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Jules Verne Trophy
Iceberg dead ahead Orange
High speeds, straight tracks, course set directly for the southernmost tip of the Péché, the man on the helm, could distinguish 3 miles ahead the enormous ice cube in the mist. Under staysail and single reefed main, the maxi-catamaran was driving American continent, and a cry from Orange’s deck: "Iceberg dead ahead!" Philippe right down (...) -
VOLVO OCEAN RACE / Miami
Let the battle commence: leg six of the Volvo Ocean Race starts this Sunday
After a little rest and relaxation for the race crews in Miami, and a busy time in the boatyard for the shore crews, the fleet racing in the Volvo Ocean Race will be ready and raring to go out again this Sunday and do battle in leg six of the Volvo Ocean Race, which starts at 1300 local (...) -
Around Alone
The world yacht race to start from New York
Clipper Ventures Plc, race organisers, announce today that the start of Around Alone 2002-03 on 15th September will be diverted from Newport, R.I. to the City of New York. This unprecedented decision was made after Clipper Ventures received a special invitation for Around Alone to join ’Sail For America’, the one off event taking (...) -
Jules Verne Trophy
630, 640 miles on the log over the past 24 hours!
The missile Orange is tearing along on the edge of the Antarctic convergence zone. On board, one watch follows another just like on the first day, but now with the pleasure of seeing the dials go mad. It’s time for the assault. The elements are just right and the maxi-catamaran doesn’t need any encouragement to jam the speedo up (...) -
Jules Verne Trophy
24.69 knots average for an hour at the 1200 position report...
You can just imagine the current atmosphere on board the mile devouring maxi-catamaran at the moment as she continues to hurtle down the Pacific swell at full speed Speed #speedsailing . On the log the figures are racing by, progressively increasing to reach 560 miles or more than 1,000 kilometres covered these last 24 hours 24 hours 24 (...) -
Jules Verne Trophy
Orange is once again heading back down towards the deep south
A Sunday south of south. A big catamaran hurtling through the greatest ocean on the planet. And the 13 men, as applied today as they were on the first of their 36 days at sea, are giving the Orange giant the best of its precious fuel; wind, air, so temperamental since leaving Ushant astern. That precious resource that they must seek, hunt and (...) -
Jules Verne Trophy
Orange is slaloming between two lows
"To our left, about 2000 miles away, the island of Tonga... a little to the right of that the Cook islands, then a bit further on, the lagoons of Raiatéa, Wahiné and Bora Bora... In four days we could be there leaving behind the icy waters of the South Pacific..."just for one instant, and one instant only, Bruno Peyron imagined a Jules Verne (...) -
VOLVO OCEAN RACE
Meterorologist’s fun day out
The working life of a Volvo Ocean Race meteorologist is a hard and intense one. They spend hours a day in front of the computer screen studying weather patterns; in the form of charts, figures and images; trying to get a good feel for the weather conditions. Each leg of the race presents a different challenge with new oceans, new currents (...) -
Jules Verne Trophy
Passage of the International Date Line, passage of the Pacific, passage of the front...
Orange has started another symbolic day. The International Date Line symbolises the return to the West, the moment from when the sailors will be counting down the degrees that separate them from their goal. The Pacific is the other unknown immensity of this circumnavigation, an unending desolate back straight whose ultimate point is called the (...) -
VOLVO OCEAN RACE / Miami
Field hangs up his sea boots
The 52-year-old co-skipper and campaign director of News Corp has decided to hang up his sailing boots, at least for a while. A disappointed Field says that reality has finally kicked in.
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