Fahad Al Hasni joins the Transat Jacques Vabre fleet with Sidney Gavignet

Oman Sail Class 40 co-skippers Fahad Al Hasni and Sidney Gavignet are among the crews now gathered in Le Havre as the clock ticks down to the November 5th start of the classic Transat Jacques Vabre race.

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GC32 / Oman Air team looks to Madeira to boost them up the Extreme Sailing Series rankings

The crew of Oman Air are hoping the next round in Madeira will give their campaign momentum to win the globe-straddling Extreme Sailing Series.

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Class40 / Sidney Gavignet and Fahad Al Hasni in the Transat Jacques Vabre transatlantic race

Gavignet and Al Hasni will take on some of the world's best shorthanded sailors in an ambitious programme that – all going well – will culminate in the Transat Jaques Vabre transatlantic race in November.

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The new campaign is the latest stage of the relationship between Al Hasni, one of Oman's most promising sailors, and Gavignet, his mentor for the past six years.

ITW / Musandam-Oman Sail capsize, all crew safely ashore in Newfoundland

The Musandam-Oman Sail crew were safely transferred ashore in Newfoundland overnight following the capsize of the MOD70 trimaran on Sunday morning while racing the Transat Quebec-St Malo.

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MOD70 / Musandam-Oman Sail claim line honours and new world record in Volvo Round Ireland Race

Musandam-Oman Sail set a new world record for sailing around Ireland and posted a sensational victory in the 2016 Volvo Round Ireland Race after a cliff-hanger finish with just minutes separating the three giant trimarans on the line.

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Arriving back in Wicklow Bay, after a thrilling contest with the other MOD70s, Phaedo and Concise, for most of the 700 nautical mile course, Sidney Gavignet’s crew were exhausted but exhilarated by their victory and the new record, which they had set themselves last year beating Steve Fossett’s longstanding Lakota record from 1993.

ExSS / Oman Air on a winning streak after another cracking day in Muscat

Oman Air enjoyed another cracking day on the Muscat race course to put them in a strong position going into the final day of the 2016 Extreme Sailing Series Muscat event. And Morgan Larson got to experience his first ever Optimist race against a fleet of keen young Omanis from the Omantel Oman Sail youth squad as a warm up!

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Sailing Arabia The Tour / "Sidney Gavignet is the target for everyone" said Marcel Herrera

German-born British skipper Herrera and his University of Plymouth team of rising stars claimed bragging rights on the opening day of the 2016 EFG Sailing Arabia – The Tour (SATT) yesterday by winning the opening race of the Dubai In-Port Race series.

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America's Cup / America’s Cup dreams take shape for Oman Sail’s young sailing aces

Oman’s top young sailors are set for a day to remember when they compete in a special race as part of the Louis Vuitton America’s Cup World Series Oman in Muscat (February 26-28) then get the chance to chat with the superstar America’s Cup skippers.

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EFG Sailing Arabia – The Tour celebrates its sixth edition with a new route and new challenges

In its sixth year, Oman Sail’s signature event, EFG Sailing Arabia – The Tour (15-29 February) has a brand new route designed not only to showcase the natural beauty of the Arabian Gulf but to level the playing field among the nine teams from across the GCC and Europe making a bid for this year’s crown.

GC32 / Sultanate of Oman to host first Act of the 2016 Extreme Sailing Series

The Extreme Sailing Series™ starts a landmark season in 2016 with a Middle Eastern flavour with Muscat in Oman confirmed as the host city for the first Act of the year (16-19 March).

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“It is the end of an era,” said Leigh McMillan who will join Sir Ben Ainslie’s squad at Landrover BAR

Oman Sail skipper Leigh McMillan is bracing himself for an emotional farewell when he attempts to seal a record breaking fifth consecutive Extreme Sailing Series win and his third series title in Sydney this weekend. Stevie Morrison skipper of Oman Air is going to be pushing hard for points as he targets a podium result.

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The search has stopped, “We are completely devastated,” said David Graham

In an immensely sad decision, today, nine days after the man overboard incident, the search has stopped. Today we will accompany Mohammed’s father and uncle back to Muscat to be with their family at this tragic time. The Italian and Croatian coastguards remain on alert.

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“We have to take our revenge on Phaedo after they beat us in the Rolex Fastnet Race” said Gavignet - Marseille

A successful summer in Europe, where thousands of miles have been clocked up to further Oman’s sporting and tourism development plans, is set to culminate in a thrilling head-to-head contest between Sidney Gavignet’s crew of Omani professionals on Musandam-Oman Sail and rival MOD70 Phaedo, in the 608-mile Mediterranean classic.

The Extreme Sailing Series heads to Istanbul: who can break McMillan’s streak of back-to-back wins?

With one week to go until the penultimate Act of the 2015 Extreme Sailing Series™, the pressure is on. There are three teams in the hunt for the Series title and with some intense mid-fleet rivalries to resolve, there will be no margin for mistakes and no excuses for poor performance at Act 7, Istanbul presented by Yandex, from the 1 – 4 October.

Nathan Outteridge steps in for Leigh McMillan to keep Sultanate of Oman GC32 title hopes high in Marseille

Australian Olympic champion Nathan Outteridge has stepped in as Sultanate of Oman skipper to keep alive Oman Sail’s hopes of winning the inaugural Bullitt GC32 Racing Tour championship at Marseille One Design, the final event of 2015, next week.

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Oman GC32 crew head to the Isle of Wight for Cowes Cup and Round the Island Race

Fresh from a win in Cardiff at Act 4 of the Extreme Sailing Series, Leigh McMillan and his The Wave, Muscat crewmates Pete Greenhalgh, Nasser Al Mashari and Ed Smyth head for Cowes on the Isle of Wight where they will be joined by Alister Richardson for the second stop on the Bullitt GC32 Racing Tour.

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MOD70 / Sidney Gavignet and Musandam-Oman Sail will be in Kiel all week

The Sultanate of Oman’s flagship Musandam-Oman Sail might have missed breaking its own 2014 record of 1 hour 47 minutes and 22 seconds, by just six minutes and 56 seconds this morning at Kieler Woche’s famous opening Welcome Race, but the team, including Pierre Casiraghi, had such a good run that they were far from disappointed.

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Oman Sail’s GC32 Sultanate of Oman win first 2015 Bullitt GC32 Racing Tour event in Austria

Leigh McMillan and his crew on Oman Sail’s GC32 Sultanate of Oman exceeded all expectations when they became the first winners of the 2015 Bullitt GC32 Racing Tour’s Austria Cup on Lake Traunsee.

GC32 / Leigh McMillan has recruited the Australian foils specialist Glenn Ashby for the firts event

For the first event on Lake Traunsee, an Alpine lake surrounded by the beautiful Salzkammergut mountains, British skipper Leigh McMillan has made sure he has his Extreme 40 teammates Nasser Al Mashari and Pete Greenhalgh on board knowing their successful collaboration on The Wave, Muscat will stand them in good stead in this brand new venture.

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Record / The Round Britain and Ireland world record for Sidney Gavignet and Musandam Oman Sail

The six-man crew, skippered by Sidney Gavignet, and including Omani sailors Fahad Al Hasni, Yasser Al Rahbi and Sami Al Shukaili, key members of last year’s Round Britain and Ireland world record setting team, plus Spain’s Alex Pella and French multihull veteran Jean Baptiste Levailland, crossed the finish line beneath the Kish Lighthouse off Dublin Bay just before 1000 UTC having started their record attempt at 1704 UTC on Monday.

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