1985-86 Whitbread Round the World Race – The French take th...
Lionel Péan would skipper L'esprit d'équipe to victory over 14 other teams, marking the first time a French team would win the race.
Lionel Péan would skipper L'esprit d'équipe to victory over 14 other teams, marking the first time a French team would win the race.
Conny van Rietschoten returned to the third edition of the Whitbread Round the World Race in 1981-82 determined not just to defend his title but to win both line honors on every leg, and the overall race on handicap. Impressively, with his Flyer II, he was able to accomplish just that.
Nautica and Yates M@gazine have prepared a small selection of 11 nautical documentaries related to the world of sailing and navigation that you can enjoy with your family. Some tell great adventures, others great achievements and stories of overcoming but what unites them all is the passion for the sea of its protagonists.
Náutica y Yates M@agazine has prepared a selection of 15 Youtube channels for sailing around the world. Its protagonists are Americans, French, Australians, Spanish, Canadians..
The official film about the first Whitbread Round the World Race has been digitalised recently. Winner was the Swan 65 Sayula II of Ramon Carlin MEX, who finished the race in 133 days. 17 teams participated. 3 sailors lost their live at sea.
The yacht — aptly named the Bilgin 263 — is 80 meters long, about 262.47 feet. Bilgin states that this impressive length is what allows the yacht to be the largest of its kind in Turkey. It also claims that the 263 is the most environmentally friendly yacht in its class, in part because of the boat's clean air emissions exhaust system.
For hundreds of years, sailors have zipped across frozen lakes and rivers—but now chances are fewer and farther between.
In the last year, two major events in the Pacific Northwest crowned champions that sailed vessels utilizing a system of enhanced or assisted ballast—Team Angry Beaver won Race to Alaska aboard a canting-keel Schock 40; and the water-ballasted Riptide 41, Blue, topped the fleet of the biggest, fastest boats in a variety of conditions throughout the Van Isle 360.
New York Yacht Club's America's Cup team, American Magic have released a video of their test boat doing a spectacular nosedive while sailing off the team's base in Newport.