ULTIM: this class of flying giants, 32 meters long and 23 meters wide, all equipped with the latest innovations and helmed by renowned sailors! Their numbers may be limited, but the level of competition on the water is exceptional, and by 2021, at the Transat Jacques Vabre, observers are noticing a trend towards a more […]
Two months after Emirates Team NZ first broke the world wind powered speed record, the team has returned to Lake Gairdner and broke the existing mark, which has now been ratified. The official Wind-Powered Land Speed World Record now stands at 225.58km/h (140.17mph). Set in just 23 knots (42km/h) of wind. The previous mark, set […]
A sumptuous sailing yacht made entirely of wood and carbon was born under the vaults of the Fernand Hervé shipyard in La Rochelle’s Ville-en-Bois district. She was launched in spring 2022. A two-year project for a French owner, all requirements and refinement, designed by the architects Guillaume Verdier and Axel de Beaufort, and Pure Design […]
After four years of underwater exploration from the Arctic to French Polynesia, Emmanuelle and Ghislain Bardout are now turning their attention to the new UNDER THE POLE IV – DEEPLIFE program. From 2021 to 2030, in partnership with scientific teams from around the world, DEEPLIFE will be dedicated to exploring the mesophotic zone of the […]
This 50th edition of the Rolex Fastnet Race was a signal for play to begin for the IMOCA fleet in what proved to be a particularly thrilling ride for the 29 competing duos. At every stage of the ranking, the battle was ferocious, offering up some incredible one-on-ones, as evidenced by the duel at the […]
It’s not hard to imagine the pressure when it comes to designing and building a new IMOCA for Charlie Dalin. It’s not just about producing a boat that is faster than his main rivals at the top of the IMOCA fleet, it’s also about creating something that is better than Dalin’s old boat in which […]
In Brest on Wednesday Bertrand Quéguiner and Elodie Bonafous formalized the launch of Horizon 29 Offshore Racing team which is aiming for the Vendée Globe 2028 with a new Verdier design which expected to launch in January 2025. Tip & Shaft tells you more. While this new project was made official on Wednesday, it is an idea which has been running around for […]
The Imoca MACIF – Santé Prévoyance will be launched on June 24. Before the launch, Charlie Dalin’s team unveils the new 60-footer designed by Guillaume Verdier in a web series entitled “The birth of an Imoca”, the first episode of which follows: conception. The Imoca Macif – Santé Prévoyance is unveiled. While we wait to […]
And that’s two for 11th Hour Racing Team on their Imoca designed by Guillaume Verdier. The crew led by Charlie Enright won the 5th leg of The Ocean Race in Aarhus, Denmark, in the early hours of Monday morning. Having already won the previous leg in Newport, 11th Hour Racing Team took advantage of this […]
It’s hard to believe that a sailing boat can cover a total distance in 24 hours that would equate to travelling from Paris to Alicante in southern Spain, the home of The Ocean Race, but that is what Holcim-PRB has now done. Racing in Leg 5 of The Ocean Race from Newport to Aarhus, Kevin […]
Skipper Paul Meilhat and his Biotherm team had a long wait to get to the finish on Thursday morning in Newport, Rhode Island. With an initial ETA of 0530 local time, the light overnight winds nearly died completely with the sunrise, leaving the team to battle adverse conditions for a few more hours before they finally glided across […]
While four IMOCA boats are now engaged in the second half of this third leg, GUYOT Environnement – Team Europe is heading for Brazil to be at the start of the fourth leg… Team Holcim – PRB is still in the lead on Thursday, while the fleet is now less than 100 miles apart. As […]
11th Hour, skippered by Charlie Enright, won the 4th leg of The Ocean Race this evening in Newport. A victory, on home turf, that was eagerly awaited by the entire American team. They did it! The great favourites of The Ocean Race, which they had raised to the rank of number one objective of their […]
The spectacular finish of Leg 2 in The Ocean Race demonstrates that you don’t need more than five boats to make a classic, and this one is already showing signs of being just that.After nearly 18 days at sea, it was Kevin Escoffier and the crew of Team Holcim-PRB who pulled out all the stops […]
11th Hour Racing Team, sailing onboard its 60-foot IMOCA race boat Mālama, has finished Leg 1 of The Ocean Race 2022-23 in second place. The opening leg of the grueling 31,700 nautical miles (36,500 miles, 58,700 kilometers) around-the-world race took the fleet from Alicante, Spain, to the Cabo Verde island of São Vicente. Crossing the […]
French skipper Kevin Escoffier led his Swiss-flagged Team Holcim-PRB to victory in leg one of The Ocean Race in the early hours of Saturday morning. It marked the end of an intense and challenging opening to The Ocean Race – from storm force headwinds in the Mediterranean to fast downwind conditions in the Atlantic with […]
Maxime Sorel: The big step from being one of the pack to becoming a performer You only have to look at Maxime Sorel’s impressive Class 40 career to know that this 35-year Frenchman is a highly competitive sailor who is more than capable of reaching the podium in major IMOCA races. So far he has […]
Some childhood dreams can become realities, others remain just that- dreams. For a 10-year-old boy growing up in Bendigo Australia, his childhood dream was to go faster than anyone else had done, powered by the wind. Speed has always been at the centre of Glenn Ashby’s existence, on yachts, motorbikes- or land yachts. The quest […]
The 30.48m (100ft) VPLP Design/Verdier Maxi Comanche, skippered by Mitch Booth, has taken Monohull Line Honours in the 2022 RORC Transatlantic Race, winning the magnificent IMA Trophy. Comanche has set a new race record for the 3,000nm race from Lanzarote to Grenada of 7 days 22 hours 1 minute 4 seconds. Comanche’s new Monohull Race […]
After a tough duel in the Atlantic, Giovanni Soldini’s team caught and overtook their rivals Argo and PowerPlay and closed the race with a real time of 6 days 18 hours 51 minutes 41 seconds. At 01:51:41 local time (05:51:41 UTC, 06:51:41 Italian time), Maserati Multi70 was the first to cross the finish line […]