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.
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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.
As a founding member of the new governing structure overseeing the organisation of the America’s Cup, K–Challenge – the company founded by Stephan Kandler and co-managed with Bruno Dubois – has officially registered the French Challenger for the 38th edition of the America’s Cup.
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.
PlanetSail's Matt Sheahan reviews this weekend's spectacular opening event to SailGP Season 6 which took place down in Australia on the windy and wavy waters off Perth.
The Genoa International Boat Show renews industry confidence, reporting further increases in exhibition space, visitor numbers, turnover and more.
In this episode of the Yacht Racing Life podcast, British sailing journalists Justin Chisholm and Magnus Wheatley dive into the thrilling opening event of SailGP Season 6 which took place in Perth, Australia over the weekend.
The 34m Baltic 111 Raven has rewritten the limits of monohull offshore performance, taking monohull line honours to win the IMA Transatlantic Trophy and setting a new monohull race record in the 2026 RORC Transatlantic Race from Lanzarote to Antigua – writes RORC communications manager Louay Habib
