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December 9, 2025
The SailGP team in Britain has signed Stuart Bithell to be their wing trimmer. This will reunite him with Dylan Fletcher who was his Olympic gold medal-winning partner at the Tokyo Games for the?49er. Bithell is a veteran of 'four' SailGP seasons…
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December 7, 2025
The skipper of Britain's Dylan Fletcher had a message for his crew as he lined up to compete in the SailGP grand final three-boat race last month: "Welcome the $2 million lottery". "The expression meant that there was nothing to lose, and that it is an opportunity.
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December 1, 2025
In less than 50 day, four of the world's most advanced offshore racers will compete across the 3,000-mile Atlantic Ocean. This promises to be the most diverse Royal Ocean Racing Club Transatlantic field in recent years. Nineteen boats are taking part in the race…
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November 30, 2025
The SailGP 2025 Championship was won by Britain on Sunday. They beat New Zealand and Australia to win the championship and $2 million. Dylan Fletcher of Emirates GBR said that the victory was "unbelievable" and that he felt "overjoyed right now"…
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November 28, 2025
Alexia Barrier, the French skipper and seven female teammates will begin their Jules Verne Trophy quest on Saturday off the coasts of Brest. They aim to set the world's first non-stop circumnavigation time with an all-female team without any outside help.
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November 28, 2025
Abu Dhabi will offer tricky light winds, a compact course and a $2 million prize for teams competing for a spot in the SailGP Grand Final this weekend. SailGP’s fifth season culminates in a race where the crew with the highest score wins it all. This is called Formula One on the water.
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November 24, 2025
New Zealand's Black Foils have a quiet confidence as they head into the SailGP season finale. Peter Burling has declared that his team is exactly where he wants them to be, as the championship showdown in Abu Dhabi looms. The Kiwis are heading…
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November 18, 2025
Hewlett Packard Enterprise's lawyers informed the London High Court that they are seeking to recover nearly $1.8 billion in damages from the estate of Mike Lynch, who died in 2003. This is due to HP's acquisition by HP of Autonomy, his British technology firm.
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November 17, 2025
After one of the most exciting finishes in recent race history, Normandy sailors Guillaume Pirouelle (left) and Cedric Château (right) won the Transat Cafe L'Or Le Havre Normandie Class 40 division on Monday. After a 4,869 nautical mile journey from Le Havre in France via La Coruna in Spain…
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November 16, 2025
On Sunday, ten amateur crews participating in the fourth Stage of the 2025/26 Clipper Around the World Race left the safety of Cape Town and headed to the notorious "Roaring Forties". The race organizers acknowledge that the leg from Western…
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November 14, 2025
Ben Ainslie, a British sailing ace, expects to reveal within a few weeks who is funding his next America's Cup bid, and the team he will be bringing along for the event in Naples, Italy, scheduled for 2027. Ainslie has set himself the goal of "bringing the Cup home" from the United States…
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November 8, 2025
Tom Brady's Team Brady won the E1 World Championship for a second time in a row on Saturday, after holding off Rafael Nadal and Team Rafa's late challenge at the inaugural Miami Grand Prix. Sam Coleman, a British pilot, and Emma Kimilainen from Finland led the "Championship of the Water"…
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November 7, 2025
The French sailors Jeremie BĂ©you and Morgan Lagraviere won the Transat CAFE L'OR Le Havre Normandie in 2025 with their powerful IMOCA monohull Charal, crossing the finish line on Martinique at dawn Friday morning after dominating the race from the start.
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November 6, 2025
After a close duel, Tom Laperche of France and Franck Chammas from Normandie won the ULTIM division in the Transat Cafe L'Or Le Havre Normandie 202025. The two crossed the finish in Fort-de-France Bay on Wednesday at 22:13.58 local time, aboard SVR-Lazartigue.
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November 6, 2025
World Sailing has named two offshore sailing stars its top achievers. French cancer survivor Charlie Dalin, and Swiss record-breaker Justine mettraux have won the prestigious Rolex World Sailor of the year awards in Ireland's Dun Laoghaire.
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November 1, 2025
Paddle UK has announced that British canoeist Kurts Adam Rozentals was given a suspension of two years and removed from the Olympic program after posting a video explicit on Instagram, and misinforming the media about the reason for his original ban.
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October 24, 2025
Mathieu Blahard, one the world's best ultra-runners is about to embark on an exciting new adventure by taking part in his first offshore sailing race – the Transat Cafe L'Or – alongside New Zealand's Conrad Colman. Blanchard said that the idea…
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October 19, 2025
Two British women completed an 8 213 nautical mile nonstop row across Pacific Ocean. They arrived in Cairns, Australia after a nearly six-month journey from Peru. Miriam Payne, Jess Rowe and their crew spent 15 hours a day rowing to be the first female-only pair to accomplish this feat.
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October 9, 2025
Britain published on Thursday a list of mid-skilled occupations that may qualify for temporary visas as part of a new immigration scheme designed to address labour shortages. Keir starmer, the Prime Minister of Britain, is attempting to be more tough on immigration.
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October 8, 2025
Charlie Dalin, a French sailor, revealed that he had been undergoing cancer treatment while sailing to victory in the Vendee Globe. He completed the solo around-the-world racing despite the diagnosis which came just months before it began. Dalin…
