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Rolex International Women’s Keelboat Championship
Organizers of US SAILING’s Rolex International Women’s Keelboat Championship (IWKC) have announced a change in venue and dates for the next running of this biennial regatta. ...
Making Malta proud
The 29th Rolex Middle Sea Race drew to a close today with celebratory prize giving held under the vaulted ceilings of La Valette Hall, formerly the Sacra Infermeria's Great Magazine Ward, built by the Knights of St John, and a venue worthy of the epic sea battles fought over the past week on the rac...
The overall winner is French
Thierry Bouchard's Spirit of Ad Hoc (FRA) has been confirmed as the overall handicap winner of Rolex Middle Sea Race 2008. ...
Winds off opportunity
Today was a day for contrasting fortunes. Opportunities missed and opportunities taken. The 29th Rolex Middle Sea Race yet again confirming the adage that 'it ain't over till it's over'. By 1800 CET three boats had sat in pole position for overall victory. Even now the throne is not secure, but the ...
PLAYING DIFFERENT HAND
What a day - whether one quite like this has been witnessed before in the Rolex Middle Sea Race is a matter for the archivists. Starting with the resolution of the titanic struggle for Line Honours, it is ending with a series of war stories from the course ranging from alarming encounters with shipp...
Rolex Middle Sea Race's line honours update ...
At 07.20.16 CET Andres Soriano's Mills 68 Alegre crossed the Marsamxett Harbour finish line of the 2008 Rolex Middle Sea Race, to take line honours in the 29th edition of the 607 nautical-mile race....
Aces high and low
After playing cards below deck yesterday, the crew of Alegre (GBR) played the perfect hand in the witching hours last night to slip inside Rosebud (USA) and find sufficient breeze to keep her moving forward. ...
Bostik in the calm off Sicily
This fortieth edition of the Rolex Middle Sea Race will break all the records of slowness as Sicily is at the moment surrounded by an immense calm zone where the 77 competitors are struggling to make progress...
Slow train
The 29th Rolex Middle Sea Race is taking on a life of its own, as have all the previous editions. The seventy-seven boat fleet spent most of the day stuck together by a windless glue making painful progress along the northern coast of Sicily. A mammoth high-pressure system centred on the Hungary and...
Slow progress is better than no progress
Given the unpromising start to the day, the three frontrunners in the Rolex Middle Sea Race are probably delighted to be fast approaching Stromboli, and expecting to round by 1900 this evening. Rosebud (USA), Moneypenny (USA) and Alegre (GBR) have been locked together for much of the race so far an...
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