SailGP: Bermuda welcomes payday

When the second season of the SailGP global championship gets underway in 2021, the pursuit of the one million dollar prize will begin in Bermuda. While the schedule originally had the high flying F50 catamarans competing in San Francisco, the league’s concern about...

Vendée Globe: The South Atlantic slalom

On a sequence of gybes stepping downwind underneath the Saint Helena high pressure system in the South Atlantic, Charlie Dalin (Apivia) became the new leader of the Vendée Globe this morning. Dalin outmanoeuvred his close rival Thomas Ruyant (LinkedOut) and went on to...

Vendée Globe: Nobody said it’d be easy

Vendée Globe favorite Alex Thomson (GBR) has today been forced to slow his HUGO BOSS to a crawl as he attempts to make a technical repair to a longitudinal beam in the bow of his IMOCA 60. Having been in the lead group since the start, Thomson alerted his team to the...

Vendée Globe: Damage to HUGO BOSS

Vendée Globe favorite Alex Thomson (GBR) has paused racing to address damage to his 2019 VPLP-design HUGO BOSS. Ross Daniel, Technical Director at Alex Thomson Racing, has released the following statement at 11:30 GMT on November 22: “Yesterday evening (Saturday 21st...