Dutchman Tom Touber has joined Volvo Ocean Race top management with his appointment today as Chief Operating Officer (COO).

The 2012 Artemis Offshore Academy selection trials will be held over 9–14 September for 16 carefully chosen candidates selected from the pool of applicants.

In recent years, the 75-mile-sprint to Cherbourg has always been the last hurrah of the RORC Season’s Point Championship.

La Grande Huit means literally the Big Eight.

With the aim of creating a long-term race calendar, earlier this year the Class40 Association put out to tender the running of a biennial doublehanded transatlantic race for the class.

At 1700 on 11 August fourteen yachts set off from Lymington to Torquay in the first race of five taking them to Mylor, Falmouth and back.

That canting keels, from those used on VO70s down, are to be found on modern offshore race boats can be attributed to Michel Desjoyeaux fitting one to his Mini and then winning the second leg of th

Nicolas Boidevezi on Fondation terrevent.org hung on to his lead and was first home on leg two of the Mini's singlehanded Les Sables-Azores-Les Sables race, finishing at 15:08:23 local tim

The MOD70 European Tour fleet of five MOD70 multihulls will muster in Kiel, Germany on Tuesday 28 August, ready for five weeks and almost 5,000 miles of racing around the European coastline, from t

The Volvo Ocean Race will feature an all-female team for the first time since 2001-02 after global hygiene and forest company SCA announced its participation with a women’s crew for the next