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VOLVO OCEAN RACE / Leg 4
Decisions, decisions… before rounding cape Horn
Tactics and strategy for the navigators and tacticians on the Volvo Ocean Race are never easy at the best of times. Weather routing : which weather model to choose or adapt? Boat to boat tactics and strategy : which is the favoured side where we want to be for the next shift, which could be well over 100 miles or 24 hours 24 hours 24 (...) -
VOLVO OCEAN RACE / Leg 4
illbruck first to round Cape Horn
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The Volvo Ocean Race reaches a global audience
Results from ongoing and extensive media Media #media research in specific territories, confirm that the Volvo Ocean Race is reaching a wider audience than ever before. -
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Pascal Bidegorry joins Team SEB
For leg 4 of the Volvo Ocean Race which starts this Sunday in Auckland, Team SEB, currently in sixth position overall, has hired French solo and trimaran sailor Pascal Bidegorry, aged 34. -
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Grant Dalton on Cayard joining Amer Sports One
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Coping with Seasickness
Racing in the Volvo Ocean Race, the world’s premier ocean race, is tough at the best of times. It’s hard to picture what it must be like to live onboard a stripped out racing machine, which is what the V.O.60 class is, for weeks on end, in cramped conditions with 11 other people. It’s either freezing cold or unbearably hot. (...) -
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ASSA ABLOY First into Auckland!
What a fantastic day for the kiwis on ASSA ABLOY, to win Leg 3 of the Volvo Ocean Race into Auckland. New Zealanders, Richard Mason and Stu Wilson were heroes along with the rest of the crew of ASSA ABLOY, to the early morning cheering crowd, as they entered Viaduct Basin, after they had crossed the finish (...) -
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Who Will be the First Kiwi into Auckland?
To every New Zealander on the Volvo Ocean Race fleet, to be the first Kiwi into Auckland rates extremely high in their list of achievements for this leg. Grant Dalton from Amer Sports One when asked how important for him personally to lead into Auckland, said in Hobart, "As important as any other Kiwi in this race, won the last two and I (...) -
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Line Honours for Volvo Ocean Race Boat in CYCA Sydney Hobart Race
Photo: C.Borlenghi / Sea&See.itAssa Abloy timed her finish to perfection to win line honours in the 57th CYCA Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race when she slipped across the finish line in full view of a huge crowd on a busy Saturday morning at just before 10 am local time. -
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Australian Victory For illbruck
Photo: Illbruck on the way to the finish with the Sydney Opera House in the background. Photo: Daniel Forster illbruckillbruck’s victory on the second leg of the Volvo Ocean Race was anything but straight forward. It is the story of disaster and a determined comeback in great style. With less than 24 hours 24 hours 24 hours best distance covered records at sea, the yacht flooded her bow section so bad that the bow was under water. In a dramatic team (...)
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