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.
The Superyacht Cup Palma Richard Mille heads into its next chapter by celebrating the past and welcoming the future, as Phil Riley explains.
Now that we have all managed to catch our breath after the frenetic action of last weekend’s first Preliminary Regatta of the 38th America’s Cup cycle in Cagliari it’s time to take a look back over the Italian three-day event to see what we have learned.
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.
They might have been involved in major grand prix offshore racers before, but getting Gitana 18 up onto her foils for the first time was a very big deal for the team.
With four wins in the last five races, just about everything Sam Goodchild touches right now turns to gold. But as the IMOCA Globe Series champion prepares for the third Vendée Arctique-Les Sables D’Olonne, his focus is firmly on continuing to improve his game and maintain his level of performance.
The painstaking process of working up the new Gitana 18 Ultim trimaran to full functionality reached a major milestone this week with the 32-metre multihull completing taking flight for the first time – albeit only fitted with one foil.
