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Leaders close in on Antigua in RORC Transatlantic Race by Louay Habib 17 Jan 18:47 GMT 17 January 2021 Looking good for Multihull Line Honours - Oren Natafs Multi50 Trimaran Rayon Vert, skippered by Alex Pella - RORC Transatlantic Race © James Mitchell / RORC The RORC Transatlantic Race reaches an exciting stage on the ninth day with the leading boats closing in on the finish line in Antigua. Oren Natafs Multi50 Trimaran Rayon Vert, skippered by Alex Pella was under...

Volvo 70 Green Dragon Leads RORC Transatlantic Race for Monohull Line Honours 17th January 2021 Johannes Schwarz’s Volvo 70 Green Dragon is expected to take Monohull Line Honours n the RORC Transatlantic Race Credit: James Mitchell/RORC  (1200 UTC Sunday 17 January) Johannes Schwarz’s Volvo 70 Green Dragon is leading the RORC Transatlantic Race for Monohull Line Honours and is approximately 500 miles from Antigua The race reaches an exciting stage on the ninth day with the leading boats...

Rayon Vert over halfway in RORC Transatlantic Race by Louay Habib 13 Jan 17:31 GMT 13 January 2021 Oren Natafs Multi50 Trimaran Rayon Vert, skippered by Alex Pella is halfway and leading the fleet in the RORC Caribbean 600 © James Mitchell / RORC On the fifth day of the RORC Transatlantic Race all of the competing yachts are fully offshore in the Atlantic Ocean. Life on board will have found a rhythm to the corkscrew motion of surfing downwind for days on end. Oren ...

Fastnet Race Entry Numbers Smash All Records 12th January 2021 A massive fleet make their way out of the Solent in the 2019 Rolex Fastnet Race Like tickets to Glastonbury, registration opened on the dot of 1000 UTC today for this summer’s Rolex Fastnet Race and speedily sold out. Within an hour an unprecedented 400 boats had entered the Royal Ocean Racing Club’s flagship event, which this year will follow a route finishing for the first time in France. Bow to bow this line-up represents a...

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Yachts and Yachting (c)Rolex Registration for the Rolex Fastnet Race opened at 10am UTC on Tuesday, 12 January, and within an hour an unprecedented 400 boats had entered. It wasn’t quite as fast as previous editions of the race, which have sold out in five minutes or less, but it shows that there is no lack of enthusiasm for the Royal Ocean Racing Club’s flagship event, despite its course change. This year for the first time the race will finish not in Plymouth but in Cherbourg....

RORC Transatlantic Race update: Black Pearl retires in big conditions by Louay Habib 10 Jan 16:16 GMT 9 January 2021 The IRC56 Black Pearl, sailed by Stefan Jentzsch, contacted the RORC Race Management Team at 11:30 UTC on 10th January to report that Black Pearl is retiring from the race and heading back to Lanzarote. All are well on board. Black Pearl was approximately 20 miles west of the island of El Hierro, some 250 miles from Lanzarote. The RORC Race Team and Marina Puerto ...

The IRC56 Black Pearl, sailed by Stefan Jentzsch, contacted the RORC Race Management Team at 11:30 UTC on 10th January to report that Black Pearl is r...

French Duo Racing Sunfast 3300 in RORC Transatlantic Race 8th January 2021 Sebastien Saulnier speaks about racing two handed across the Atlantic in the Sunfast3300 this weekend in the video below The new Jeanneau Sunfast 3300 launched in Ireland last Spring will be among the marques competing in this weekends RORC Transatlantic Race from Lanzarote. As regular readers will know, its Irish debut at the Royal Irish Yacht Club by Irish distributors MGM Boats included a run-through of the boats p...

By Daniel Smith Green Dragon © Tim Wright The 2021 RORC Transatlantic Race - in association with the International Maxi Association - is scheduled to start from Puerto Calero, Lanzarote on 9 January 2021. Eight teams have sailed from European destinations to take part in the 2,735-mile race across the Atlantic Ocean. Due to travel restrictions from the UK, the Royal Ocean Racing Club is operating remotely, relying on the expert abilities of the Calero Marinas team and the race officers of Real...