Sea Eagle II, the world's largest alumimium sailing yacht was launched on Thursday 16 January 2020 and moved to Royal Huisman's shipyard location in Amsterdam. Stepping her three carbon Panamax masts by Rondal is planned next week.

It was gruelling conditions on Sydney Harbour for the first day of the Farr 40 One Design Trophy and Jeff Carter's Edake scored three bullets putting them right back where they have been comfortably sitting for the majority of the season in first place.

After the windy opening day with a reduced program at Sail Melbourne, racing has already been completed this Saturday morning UTC. —– In the Finns, Jack Lilley AUS kept a clear lead. After a race win, Nils Theuninck SUI moved up on rank 2 at equal points with Anders Pedersen NOR and Tom Ramshaw CAN. —– The Kite-Foilers completed 6 races with Scott Whithead AUS solidly on top. His sister Breiana Whitehead AUS on rank 5 is the best-ranked woman among the 20 starters. —– The RS:X windsurfers completed 6 races as well. In the men, Tom Squires GBR is on top ahead of Makoto Tomizawa JPN, in the women, Noy Drihan ISR is in front of the Olympic Champion Charline Picon FRA until now. —– In the Lasers Radial Open – including the Men Juniors – the U19 youth Michael Compton AUS replaced Marit Bouwmeester NED on top. Sarah Douglas CAN is 24th, Paige Railey USA 42nd. …….. —– In the Lasers Standard, Jean-Baptiste Bernaz FRA defended the first place ahead of the Olympic Champion Tom Burton AUS, who already lost the 2020 Olympic [...]

Start time 9h UTC in Hongkong this morning ! Francis Joyon FRA and his team plan to depart to the final and most important record attempt of his Asia-Tour, the Route du Thé leading around Africa to London. The existing record, established by Giovanni Soldini ITA with his MOD-70-Trimaran Maserati is 36 days, 2 hours and 37 minutes. —– The preview. —– The record ride can be followed over GPS tracking.