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Volvo Ocean Race: Video - Out into the unknown
Image credit Paul Todd Volvo Ocean Race
The early part of Leg 2 promises to be one of the most challenging of the Volvo Ocean Race 2011-12 with the teams facing an immediate quandary over which route to choose when they exit Cape Town on their way to Abu Dhabi.
Race meteorologist Gonzalo Infante is expecting 15 to 20 knot west to south west winds for the start and says the first 35 miles between the Cape...
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Volvo Ocean Race: Video: Day of drama sees PUMA dismasted....
Image Credit Amory Ross/PUMA Ocean Racing/Volvo Ocean Race
Yesterday followers of the Volvo Ocean Race got another stark reminder of the brutal nature of this race and the toll it can take on people and equipment.
First came the news of the dismasting of second placed PUMA Ocean Racing in relatively moderate breezes. Then during a sail change on board CAMPER whilst the boat was hurtling along at over 20 knots, bowman Mike Parmenter was s...
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Volvo Ocean Race: Video: Trailing Groupama and CAMPER put on brave faces as the leaders push for the big breezes...
Image credit: Hamish Hooper/CAMPER ETNZ/Volvo Ocean Race
Some onboard footage from the third and fourth placed boats in Leg 1 as they trail Telefonica and PUMA on the second half of the leg to Cape Town.
The fleet now has to negotiate the St Helena High and are pushing hard south while avoiding the south atlantic convergence zone to the west, before try to hook into the easterly running low pressure systems which could fast forward them to Cape Town.&nbs...
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34th America's Cup: Trouble in paradise?
Image Credit: Sander van der Borch
It seems that Artemis racing are none too pleased about the recently announced tie up between Emirates Team New Zealand and Luna Rossa which will see these two well funded teams sharing information and collaborating on design in the lead up to the building of the 90 foot AC boats.
With ETNZ and Luna Rossa now all loved up and Oracle Racing already running a two team campaign, Artemis are beginning to feel like the poor...
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Transat Jacques Vabre: It's all for charity, mate...
It's bear-faced PR nonsense we know, but it's for a good cause so we will allow it just this once. He goes:
If Paddington Bear was the first bear to arrive from Peru, then perhaps Pudsey Bear will be the first Pudsey to cross the Atlantic on an IMOCA Open 60 state of the art racing yacht with one of the world’s most successful solo sailors, Mike Golding OBE.
Golding, onboard his 60 foot yacht, Gamesa, is in the final stages o...
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Volvo Ocean Race: DHL - proper partners in a crisis
Image Credit Nick Dana/Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing/Volvo Ocean Race
We all know your friends are the ones you can count on in a crisis. DHL are the official logisitics partner of the Volvo Ocean Race and as well as shipping the more than 200 containers that it takes to put a round the world yacht race on. they also proved their worth when Abu Dhabi had their disastrous first night.
When they lost their rig on the first night, the biggest challenge facing the...
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Transat Jacques Vabre: Virbac Paprec 3 due early Friday
Image Credit: Jean-Pierre Dick & Jeremie Beyou/Virbac-Paprec 3
For Jean Pierre Dick and Jérémie Beyou the final miles in to Puerto Limon, Costa Rica may still be stressful, but with a margin over second placed Hugo Boss which this afternoon was equivalent to half of the distance they still had to sail, it would take a major upset to rob the Virbac-Paprec 3 pair of a well deserved Transat Jacques Vabre victory.
They are e...
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Volvo Ocean Race: Read's determination keeps PUMA infront
Image Credit: Amory Ross/PUMA Ocean Racing/Volvo Ocean Race
Like most of you we are loving the images coming from PUMA media crew member Amory Ross during the first leg of the Volvo Ocean Race.
Case in point is this shot capturing the determination of the face of skipper Ken Read as the American team fight off the advances of Iker Martinez's Spanish crew on Team Telefonica. These two have been dueling it out for 11 days and more than 2000 miles, a...
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