Offshore News
How Pace took line honours in the 2026 Round Britain and Ireland Race, one chapter at a time
Johnny Vincent's Volvo 70 Pace crossed the Royal Yacht Squadron line off Cowes at 04:17:31 BST on Sunday 16 August, taking monohull line honours in the 2026 RORC Round Britain and Ireland Race. Six days, 14 hours, 47 minutes and...
The week in racing - 10 August ‘26
This week saw the Olympic fleets sign off a globe-trotting season on LA's 2028 waters, both New Zealand and France back in their AC75s, plus the start of a 1,805-mile epic around Britain and Ireland. Let’s get into it! The San...
The week in racing - 27 July ‘26
Olympic hopefuls sizing up the LA 2028 racecourse in California, a long-awaited first 52 Super Series win for a French crew, the most wide-open SailGP weekend of the season in Portsmouth, and the Clipper fleet home after the best...
Ferrari Hypersail: Why a car company is building an ocean racer
Ferrari has never built a sailing boat. Its first is Hypersail, a 100-foot fully foiling monohull designed to fly across oceans on renewable energy alone and chase records that have only ever belonged to multihulls. It's an...
The week in racing - 13 July '26
Plenty going on across the fleets this week. A sun-soaked Round the Island, three European titles decided ashore, four fresh faces crowned at the iQFOiL Youth Worlds, and a record-breaking offshore epic in Greek waters. Let’s get...
The tech behind Ferrari Hypersail
Ferrari has never built a sailing boat. So it's fitting that its first isn't a boat in any usual sense, but a 100-foot machine designed to fly across oceans. Hypersail is a fully foiling monohull – the first of its kind – 20...
The week in racing - 6 July ‘26
Lots to chew over this week: a record fleet let loose on the Aegean, an America's Cup team finally reaches Naples, and world titles being handed out everywhere from Lake Garda to the Baltic. Let’s get into it. Foiling Week's 13th...
The week in racing - 29 June ‘26
Light air was the great leveller this week, rewarding the patient and the tactically sharp over anyone hoping to just blast their way to the front. As always, there’s plenty to get stuck into… The next wave of sailing talent put...
The week in racing - 22 June ‘26
A world title decided by two points in Sardinia, a maxi charging into Bermuda under the cover of darkness, and SailGP's first-ever four-boat final going right down to the wire. It's been a full-on week of racing, and there’s...
