"No broach, please God, no broach"
Sail races, sailing news
- 16 hours ago
<!-- Converted from text/rtf format --> It is one wipeout after another as the Volvo fleet endures yet more heinous conditions as it races towards the scoring gate on leg two of the Volvo Ocean Race to Cochin in India. PUMA (Ken Read/USA) has crashed off another wave, but, this time, the damage is rather more serious. The crew of PUMA Ocean Racing make repairs to their boat after sustaining
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Volvo Fleet in Trouble
Sail races, sailing news
- Nov 19, 2008
<!-- Converted from text/rtf format --> The past 24-hours have been the most testing in the Volvo Ocean Race so far, as the fleet battled high winds and a confused sea on leg two to Cochin in India. The worst effected was the Green Dragon team (Ian Walker/GBR), who broke their boom shortly before 1100 GMT this morning. This came after they survived a spectacular Chinese gybe yesterday. PUMA,
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Volvo Leg 2
Sail races, sailing news
- Nov 17, 2008
<!-- Converted from text/rtf format --> Leg 2 of the Volvo Ocean Race 2008/09 started Saturday, November 15th. This time the fleet faces 4,450 nautical miles from Cape Town, South Africa, to Cochin, India, the first completely new and unknown leg of the race to be sailed by the eight participating boats. No knowledge of these waters means that the teams will have to rely on statistics instead of
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World Sailor of the Year
Sail races, sailing news
- Nov 12, 2008
<!-- Converted from text/rtf format --> ISAF and Rolex are proud to announce that the female and male winners of the ISAF Rolex World Sailor of the Year Awards 2008 are: Alessandra Sensini (ITA) and Ben Ainslie (GBR). Ben Ainslie made history once again this evening as the first person ever to have won the Award three times in his career. "It's so difficult to describe my feelings in this
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33rd America's Cup
Sail races, sailing news
- Nov 12, 2008
<!-- Converted from text/rtf format --> A large majority of the teams entered in the 33rd America’s Cup today achieved another milestone in the process of getting the event back on the water during a second Competitor Meeting at the Société Nautique de Genève in Switzerland. Ten of the 12 entered challengers present at the meeting, along with the Defender Alinghi, expressed a unanimous will to
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Eight Retired
Sail races, sailing news
- Nov 11, 2008
<!-- Converted from text/rtf format --> It may have been a tough, physical first night for the 30 skippers who started the Vendée Globe in Les Sables d’Olonne yesterday but a malicious cold front is forecast to hit them during this afternoon and into tonight which will give them a severe test as they try to escape November's grim clutches in the Bay of Biscay. While Marc Guillemot on Safran has
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Vendee Globe Started
Sail races, sailing news
- Nov 10, 2008
<!-- Converted from text/rtf format --> The sixth edition of the Vendée Globe got underway at 13h02 today (Sunday), on a gloomy day of variable south-westerly breezes with confused choppy seas inshore and a heavier swell out at sea. But the overcast conditions couldn’t dampen the atmosphere, with hundreds of thousands of spectators lining the sea walls and clambering onto precarious vantage
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Joyon Breaks Record
Sail races, sailing news
- Nov 10, 2008
<!-- Converted from text/rtf format --> Francis Joyon sailed the maxi trimaran IDEC across the finishing line off San Salvador at 02:06 UTC on Friday to break the solo Discovery Route record by 15 hours and 15 minutes, subject to ratification by the World Sailing Speed Record Council. Francis Joyon (FRA) had left Cadiz, Spain at 05:30:57 seconds UTC on Tuesday 28 October, before crossing the
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Vendee Globe
Sail races, sailing news
- Nov 7, 2008
<!-- Converted from text/rtf format --> Everything is ready for the Vendee Globe that starts this Sunday. Mike Golding is the only skipper of the magnificent seven to have finished twice, third in 2005.Alex Thomson started in 2004 and had to retire. Of the seven boats, no fewer than five of the 18 new builds are new for this Vendée Globe cycle: ECOVER 3, AVIVA, Artemis, Bahrain Team Pindar,
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All finished
Sail races, sailing news
- Nov 4, 2008
<!-- Converted from text/rtf format --> Ireland’s Ger O’Rourke’s last minute Irish/Dutch entry, Team Delta Lloyd safely crossed the finish in Cape Town to night at 2303 GMT (0103 local time), to finish the leg in seventh position. Although they have been at sea for just 23 days, 10 hours, 09 minutes and 22 seconds (23.10:09:22), it must surely have felt like a lifetime, given the amount the
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