WindWhisper Racing Team leads both fleets toward the Med and grabs Vasco da Gama Mirpuri Foundation Prize
The Polish-flagged team has stretched away to a 90 mile lead, winning the Vasco da Gama Mirpuri Foundation Prize in the process...
As skipper Daryl Wislang pushed his WindWhisper Racing Team across the line of 37-degress north latitude at 10:04 UTC on Wednesday morning, his team prepared to turn east towards the Strait of Gibraltar...
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An Increase In Wind Lifts Spirits As Fleet Nears Straits Of Gilbralter
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A Rapid Recovery For Malama
The Hague, The Netherlands
Sunday, June 18, 2023
11th Hour Racing Team has announced its plan to deliver its 60-foot race boat, Mālama, to Genoa, Italy, after the huge collision during the inshore section of the Leg 7 start, which saw the team forced to retire from the final leg of The Ocean Race 2022-23. 11th Hour Racing Team’s boat was hit by competitor GUYOT environnement - Team Europe just 17 minutes into the start of the leg, on its port side, leaving... -
Working Hard To Get Back In The Race
It might be hard to believe, given the scale of disappointment felt yesterday but these images were taken just an hour after the team docked back into The Hague.
"The team is okay. It's been a tough afternoon but the most important thing is that everyone's okay," says Team CEO Mark Towill. "In my opinion, we've got one of the best tech teams in the world, so they're diagnosing exactly where we're at so we can make a plan."
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On The Edge In Port Race Goes To GUYOT
GUYOT environnement-Team Europe lead the way in fast and furious foiling conditions
A fantastic first win for the popular IMOCA team at the In Port Race in The Hague
The Hague served up some of the best racing conditions the IMOCA fleet has seen in this edition of The Ocean Race on Tuesday afternoon. Bright sunshine and strong winds approaching 20 knots made for fast and furious foiling for the In-Port Race.
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3 Boat Drag Race To The Hague
The result was in doubt until the final moments of leg 6, with 11th Hour Racing Team along with Team Holcim-PRB and Team Malizia racing within shouting distance of each other during most of Sunday morning.
The final approach to The Hague required one short upwind section where the boats were crisscrossing within metres with each tack, but skipper Charlie Enright's 11th Hour Racing Team held their nerve and made the final turn south with a small lead they would manage... -
Kiel Flyby Attracts Big Turnout
Friday Fly By in Kiel attracts enormous crowds to cheer on IMOCA fleet
VO65 crews are racing south from Norway turning mark towards a Sunday arrival in The Hague
The last time The Ocean Race was in Kiel was on 9 June, 2002, and the German team, illbruck, was being celebrated for winning the Volvo Ocean Race. In the crowd was a young German sailor beginning his career - Boris Herrmann - and the event made a lasting impression.
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Leg 6 Begins In Fickle Wind
Aarhus start - IMOCAs are underway in very light conditions - VO65s racing to The Hague
1850 local / 1650 UTC: According to the Race Committee there is 'zero' wind on the race course area at the moment. Therefore the second lap is cancelled and teams will be required to pass through the start line and the 'gate' between marks 1 and 2 before they are free to proceed onwards to Kiel.
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Malama Claims Leg 5
11th Hour Racing Team win Leg 5, grab overall lead in The Ocean Race
Team Holcim-PRB hold on for second place, with Team Malizia third...
Skipper Charlie Enright's smile was as bright as the early morning sun in Aarhus, Denmark on Monday morning as he led his 11th Hour Racing Team to a first place finish in leg 5 of The Ocean Race.
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New 24 Hour Monohull Record!
New monohull record!!
Team Holcim - PRB has passed 11th Hour Racing Team’s new Race record, but also beaten Comanche (a 100fter maxi)’s monohull record of 618.01nm which was established in 2015
We can expect that record to keep rising...
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This story has been updated at 1000 UTC Friday morning
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Hauling The Mail Across The North Atlantic
Pushing towards a record
The leaders are screaming north at record-breaking pace...
It's going to be an interesting 24-hours in The Ocean Race as the leading trio find themselves in strong downwind reaching conditions and 'relatively' flat water - a combination that could produce a new 24-hour distance record.
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A Fast Exit For Remaining Fleet
Speeding towards the target
The boats are taking advantage of favourable conditions to leave Newport behind, with Aarhus in their sights
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.
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Leg 5 Commences
Sunday, May 21, 2023
The only US entry in The Ocean Race, 11th Hour Racing Team, has left its hometown of Newport, Rhode Island, and has set off from the Ocean State on Leg 5 of the 2022-23 edition of the round-the-world race. The team will sail their 60-foot IMOCA race boat 3,500 nautical miles [4,028 miles or 6,482 kilometers] across the Atlantic, sailing over the top of Scotland, finishing in Aarhus, Denmark.
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Video Of Holcim-PRB Dismasting
Skipper Kevin Escoffier has reported his team (Annemieke Bes, Benjamin Schwartz, Fabien Delahaye and Georgia Schofield (OBR
is safe after dismasting during leg 4 of The Ocean Race.
The team was racing approximately 20 miles off the coast of Brazil in moderate winds and sea state.
The dismasting occurred just after 0500 UTC on 27 April, on the fourth day of leg 4.
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Seeking Steady Wind A Tricky Situation
It hasn't been a straightforward start to leg 4 of The Ocean Race as the IMOCA teams zig-zag away from the coast of Brazil, seeking favourable conditions to the east, whilst keeping an eye on the overall goal of making miles north.
There's also big picture weather that dictates overall strategy to consider versus the very localised impact of clouds and squalls that must be deal with.
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Northbound To Newport
Early advantage to Biotherm as leg 4 kicks off on Super Sunday in Itaja?
The second half of The Ocean Race is on as the fleet races north out of Brazil
Nearly 350,000 fans visited the Ocean Live Park in Itaja?, Brazil this month to celebrate The Ocean Race stopover.
And on Sunday, Leg 4 of The Ocean Race got underway, as the five-boat IMOCA fleet set out from Itaja?, on their 5,000+ nautical mile adventure towards Newport, Rhode Island,...