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Yesterday Meet the Aegean Race On June 14 of the next, 2020, in Athens, near the columns of the famous temple of Poseidon, a solemn ceremony will be held to launch the new 600-mile race – Aegean 600. Translated from English – "Aegean." The sea there is Aegean, and the islands and everything else. Amazing places! And there is no doubt that the sailing non-stop 600-mile race in the Aegean Sea will enjoy considerable popularity. Naturally, provided that the organizer Read more
Today Nord Stream Race kicks off on June 22 The eighth Nord Stream Race will be held from June 21 to July 5. The first races will be held on June 22 in German Kiel. Next, the fleet will take the route Copenhagen – Stockholm – Helsinki – St. Petersburg. Regatta Nord Stream Race starts during the largest sailing festival in Europe – "Kiel week". Traditionally, this festival collects hundreds of sports, amateur and historical yachts. In Kiel, the ex-chancellor Read more
June 12, 2019 Ahead – decisive race After four races of the Yanmar Dragon Gold Cup 2019 regatta in the Dragon class, which continues in Medemblik (Holland), the former leader is the Portuguese POR84 team with skipper Pedro Andrade. © Elena Razina The Portuguese have 20 points (parishes 4 – 2 – 5 – 9). Two teams are 4 points behind at once – the Dutch NED412 Troika led by Peter Heerem (3 – 1 – 15 – 5) and Read more
June 10, 2019 The crew of Samokhin won the first race The victory of the RUS76 Rocknrolla team, consisting of Dmitry Samokhin, Alexey Bushuev and Andrey Kirilyuk, ended in Medemblik (Holland), the first race of the regatta Yanmar Dragon Gold Cup 2019. In the first ten – another “Dragon” under the Russian flag: RUS27 Annapurna Anatoly Loginov, Alexander Shalagin and Vadim Statsenko crossed the finish line eighth. The "Golden Cup" of the Dragon class is one of the oldest and Read more
June 4, 2019 Today is the decisive race The "Golden" fleet has to go through the final race at the Cup of the Association "Optimist" class. June 4 will be known the names of those drivers who will represent our country in the world and European championships. The Optimist Class Association Cup is the most important regatta, which takes place in the Yacht Club of St. Petersburg from May 31 to June 4 and is the final stage of selection Read more
Today Irina Gracheva: “It was a good race!” Here is what Irina wrote after the finish line in the TROPHEE MARIE-AGNES PERON 2019 race on her Irina Gracheva Racing Mini-Transat 2019 page: It was a good race! MAP race results: – 17 of 55 in serie – 25 of 72 overall Good start in a group with leaders. Stretching and lagging under the spinnakers. A long badge on Chaussee de Sein, and a long badde back, which managed to stay Read more
May 31, 2019 Baltic 500 – a new race for two Fashion for racing with a minimum of the crew reached our northern latitudes. Today in Germany, the premiere of the new Baltic 500 regatta, a four-arms race around the island of Zealand, started. At the start of the regatta in Kiel – unexpectedly for the organizers – almost fifty boats went right away: or rather, 49 yachts (the 50th declared yacht did not start at the start). They are Read more
Yesterday Started the final race On June 2, in the Yacht Club of St. Petersburg at the All-Russian Regatta, the Optimist Association Cup in the "golden" fleet passed the first three final races. The Optimist Class Association Cup is the final stage of selecting the strongest athletes for the Russian national teams representing our country at world and European championships. On the third day of the competition, the weather deteriorated. Wind gusts reached 25-30 knots, which made it possible to Read more
January 3, 2019 GOLDEN GLOBE RACE: the latest news Yesterday everything was calm on the weather map around Uku Randmaa, reports @EsmeraldaOK. But computer models have already promised a storm for several days this morning. At lunch, the storm should have been over Uku. Uku, despite all attempts to accelerate, to go through the waves of 6 – 7 meters and the wind about 60 knots. Today we will follow its mark on the map with special attention. Jean-Luc, after Read more
January 16, 2019 The race around the world has begun !!! Today, the crew of the 40-meter maxi-trimaran Spindrift 2 with skipper Jan Guichard took the start in a race around the world. The goal is to set a new world record and get the Jules Verne Trophy. © www.facebook.com/spindriftracing In the French Brest, the trimaran left the base of the Spindrift Racing team at 11 o'clock Moscow time. And before that, even after dark, the crew’s farewell to their Read more