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en : Volvo Ocean Race • Leg 2
Hat trick for Sanderson in Melbourne
ABN Amro One arriving in MelbourneAfter 18 days, 22 hours, 8 minutes and 40 seconds at sea, Mike Sanderson (NZ) and his exhausted crew on the black Dutch boat, ABN AMRO ONE, made it a hat trick today by winning three stages of the Volvo Ocean Race in a row ; leg one, the Cape Town in-port race and leg two from Cape Town to Melbourne, Australia. -
en : Volvo Ocean Race • Ericsson Racing Team
Neal McDonald : "To evolve, we need to push the limits"
Aboard EricssonRichard Mason inspecting the ramEricsson retired from leg two of the Volvo Ocean Race on 5 January due to a failure in the keel movement system. Just two days into the leg, one of the rods broke close to the clevis on one of the two hydraulic cylinders that control the canting of the keel. The sailing crew and shore team are now in Melbourne, waiting for their boat to arrive (…) -
en : Volvo Ocean Race
Mike Sanderson : "V70 is a rule that makes fantastic boats"
Since the start of the grueling round the world yacht race, the Volvo Ocean Race in November 2005 many commentators expressed concerns over race and boat safety. The race had hardly begun when two boats pulled out of the first leg due to structural damage and after 24 hours of the second leg two boats had again withdrawn. Many have speculated (…) -
en : Volvo Ocean Race
Leg 2 got underway today in light north westerly winds
Calm before the storm as leg two of the Volvo Ocean Race gets underway January 2, 2006, Cape Town, South Africa - It was the calm before the storm as leg two of the Volvo Ocean Race 2005-06 got underway today in light north westerly winds. -
en : Volvo Ocean Race • Leg 1
Drama on the high seas and back on land
Volvo Open 70 Sunergy and Friends comes into Cape Town to finish Leg 1 of the race in overall fifth placeWith the arrival celebrations now a distant memory, its business as usual on the Cape Town dockside as shore crews tend to the battle scars from a gruelling and highly competitive first leg in the Volvo Ocean Race 2005-06. The victory spoils went to ABN AMRO ONE who sailed into Cape Town 19 days after they set out from the start port of (…) -
en : Volvo Ocean Race
First leg win for Mike Sanderson’s team
At 1324 GMT today, an ecstatic Mike Sanderson brought ABN AMRO ONE safely into Cape Town to claim leg one of Volvo Ocean Race. After 6,400 nautical miles, and 19 days, 24 minutes and 2 seconds at sea, this team, which also holds the new monohull 24-hour world record, now leads the Volvo Ocean Race by one point, clocking up a total of 11.5 (…) -
en : Volvo Ocean Race
"Couple of weeks of repair" for "movistar”
Yesterday, the “movistar”’s second day in the Portimao Marina, Portugal, the crew of the Spanish Round the World boat got quite a surprise. Around 15:00 hours, local time, a crane raised the boat onto the commercial wharf of the Portuguese port to place it in its cradle, which had been assembled by the “movistar” shore team after bringing it (…) -
en : Volvo Ocean Race
The “movistar” reaches port for a check-up
Yesterday at 14:00 hours, Spanish Round the World boat, “movistar” reached port in Portimao, in the Algarve, Portugal, with only the damage caused by colliding sideways into a wave. -
en : Volvo Ocean Race
HM King Juan Carlos I fired the starting gun in Vigo
Up to 1 million people watched the start of the Volvo Ocean Race. With 70,000 people lining the dockside alone and 2,000 spectator boats out on the course area, the race got a magnificent send-off from the Spanish port of Vigo. There was a bustle of excitement on the dock this morning in the Spanish port of Vigo as the crews hurried around (…) -
en : Volvo Ocean Race
First win for British skipper Neal McDonald
It’s a win for British skipper Neal McDonald and his crew onboard the Swedish entry Ericsson Racing Team in the inaugural In-Port race held in Sanxenxo, Galicia, Spain, today. Ericsson Racing Team will now start leg one, the first of the offshore legs, 6,400 nautical miles to Cape Town, South Africa, next Saturday with 3.5 points already on (…)
