The 40 remaining skippers competing in the 44th Solitaire du Figaro Eric Bompard cachemire set sail from Gijòn on the north coast of Spain today at 1000 UTC, bound for Roscoff on the north c

Impressively Francis Joyon and the maxi-trimaran IDEC are due to reach the mid-point of their passage between New York and the Lizard tonight.

At the start of the second day of his attempt on singlehanded west to east transatlantic record, Francis Joyon and IDEC are struggling with very unstable weather conditions which are

Oman Air-Musandam crossed the finish line off Lisbon to win the first leg of the Route des Princes at 12h41'38'' local time (11h41'38'' UTC), having taken 2d 23h 41mn 38secs for the 794 miles first

Auckland has been confirmed as the halfway stopover port for the Global Ocean Race circumnavigation which starts at Southampton, UK, on Sunday 21 September 2014.

After another night upwind with regular tacks across the Bay of Cadiz in light airs and into head seas, the first multihull on Leg 1 of the Route des Princes turned the corner at Cape St Vincent, o

The front runners of OSTAR 2013, the solo trans-Atlantic from Plymouth to Newport RI, are racing in the cool and shallow Canadian continental shelf waters after 14 days of open ocean.

Fortune tellers are part and parcel of Lisbon’s Popular Saints Festival and in particular the Feast of Saint Anthony that will be in full swing when the Route des Princes fleet arrives.

The leading Route des Princes teams on leg 1 from Valencia to Lisbon should pass Gibraltar later this morning ready to take on a complicated ridge which will protect the Bay of Cadiz and beyond tha

French sailor Francis Joyon set off from Ambrose Light off the mouth of New York Harbour on his attempt to break the singlehanded west to east transatlantic at 09:15:50 UTC this morning.