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Volvo Ocean Race 2010-2012
Ken Read : "to continue where we left"
Puma® announced today it will participate in the Volvo Ocean Race 2011-12 after finishing second overall in the 2008-09 race, which ended in June 2009. The Puma Ocean Racing team will once again be under the leadership of skipper Ken Read. -
PWA World Tour
Sarah-Quita Offringa : "To push windsurfing to new limits"
Gaastra Sails announced the signing of women’s PWA Freestyle world champion Sarah-Quita! At just 18 years of age, she is one of the new school up and coming freestylers that has made history by dominating the women’s tour! Sarah-Quita will be working to defend her Freestyle Title as well as get her feet wet on the PWA Slalom (...) -
Volvo Ocean Race
Giovanni Soldini named as the skipper of the Italia 70 team
Italy is back in the world’s premier ocean race for the first time since Brooksfield entered the Whitbread Round the World Race in 1993-94. Italy’s Giovanni Soldini (43) has been named as the skipper of the Italia 70 team, which will race under the Italian flag with a fully Italian crew. Soldini has completed two single handed (...) -
Volvo Ocean Race
Torben Grael : "the whole team won"
Ericsson Racing Team completed their Volvo Ocean Race adventure with Ericsson 4 becoming the official overall winner of the 37,000-mile round the world yacht race in the early hours of Saturday June 27, 2009. -
Sport Management
Loïck Peyron signs with Oman sail
More than two weeks after he left the Gitana Team, the famous French skipper Loick Peyron has joined the Oman Sail Extreme 40 campaign for this summer’s iShares Cup Sailing Series.. -
Gitana Team
Loïck Peyron quits baron de Rothschild’s team
The 2009 season marks a turning point for the Gitana Team. Indeed the start of the year accompanies the announcement of Loïck Peyron’s departure and the officialising of an innovative race programme, which is more in harmony with the director’s current wishes. Yann Guichard joins as skipper of the Extreme 40 ans the ORMA trimaran (...) -
Sailing team
The Oman Sail team buys MacArthur’s trimaran
Three years after Dame Ellen MacArthur sailed into the history books by breaking the world record Record #sailingrecord for a solo circumnavigation of the globe, her trimaran is back in action. She joins an Extreme 40 and a F18 in the Oman sailing team. -
Sponsoring
Josse and Moloney for MacArthur’s BT Team Ellen
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 (...) -
Vendée Globe 2008
A technical alliance for Mike Golding and Dee Caffari
Dee Caffari and Mike Golding, two British entries in the 2008 Vendée Globe, have today announced they are forming a technical alliance to share key technical data on the development of their new Open 60 yachts. -
Sport Management
Ellen MacArthur to end up a two-boat campaign for 2007-9
Ellen MacArthur, the fastest solo sailor around the planet, will head-up A two-boat Imoca Imoca #IMOCA Open 60 campaign for 2007-2009 for the Offshore Challenges Sailing Team. “My focus is to drive this new team forward, to support up and coming talent to realise their potential. My plan is to take a step back from solo sailing and, (...)