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The final IMOCA race of the 2025 season gets under way from Le Havre for Martinique in the Caribbean on Sunday, and it looks set to be a thriller featuring some of the top boats and sailors in the Class ready to push hard for victory.

The numbers tell the story: 182 entries across three fleets, over 60 volunteers running operations from 18 RIBs, 15-25 knot winds with gusts to 28 knots, and substantial bay swell — the fifth ILCA National Open at Weymouth.

Defending champion Johnie Berntsson, from Sweden, is the first skipper to book his spot in the semi-finals of the 2025 Bermuda Gold Cup, finishing unbeaten for the second day running.

Entries have closed for the 80th running of the ‘Great Race South’, the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, with an elite fleet set to face the starter’s cannon on Boxing Day.

I’ve become fascinated with the growing sailing scene in China. I had so many preconceptions ahead of my first visit to the country in 2024, which were blown out of the water on that trip, and this was reaffirmed at the Lake Fuxian Regatta.

If we ever needed reminding mums are super-human, Amy Mulkearns delivered living proof with a special win in last Saturday’s Port Jackson Championships.

It’s a great honour to announce that Palm Beach Motor Yachts has taken ownership of the legendary ocean-racing yacht Wild Oats XI, to be reborn as Palm Beach XI.

There will be ten Ocean 50s at the start of the TRANSAT CAFÉ L’OR Normandie Le Havre this Sunday. The light, fast flying catamarans require the pairs of co-skippers to really live life much closer to the edge on their race from Le Havre to Martinique.

The 2025 PIC Coastal Classic, got underway this morning in Auckland, in conditions better suited to cruising. A SW breeze of 8kts was sufficient to get the 100-plus fleet off at a good pace and clear of the harbour.

Rolex Middle Sea Race – Class winners under IRC include IRC 5 Noisy Oyster (GBR) and IRC 6 Zephyr (GBR)