Le Cleac’h Takes On Fastest Sailor Alive
Armel Le Cleac’h is poised to give Francis Joyon a run for his money.
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Armel Le Cleac’h is poised to give Francis Joyon a run for his money.
How did a premier speed sailing event suddenly get less interesting?
What happens when an Open 60 matches up against a windsurfer, a Moth, and a kiteboarder?
Bruce Gain interviews Francis Joyon on his latest record-breaking run: across the Atlantic from New York to the Lizard.
Chinese skipper Guo Chuan completed a solo non-stop circumnavigation in a Class 40 and set a new world record of 137 days, 20 hours, 1 minute and 57 seconds on April 5. Here’s what he said after finishing: _It is difficult to describe my feeling at the moment. It is still like a dream, I feel like being in a dream. Sometimes during the journey, I do not know if I could go home. In Cape Horn, when I could not see anything in the wave, I felt it might be too far to go back. Several days ago in Ta
The French solo multihull master Francis Joyon is aiming to own the four biggest speed sailing records, which he calls, appropriately, the Grand Slam.
Italian sailor Giovanni Soldini, and a crew of eight, sailing aboard a VO70 called_ Maserati (ex-_Ericsson 3) set a record when they reached San Francisco from New York in just 47 days (and 42 minutes).
Gabart becomes the youngest and fastest sailor to circumvent the world alone in the Vendée Globe.
The Volvo Open 70 Maserati sets out to take a stab at the record of the legendary clipper ship Gold Route.
Tim Zimmermann admires Paul Larsen’s Shackleton-like determination in his 10-year quest for the outright speed sailing record, an achievement Larsen realized this November.
Watch as the Vestas Sailrocket 2 trounces the outright world speed sailing record.
Can a sit-down boat exceed the speeds that purpose-built sailboards have established? In this Need for Speed article from our March 1992 issue, Gary Hoyt weighs the merits of windsurfers.
Armel Le Cleac’h is poised to give Francis Joyon a run for his money.
How did a premier speed sailing event suddenly get less interesting?
What happens when an Open 60 matches up against a windsurfer, a Moth, and a kiteboarder?
Bruce Gain interviews Francis Joyon on his latest record-breaking run: across the Atlantic from New York to the Lizard.
Chinese skipper Guo Chuan completed a solo non-stop circumnavigation in a Class 40 and set a new world record of 137 days, 20 hours, 1 minute and 57 seconds on April 5. Here’s what he said after finishing: _It is difficult to describe my feeling at the moment. It is still like a dream, I feel like being in a dream. Sometimes during the journey, I do not know if I could go home. In Cape Horn, when I could not see anything in the wave, I felt it might be too far to go back. Several days ago in Ta
The French solo multihull master Francis Joyon is aiming to own the four biggest speed sailing records, which he calls, appropriately, the Grand Slam.
Italian sailor Giovanni Soldini, and a crew of eight, sailing aboard a VO70 called_ Maserati (ex-_Ericsson 3) set a record when they reached San Francisco from New York in just 47 days (and 42 minutes).
Gabart becomes the youngest and fastest sailor to circumvent the world alone in the Vendée Globe.
The Volvo Open 70 Maserati sets out to take a stab at the record of the legendary clipper ship Gold Route.
Tim Zimmermann admires Paul Larsen’s Shackleton-like determination in his 10-year quest for the outright speed sailing record, an achievement Larsen realized this November.
Watch as the Vestas Sailrocket 2 trounces the outright world speed sailing record.
Can a sit-down boat exceed the speeds that purpose-built sailboards have established? In this Need for Speed article from our March 1992 issue, Gary Hoyt weighs the merits of windsurfers.
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