PlanetSail: No-one expected the Vendée Arctique to end in a park-up in an Icelandic gale

Planet Sail Episode 24: The Capsize Club
...and other America's Cup News Five of the six teams that will take part in the next America's Cup cycle have been out testing and training. Two of them have been for a swim, one have been in the drink twice where their second capsize turned out to be pretty serious. Posted on 10 Feb

The Ocean Race Start: Launched
Matt Sheahan was on the dock in Alicante and talked to some of the key players Faced with some serious weather on the opening stage of Leg 1 of The Ocean Race and with the pressure of expectation much on their minds, the day to get out there and do it finally came on 15 January 2023. Posted on 16 Jan

Onboard with 11th Hour Racing Team
Matt Sheahan's latest video from the IMOCA practice race in Alicante Matching the windspeed upwind aboard a latest generation IMOCA is a special experience. Planing downwind even faster takes the blast onto another level! Posted on 13 Jan

Planet Sail: Inside the latest generation IMOCA60
PlanetSail's Matt Sheahan had a conducted tour of the latest IMOCA60, Malizia The Ocean Race which starts from Alicante later this week will feature five IMOCA60's the new fully crewed version of the popular short-handed class. PlanetSail's Matt Sheahan had a conducted tour of the latest IMOCA60, designed for a full racing crew. Posted on 11 Jan

Planet Sail Episode 23: Record breakers
New times and speeds set on sea and land When Charles Caudrelier took line honours in the Route du Rhum single handed race across the Atlantic aboard Maxi Edmond de Rothschild, Gitana 17 he had also set a new race record. Posted on 28 Dec 2022

Planet Sail Episode 22: Route du Rhum Special
Flying solo across the Atlantic The Route du Rhum is the biggest solo offshore racing event in the world. Walk along the dockside at the start venue in St Malo where 138 boats were alongside the quay and it's clear that this race across the Atlantic is a serious crowd puller. Posted on 8 Nov 2022

Planet Sail reviews SailGP Cadiz
Video reports from the heart of the action in Spain The tide has turned in SailGP as the leader board gets shaken. The previously dominant Aussies are finding it increasingly hard to hold onto the top spot as the fleet learns how to sail fast. Posted on 26 Sep 2022

Planet Sail Episode 20
A hell of a start to summer After two years of uncertainty there is no doubt that this year the sailing season is well under way. It's been a very busy and exciting summer so far with a huge range of events filling the calendar to bursting point. Posted on 28 Jul 2022

Planet Sail Episode 19: Speed Freaks
Has the Mark Mills designed keelboat foiler Flying Nikka triggered the start of offshore foiling? Ten months ago a bundle of smart looking renderings set the scene for a wild and ambitious concept - Today it's the real deal, afloat and flying. Has the Mark Mills designed keelboat foiler Flying Nikka triggered the start of offshore foiling? Posted on 30 May 2022

Planet Sail Episode 18: Speed Freaks
The wind-powered quest for speed on both water and land The speed story continues as the Swiss SP80 campaign based at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne gets closer to launching its radical speed machine. If it looked ambitious in the previous episode, the real version is wild. Posted on 2 May 2022

PlanetSail: No-one expected the Vendée Arctique to end in a park-up in an Icelandic gale

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