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SpeedDream
SpeedDream offshore prototype to be skippered by Vendée legend Mike Golding
SpeedDream, in conjunction with their technology partner, the Russian tech giant Yandex, announced that they will take the lessons learned from the SpeedDream27 prototype and apply them, along with other innovations, to a much larger offshore prototype. The boat, which will launch during 2014, will be skippered by Mike (...) -
Volvo Ocean Race
The first VO65 hits the water
SCA’s race boat for the Volvo Ocean Race 2014-15 was put in the water late this afternoon. It is the first of the radical new VO65 racing yachts that will be used for the next two editions of the Race. -
Oracle Team USA
American AC72 is back on the water 3 1/2 months after her spectacular capsize
ORACLE TEAM USA ‘17’ was back in the San Francisco Bay today, beginning the next phase of training for the 34th America’s Cup America's Cup #AmericasCup . A crew of 11 sailors, plus members of the design and performance team, took ORACLE TEAM USA’s AC72 AC72 #AC72 racing yacht on the water for testing and (...) -
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CDK Technologies, the other winner of the Vendée Globe
François Gabart (Macif) and Armel Le Cléac’h (Banque Populaire) aren’t just sharing the top two spots in the Vendée Globe. The two young skippers, aged 29 and 35 respectively, also have in common the fact that their monohulls were built in the same boatyard, CDK Technologies, in Port la Forêt and Lorient Lorient L’actualité (...) -
#VG2012
Vincent Riou’s PRB Damaged after Collision with Metal Buoy
Vincent Riou, the winner of the 2004-05 Vendée Globe, rescuing hero of the 2008-09 edition and one of the favourites for this race has suffered a serious blow in the south Atlantic. A statement from his team said that Riou was uninjured after he had collided with a metal buoy but that the impact had damaged the bow of (...) -
SpeedDream27
Cam Lewis : " This boat is bleeding edge technology"
After an extended period refining the design and testing the internal keel canting mechanism, SpeedDream27, a prototype for what will become the worlds fastest monohull, was launched and sailed off Rockland, Maine. As a completely experimental boat there was quite rightly some anticipation as to how things would work but on its maiden sail, (...) -
ORACLE TEAM USA
Video : American first AC72 launched in San Francisco
ORACLE TEAM USA’s first AC72 AC72 #AC72 is wheeled from the build shed into the light. After a day of testing and a brief but all-important christening, she touches San Francisco Bay for her very first journey. -
Volvo Ocean Race
The Volvo Ocean Race has unveiled details of the Farr 65’ that will be used for the next two editions of the Race
The plans detailed by Race CEO Knut Frostad at a presentation in Lorient Lorient L’actualité du port de Lorient et de sa région. on Thursday will significantly reduce the cost of mounting a competitive campaign and are designed to bring the size of the fleet to 8-10 boats in future editions. The 65-foot (19.8-metre) monohull racing (...) -
Energy Team
Bruno Peyron : "I would like to thank Russell Coutts for the trust he has shown in us"
The French Challenger ENERGY TEAM led by Loïck and Bruno Peyron, has just concluded a license agreement with the American Defender ORACLE Racing led by Russell Coutts. -
One Design
Owen Clarke Design presents a mono-type (one design) IMOCA Mono60
"This, along with a generic design was presented before the meeting in Lorient Lorient L’actualité du port de Lorient et de sa région. in February 2012 at which some of the members of IMOCA Imoca #IMOCA discussed the way for ward for the class after the 2012 Vendee Globe. This discussion included this option as one of the (...)