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Information Velux 5 Oceans
Source : Pitch PR / 5-Oceans
– Organisateau : Clipper Adventure
– Velux 5 Oceans Race : 3 legs Solo Round the world race for Open 60s & 50s
– Ex-BOC Challenge / Around Alone
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en : Around Alone
Around Alone becames 5-Oceans for 2006
Following a review of the Around Alone 2002-03 yacht race, race organisers Clipper Ventures plc, along with leading sports marketing company Fast Track, have today unveiled an exciting new format for the next edition in 2006, which will be renamed 5-Oceans. -
en : Around Alone • Leg 5
Alan Paris becomes first Bermudian solo circumnavigator
At the end of a beautiful Mothering Sunday in Newport RI, Bermudian skipper Alan Paris on Open 40 BTC Velocity reached across the finish line in a rising 20 knot breeze at 20:22:08 GMT (16:22:08 local time). The bearded Bermudian was holding high his national flag, and was met by a gaggle of spectator boats cheering the weary sailor home after (…) -
en : Around Alone • Leg 5
Spirit of yukoh first Open 40 to finish in Newport
The first Open 40 to finish in Newport RI, and in third place for Leg 5 was Spirit of yukoh, skippered by Japan’s Kojiro Shiraishi, when he crossed the line at 16:41:41 GMT (12:41:41 local time) on 7th May. The breeze had come up from the East and the fog had lifted to reveal the sunshine, allowing Kojiro to run downwind at speed to the finish. (…) -
en : Around Alone • Leg 5
Tiscali dismasts but Bianchetti still finishes second
During his last night at sea racing in Around Alone, Italian skipper Simone Bianchetti informed his shore team and the race organisation Tiscali would be arriving before dawn, but was worried about his mast because he could not take more than one reef in the mainsail and yet the wind had risen to 45 - 50 knots. His worst suspicions were (…) -
en : Around Alone • Leg 5
Final victory for Bernard Stamm in Newport
At 11:20:10 GMT (07:20:10 local time) the blue Open 60 Bobst Group - Armor Lux slipped across the last of 5 finish lines off Newport RI, the slight figure of her skipper, Swiss sailor Bernard Stamm up on the foredeck punching his fist into the air with the widest grin, and then setting off two red flares in his hands in triumph of his newly (…) -
en : Around Alone • Leg 5
Countdown for Swiss victory
The 28,000 mile, 8 month grand prix Around Alone race is going to reach its zenith for Swiss skipper Bernard Stamm on Bobst Group - Armor Lux when he crosses the finish line in Newport RI in the next 24 hours. As he makes it his fifth straight time to arrive first in port, not only will he have won Leg 5 to make it four leg wins in total, but (…) -
en : Around Alone • leg 5
"A heck of a boat race to the finish !"
Class 2 leader Brad Van Liew on Tommy Hilfiger Freedom America summed up how the final leg of Around Alone 2002-03 is being played out on the water when he wrote in his log today that from now on this will be : "a heck of a boat race to the finish !" The majority of the fleet has come together to the East of Bermuda, but the wind gods have (…) -
en : Around Alone • Leg 5
A Swiss skipper straight into the storm
The tropical depression barring the route for the 9 Around Alone boats racing to Newport, RI is going to shake up the fleet, starting with leader Bernard Stamm on Bobst Group - Armor Lux. Currently in 10 - 12 knots of northwesterly breeze, the Swiss skipper had to manoeuvre his blue monohull upwind straight into the storm : "Like any system, (…) -
en : Around Alone • Leg 5
Halfway to Newport, Stamm still leading
The final 1,500 miles of Leg 5 of Around Alone 2002-03 is shaping up to be the most exciting racing. Latest news is that Italian skipper Simone Bianchetti, currently in 2nd place on Tiscali, and vying for 3rd place overall with Emma Richards on Pindar, has spent the last 24 hours repeatedly climbing up to the top of the mast after a segment of (…) -
en : Around Alone • Leg 5
Five Class 1 Open 60’s en route to the northern Atlantic
The 5 Class 1 Open 60’s in Around Alone are within 3 degrees of the Equator line and from tonight will one by one cross back over to the Northern Hemisphere for the first time since the end of October 2002. The thought of being in ’home waters’ again is a great motivation for all, and their travel weary boats are not under too much stress in (…)
