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Transatlantic Yachting Race Sets Sail for Costa Rica

The 4,900 mile regatta started with severe weather capsizing the multihull Actual (above, left).
The 9th edition of the Transat Jacques Vabre transatlantic sailing race kicked off this past Sunday, Nov. 8 with 2 of the fastest and most modern sailboats in the world and their crew waving goodbye to an audience of more than 10,000 [...]

A New Era of Surf Emerging in Costa Rica

Tico Jason Torres Beat Gold Medalist Jeremy Flores on 3 Occassions Before Falling to 7th Place in the Open Category.

The honor of playing host to this August’s Billabong ISA World Surfing Games 2009 was the crowning feat of over a decade of growth and impressive international performances by the Costa Rican national surf team and [...]

Watch the World Surfing Games Live in Costa Rica

Tico Gilbert Brown Surfed His Way to 13th in the World this Week.
This weekend marks the final rounds of the Billabong World Surfing Games 2009 in Playa Hermosa, Costa Rica. Event organizers expect to see an even larger turn out than the 10,000-strong crowd that arrived for the opening days of the event. The final [...]

One Week to the World Surfing Games 2009 Costa Rica

The WSG2009 Will Be Hosted on the Volcanic Sands of Playa Hermosa.
There are a mere seven days and counting to the inauguration of the Billabong ISA World Surfing Games on Costa Rica’s Pacific Coast. The entire country, and the area of Jaco and Playa Hermosa in particular, is preparing for the biggest surfing championship ever [...]

Jaco Costa Rica Fishing Report – June 2009

Expect Big Game Fish in Smaller Numbers When Fishing Jaco in June.
While the fishing in the Jaco area has been good over the past months with boats recording bill fish catches over the 15-a-day mark, the first 2 weeks in June have seen a slight slow down as the bill fish move further north. That [...]

Costa Rica National Team En Route to World Cup

Costa Rica’s Win Over the U.S. Put them in 1st Place.
After recent defeats of the U.S. soccer team and Trinidad and Tobago, Costa Rica is the most likely team of the six countries in the Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Football Association (Concacaf) final qualifying round to make it to the 2010 World [...]

The Olympics of Surf Coming to Costa Rica

Costa Rica Gears Up to Host the Best Surfers in the World.
The Billabong ISA World Surfing Games 2009 will be hosted in Playa Hermosa, Costa Rica this August 1-8, 2009. The event, which will bring together the best surfers in the world in an Olympic-style competition, is set to be the biggest surfing championship ever [...]