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When Team Vestas Wind hit a reef in the Indian Ocean during the second leg of the Volvo Ocean Race, it was obvious that someone would be held accountable. Subsequently it was established that navigator Wouter Verbraak had not drilled…
The Barcelona World Race tells the tale of the 'haves' and the 'have nots' today. Leaders Chemineés Poujoulat have plenty of perfect breeze, sprinting nearly due east at speeds peaking at more than 20kts, while the chasing pack 'have not' and…
After smashing yacht records around the world and a busy 2015, super yacht ‘Maserati’ will cap this year by making its debut challenge to win the Rolex Sydney to Hobart race. “This is the race that my career has been…
From sailing the length of the Atlantic virtually neck and neck, this morning the Barcelona World Race leaders were nearly 400 miles apart, after second-placed Neutrogena split from current leaders Cheminées Poujoulat, gybing south in search of new weather systems…
Dongfeng Race Team (Charles Caudrelier/FRA) tightened their stranglehold on Leg 3 as they began their navigation through the treacherous Malacca Strait on Monday with a historic Volvo Ocean Race breakthrough for China tantalisingly within sight. None of the three Chinese…
Primed and in pole position for the Southern Ocean, Cheminees Poujoulat and Neutrogrena had started to make fast speeds this morning but this Sunday afternoon both had slowed again slightly. But the forecasts for the two Barcelona World Race favourites…
The pair of IMOCA 60s which have shared the lead of the Barcelona World Race since the demise of pacemaker Hugo Boss remain stuck together, only a handful of miles apart as they ease through the lighter winds at the…
When the Newport Bermuda Race is next sailed in 2016, it will be scored by one handicapping system, the Offshore Racing Rule (ORR). The ORR calculates each boat’s speed potential based on its dimensions, using a Velocity Prediction Program (VPP). …
This morning Neutrogena, one of the two leading boats of the Barcelona World Race, put on their cloak of invisibility and disappeared from the view of the competition and the public from 0900hrs UTC. Whilst racing neck and neck alongside…
ALICANTE, Spain, January 15 – MAPFRE, guided by stand-in skipper Xabi Fernández (ESP), threatened to shake up the Volvo Ocean Race pack on Thursday by breaking the threesome which have so far dominated Leg 3 to Sanya. Dongfeng Race Team…
Among the four pairs of skippers who form the vanguard of the Barcelona World Race, on their IMOCA 60s, thoughts will be turning to the Southern Ocean. Two weeks to the day since the race started, they still have a…
Amendments to the 2014-15 ISAF Offshore Special Regulations, effective 1 January 2015, have been published on the ISAF website. The ISAF Offshore Special Regulations (www.sailing.org/specialregs) are used by race organisers to provide uniform minimum equipment, accommodation and training standards…
After leading the Barcelona World Race since the first full day of racing, for most of 14 days and having recently extended their lead on the water to what the skippers estimated to be around 60 miles, pre-race favourites Alex…
Dongfeng Race Team (Charles Caudrelier/FRA) continued to hold the edge in Leg 3 of the Volvo Ocean Race on Tuesday with the rest of the fleet bunched up behind and waiting for the opportunity to pounce. For Caudrelier and his…
RORC Racing Manager Nick Elliott predicted 'a scramble for places' last October when it was announced that priority would be given to RORC members wishing to secure a place in the historic race celebrating its 90th year. He wasn't wrong….
Lead by Hugo Boss at 0150hrs UTC this Monday morning, four IMOCA 60s of the Barcelona World Race fleet are now racing south in the Southern Hemisphere after crossing the equator in relatively quick succession. After Alex Thomson and Pepe…
Alex Thomson and Pepe Ribes, the British and Spanish co-skippers, should pass another milestone of the Barcelona World Race, when they ease Hugo Boss into the Southern Hemisphere this Sunday night, first across the Equator, just as they were also first out of the…
With Cheminées Poujoulat now closing ever closer to their wake Hugo Boss have regained the lead of the Barcelona World Race as the leaders head for their Doldrums experience, the Equator tomorrow and consider medium term options in the south…
The Clipper 2015-16 Race will set sail in 235 days from today (Saturday 10 January) on Sunday, 30 August, 2015, from the South of the UK. Hundreds of international crew learned the race start date and updates to the 40,000…
After making their strategic choices for the passage of the Cape Verde islands the balance is still quite even between the top three boats of the Barcelona World Race fleet. Only GAES Centros Auditivos – yesterday’s leaders who repositioned to…
ALICANTE, Spain, January 8 – Dongfeng Race Team were battling on Thursday towards the opportunity to make Volvo Ocean Race history as Charles Caudrelier's (FRA) crew continued to defy the odds at the head of the fleet. The experienced French skipper’s…
Lining up to pass between the Cape Verde Islands, sprinting south between Sal Island and Sao Nicolau and then Santiago and Fogo, Anna Corbella and Gérard Marin on GAES Centros Auditivos are expected to lead the Barcelona World Race when…
The motorway south to the Equator was opening up for the Barcelona World Race leaders this morning and British skipper Alex Thomson on Hugo Boss was back enjoying life in the fast lane. Speaking on the live video call today,…
The Clipper Round the World Yacht Race is starting the New Year by announcing sponsorship extensions with long-term partners Marlow Ropes, ChartCo and Ocean Safety ahead of the 2015-16 series, the tenth edition of the unique biennial global challenge. Clipper…
Twenty four hours ago when he and his Spanish co-skipper Pepe Ribes were slowed by light breezes, Alex Thomson joked that patience is one virtue he lacks. The Hugo Boss duo, leaders of the Barcelona World Race by 25 miles…
For the Barcelona World Race leaders the descent south towards the Canary Islands and the lifeblood Trade Winds has proven relatively slow over the last 24 hours. The fight for supremacy, such as it is, has been between stable-mates Hugo…
If during the pre-start hours in Barcelona there were fears that one Barcelona World Race duo might conjure up a breakaway in the opening days, so far such worries remain unfounded. Among the 'three musketeers' who are making the pace…
Julian Farren-Price’s evergreen steed of 14 years, About Time, delivered the Sydney owner and crew a third IRC overall handicap win in the Club Marine Pittwater to Coffs Race. “We are pretty thrilled; I can’t believe we’ve taken out IRC…
The yacht SEDUCTION has run aground on the return journey from Hobart to Melbourne. All five crew who were onboard are safe and well. The ORCV Incident Management Team have confirmed the next of kin of all crew have been…
ABU DHABI, January 3 – Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing (Ian Walker/GBR) bade farewell to their home port for the hazardous Leg 3 on Saturday by leading the fleet out towards their eventual destination of China from under a blanket of…
Guided by a full moon and making the most of the warm NE breeze, the international crew of 17 on Karl Kwok’s 80-foot maxi Beau Geste took line honours tonight in the protracted Club Marine Pittwater to Coffs Harbour Yacht…
A new record for the 538-mile opening passage from Barcelona to Gibraltar was set by Alex Thomson and Pepe Ribes when they exited the Mediterranean on Hugo Boss on Thursday evening, leading the Barcelona World Race. But their passage into…
Seven yachts are now docked at Coffs Harbour marina or heading back to Sydney and the last is travelling north to put one of the slower races in 34 years to bed. Mark Gorbatov’s Out of Sight, is making good…
Alex Thomson (GBR) and Pepe Ribes (ESP) on Hugo Boss have passed Gibraltar, crossing the Longitude 5°37W at 18H50 (CET). They have set a new record time for the Barcelona to Gibraltar course of 538 nautical miles of 2 days, 5 hours, 50 minutes. Hugo Boss is the…
ABU DHABI, January 2 – Team Vestas Wind has announced bold plans to rebuild their badly damaged boat and return to the Volvo Ocean Race by June. The Danish team’s Volvo Ocean 65 was dramatically grounded on a reef in…
Promised nor’east winds have so far failed to materialise and line honours in one of the slower Club Marine Pittwater to Coffs Yacht Races in history will be decided sometime late this afternoon or evening. Sean Langman’s giant trimaran Team…
In a sudden disappointing turn of events in the Club Marine Pittwater to Coffs Yacht Race, race leader and multihull record holder Team Australia’s 100-foot mast came down late this morning when the trimaran was 10 miles out to sea…
Before the start of the Pittwater-Coffs Race, owner of the ORMA 60 trimaran Team Australia, Sean Langman, said he would try to make up the 15 minutes start the multihull had given the monohulls, then “cover” the 80ft Beau Geste. …
After yesterday’s light winds start, which tested the patience of the 16 skippers with a busy, if slightly slow-motion, send off from the waters off the Hotel Vela (W-Hotel), there has been a steady building of wind strength, and a…
ABU DHABI, January 1 – Neal McDonald, the performance director of Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing, has been pulled out of retirement to join the crew for the third leg of the Volvo Ocean Race starting on Saturday. The 51-year-old Briton…
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