Aarhus In-Port Race set for Sunday showdown
11th Hour Racing Team looks to extend lead in In-Port series as the VO65s make their return
Photo Credit: Maud Helfgott / polaRYSE / 11th Hour Racing11th Hour Racing Team looks to extend lead in In-Port series as the VO65s make their return
The emotional rollercoaster ride for GUYOT environnement – Team Europe is over.
Preliminary results from the initial legs of the current edition of The Ocean Race show microplastics in each one of the 40 samples analysed so far, with as many as 1,884 microplastics per cubic metre (pm3)* of water in some locations.
In accordance with the Sailing Instructions, which allow the Race Committee to shorten the course for boats still racing, the finish line for Biotherm has been moved to longitude 0-degrees.
Team Holcim-PRB hold on for second place, with Team Malizia finishing a close third
Since the opening leg from Alicante, Spain to Cabo Verde, skipper Kevin Escoffier and his rotating cast of characters on Team Holcim-PRB have been firmly positioned at the top of the overall race leaderboard.
Records are being set and then broken again on leg 5 of The Ocean Race.
The last time we saw the VO65 fleet in The Ocean Race was in January and the teams had just completed the opening stage of the VO65 Sprint, from Alicante, Spain to Cabo Verde.
Skipper Kevin Escoffier and his Team Holcim-PRB have shattered the existing 24-hour distance records in the monohull class.
The leaders are approaching the middle of the low pressure system that has them racing north at a 500-mile day pace…
It’s been a fast 24 hours in The Ocean Race, with teams making around 500 miles towards the target of the finish line – Aarhus, Denmark in northern Europe.
It’s 11th Hour Racing Team at the head of the fleet on Monday as the four racing IMOCAs push east into the Atlantic Ocean.
It was a picture-perfect day in Newport for the start of leg 5 across the Atlantic Ocean to Aarhus, Denmark
In Port section will be incorporated into the leg 5 start and scored as a race
Four IMOCA teams will compete in the Newport In Port Race on Saturday before heading off across the Atlantic as The Ocean Race leaves the Americas and returns to Europe.
Charlie Dalin (FRA), the two-time IMOCA world champion, will join the only US entry in The Ocean Race for the critical double-pointer leg from Newport, Rhode Island, to Aarhus, Denmark.
GUYOT envrionnement – Team Europe arrived in Halifax on Saturday and the team is preparing to be shipped back to Europe as soon as possible with a goal of rejoining the race.
The fourth leg of The Ocean Race ended on Wednesday in Newport with the victory of the Americans from 11th Hour Racing Team, beating Malizia by around thirty minutes.
With Leg 4 now finished, three teams are within one point on the overall leaderboard…
Leg 4 results mean the leaderboard is close heading into the transatlantic leg
GUYOT environnement – Team Europe has dismasted in the north Atlantic, just over 600 miles east of Newport, Rhode Island.
The forecast is for winds gusting near 50 knots as the leaders approach their penultimate night at sea on Leg 4…
11th Hour Racing Team and Team Malizia continue their cat and mouse duel towards a Wednesday morning finish…
A gap between the forecast and the reality brings challenges to the IMOCA fleet
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