High-Speed Offshore Sailing Articles
SailGP Returned to Bermuda as the Championship Fight Intensified on the Great Sound Few places in world sailing make high-performance racing look as outrageously fast as Bermuda Great Sound. Flat water. Clean breeze. Foiling catamarans flying at motorway speeds just metres from shore. When the Rolex SailGP Championship returned to Bermuda for the fifth event of the 2026 season, the atmosphere already felt charged before a single F50 hit the racecourse.
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Flat water. Full send. No hiding place.
31-05-2026
Jason Carroll’s MOD70 Argo stormed around the 48-nautical-mile circumnavigation in 2 hours, 29 minutes and 20 seconds, rewriting what is possible on Antigua’s classic coastal course.
The numbers tell one story. The breeze told another.
With 20 knots at the start and proper Atlantic swell wrapping the eastern flank of Antigua, the island delivered a course that was anything but flat water exhibition sailing. This was full trade-wind pressure, the kind that loads up the rig and punishes hesitation.
31-03-2026
Argo Unleashed Around Antigua
The lap that every Caribbean multihull crew measures themselves against just got faster.
The Antigua 360 Race, organised by the Royal Ocean Racing Club in partnership with the Antigua Yacht Club, now has a new outright benchmark.
31-03-2026