Chilly temperatures, 13 boats competing, a rule change to mandate crews keep a better lookout while racing, the return of the Black Foils under new ownership – it’s all happening this weekend at the Halifax SailGP.
Two years ago Bella Mente won the Maxi Europeans with a Structured Luff Asymmetric. This innovation from Doyle Sails has now become the norm.
A round up of the last seven days of posts on the Yacht Racing Life website
When teams set out on a solo race to the Arctic Circle and back all of them knew that they would be venturing into new territory. No one had ever taken an IMOCA this far north, alone.
The Vendée Arctique race came to a thrilling conclusion last night as Ambrogio Beccaria (ITA) on Allagrande Mapei snatched victory from the clutches of the longtime leader Sam Goodchild (GBR) on MACIF Santé Prévoyance in the very final stages of the race from France to the Arctic Circle and back.
Balance Catamarans is replacing its most successful model with a new one, re-designed throughout. The Balance 540 has a tough act to follow.
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.
After 15 years of physical and culinary endurance as an ocean racer, Giulio Bertelli founded Akta – a company that is serious about offshore nutrition.
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.
