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Vendée Globe
Circle is complete for Nick Moloney
Nick Moloney onboard SKANDIA arrived at the famous French port of Les Sables d’Olonne at 1725 GMT on Wednesday [14.12.05] to complete his solo tour of the globe: "Never in a million years will I experience the famous Vendée Globe arrival as the other competitors did...completing the circle now, in this way, will give me a very different (...) -
Rolex Fastnet Race
Area wins Needles match out of the Solent
Many top-rated boats fell foul of a tricky game of snakes and ladders with the fickle breeze in the Solent, at the start of the Rolex Fastnet Race today. With the tide just on the turn as the seven divisions of the 285-boat fleet departed the Royal Yacht Squadron line in Cowes, it was a tough call knowing whether to aim for the mainland or the (...) -
Vendée Globe
Nick Moloney : "I’m gutted, completely devastated, half of me is just shattered"
The Open 60 Skandia, competing in the Vendée Globe solo non-stop around the world race, suffered a major technical failure to it’s keel at approximately 0500gmt today. The keel finally broke away from the yacht just after 0830GMT. Skandia skipper, Nick Moloney, was able to stabilise the yacht by dropping his sails and filling the (...) -
The 5-Oceans Race
Three legs for the 5-Oceans 2006 race from Bilbao to Fremantle and USA
The Spanish City of Bilbao, in the province of Bizkaia, has won the bid to host the start and finish of the 5-Oceans Race 2006/07. The race will start from the Puerto Deportivo el Abra Getxo, located at the mouth of Bilbao’s river, on 5th November 2006, and finish there the following (...) -
Vendée Globe
Clean Start to the Single-Handed Loop of the World without stopovers or assistance
At precisely 1202 GMT this 7th November 2004 the 20 competitors in the fifth edition of the Vendée Globe headed off from Les Sables d’Olonne, on the Atlantic coast of France, under grey skies with a considerably lighter than forecast 8 knot north-westerly. The fleet are set to return here in around 3 months’ time after completing (...) -
1000 milles de Calais
Royal Chess - Brits V “King Jean” in the Open 60 fleet
After parking up around the Fastnet last night the crews have been filing their way down the Irish Sea on a port tack towards the Scillies today in a weak shifty north-easterly wind and flat seas, hounded by a ridge of high pressure with the same motive. Backrunner, Arcelor Dunkerque rounded the Rock at 1257 GMT. • Ecover was the first (...) -
Défi Atlantique
Gold for Golding in La Rochelle
Mike Golding wins the Defi Atlantique on the team’s Owen Clarke Open 60 ECOVER, crossing the finish line at 05:24:10 GMT this morning travelling at 12 knots. It took Golding 16 days, 14 hours, 24 minutes and 10 seconds to complete the single-handed 4,100-nautical mile transatlantic race from Salvador, Brazil to La Rochelle, France. (...) -
Défi Atlantique
Alex Thomson sets new 24h distance monohull record
Christmas has definitely come early for Alex Thomson, the 29yr old rookie Open 60 solo skipper from Gosport. At the 0500 GMT position reports this morning, not only did he take back the lead of the Défi Atlantique solo transatlantic race on ’AT Racing’ from French skipper Vincent Riou on the Vendée Globe winning boat (...) -
Défi Atlantique
Ten Open 60’ solo skippers from Bahia to La Rochelle
The Défi Atlantique, the new West - East transatlantic for Open 60 IMOCA class monohulls will set off at 1500hrs GMT on the 30th November from Salvador, Brazil to La Rochelle, France (ETA first boat from 18th December 03). -
Transat Jacques Vabre
Virbac’s victory, 3 Brits on podium with Sill 2nd, Ecover 3rd
Virbac win the Transat Jacques Vabre Transat Jacques Vabre #TJV2015 Open 60 Monohull class with 6 hours, 51 minutes and 70 miles advance; Sill finds the edge to come 2nd just 19m ahead of Ecover in their intense match-race for the podium; next boat to finish tonight is (...)
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