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Jules Verne Trophy
Orange in the fifties for the first time
"We’ve just crossed the Antarctic convergence zone" announced Bruno Peyron. The water is at 4°C, the temperature that icebergs like... So we keeping our eyes open!" But the voice of Orange’s skipper didn’t seem too anxious this morning. In fact he sounded quite satisfied because his Marseilles giant has found the right angles (...) -
Jules Verne Trophy
Last chicane before cape Leeuwin
The maxi-catamaran Orange continues to slalom in the Indian Ocean in the search for the ideal weather pattern. "We must be on our third system since the Cape of Good Hope", said Hervé Jan during today’s chat session. "During The Race on Club Med, we picked up a low around the Crozet Islands that took us all the way through to New (...) -
Jules Verne Trophy
Like on a conveyor belt… at 31.2 knots speed!
31.2 knots of instantaneous speed Speed #speedsailing at 1200 for 429 miles on the clock in the last 24 hours 24 hours 24 hours best distance covered records : the maxi-catamaran Orange is notching up the miles sliding due east along latitude 46 degrees South. The giant from Marseilles is currently under staysail and double reefed main (...) -
VOLVO OCEAN RACE
Knut Frostad : "I don’t know why we were slow"
Photo : Rick Tomlinson /Electronic ImageThe skipper of the pink Volvo 60’ answer to the volvo Ocean Race press office. -
Jules Verne Trophy
Orange has paid for the right to take on the fearsome southern latitudes
One day hove to. Two days beating into a nasty head sea. Orange has paid dearly for the right to take on the fearsome southern latitudes. At twenty knots on a sea that is once again manageable Peyron and his boys are all smiles at last. The very deep low that is moving away ahead of their bows is opening the door to the south. The great (...) -
VOLVO OCEAN RACE
Race Committee to protest SEB
On the first night of racing during leg five of the Volvo Ocean Race from Rio de Janeiro to Miami, a collision occurred between SEB, skippered by Swede, Gunnar Krantz, and illbruck, skippered by American John Kostecki. -
VOLVO OCEAN RACE
ASSA ABLOY wins leg 5 of Volvo Ocean Race into Miami
Photo : Rick TomlinsonAt 0549 ASSA ABLOY crossed the finish line winning this leg and securing second place in the overall standings of the Volvo Ocean Race. British skipper Neal McDonald and his American Navigator lead the yacht always in contact with the lead for the whole leg. For several days, the Swedish yacht was leading the (...) -
Jules Verne Trophy
Small respite before further difficulties ahead for Orange
371 miles to the north of the Kerguelen Islands, the maxi-catamaran Orange is taking advantage of another day of transition, a short respite after the tough sailing conditions of the last 48 hours, and while waiting for a new low pressure system upon whose evolution or immobility will depend Peyron’s choice of route. The zone of low (...) -
Volvo Ocean Race / Leg 5
ASSA ABLOY Elbows illbruck
Last night was tough for the German illbruck syndicate. The team, having led for over a week, has seen its respectable 15nm lead shaved down over night by Neal McDonald‚s Swedish entry ASSA ABLOY in the last 24 hours 24 hours 24 hours best distance covered records . With over a hundred miles remaining to the finish the question is - (...) -
Victory Challenge
Skip Lissiman coach for the Sweden challenger
He was in the crew that was behind one of the biggest moments in sailing history. Skip Lissiman was port trimmer on Australia II when it succeeded in achieving something nobody else had ever been close to doing before during the 132 years of the America’s Cup America's Cup #AmericasCup . To take the world’s oldest sailing trophy (...)
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