If you follow the IMOCA Class, you will know that Charlie Dalin is a serial race winner, and last season he emerged for the third time in his career as IMOCA Globe Series Champion in a year capped off by a record-breaking victory in the Vendée Globe.
Scott Shawyer's Canada Ocean Racing has purchased a proven foiling IMOCA – Emira IV – the boat on which the 11th Hour Racing Team won The Ocean Race and Sébastien Simon finished third in the last Vendée Globe.
The latest kit from Henri-Lloyd is designed with regattas foremost in mind.
At the 60th anniversary of the Long Beach Yacht Club's Congressional Cup, Switzerland’s Eric Monnin finally got his hands on the one prize that's eluded him for years and earned the right to don the event's iconic winner's Crimson Blazer.
In the picturesque surrounds of the French Riviera, Britain's Tony Langley and his Gladiator team made a dramatic late charge to secure a career-first victory at the helm on the 52 Super Series circuit.
Light airs and overcast skies added tension and drama to the penultimate day of the 60th Congressional Cup in Long Beach, where the semi-final picture finally came into sharp focus after a day of high-stakes, nerve-jangling match racing.
With the clock ticking and tensions rising at the 60th Congressional Cup, the fleet’s top skippers and tacticians now find themselves in a familiar place: staring down the fine margins that define the double round robin’s final push.
At the 60th Long Beach Yacht Club Congressional Cup, Switzerland's Eric Monnin proved Thursday that experience counts for plenty when the stakes rise. The Capvis Swiss Match Racing Team skipper clicked into high gear, sweeping all three of his races in Round Robin 2 to climb into second overall.
By the time Tony Langley and his Gladiator crew rolled into Saint-Tropez for the opening salvo of the 2025 52 Super Series, they had already spent ten solid days knocking off the offseason rust.
With Long Beach’s classic sea breeze finally filling in after a slow morning, Poole and his Riptide Racing crew wasted no time putting their stamp on the 60th Congressional Cup.
Canada Ocean Racing has given a significant boost to its Be Water Positive Ocean Race Europe campaign with the addition of British offshore sailor Pip Hare, who will sail alongside skipper Scott Shawyer in the four-person crew for the 2025 edition of the race this summer.
Giuliano Luzzato shares the inside scoop on the Metis 45, which aims to bridge the gap between the avowedly simple Class40 and complex IMOCA.
The 2025 52 Super Series season kicks off next week in Saint-Tropez with 11 teams locked, loaded, and ready after months of prep. No clear favorite means wide-open racing on the Côte d'Azur as the world's best TP52 crews chase early glory on one of sailing’s biggest stages.
With this summer’s edition of The Ocean Race Europe fast approaching, race organizers have confirmed the final piece of the puzzle: a high-stakes Fly-By in Matosinhos-Porto, Portugal, during Leg 2 of the event.
There’s no room for faint hearts or fluffed manoeuvres this weekend as eight match racing teams swagger into Long Beach, Ca. for the 2025 Ficker Cup — a bruising, no-second-chances shootout where only two crews will emerge with golden tickets to the big dance: the 60th Congressional Cup.
The 2025 season started well for maxi yachting: first was the RORC Transatlantic Race followed by the latest venture for maxis in the Caribbean, an inshore regatta, the Nelson’s Cup Maxi Series, followed immediately by the RORC Caribbean 600 – reports IMA Secretary General, Andrew McIrvine.
