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Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race: Latest updates and live boat cam coverage
The 2023 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race will go down in history as a "Big Boat" race with the top three yachts all being over 60ft and early finishers. The smaller boats in the race encountered head winds of 35-45kts and rough seas - making it impossible to finish ahead of their deadlines to take the top trophy, the Tattersall Cup.
Ocean Globe Race
The Ocean Globe Race takes to the high seas in 2023. Latest News: Fickle First Week for McIntyre Ocean Globe Race. Time Since Race Start: days hrs mins secs. Home; News; The Race. Overview; Route; Race Rules; FAQs; Sponsors; Globe Yacht Club; Notice of Race; O°G°R Forum; Support the Race; History. 1970s. 1973-74 Edition; 1977-78 Edition ...
5 Tips to Perfect Race Communications on your Yacht News, stories, tips and resources on everything sailing and yacht racing. This site contains a compilation of articles and resources written by the team at MySail as well as news submitted from clubs, companies and individuals around the web.
Positions on a Racing Sailboat
August 30, 2022. The success of a racing sailboat depends entirely on the ability of each person on the boat to know and execute their role in high-pressure situations. While boat-dependent, all positions are some combination of the responsibilities of driver, bow, tactician, trimmer, and pit. The driver makes the final decisions and steers ...
Get Your Race Crew Up-To-Speed; Tips, Tools & Resources
A position playbook provides step-by-step instructions for all crew positions and each key manoeuvre on your yacht. This is also a useful tool to send to new crew before they arrive for their first race or training day, so they can arrive already up-to-speed and ready to do their job. A good exercise is to create your yacht's playbook ...
Ocean yacht race and rally satellite tracking with public race map, bio's, boat and crew photos. Perfect for all ocean yacht races and rallies. ... Blue Water Tracks will collect the positions and vector data from each tracker and display the boats progress through the live public race page.
Beginners Guide: Preparing for a Crew Position in the Sydney to Hobart
The best way to get started in racing is to head to your local yacht club for a twilight or weekend race. Most clubs are very welcoming to crew who rock up looking for a sail, and often have a whiteboard at the entrance where you can write your name and number on arrival. You can also use websites such as MySail to secure a position on a racing ...
10 things to know about the 2022 Golden Globe Race
The 2022 Golden Globe Race is a solo, nonstop yacht race around the world with no assistance and without the use of modern technology. This means the skippers can't use GPS, chartplotters, electric winches, autopilots, mobile phones, iPads or use synthetic materials like Spectra, Kevlar or Vectron. Their only means of communication is via ...
Kirsten Neuschafer wins 2022 Golden Globe Race and makes history
Kirsten Neuschafer made it very clear from the start that she was aiming to win the 2022 Golden Globe Race. And now the South African skipper has achieved her goal, and made history in the process. After just over 235 days at sea, the sailor crossed the finish line off Les Sables d'Olonne in France at 9pm CEST on 27 April 2023 and became the ...
What Each Crew Position Wants You to Know
Read on to learn what your crew wants you to remember each race! Photo by Sharon Green. While it's important to master your position on the boat, it's equally as important to understand what's going on in other domains and what you can do to make your teammates' life easier and help the boat sail smoothly. We reached out to a mix of ...
The Sydney Hobart Race Is a Dream to Win and Formidable to Navigate
Navigators game out multiple routing options based on the latest GRIBs and their yacht's position relative to the competition. "In the 2019 Sydney to Hobart race, there was a split breeze in ...
Sydney to Hobart yacht race
Only two of the 109 entries in the race have retired so far. The two-handed boat Avalanche retired early in the race, with a reported damaged bowsprit, while Yeah Baby retired early on Monday evening.
Ocean Globe Race 2023: everything you need to know
The Ocean Globe Race is a round-the-world yacht race, held to mark the 50th anniversary of the first Whitbread Round the World Race in 1973. ... 1,000 amateurs, new to ocean sailing, applied for a position on the 13-strong crew. The Swan 65 is being skippered by owner Marco Trombetti and professional racer and boat designer Vittorio Malingri ...
The Clipper Round the World Yacht Race sets off from Portsmouth
Sailors have departed on a 40,000-mile nautical race around the globe. The Clipper Round the World Race, crewed mainly by non-professional sailors, set off earlier from Portsmouth in Hampshire ...
Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race 2021
Geneva, 23 December 2021 - The Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race holds a towering status in the world of sailing. It captures the attention of a nation and enjoys a glowing international reputation that has long transcended the traditional boundaries of the sport. Rolex has partnered this legendary competition and its organizers, the Cruising ...
The 2023-24 Ocean Globe Race
The Ocean Globe Race route. The eight-month adventure follows the original Clipper route and is split into four legs, sailing around the three great Capes: Africa's Cape of Good Hope, Australia's Cape Leeuwin, and South America's notorious Cape Horn. Stopovers include: Cape Town, Auckland and Punta del Este.
You, Too, Could Be Sailing in the Sydney Hobart
Dec. 24, 2021. Sailing in the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race might seem like an impossible dream to novices. It's not. It's a dangerous event for experienced sailors, but rookies who want the ...
Los Gatos Yacht Club
The Los Gatos Yacht Club was founded in 1978 by like-minded boating enthusiasts, for boating enthusiasts. The primary purpose of the club is involvement in fun and safe boating activities on a regular basis, and the sharing of knowledge and ideas to help members increase their enjoyment of boating. Our members live throughout the Bay Area with ...
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Everyone at the California Yacht Club is devastated by the fire that took place at the structure of our historic club on Monday, December 11, 2023. We want to extend our sincere thanks to the Los Angeles County Fire Department for their rapid response and intensive efforts to extinguish the fire. We are committed to working with the fire ...
Burials At Sea
Questions about these and any services offered, please call Scott & Krista Lighthall at (831) 429-1970. Burials at Sea and ash scattering services and ceremonies aboard our private luxury yachts in Santa Cruz, California. Make your final resting place the beautiful Santa Cruz coast with Lighthall Charters. Dignified services performed by our US ...
Trash Revisited
Throughout the race our strategy, like that of every other boat in the race, had been mainly to avoid the North Pacific subtropical gyre—the great high-pressure system in the central Pacific Ocean that, most of the time, is centered just north of the racecourse and halfway between Hawaii and the mainland. ... The diagrams show the position of ...
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The 2023 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race will go down in history as a "Big Boat" race with the top three yachts all being over 60ft and early finishers. The smaller boats in the race encountered head winds of 35-45kts and rough seas - making it impossible to finish ahead of their deadlines to take the top trophy, the Tattersall Cup.
The Ocean Globe Race takes to the high seas in 2023. Latest News: Fickle First Week for McIntyre Ocean Globe Race. Time Since Race Start: days hrs mins secs. Home; News; The Race. Overview; Route; Race Rules; FAQs; Sponsors; Globe Yacht Club; Notice of Race; O°G°R Forum; Support the Race; History. 1970s. 1973-74 Edition; 1977-78 Edition ...
Race Organiser Notes. Arcadia - Retired - mainsail damage. Bacardi - Retired - rigging damage. Currawong (TH) - Retired - electrical issues. Georgia Express - Retired - rigging issues. Maritimo 52 - Retired - rigging damage. Millennium Falcon - Retired - crew illness. Pacman (TH) - Retired - runner damage. Philosopher (TH) - Retired - rigging ...
5 Tips to Perfect Race Communications on your Yacht News, stories, tips and resources on everything sailing and yacht racing. This site contains a compilation of articles and resources written by the team at MySail as well as news submitted from clubs, companies and individuals around the web.
August 30, 2022. The success of a racing sailboat depends entirely on the ability of each person on the boat to know and execute their role in high-pressure situations. While boat-dependent, all positions are some combination of the responsibilities of driver, bow, tactician, trimmer, and pit. The driver makes the final decisions and steers ...
A position playbook provides step-by-step instructions for all crew positions and each key manoeuvre on your yacht. This is also a useful tool to send to new crew before they arrive for their first race or training day, so they can arrive already up-to-speed and ready to do their job. A good exercise is to create your yacht's playbook ...
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Ocean yacht race and rally satellite tracking with public race map, bio's, boat and crew photos. Perfect for all ocean yacht races and rallies. ... Blue Water Tracks will collect the positions and vector data from each tracker and display the boats progress through the live public race page.
The best way to get started in racing is to head to your local yacht club for a twilight or weekend race. Most clubs are very welcoming to crew who rock up looking for a sail, and often have a whiteboard at the entrance where you can write your name and number on arrival. You can also use websites such as MySail to secure a position on a racing ...
The 2022 Golden Globe Race is a solo, nonstop yacht race around the world with no assistance and without the use of modern technology. This means the skippers can't use GPS, chartplotters, electric winches, autopilots, mobile phones, iPads or use synthetic materials like Spectra, Kevlar or Vectron. Their only means of communication is via ...
Kirsten Neuschafer made it very clear from the start that she was aiming to win the 2022 Golden Globe Race. And now the South African skipper has achieved her goal, and made history in the process. After just over 235 days at sea, the sailor crossed the finish line off Les Sables d'Olonne in France at 9pm CEST on 27 April 2023 and became the ...
Read on to learn what your crew wants you to remember each race! Photo by Sharon Green. While it's important to master your position on the boat, it's equally as important to understand what's going on in other domains and what you can do to make your teammates' life easier and help the boat sail smoothly. We reached out to a mix of ...
Navigators game out multiple routing options based on the latest GRIBs and their yacht's position relative to the competition. "In the 2019 Sydney to Hobart race, there was a split breeze in ...
Only two of the 109 entries in the race have retired so far. The two-handed boat Avalanche retired early in the race, with a reported damaged bowsprit, while Yeah Baby retired early on Monday evening.
The Ocean Globe Race is a round-the-world yacht race, held to mark the 50th anniversary of the first Whitbread Round the World Race in 1973. ... 1,000 amateurs, new to ocean sailing, applied for a position on the 13-strong crew. The Swan 65 is being skippered by owner Marco Trombetti and professional racer and boat designer Vittorio Malingri ...
Sailors have departed on a 40,000-mile nautical race around the globe. The Clipper Round the World Race, crewed mainly by non-professional sailors, set off earlier from Portsmouth in Hampshire ...
Geneva, 23 December 2021 - The Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race holds a towering status in the world of sailing. It captures the attention of a nation and enjoys a glowing international reputation that has long transcended the traditional boundaries of the sport. Rolex has partnered this legendary competition and its organizers, the Cruising ...
The Ocean Globe Race route. The eight-month adventure follows the original Clipper route and is split into four legs, sailing around the three great Capes: Africa's Cape of Good Hope, Australia's Cape Leeuwin, and South America's notorious Cape Horn. Stopovers include: Cape Town, Auckland and Punta del Este.
Dec. 24, 2021. Sailing in the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race might seem like an impossible dream to novices. It's not. It's a dangerous event for experienced sailors, but rookies who want the ...
The Los Gatos Yacht Club was founded in 1978 by like-minded boating enthusiasts, for boating enthusiasts. The primary purpose of the club is involvement in fun and safe boating activities on a regular basis, and the sharing of knowledge and ideas to help members increase their enjoyment of boating. Our members live throughout the Bay Area with ...
Everyone at the California Yacht Club is devastated by the fire that took place at the structure of our historic club on Monday, December 11, 2023. We want to extend our sincere thanks to the Los Angeles County Fire Department for their rapid response and intensive efforts to extinguish the fire. We are committed to working with the fire ...
Questions about these and any services offered, please call Scott & Krista Lighthall at (831) 429-1970. Burials at Sea and ash scattering services and ceremonies aboard our private luxury yachts in Santa Cruz, California. Make your final resting place the beautiful Santa Cruz coast with Lighthall Charters. Dignified services performed by our US ...
Throughout the race our strategy, like that of every other boat in the race, had been mainly to avoid the North Pacific subtropical gyre—the great high-pressure system in the central Pacific Ocean that, most of the time, is centered just north of the racecourse and halfway between Hawaii and the mainland. ... The diagrams show the position of ...