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Volvo Ocean Race : Team Alvimedica claimed their second in-port race series victory in Lorient
Team Alvimedica claimed their second Volvo Ocean Race in-port race series victory in Lorient, France, on Saturday after leaving their rivals trailing following a delayed start due to lack of wind. -
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Volvo Ocean Race : Team SCA silence critics with glorious leg win
Skipper Sam Davies (GBR) and her Team SCA crew struck a resounding blow for women’s offshore sailing in the early hours of Thursday morning when they gloriously clinched Leg 8 of the Volvo Ocean Race. -
#Mod70 #Foiler
C Foil on starboard, L foil on port for Gitana Team’s trimaran
The forms below the waterline, the size of the floats… at first glance, the Multi70 Multi70 #multi70 Edmond de Rothschild is the same boat as that which set sail from Saint Malo last November in the Route du Rhum Route du Rhum #RouteDuRhum ! Indeed, true to its initial plan, the team opted to adapt the original platform, even though (...) -
Volvo Ocean Race
Seb Marsset signed as bowman/trimmer with Team Alvimedica
He’s had to wait two long years but French sailor Seb Marsset finally got the news he was waiting for with a call-up to the Team Alvimedica race crew for the Volvo Ocean Race 2014-15 first leg on Thursday. -
Volvo Ocean Race 2014-15
4 Chinese and 4 Frenches confirmed as part of Dongfeng Race Team’s final race squad
Four rookie Chinese sailors were today revealed as crewmembers in Dongfeng Race Team’s final 10-strong race squad for the Volvo Ocean Race 2014-15. French skipper Charles Caudrelier also unveiled a world-class group of five western sailors to boost the Chinese challenge for the 12th edition of sailing’s leading offshore (...) -
Lorient Bretagne Sud Mini
Giancarlo and Sébastien Josse win the first mini race of 2014
They left yesterday at 11:07 from Lorient and it took them 17 hours , 56 minutes and 45 seconds to reach Pornichet following the path of the Lorient - Bretagne Sud Mini 2014, which includes the circumnavigation of the two islands Groix and Belle-Ile. -
Spindrift 2
Yann Guichard will use a bike to "handle" the maxi-trimaran Spindrift 2 alone on the next Route du Rhum
A bike on a boat? It might sound silly but it is a very serious technical innovation to help Yann Guichard to handle the maxi-trimaran Spindrift 2 alone on the next Route du Rhum Route du Rhum #RouteDuRhum . Prepare to find out more on your web series ’40 metres (...) -
Gitana Team
Route du Rhum 2014 and Vendée Globe 2016 for Sébastien Josse
The 2014 season promises to be equally thrilling with the major Route du Rhum Route du Rhum #RouteDuRhum meeting, whose fleet will set sail from Saint Malo on 2 November. Above all though it marks the start of a five-year campaign packed with surprises, which kicks off with the arrival of a new craft within the Gitana Team and Sébastien (...) -
Class C
Swiss Capsize Ends Title Fight • Franck Cammas & Louis Viat win the Little Cup
For the first time in 7 days, Franck Cammas’ Groupama C had a case of ‘the slows’. And for the first time in 7 days, Billy Besson and Jeremie Lagarrigue aboard Hydros II beat Cammas to the starting line and to the top mark. -
Tour de France à la Voile 2013
Nicolas Troussel wins the offshore leg from Brest to Lorient thanks to a risky tactical decision
The fleet left Brest Brest #brest yesterday at 8:00pm, sailing in 10 to 15 knots of northeaster wind. All 12 M34s gybed through the Toulinguet rocks under spinnakers. Once they rounded Sein Island they hardened up and reached the Glénan archipelago in the night. It was a complicated ride with crew constantly switching between the jib and (...)
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