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New boats promise to break records in Route du Rhum

New boats promise to break records in Route du Rhum

04/11/2018

France

Route du Rhum starts on Sunday

123 boats set sail for the solo long distance yacht race from Saint-Malo

03/11/2018

France

11th Route du Rhum sets off from St. Malo

Romain Attanasio invites euronews on board his boat ahead of the world's toughest transatlantic race, and we also talk to his British-born wife, who is racing against him!

29/10/2018

World News

Look back: Golden Globe Race 1968

Suicides, capsizes, and a man who went round the world again — the extraordinary Golden Globe race of 1968.

24/09/2018

Eco-Innovation

Green-powered boating at the 41st Cannes Yachting Festival

The yacht industry has presented its latest energy efficient and hybrid developments in Cannes at the Yachting Festival.

14/09/2018

Hungary

Swiss catamaran wins Blue Ribbon Regatta in Hungary for second time

The winners, Safram celebrated with champagne after sailing for just over 12 hours (12 hrs 40 minutes and 31 seconds) at Lake Balaton. Hungary came second with the PreVital team and third with the Fifty-fifty crew

27/07/2018

New Zealand

Fighting the spread of microplastics

Sailors competing in the Volvo round-the-world yacht race have been collecting water samples as part of a program to measure the spread of microplastics.

21/05/2018

World News

British yachtsman, John Fisher, presumed lost at sea

The British yachtsman, John Fisher, is presumed lost at sea after falling overboard in the Southern Ocean during gale force winds.

27/03/2018

No Comment

Ice-boating world championships takes place on frozen Wielimie lake

The ice-boating world championships kicked off on Tuesday on the frozen Wielimie Lake, near the Polish city of Szczecinek.

27/02/2018

Sport

Man overboard! Volvo Ocean race sailor rescued unharmed

Alex Gough was pulled from the Pacific after falling off race leader Sun Hung Kai/Scallywag

14/01/2018

Mauritius

Polish sailor rescued after drifting for 7 months in the indian Ocean

54-year-old Zbigniew Reket was heading for South Africa, where he intended to take up work, when his boat was severely damaged, leaving the sailor without navigation or communication systems.

28/12/2017

Sport

French sailor smashes solo world record

17/12/2017

Sport

Volvo Ocean Race: Third leg begins

The third leg of the Volvo Ocean Race has begun as the teams sail more than 6,000 nautical miles through the Southern Ocean to reach the Australian city of Melbourne

10/12/2017

Sport

French duo smash Jacques Vabre race record

It's taken 7 days, 22 hours, 7 minutes and 27 seconds, but Thomas Colville and Jean-Luc Nélias have won the Ultime class of the Transat Jacques Vabre.

13/11/2017

Travel News

Half a day in Bodrum

03/11/2017

World News

Finally, dry land: rescued sailors come ashore after five-month ordeal

The two women set sail from Hawaii to Tahiti in May, but a storm battered their boat and they drifted in the Pacific with their two dogs until a US warship rescued them.

30/10/2017

Eco-Innovation

Kennedy's Manitou shines in St Tropez

12/10/2017

Cult

Kennedy's Manitou shines in St Tropez

As it has done since 1981, The Voiles de St Tropez has brought the yachting season to a close.

12/10/2017

World News

Record-breaking explorers answer your questions on the Arctic Mission

Marine biologist Tim Gordon and sailor Erik de Jong answer your questions on the Arctic Mission.

12/09/2017

USA

Team Macif skippered to The Bridge victory

Team Macif wins centenary of The Bridge, but fails to beat the Queen Mary II.

04/07/2017