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Volvo Ocean Race: Video – Team Vestas Wind
To add on to our previous report (see HERE) about the successful removal of the damaged Team Vestas Wind VO65. The yacht ran into the reef in St Brandon at
Photo Credit: Maud Helfgott / polaRYSE / 11th Hour RacingThe route
Alicante
Spain17–17 JanAuckland
New Zealand20 Feb – 14 MarItajaí
Brazil31 Mar – 18 AprSt. Pete-Clearwater
United States4–16 MayCascais
Portugal26 May – 6 Jun- Finish
Amaala
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Volvo Ocean Race: Vestas off the Rocks
“Nico’s out over the other side of the reef now, giving it the once over, making sure there’s nothing left behind.” [Text: Jonno Turner / Photos: Shane Smart] The Aussie
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Volvo Ocean Race: Martinez tags out
Martínez switches dreams – for a leg ALICANTE, Spain, December 19 – Iker Martínez (ESP) is stepping down for the next leg as skipper of MAPFRE in the Volvo Ocean
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Volvo Ocean Race: Nicholson back to the reef
Nicholson back to retrieve boat ALICANTE, Spain, December 18 – Team Vestas Wind skipper Chris Nicholson (AUS) has flown back to a remote Indian Ocean reef to help oversee a
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Outlook for Team Vestas Wind’s return to Volvo Ocean Race is not good
[Source: www.thenational.ae ]It remains the defining image of Leg 2, perhaps of the Volvo Ocean Race so far. Nine days into the journey from Cape Town to Abu Dhabi, two
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Volvo Ocean Race: Brunel Master Class
Agony for Dongfeng as Brunel slip through to get the win ABU DHABI, December 13 – Bouwe Bekking (NED) and Team Brunel found a very timely change of gear to
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Team Vestas Wind looks at new boat option
ABU DHABI, December 8 – Team Vestas Wind is ‘exploring the opportunity’ of re-entering the Volvo Ocean Race with a new boat just over a week after their Volvo Ocean
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VOR: Inside Track – Sir Peter Blake Special
It was 13 years ago on Saturday 6th December that Sir Peter, A New Zealand National Hero and Yachting Icon world wide was tragically murdered aboard SeaMaster in the Amazon.
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VOR: Vestas “There’s a rock!”
Here it is – the footage showing what no sailor wants to go through. https://vimeo.com/113636993 Volvo Ocean Race’s ship-wrecked nine-man Team Vestas Wind crew finally made it back to civilisation
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VOR: Team Vestas – the latest
Next Steps for Team Vestas Wind: [Team Vestas Wind] Together with colleagues from Volvo Ocean Race, Vestas is currently evaluating if the Team Vestas Wind boat can be repaired. Based
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VOR: Team Vestas Wind Runs Aground – Update + Photos and Video
[blockquote]“We could see the boat clear as day,” recalls Team Alvimedica navigator, Will Oxley. [/blockquote] He’s talking through last night’s events with Race Director Jack Lloyd via LiveX technology, just
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VOR: Team Vestas Wind Runs Aground – Update 2 and 3 + Video
[Source: www.stuff.co.nz ] A Volvo Ocean Race sloop, skippered by Australian Chris Nicholson and manned by a crew that includes experienced Kiwi sailors Tony Rae and Rob Salthouse, ran aground
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VOR: Team Vestas Wind Runs Aground – Prepares to Abandon Boat
At 1510 UTC, Saturday, November 29, Team Vestas Wind informed Race Control that their boat was grounded on the Cargados Carajos Shoals, Mauritius, in the Indian Ocean. Fortunately, no one
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VOR: Inside Track, Leg 2 Episode 6
The Volvo – yes, that ocean race in those 65ft boats! It is still going!!! LSD has been a little preoccupied with the whole team in action with the Yates
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Volvo Ocean Race: Leg 2 underway
CAPE TOWN, South Africa, November 19 – Skippers of the seven boats in the Volvo Ocean Race fleet, which set out for the 6,125 nautical mile (nm) Leg 2 from
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VOR Cape Town In-port: Abu Dhabi Do!
CAPE TOWN, South Africa, November 15 – Ian Walker (GBR) and his Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing crew became the confirmed kings of Cape Town on Saturday, clinching the in-port race
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Team Alvimedica turns Ocean Lab
Ocean racing is tough, rough, and very, very stressful. Team Alvimedica turns ocean laboratory for a medical study about the impact of that stress on the human heart, and the
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SCA Confirms Crew for Leg Two
With under a week to the start of Leg 2, SCA has confirmed the race crew for Leg Two. Briton Dee Caffari and Swiss Elodie Mettraux will step onboard for
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VOR: Fears over potential piracy quelled – Abu Dhabi here we come!
One of Leg 2 key questions is answered – the seven teams will sail all the way from Cape Town to Abu Dhabi. The event’s security experts gave the all-clear
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Female sailors making their mark – Go Girls!
Female crew steals spotlight in round-the-world race [Source: usa.chinadaily.com.cn ] Boats from Abu Dhabi and China-two nations with no great tradition in offshore racing—have emerged as the early front-runners for
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VOR: 27 Days at Sea – Leg 1 in Review – Video
Ok – you’re going to want your headphones for this one – plus make sure the boss is out of the building for at least the next 5 minutes. This
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Never, never, never give up – the girls did it!
It was a fight right to the end. After a sleepless night, and some clever strategy, Team SCA finally overtook Spanish boat MAPFRE this morning, to grab sixth place, right
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Team SCA: In fighting mood
After 26 days at sea and with less than 200 miles to the finish in Cape Town, the crew on Team SCA is in a fighting mood and focused on
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VOR: Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing wins Leg 1
Ian Walker’s face looked like it had aged 10 years, his red-raw eyes maybe 20. But Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing’s Leg 1 triumph in Cape Town this afternoon will have