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VOLVO OCEAN RACE / Leg 5
Kostecki’s Yacht illbruck Hit In Collision
The incident occurred during a straightforward collision avoidance manoeuvre. "We had a port and starboard, us on port them on starboard," explained SEB skipper Gunnar Krantz. "We tried to duck them and missed the duck and touched them on the port aft corner with our bow. And made our 720 and continued (...) -
Jules Verne Trophy
Peyron and his boys let the record to Peter Blake
Slowed 80 miles from the equator, the maxi catamaran Orange leaves Peter Blake with the reference time between Ushant and the equator. Peyron and his crew have used up the semblance of a trade wind which had been propelling them onwards since the Cape Verde Islands. Today the North Atlantic is giving them a slight rest before they move into (...) -
VOLVO OCEAN RACE / Rio de Janeiro
Last minute crew change at start to Volvo Ocean Race leg five
In the searing heat of Rio de Janeiro, Lisa McDonald, the skipper of Amer Sports Too, made a last minute change to her crew for leg five of the Volvo Ocean Race. Bridget Suckling, one of the two crew working the bow, was already onboard the boat and intending to race, but medics recommended that she should stay ashore to recover from (...) -
International Rolex Regatta
Racing and Reggae Combine for Festive Time in St. Thomas
While it has been a wildly popular Easter Weekend racing tradition for 28 years, the International Rolex Regatta has just become the island of St. Thomas’s hottest social ticket as well. -
Jules Verne Trophy
Orange against Enza’s Ouessant to Equator record
24 hours 24 hours 24 hours best distance covered records to cover 415 miles and inscribe the name of Orange in place of Enza and Sir Peter Blake on the Ushant-Equator record Record #sailingrecord ; Almost a formality anywhere else on the globe for a new generation maxi-catamaran. But a bit of a challenge when approaching the land of (...) -
STEINLAGER/LINE 7 REGATTA
America’s Cup preview in Auckland from March 19th
Team New Zealand’s Dean Barker, will be fighting it out with an awesome line-up, one of whom he could face on the starting line of the America’s Cup America's Cup #AmericasCup in a year’s time, when he tries to achieve an unprecedented second successful defence of the (...) -
TROPHEE JULES VERNE
Orange is slaloming between the islands
Slaloming between the islands, schussing along the edges of highs... the ’no faults’ descent of the North Atlantic is drawing to a close for the maxi-catamaran Orange in site of the Doldrums. The wind is dying, the sky is clouding over, and the speedometer is falling to more ’normal’ standards... this is the great ocean (...) -
Trophée Jules Verne
Geronimo on her way home
Since returning to the Northern Hemisphere, Geronimo has been making good headway towards her destination in Brittany. The task now facing the Cap Gemini Ernst & Young – Schneider Electric team is to reach Brest Brest #brest as quickly as possible and get started on diagnosing and repairing the problems encountered with the (...) -
Multi 60
Fred Le Peutrec’s Bayer launched in La Rochelle
The new trimaran in the port of La Rochelle. Note the rudders (in orange). Photo : Bernard Gergaud.Fresh out of the Mag Océa yard, the brand new trimaran Bayer has just been launched in La Rochelle. In a few days she will be confronting the ocean waves for the first time on her sail up to her homeport of La Trinité-sur-Mer where she will be officially named on March (...) -
TROPHEE JULES VERNE
Peyron less than 1000 miles from the equator line
An instant speed Speed #speedsailing of 31.3 knots at 1000 this morning, 519.26 miles in 24 hours 24 hours 24 hours best distance covered records at the 1300 position report... As hoped for yesterday, the maxi-catamaran Orange has picked up a slight shift to the east in the trades, which has enabled her on the one hand to gain speed (...)
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