Yacht abandoned in Caribbean rally
Nov 10, 2011 12:00 amThe North American Rally To The Caribbean’s (NARC) Newport-Bermuda race was affected by storms and a boat was abandoned. A commercial ship, Oleander, operated by Bermuda Container Lines, was diverted to pick up six crewmembers from a boat participating in the rally. According to Bernews, a Bermuda-based news website, Bermuda Maritime Operations Center issued a short statement:
Entries set for Global Ocean Race
Sep 08, 2011 12:00 amThe Global Ocean Race, set to start on September 25th with the first leg of Mallorca, Spain to Cape Town, South Africa, has just announced that this running of the race will have six confirmed entries. There were a many as 19 initial entries, but the Race Committee has pared those down to the six it feels are best qualified to race this time around.
Capsize in Rolex Fastnet Race
Aug 17, 2011 12:00 amThe big news in the 2011 running of the Rolex Fastnet Race in the U.K. is the capsize of George David's Rambler 100, a 100-foot monohull, in the Celtic Sea soon after the big raceboat had rounded Fastnet Rock.
German/British pair for GOR
Jun 29, 2011 12:00 amThe Anglo-German, all-female team of Hannah Jenner and Anna-Maria Renken have kept up a ferocious pace since announcing their partnership in the double-handed Class40 Global Ocean Race 2011-12 (GOR). Securing a boat, undertaking the GOR’s 2,000 mile qualifying voyage and completing their first race together has been crammed into three hectic months and with just under 100 days to the start gun in Palma, Mallorca, on Sunday 25 September, Jenner and Renken are keeping the pressure on.
Van Liew claims American first
Jun 13, 2011 12:00 amWith his win in the Velux 5 Oceans Race at the end of May, American sailor Brad Van Liew has set a record for an American ocean racer: the first to finish three solo around the world races. An impressive feat of voyaging!
Marion Bermuda safety officer
Apr 18, 2011 12:00 amNew for the 2011 Marion Bermuda Race is a dedicated Safety Officer Hotline. This is a dedicated phone number that has been established in case you need to reach the Safety Officer during the race: 774-377-9085.
A different kind of yacht convoy
Mar 15, 2011 12:00 amMost convoys involve a group of boats or ship proceedng together with a sufficiently powerful escort to scare the bad guys away. But Dockwise Yacht Transport, which uses semi-submersible ships to carry a group of vessels at a time, can provide what you might call a "piggyback convoy" to yachts in Oman whose owners don't wish to chance encountering pirates in the trip through the Gulf of Aden to the Red Sea and the Med.
Transatlantic Race fleet builds
Feb 15, 2011 12:00 amA eastward-bound transatlantic race for big boats, the Transatlantic Race 2011 has a growing entry list, with almost 25 yachts signed up to bash the nearly 3,000 miles from Newport, R.I., to the Lizard in England.
World racer faces more trash than storms
Feb 03, 2011 12:00 amThe sole American in the Barcelona World Race, Ryan Breymaier, aboard the raceboat Team Neutrogena, has now entered the Southern Ocean and on the way south through the South Atlantic it wasn't so much the raging storms he noticed as the widespread amount of trash in the ocean. Though Team Neutrogena has had good weather so far, they know it's only a matter of time before the Southern Ocean hits them hard.
Hallberg-Rassy triple winner in 2010 ARC
Jan 05, 2011 12:00 amHallberg-Rassy, the boatbuilder based in Ellos, Sweden, managed to net a triple win in this year's ARC. A German-registered Hallberg-Rassy 54 named Bluewater Mooney and owned by Monica and Wilhelm Klaas won Class D in Division I, Cruising Division. Meanwhile, a French-registered Hallberg-Rassy 42F named Cosimo and owned by Marco Rasimelli not only won Class H in Division 1, Cruising Division, but also won the Cruising Division overall. A total of 171 boats competed in the Cruising Division in the 2,680-mile race from Canaries to St. Lucia.