08.10.2017 Volvo Ocean Race fleet heading for start port of Alicante as Prologue is underway The Prologue Leg of the Volvo Ocean Race began on Sunday afternoon, after the start was delayed by just over 2 hours and moved nearly 20 miles south in order to find better racing conditions (see more below) The Prologue…
RACE 2 DAY 4: RACE TO THE SCORING GATE HOTS UP 8 OCTOBER 2017 Whilst the Finish Line in Cape Town remains the ultimate goal for the Clipper Race fleet in the Stormhoek Race to the Cape of Storms, at least three teams currently have the Scoring Gate in their sights. Dare To Lead…
08.10.2017 Thank you and see you next year! Today, the traditional glamorous awards ceremony for the Prizes and Trophies at the citadel in sunny Saint Tropez rounded off this extraordinary festival of international yachting. Nearly 4,000 skippers, captains, sailors and owners are now returning to their daily lives right around the sailing planet, some in…
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RACE 2 DAY 3: CLOSE-FOUGHT BATTLE CONTINUES 7 OCTOBER 2017 PSP Logistics safely arrived into Piriapolis, Uruguay, yesterday afternoon, local time, to repair rudder damage, as the rest of the fleet continued in a closely-fought contest towards Cape Town. With less than 10nautical miles separating the top five teams, over the last 24 hours, the…
07.10.2017 Love is in the air – Mariska works her way up to the Rolex Trophy – Alizee pockets the Edmond de Rothschild Trophy – Lyra, the unexpected driving force in the BMW Trophy Featuring a series of superb races every day of what proved to be a packed week for all the series, Modern,…
06.10.2017 Tilly XV wins 2017 Gstaad Yacht Club Centenary Trophy Photo-finish may seem an overstatement to define centenarian yachts crossing the finish line. But this is actually what happened in Saint-Tropez where eleven crews, out of twenty entrants, finished the race for the 2017 Gstaad Yacht Club Centenary Trophy, the only sailing trophy reserved to…
RACE 2 DAY 2: EARLY FRONTRUNNERS EMERGE 6 OCTOBER 2017 It’s been an action-packed second day of Race 2: The Stormhoek Race to the Cape of Storms, with the past 24 hours seeing one team forced to suspend racing, while the rest of the fleet has continued its fast passage across a turbulent South Atlantic…
6 October 2017 Prologue Leg to offer final tune-up ahead of race start On Sunday afternoon at 1400 local time in Lisbon (1300 UTC), the seven Volvo Ocean Race skippers will lead their teams off the start line of the Prologue Leg, a non-scoring race to the host city and start port of Alicante, Spain…