Sailing events that tale place in the open ocean. Competition can not be seen with the naked eye from the shore.
In a recent episode of the Yacht Business & Sailing Podcast, Mark Turner (formerly of OC Sport and the Ocean Race) discussed the changing nature of sponsored sailing campaigns. Gone are the days of sponsors just being the wallet so that people can go yachting. Teams and programs need to attach themselves to a larger cause, whether it be the… Read More »Money vs Impact in Sailing
2023 will mark the 50th Anniversary of the first historic Whitbread Round the World Sailing Race. The Ocean Globe Race (OGR) is designed to commemorate the event using the same technology that was used by competing teams in the original race. Like the modern Ocean Race (previously known as the Volvo Ocean Race), the OGR is a team racing event… Read More »The Ocean Globe Race
Previously known as the ‘Volvo Ocean Race’, the Ocean Race is the latest version of the Whitbread Round the World Sailing Race first run in 1973. It is a team-based offshore event with multiple stop-overs. The next edition of the race will be the first without Volvo’s involvement, and is scheduled to start in October of 2022. The route has… Read More »The Ocean Race
The annual pro sailing series are coming to the end of their 2012 seasons. It’s a time of year when we can look back at the previous 12 months and also reflect about how the next year might be different. In 2008, we asked Mark Turner, the man behind the Extreme Sailing Series how he saw the ‘state of the… Read More »Mark Turner Interview
“The path to being an expert can be easy or hard.” Loick Peyron at the 2010 World Yacht Racing Fourm It’s difficult to do justice to the speech that Loick Peyron gave to the delegates of the World Yacht Racing Forum in Estoril. The performance was one that showed the sport of sailing does indeed have personalities to rival any… Read More »Loick Peyron’s Sailing Wisdom