal announced by the international circuit today.
The eight-woman crew aboard The Famous Project CIC Ultim multihull completed their Jules Verne Trophy attempt in a time of 57 days, 21 hours, and 20 minutes, after crossing the finish line off Ouessant in northern France today.
It looked touch and go over the final few days of their 28,000-nautical mile nonstop circumnavigation of the planet, but yesterday Thomas Coville and his five-strong crew aboard the Ultim trimaran Sodebo set a new Jules Verne Trophy benchmark time of 40 days, 10 hours, and 45 minutes.
Our weekly curated digest of the latest news and stories from across the yacht racing world.
I caught up with the key protagonists of the newly rebranded GB1 campaign in Naples this week for a deep dive into the team's new-look challenge for the 38th America's Cup.
Against all odds one of the great offshore yacht designs of the late 20th Century – Peter Norlin’s fast and elegant Omega 42 – is back in production.
The first official gathering of the 38th America's Cup was a glitzy affair as five teams and the America's Cup entourage rolled into Naples.
The Royal Ocean Racing Club has confirmed Mach 50 Palanad 4 (FRA), owned by RORC Member Olivier Magre and skippered by his son Antoine Magre, also a RORC Member, as the overall winner of the 2026 RORC Transatlantic Race on IRC corrected time.
The America's Cup Partnership agreement has been officially initiated at a glitzy ceremony in the grand hall of the Palazzo Reale in Naples, in the presence of the world's media, an audience that included the five competing teams and many of the key players behind the move to stage AC38 in Italy.
With less than a year until the start of The Ocean Race 2027, the world's top fully-crewed offshore sailing competition has revealed that the opening leg will be a a record-breaking passage that will take crews halfway around the world non-stop.
When the conditions align it's the dream trade winds course and this year the Royal Ocean Club's Transatlantic Race was a stunner. Perfect conditions saw flat out performances across the board and records tumbled.
Britain’s America’s Cup Team, representing the Challenger of Record, Royal Yacht Squadron Racing Ltd, has unveiled GB1 – the bold new team name and identity that signals a new era of British racing on the world’s most demanding sailing stage.
Emirates has renewed its more than twenty year naming sponsorship of the Defender of the America’s Cup, Emirates Team New Zealand – extending one of the longest-standing and most iconic sponsorships in international sailing through the Louis Vuitton 38th America’s Cup and Preliminary Regattas.
