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Crew changes for Volvo Ocean Race leg six winner News Corp
With the transatlantic leg of the Volvo Ocean Race due to start this Sunday, April 28th, from Annapolis, the first crew changes are beginning to filter through. -
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News Corp Wins Leg Six
image 300 x 158Photo : C.Borlenghi / Sea&See.it
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en : Volvo Ocean Race / Leg 6
Team News Corp first into the Cheasepeake Bay
Yesterday’s chess game for the Volvo Ocean Race fleet appears now to have changed into a game of snakes and ladders, dependent on the roll of the dice with the fickle conditions and complex current scenarios. With the boats so close together, the main factor for the tacticians will be to minimise the losses against the rest of the fleet, (…) -
en : Volvo Ocean Race / Leg 6
CHESS - The Next Move
Yacht racing has often been likened to a three-dimensional game of chess and for the navigators and tacticians on their way to Baltimore, juggling the different moves and anticipating the final stages of this short leg, will prove just as taxing. Mark Rudiger from ASSA ABLOY wrote on his way into Auckland that he would be giving up gambling, (…) -
en : Volvo Ocean Race / Leg 6
IF ONLY...
"If only", a saying which is widely used in the modern world. "If only I had got out of bed earlier this morning‚ can cover a plethora of disasters throughout the rest of the day, which could be traced back to that extra ten minutes under the duvet ! -
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Dramatic start in Miami for leg six of the Volvo Ocean Race
image 203 x 300The Volvo Ocean Race fleet at the restart from Miami
©Richard Langdon/Ocean ImagesIn an extraordinary start in Miami today, six of the eight boats racing in leg six of the Volvo Ocean Race from Miami to Baltimore were OCS (on course side) at the sound of the starting cannon and had to return and re-cross the line. -
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American Double Olympic Gold Medallist joins Team SEB
As Sunday’s start to leg six of the Volvo Ocean Race grows ever closer, the focus shoreside is on the expected, and unexpected, crew changes within the eight competing teams. It is probable that the fleet will be augmenting its offshore experience with some fresh crewmembers who have specific knowledge of the waters to be sailed, as well as (…) -
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Let the battle commence : leg six of the Volvo Ocean Race starts this Sunday
After a little rest and relaxation for the race crews in Miami, and a busy time in the boatyard for the shore crews, the fleet racing in the Volvo Ocean Race will be ready and raring to go out again this Sunday and do battle in leg six of the Volvo Ocean Race, which starts at 1300 local time. -
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Meterorologist’s fun day out
The working life of a Volvo Ocean Race meteorologist is a hard and intense one. They spend hours a day in front of the computer screen studying weather patterns ; in the form of charts, figures and images ; trying to get a good feel for the weather conditions. Each leg of the race presents a different challenge with new oceans, new currents (…) -
en : VOLVO OCEAN RACE / Miami
Field hangs up his sea boots
The 52-year-old co-skipper and campaign director of News Corp has decided to hang up his sailing boots, at least for a while. A disappointed Field says that reality has finally kicked in.