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Rolex Sydney Hobart Race 2014: Wild Oats XI takes 8th line honours victory but not before the battle with Comanche had closed up once again
As Bob Oatley’s Wild Oats XI crossed the finishing line to take the overall win…
Rolex Sydney Hobart: Perpetual Loyal suffers bow delamination as Wild Oats takes the overall lead from Comanche – was this the race defining moment?
Twenty four hours after the start of the Rolex Sydney Hobart, Wild Oats IX took…
Rolex Sydney Hobart: Smoking start for Comanche and one of the fastest exits of the fleet from Sydney
Perfect conditions, flat water and 15-20 knots of breeze saw a blistering start for all…
Rolex Sydney Hobart: Christmas Eve fleet briefing points to 20-30 knots against the tide on Friday for the dead beat south
A punchy upwind start followed by lighter conditions for the big boats crossing the Bass…
New all-carbon maxi Rambler 88 launched in Rhode Island, a new Juan K-designed handicap weapon
The new all-carbon maxi Rambler 88 was launched the month at New England Boatworks in…
Independent report on Team Vestas wreck is set up by Volvo Ocean Race
An independent report into the grounding of Team Vestas Wind’s boat on a reef in…
New Cowes marina a step closer as developers for the project are announced
A planned new marina in Cowes is one step closer with the construction of the…
Volvo Ocean Race: Why Leg 2 has placed three boats at the top and in a different league to the rest
With the change to a strict one design came the promise of close racing for…
Experience counts as Team Brunel win Volvo Ocean Race leg 2 to Abu Dhabi
Experience counted in the end, as Team Brunel swept past their rivals on Dongfeng Race…
ARC 2014: A new course record and an impressive repeat performance, Matthew Sheahan reports from the finish in St Lucia
There are easier ways to cross the Atlantic than peeling kites on an hourly basis,…
Video: Full footage as Volvo Ocean Race Team Vestas strikes the reef and the crew prepare to abandon ship
the boat was doing 19 knots. The noise and the violence of the collision on…
Volvo Ocean Race – how could a yacht bristling with technology hit a known reef?
How is it possible for a yacht bristling with the latest technology to hit a…
Tax, TV and timings – why the Americas Cup 2017 is to take place in Bermuda
The Americas Cup 2017 will take place in Bermuda. The confirmation of the venue for…
New 100ft supermaxi Comanche arrives in Australia to prepare for the Sydney-Hobart Race
The superfast 100ft maxi designed as a record breaker for Netscape founder Jim Clark and…
New Pogo 3 is an even more powerful machine and a dangerously addictive pocket rocket
More power and less weight Matthew Sheahan discovers that Pogo Structure’s third generation mini transat…
First aerial shot of broken VOR 65 Team Vestas Wind on the Cargados Carajos Shoals, Mauritius
A picture posted on the Volvo Ocean Race website shows the sad wreckage of Chris…
Volvo Ocean Race skipper Chris Nicholson describes how his crew came to abandon their Volvo 65 and what happens next
– The damage is massive in the boat – We had to just hang with…
Team Vestas crew abandon boat as they hit reef on the Cargados Carajos Shoals, Mauritius in Volvo Ocean Race
At 1510 UTC, Team Vestas Wind informed Race Control that their boat was grounded on…
ARC 2014 – One week in and the crews are settling in but the weather has been a surprise – selection of logs
One week in and the ARC fleet is settling into the routine of their 2,700nm…