Class40
Class40 is a class of monohull sailboat and a yacht primarily used for short handed offshore and coastal racing. The class is administered by International Class40 Association which is recognised by the World Sailing. Background In 2004 former Vendee Globe and Whitbread competitor, Patrice Carpentier, brought together designers, builders and sailors to formulate a new accessible class of shorthanded offshore racing boats. Now with more than 160 boats, the Class has become the most successful offshore racing class. The class is not to be confused with the Open 40 which in many ways led the way to this class. The "Class40" can be designed by anyone provided the boat fits within the measurement rule defined. This rule takes the form of a box rule. The association is responsible for defining and updating the class rules for the boats, and has the additional aims of co-ordinating events. Class 40 monohulls outnumbered all other boat classes during their first appearance in the ...
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Patrice Carpentier
Patrice Carpentier is a French professional sailor born on 10 January 1950 in Falaise, Calvados. He holds a BA in letters. Married with four children, he lives in La Trinidad-sur-Mer. He writes for Race Au Large and SeaHorse Magazine. He became race director for the 2018 Golden Globe race. Career highlights File:VM-Matériaux-Vendée-Globe-2004.jpg, ''VM Matériaux'' Patrice CarpentierDeparting for 2004 Vendée Globe --> The Vendée Globe is a single-handed (solo) non-stop round the world yacht race. The race was founded by Philippe Jeantot in 1989, and since 1992 has taken place every four years. It is named after the Département of Vendée, in France ... References 1950 births Living people French male sailors (sport) Volvo Ocean Race sailors Class 40 class sailors IMOCA 60 class sailors French Vendee Globe sailors 1989 Vendee Globe sailors 2000 Vendee Globe sailors 2004 Vendee Globe sailors Vendée Globe finishers Single-handed circumnavigati ...
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Fastnet Race
The Fastnet Race is a biennial offshore yacht race organised by the Royal Ocean Racing Club of the United Kingdom with the assistance of the Royal Yacht Squadron in Cowes and the City of Cherbourg in France. The race is named after the Fastnet Rock off southern Ireland, which the race course rounds. Along with Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race and the Newport-Bermuda Race, it is considered one of the classic big offshore races with each distance approximately . Testing both inshore and offshore skills, boat and crew preparation and speed potential. From its inception, the Fastnet Race has proven highly influential in the growth of offshore racing, and remains closely linked to advances in yacht design, sailing technique and safety equipment. The Fastnet Race has been sponsored by the Swiss watch manufacturing company Rolex since 2001. The Race prize is known as the Fastnet Challenge Cup. The race main focus is on monohull handicap racing which presently is conducted under the R ...
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Transat Jacques Vabre
The Transat Jacques Vabre is a yachting race that follows the historic coffee trading route between France and Brazil. It is named after (and sponsored by) a French brand of coffee. The course was drawn up back in 1993 to follow in the wake of the clippers transporting coffee from Brazil to France. The Transat Jacques Vabre is a major date on the calendar, taking place every other year in odd years. It is a two-person race and the pairs of sailors are formed according to their complementary skills, what they have in common and how they get on. Boats leave from Le Havre, France's leading coffee importing port, going to Salvador de Bahia, in Brazil, the world's leading coffee grower and exporter (4335 miles). The first edition in 1993 was a single handed race. The event is open to multihulls and monohulls from the following classes: Ultims (multihulls between 70 and 105 feet), IMOCA (60 feet monohulls), Multi 50 and Class40. All kinds of navigational aids are allowed in particul ...
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Route Du Rhum
The Route du Rhum is a transatlantic single-handed yacht race, which takes place every four years in November. The course is between Saint Malo, Brittany, Metropolitan France and Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe, overseas France Overseas France (french: France d'outre-mer) consists of 13 French-administered territories outside Europe, mostly the remains of the French colonial empire that chose to remain a part of the French state under various statuses after decoloni .... The first competition, won by Canadian Michael Birch in his boat ''Olympus Photo'' by a margin of 98 seconds over second-placed Michel Malinovsky in ''Kriter V'', was held in 1978, and was marked in tragedy by the disappearance of Alain Colas during the crossing. Current record is 6d 19h 47m 25s, set on November 16, 2022, by Charles Caudrelier. Participation Classes Results Line Honours IMOCA 60 Multihull Ultime (Maxi) Multihulls - ORMA 60 Referred to as the ORMA 50, Ocean 50 and Mul ...
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Sailing Yachts
A sailing yacht (US ship prefixes SY or S/Y), is a leisure craft that uses sails as its primary means of propulsion. A yacht may be a sail or power vessel used for pleasure, cruising, or racing. There is no standard definition, so the term applies here to sailing vessels that have a cabin with amenities that accommodate overnight use. To be termed a "yacht", as opposed to a "boat", such a vessel is likely to be at least in length and have been judged to have good aesthetic qualities. Sailboats that do not accommodate overnight use or are smaller than are not universally called yachts. Sailing yachts in excess of are generally considered to be superyachts. Sailing yachts are actively used in sport and are among categories recognized by the governing body of sailing sports, World Sailing. Etymology The term ''yacht'' originates from the Dutch word ''jacht'' (pl. ''jachten'', which means "hunt"), and originally referred to light, fast sailing vessels that the Dutch Republic na ...
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Classe Mini
Mini Transat 6.50 also known by a number of alternatives Mini, Class Mini, Transat 650 is a development measurement controlled offshore sailing primarily used for racing in the Mini Transat Race hence the name. Background History The Classe Mini conceiver around the Mini Transat race is run bi-annually and first took place in 1977. The race is a solo transatlantic yacht race. The class rules focus on this event and encourage development while controlling both costs and design and fitout safety requirements. The size of the boat allows for more experimentation in design without the costs of larger classses. Class Association The class association is an owner led organization that administers the rules and co-ordinates a series of single and double handed events for the class. In response to the perceived challenge of sailing small high-performance boats the class has created rigorous trials, equipment, and inspection requirements to add promote safety. The mini Transat class is ...
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Monohull
right A monohull is a type of boat having only one hull, unlike multihulled boats which can have two or more individual hulls connected to one another. Fundamental concept Among the earliest hulls were simple logs, but these were generally unstable and tended to roll over easily. Hollowing out the logs into a dugout canoe doesn't help much unless the hollow section penetrates below the log's center of buoyancy, then a load carried low in the cavity actually stabilizes the craft. Adding weight or ballast to the bottom of the hull or as low as possible within the hull adds stability. Naval architects place the center of gravity substantially below the center of buoyancy; in most cases this can only be achieved by adding weight or ballast. The use of stones and other weights as ballast can be traced back to the Romans, Phoenicians and Vikings. Modern ships carry tons of ballast in order to maintain their stability; even heavily laden cargo ships use ballast to optimize the distr ...
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Simon Clarke (sailor)
Simon Clarke may refer to: * Simon Clarke (footballer) (born 1971), English footballer *Simon Clarke (politician) (born 1984), British Conservative MP *Simon Clarke (cyclist) (born 1986), Australian road and former track cyclist * Simon Clarke (rugby union) (1938–2017), English rugby union player *Simon Clarke of the Clarke baronets *Simon Clarke (sociologist) (born 1946), English sociologist *Sir Simon Haughton Clarke, 9th Baronet (1764–1832), West Indies merchant See also * Simon Toulson-Clarke, lead singer and founder member of the pop group Red Box * Simon Clark (other) *Clarke (surname) Clarke is a surname which means "clerk". The surname is of English and Irish origin and comes from the Latin . Variants include Clerk and Clark. Clarke is also uncommonly chosen as a given name. Irish surname origin Clarke is a popular surname in ...

Single-handed Sailing
The sport and practice of single-handed sailing or solo sailing is sailing with only one crewmember (i.e., only one person on board the vessel). The term usually refers to ocean and long-distance sailing and is used in competitive sailing and among Cruisers. Terminology In sailing, a hand is a member of a ship's crew. "Single-handed" therefore means with a crew of one, i.e., only one person on the vessel. The term "single-handed" is also used more generally in English to mean "done without help from others" or, literally, "with one hand". In the sailing community, the term "crewed" (or sometimes "fully-crewed") is used to mean sailing with a crew of more than one, in order to distinguish events permitting larger crews from their single-handed equivalents (even though a solo sailor is also correctly referred to as a vessel's crew). Hence, for example, "Bruno Peyron ... has taken part in almost all the large crewed and single-handed sailing events since the 80's." In cont ...
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World Sailing Speed Record Council
The World Sailing Speed Record Council (WSSRC) was founded in 1972, initially to ratify records at the inaugural Weymouth Speed Week held every year since in Portland Harbor.The WSSRC is the body authorized by the World Sailing (formerly International Sailing Federation, International Yacht Racing Union) to confirm speed records of sailing craft (boats, windsurfers and kitesurfers ) on water (not on ice or land). In the early years the council only dealt with claims of speed records on a one-way leg of 500 metres. Since 1988 the WSSRC is also responsible for offshore sailing records, because there were several controversial claims about the times of long voyages. The first records recorded in 1972 were the Outright record of Sir Timothy Colman, ''Crossbow'', 26.30 knots (D class); ''Icarus'' 21.6 knots (B class); ''Mayfly'' 16.40 knots and Lief Wagner Smitt, windsurfer 13.6 knots. One or more meetings were held every year and since 2001 the council has had a permanent secretariat ...
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Thierry Bouchard
Thierry is a French male given name, derived from the Germanic "Theodoric". It is the cognate of German "Dietrich" and " Dieter", English Terry, Derek and Derrick, and of various forms in other European languages. It is also a surname. People with the given name * Theodoric of Freiberg (c. 1250-c. 1310), also known as Thierry, early Dominican * Thierry of Chartres (died before 1155), French philosopher * Theodoric I, Duke of Upper Lorraine (ruled 978–1027) * Theodoric II, Duke of Lorraine (ruled 1070–1115) * Theuderic II (587–613), king of Burgundy and Austrasia * Thierry, Count of Flanders (c. 1099–1168), also known as Derrick or Thierry of Alsace * Thierry Ambrose (born 1997), French footballer * Thierry Baudet (born 1983), Dutch politician and author * Thierry Boutsen (born 1957), Belgian Formula One race car driver * Thierry Breton (born 1955), European Commissioner for Internal Market, French businessman, former Minister of the Economy * Thierry Brusseau, Fren ...
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Gonzalo Botin
Gonzalo may refer to: * Gonzalo (name) * Gonzalo, Dominican Republic, a small town * Isla Gonzalo, a subantarctic island operated by the Chilean Navy * Hurricane Gonzalo, 2014 See also * Gonzalez (other) * Gonzales (other) * Gonsalves (other) * Gonçalves Gonçalves (; Portuguese for "son of Gonçalo") is a Portuguese surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Adílio de Oliveira Gonçalves (born 1956), Brazilian footballer * Ailton Goncalves da Silva (born 1973), Brazilian footballer * ...