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Volvo Ocean Race
Lorient completes daunting route for Volvo Ocean Race 2014-15
The French city of Lorient will return as the penultimate stopover in the Volvo Ocean Race for the 12th edition in 2014-15, completing a route that will test the world’s best professional sailors to the limit in a race around the world lasting almost nine months and 40,000 nautical (...) -
Maxi 80
Video : New 80’ trimaran Prince de Bretagne sailing off Lorient
Lionel Lemonchois, past winner of the Route du Rhum Route du Rhum #RouteDuRhum , is preparing in Lorient, Brittany, France, his new maxi trimaran. Prince de Bretagne is an old ORMA (60’) trimaran lengthened to 80 feet. His main goal is, again, the Route du Rhum Route du Rhum #RouteDuRhum in 2014. But we hope to see her racing agains (...) -
Construction navale
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, Brittany. This is also a (...) -
Volvo Ocean Race
Franck Cammas’ crew wins the Lorient inport race
Hometown heroes Groupama completed a last-gasp win in the Bretagne In-Port Race in Lorient on Saturday to take a big step towards overall victory in the Volvo Ocean Race 2011-12. -
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 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 yacht will be strictly one-design. It will be designed by the (...) -
Volvo Ocean Race
Groupama earned 30 points to have 23 points clear of their nearest rivals
The Leg 8 race from Lisbon to Lorient was short, but it was anything but sweet. From drifting in the Azores to racing into the eye of a storm where searing speeds and heartbreaking boat damage resulted, the shortest leg of the race yet didn’t come up short on (...) -
Volvo Ocean Race
Home glory for Franck Cammas’crew in Lorient
Groupama completed a heroic comeback victory on Leg 8 of the Volvo Ocean Race on Friday, strengthening their grip on the overall standings and realising a dream homecoming to Lorient – while Telefónica were left to reflect on what might have been after a cruel twist of (...) -
Transat BtoB
Le Cléac’h and Gabart back home in Lorient
It was a fine afternoon: despite the cold and a few residual squalls, friends, families, shore crews and locals flocked to Lorient, South-West Brittany, to welcome in the Transat The Transat #thetransat #ostar B to B racers. Clearly keen to tie up and return to their lives on land, the sailors nevertheless relished the welcome that had been (...) -
Gitana Team
The MOD 70 Edmond de Rothschild Group hits the water in Lorient
In March 2010, Baron Benjamin de Rothschild ranked among the very first boat owners to commit to the new Multi One Design circuit. A year and seven months on, the project has become a reality with the launch of the MOD 70 Edmond de Rothschild Group. The fourth one-design of the Multi One Design class, this multihull forms part of a long line (...) -
Transat 650
Solo American Skipper Emma Creighton Takes On the 2011 Mini Transat
In the world of European offshore sailing, having a dialed-in shore team and plenty of sponsorship is rapidly becoming the norm, making it much harder for "regular" sailors to participate. Amongst her fellow skippers participating in the 2011 Mini Transat Race, American Emma Creighton stands out for several important (...)
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