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Barcelona, Spain, Wednesday 01/04/15: Catalan co-skippers Anna Corbella and Gerard Marin set out on 31st December 2014 at the start of the third edition of the Barcelona World Race with a defined game plan. If it worked out for them a…
Dongfeng Race Team (Charles Caudrelier/FRA) announced late on Tuesday that they plan to retire from Leg 5 after breaking their mast in the Southern Ocean. Caudrelier had considered attempting to re-join the 6,776-nautical mile stage from Auckland to Itajaí after…
The tricksy Mediterranean could yet play a final April Fool on the Barcelona World Race fleet. Third placed Anna Corbella and Gerard Marín hope to arrive back in the port of Barcelona, from which they have run their GAES Centros Auditivos campaign, tomorrow. However, Anna Corbella cautiously warned…
Dongfeng Race Team, the joint leaders of the Volvo Ocean Race (Charles Caudrelier/FRA) who broke their mast a day ago, eased their stricken boat to dry land and safety on Tuesday. The breakage could hardly have happened at a worse…
This afternoon in Hong Kong, San Fernando Race Chairman Gerry Daughton announced that, having monitored the development of Typhoon Maysak and taken advice from Hong Kong Observatory, the Race Committee had made the decision to amend the destination of the…
One year after an MOB in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, during the Clipper 2013-14 Round the World Yacht Race, in which a crew member was successfully rescued after 100 minutes in the water, organisers have revealed the development…
Ghosting across the line in the inky blackness of a Mediterranean spring night, finally slicing through the finish line set on the very waters where some 40 odd years ago he cut his teeth as a young, aspiring sailor harbouring…
ALICANTE, SPAIN, March 29 – The Volvo Ocean Race fleet in the wild Southern Ocean was fighting two battles on Sunday – for bragging rights to lead the fleet round Cape Horn, and the race to win Leg 5. The…
Guillermo Altadill and José Munoz should cross the Barcelona line Monday on their IMOCA 60 Neutrogena and secure second placed overall in the Barcelona World Race, the two handed race around the world. Altadill, 52, has enjoyed many round the…
When the Land Rover Sydney Gold Coast Yacht Race 2015 starts on Saturday 25 July, it will mark the 30th edition of the 384 nautical mile race which traditionally opens the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s challenging Blue Water Pointscore…
The incident happened 240 nautical miles west of Cape Horn at 0315 UTC on Monday, in the final hours of the night onboard Dongfeng. The crew reported that the mast broke above the third spreader, the top section of the…
ALICANTE, Spain, March 28 (Reuters) – The Volvo Ocean Race fleet, battered but unbroken as they battle through the Southern Ocean, face the toughest 48 hours of the nine-month marathon as they approach Cape Horn on Monday. The region is…
Neutrogena, sailed by Barcelona's Guillermo Altadill and Chilean co-skipper José Munoz, should return into the Mediterranean this evening. The duo were expected to slow slightly as the winds diminish as they get closer to the pillars of Hercules but they…
ALICANTE, Spain, March 27 – The Volvo Ocean Race fleet reached the halfway point of their nine-month marathon – midway through the fifth leg of nine – on Friday and were still glued together in some of the closest racing…
ALICANTE, Spain, March 26 – Dongfeng Race Team (Charles Caudrelier/FRA), almost literally knocked off their feet just 48 hours earlier, retook the Volvo Ocean Race Leg 5 lead on Thursday. The Chinese boat was one of three to crash on…
Supported by the Philippine Department of Tourism and organized by Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club under the auspices of the Royal Ocean Racing Club (RORC), the 2015 edition of this biennial race will feature 25 sailing yachts, ranging in length…
The historic sea-faring City of Plymouth (UK), known as Britain’s Ocean City, has won the bid to host the start of the next edition of The Transat in 2016, ensuring that The Transat, the successor for professional sailors to the…
ALICANTE, Spain, March 25 – The Volvo Ocean Race fleet passed over Point Nemo* on Wednesday – the furthest from land you can get when at sea– on the day that a new ice limit was introduced by organisers to…
Wednesday, 25 of March, 2015 – 19:00hrs Barcelona, 18:00hrs UTC: Cheminées Poujoulat, co-skippered by Bernard Stamm, 51, (Switzerland) and Jean Le Cam, 55 (France), sailed to victory today, winning the third edition of the Barcelona World Race, the non stop, round…
With less than 220 miles left, and at times today making just two to three knots towards the Barcelona World Race finish line, Bernard Stamm and Jean Le Cam were taking nothing at all for granted. This Tuesday morning their…
Four of the six boats in the Volvo Ocean Race fleet suffered big hits as the Southern Ocean provided its roughest ride of the race in a dramatic 12 dramatic hours. Team SCA (Sam Davies/GBR), Dongfeng Race Team (Charles Caudrelier/FRA)…
The Volvo Ocean Race fleet has taken some time out from the thrilling Leg 5 racing through the Southern Ocean to assist with an important environmental project. As planned, all six boats dropped buoys laden with scientific equipment – or…
Less than 400 miles from the finish line now, Cheminées Poujoulat are passed Cabo de Gata, east of Almeria, and are starting the final ascent of the Mediterannean out of the Alboran sea to Barcelona. Bernard Stamm and Jean Le…
Two more races for the IRC 3/4/5 and three for the Faerst18 one-designs to celebrate is style the conclusion of the 2015 Round Hainan regatta inshore section that crowned the 2015 champions. After having left Sanya yesterday, the big boats…
Jean Le Cam and Bernard Stamm on board Cheminées Poujoulat have become the first team to return to the Mediterranean in the Barcelona World Race, crossing the longitude of Gibraltar this morning at 08.30 (UTC). The leaders kept a course…
ALICANTE, Spain, March 20 – A massive one kilometre-wide iceberg has forced the Volvo Ocean Race to change the positioning of their ice gates to keep the fleet clear of trouble in the Southern Ocean on Leg 5. The berg…
Sunday should see Cheminées Poujoulat in the Mediterranean. Some time Sunday. It is hard to be precise because the Barcelona World leaders Bernard Stamm and Jean Le Cam are forecast to have only light winds for their passage of the Gibraltar…
ALICANTE, Spain, March 19 (AFP) – Volvo Ocean Race’s six-strong fleet were stuck in Groundhog Day as they raced through the South Pacific – and they were not particularly enjoying the experience on Thursday. In the famous Hollywood film, the…
There may be some truth in the perception that life at the front of the Barcelona World Race fleet inherently feels better than that in any of the other current positions. True, most would swap with the Cheminées Poujoulat duo…
The 2015 QantasLink Brisbane to Gladstone Yacht Race is the sixty-seventh time that Queensland’s oldest ocean race will set sail on Good Friday. In a year when ocean races seem to be being cancelled due to lack of entrants, it…
Australia has produced two race winning skippers in the history of the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race and now Wendy Tuck will be looking to add a further victory after being revealed as the first Australian woman to skipper…
ALICANTE, Spain, March 18 – Iker Martínez (ESP) returned to the helm of MAPFRE to take the first day lead as the closely packed fleet headed out of New Zealand on Wednesday, having been delayed three days by Cyclone Pam….
The 2015 San Fernando Race, which will start in Hong Kong on Wednesday 1 April, marking the 20th edition of this 480nm Category 1 offshore race, albeit with the 2003 edition falling victim to the 2003 SARS epidemic. With the…
Volvo Ocean Race’s six-strong fleet finally headed out of Auckland on Wednesday morning after the Leg 5 departure was delayed 67 hours to avoid the worst of Cyclone Pam. However, the crews, led out of the ‘City of Sails’ by…
Cheminées Poujoulat, Barcelona World Race leaders, are expected to make their tack towards the Mediterannean this evening, albeit still with about 1100 miles to sail to Gibraltar. Current routing has them into the Med on Sunday 22nd March. The final…
Following latest information on the development of Cyclone Pam, Race organisers have announced that Leg 5 from Auckland, New Zealand to Itajaí, Brazil, will now start on Wednesday, 18 March at 09:00 NZDT “We see a significant change between leaving…
With race leader Cheminées Poujoulat now at less than 2000 miles to the finish line in Barcelona and Spirit of Hungary now safely passing Cape Horn early this morning, the Barcelona World Race fleet is all safely in the Atlantic….
Their Barcelona World Race has proven a challenge above and beyond that of some of their rivals. Seasoned Hungarian veteran Nandor Fa and hard driving, young Kiwi Conrad Colman formed their partnership just weeks before the start, setting off round…
Superstitions run deep among competitive sailors, especially French ocean racers. But on a round the world race which has now spanned two Friday 13ths, it is not bad luck but good luck today which is running with Bernard Stamm and…
China's premiere offshore racing event has been recording a constant growth since its inception, six years ago, with more and more international crews looking forward to take part. The 2015 edition is no different. The week long event, scheduled for…
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