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OC Group merges with ThirdPole
British company OC Group and mainland Europe based ThirdPole have been acquired in a non-cash deal that will bring together their competences into a global leading sports marketing and events company. The two brands will remain, OC continuing to specialise in professional sailing teams and events, and ThirdPole which is a new and expanding (...) -
Volvo Ocean Race
VOR 2011-12 route is set
Auckland, New Zealand, is back in the Volvo Ocean Race after a gap of 10 years. The city, which has fielded some of the world’s best sailors in the Volvo Ocean Race, last hosted the event in 2001-02. It will stage the leg four finish from Sanya in China and the start of leg five, which will take the fleet into the Southern Ocean once (...) -
Volvo Ocean Race 2010-2012
Abu Dhabi to host a stopover in United Arab Emirates
An agreement signed in the United Arab Emirates capital, Abu Dhabi, today will see the Arabian Gulf’s emerging marine Marine Marine nationale leisure hub become a host port for the 2010-12 race. A racing team from Abu Dhabi will also take its place on the start line of the race in Alicante, Spain in the autumn of next (...) -
Volvo Ocean Race 2010-2012
Lorient - Galway as last leg
Following the huge success in Galway when it was the finish of the transatlantic leg of the Volvo Ocean Race 2008-09, Ireland, will again feature in the new route for 2011-12. The fleet will race from Lorient Lorient L’actualité du port de Lorient et de sa région. in France back to Galway on Ireland’s west (...) -
Volvo Ocean Race
Lorient secures two stopovers in France
France returns to host the Volvo Ocean Race from Lorient Lorient L’actualité du port de Lorient et de sa région. , in Brittany on the northwest coast of France, in the summer of 2012. Lorient Lorient L’actualité du port de Lorient et de sa région. will be the penultimate stopover in the race, which starts from Alicante, Spain (...) -
Around the world
The Race… The come-back "planned for 2013-2014"
Three times holder of the Jules Verne Trophy Jules Verne Trophy #TropheeJulesVerne and creator of The Race, the non-stop crewed race around the world without outside assistance and without limits, Bruno Peyron has officially announced that he has decided to relaunch The Race. After several months of studies and some careful thinking and (...) -
Velux 5 Oceans
Same onboard cameras for Open 60s
Velux and Clipper invest in new onboard cameras and media Media #media systems across fleet, enabling skippers to document the action 24/7 and communicate with race followers on land. -
Indian Ocean 5 Capes Race
Majan and Musandam to depart from Muscat
On Saturday, 6th February, Oman Sail’s new A100 ‘Majan’ alongside their 75-ft multihull ‘Musandam’ will depart Muscat [Oman] to begin a new chapter in ocean racing as they embark on tracing out the route of the future Indian Ocean 5 Capes (...) -
33rd America’s Cup
Alinghi’s RAK choice disqualified again
The Appellate Division has rejected the Alinghi’s second attempt to have Ras Al Khaimah, UAE, host the February match. Then the 33rd America’s is closer it never has been before to take place. And this place will be Spain. -
World Yacht Racing Forum
Coutts and Butterworth spoke together in Monaco
Following over two years of legal disputes regarding the format of the next America’s Cup America's Cup #AmericasCup in the New York Supreme Court, Russell Coutts (CEO, BMW ORACLE Racing) and Brad Butterworth (President, Alinghi), spoke together publically for the first time during last week’s World Yacht Racing Forum in (...)