SailingLife Articles
This race is never simply about the fastest boat. It is about average speed, reliability, mental stamina, and the ability to keep a boat moving when the ocean tries its hardest to slow you down. And in this edition, four standout offshore machines have emerged as the early favourites for the coveted RORC Transatlantic Race Trophy under IRC:
NeoJivaro – Neo 430 – Yves Grosjean Ino Noir – Carkeek 45 – James Neville Maxitude – Lift 45 – Xavier & Alexandre Bellouard Palanad 4 – Manuard 50 – Antoine Magre Together, they represent the cutting edge of offshore yacht design: scow-bowed rockets, feather-light carbon platforms, and crews built to endure the Atlantic’s moods — from light-air drift battles to full-bore surfing in the trades.
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Four designs. One ocean. Endless ambition — the RORC Transatlantic Race delivers a masterclass in speed, stamina, and seamanship
19-01-2026
No grand launch fanfare. No corporate polish. Just a simple idea: tell boating stories properly — with salt still drying on the pages, with respect for tradition, and with curiosity for where the marine world is heading next. A place for sailors, powerboaters, dreamers, racers, refitters, dock-talk philosophers, and those who simply feel more at home when the horizon is visible. One year on, Old Sea Dogs has become a logbook of global boating life — stories gathered from harbours, racecourses, boatyards, show pontoons, and far-off seas.
25-12-2025
An IMOCA initiative designed to shift the balance in ocean racing and the wider marine industry is stepping up a gear this season, setting bold goals on the road to the next Vendée Globe in 2028.
26-11-2025
With just over 500 nautical miles remaining, the Transat Café L’OR 2025 has evolved into a high-speed masterclass in precision, endurance, and teamwork — led by Jérémie Beyou and Morgan Lagravière aboard Charal. As the pair charge westward through the rolling Trade Winds toward Fort-de-France, Martinique, the black and red IMOCA is flying, averaging speeds that have left their rivals in the wake of frothing whitecaps and disbelief.
10-11-2025
As the 40th Hamilton Island Race Week, presented by AMEX, enters its final stretch, the scoreboard is beginning to reveal its champions. Some divisions are all but wrapped up, while others promise a nail-biting showdown in Saturday’s final island passage race.
02-09-2025
The penultimate day of the ILCA Senior European Championships & Open European Trophy threw everything it had at the sailors – from fickle zephyrs in the morning to punishing breeze and swell by the afternoon.
29-08-2025
Strap in for six weeks of offshore mayhem. Seven of the fastest, foiling, fully-crewed IMOCAs on the planet — and their multination, mixed-gender crews — are setting out from Kiel this weekend on a 4,500-nautical mile sprint-slugfest to Boka Bay, Montenegro.
11-08-2025