Vendée Globe
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Vendée Globe
At 05h00 this morning Alex Thomson arrived back where he had started the Vendee Globe some 61 hours previously . The team had to wait until 10h30 for the tide to enter the canal into Les Sables d’Olonne. By 14h00 the mast was taken out and at 15h30 HUGO BOSS was lifted from the (...)
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Vendée Globe
Every vantage point along the canal from the haven of Les Sables d’Olonne port to the sea was jammed deep with tens of thousands of well wishers. There were tears on the dockside as lines were slipped, dozens and dozens of messages along the long stretch of sea walls that funnel the record Record #sailingrecord sized fleet to sea - (...)
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Vendée Globe
British female sailor Sam Davies is ready to take on the 2008 Vendée Globe following a summer refit for her IMOCA Imoca #IMOCA Open 60 racing yacht ‘Roxy’. After a valiant fifth place in the 2008 Artemis Transat in May, the highest placed Briton in the fleet, Sam and Roxy are now focused on completing the 45,000 kilometre race (...)
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Vendée Globe
At 2.30am this morning Alex Thomson and his crew onboard the Open 60 yacht HUGO BOSS were struck by a 60 foot fishing vessel. HUGO BOSS was 2 miles outside the harbour of les Sables d’Olonne when the incident happened. HUGO BOSS was waiting to transfer some of the technical team onboard at daylight having just crossed the channel from (...)
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Vendée Globe
Today on the River Thames (London, UK), Seb Josse’s BT IMOCA Imoca #IMOCA 60 was officially launched after an extensive race refit. And it proved to be a sweet moment of success for Seb and his teammate Ellen MacArthur as the all-girl band, the Sugababes, joined the duo onboard the BT IMOCA Imoca #IMOCA 60 to sing one of their (...)
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Transat AG2R
British yachtsman and Route du Rhum Route du Rhum #RouteDuRhum winner Phil Sharp has announced an entry in the famous Figaro circuit, one of the world’s most competitive offshore sailing arenas, based out of France, that attracts the top ocean racing talent of (...)
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Vendée Globe
Veteran British ocean racer Brian Thompson will skipper Open 60, Pindar, in the 2008 Vendée Globe. Starting from Les Sable d’Olonne, France, on the 9th November 2008, Thompson is the seventh Briton and the 27th pre-entrant for the sixth edition of this classic single-handed non-stop round the world (...)
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Sponsoring
BT Team Ellen signs a 3-year sailing partnership, bringing together world-class sailors Ellen MacArthur (GBR), Sébastien Josse (FRA) and Nick Moloney (AUS) alongside other sailing talent dedicated to success on the water across a number of disciplines, including the IMOCA Imoca #IMOCA Ocean Racing World Championships and the Extreme 40 (...)
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Launching
Leading British print and electronic media Media #media company Pindar this week launched its brand new Open 60 in Auckland, New Zealand. A radical new design, which incorporates many cutting edge features including a rotating wing mast and hydraulically adjustable outriggers, this boat will be capable of breaking boundaries, setting (...)
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Vendée Globe
Artemis Ocean Racing (AOR), the sailing team sponsored by leading UK investment company Artemis, has presented the ongoing construction of their new Open 60. The task of designing and carrying out the new boat build rests with Simon Rogers, owner and founder of Rogers Yacht Design Yacht Design #YachtDesign Ltd. Based in Lymington (UK), the (...)