American skipper Paul Cayard is sailing from the English Channel to Sanxenxo to take the start in November of the Volvo Ocean Race. The Black Pearl is the only america entry this year under the coulours of "Pirates of the Caribbean". Lets goiing sailing with the pirates...
The Black Pearl and Paul Cayard
The yacht has been designed by Farr Design. She set sails for the first time early september, two monthes before the start of the Volvo Ocean Race.
Death head
The Pirates logo is everywhere. The other competitiors of the round the world yacht race knows it.
Sailing at 20 knots !
First sails aboard the sailing machine designed under the new Volvo 70 rules.
11th Hour Racing Team has won The Ocean Race 2022-23, the world’s longest and toughest team sporting event - the first time a US team has won in the 50-year history of the Race.
The next edition of The Ocean Race, scheduled to start from Alicante, Spain in October 2021, will visit 10 international cities, including the start port and the Grand Finale finish in Genoa, Italy in the summer of 2022.
The latest edition of the Volvo Ocean Race, which started in Alicante, Spain in October 2017 and finished in The Hague in the Netherlands in June 2018, will be remembered as the closest in race history, as well as a record-breaking event on many levels.
Dongfeng Race Team has won the Volvo Ocean Race 2017-18 in the closest finish in race history.
Skipper Charles Caudrelier led his team to victory on the final leg of the race, a 970-mile sprint from Gothenburg, Sweden to The Hague.
Incredibly, it marked the first leg win for the team — it couldn’t have come at a better time.
Charlie Enright’s Vestas 11th Hour Racing showed great patience and sailed a clean race for a victory in the Gothenburg In-Port Race on Sunday.
But it was Xabi Fernández’s MAPFRE team who rode a third place finish on Sunday to win the overall In-Port Race Series, sailing 11 points clear of their closest pursuers, Dongfeng Race Team.
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The scientific research, using data collected by Race team ‘Turn the Tide on Plastic’, identified over three million micro plastic particles per square kilometre of ocean.
The sub-surface data on micro plastic pollution levels was collected using a state-of-the-art instrument on board their Volvo Ocean 65 racing yacht.
Coup de zoom sur l’exceptionnelle flotte des monocoques qui prendra le départ de cette cinquième édition de la Transat Jacques Vabre, ce samedi 3 novembre, de la ville du Havre. Douze monocoques de 60 pieds open ont répondu présents épaulés de sept unités de 50 pieds : la lutte s’annonce des plus prometteuses et il est des plus difficiles de (…)
The Transat Jacques Vabre has more than one victor, as there is more than one class, and so it’s time to zoom in on the monohull fleet, which will start from Le Havre at 1250hrs French time, destination Bahia, Brazil. Twelve Open 60’s will be joined by 7 Open 50’s : this 5th edition of the Transat Jacques Vabre will be one of the most (…)
From Monday november 5th, begins at Multiplast shipyard in Vannes, France, the building of the first new french IAAC boat for the next Louis Vuitton Cup.
Ancien concurrent de la Mini et directeur de course de l’édition 2001, Denis nous livre ses sentiments sur cette épreuve qui s’achève et sur ses concurrents.
Joé Seeten took part in the last Vendée Globe at the helm of past Jean-Luc Van Den Heede’s red cigare. this year he has bought a three years old Open 60 : Active Wear which did entered in Around Alone and the Vendée Globe (4th) whith Marc Thiercelin.
Joé Seeten vient d’acheter l’ancien monocoque de Marc Thiercelin. Après le Vendée Globe, accompli à la barre de Nord Pas de Calais - Chocolats du monde, un ancien cigare rouge de Jean-Luc Van Den Heede, Joé cherchait une nouvelle machine plus performante.
Ses fossettes et son franc sourire ont pris des coups de soleil, et ses yeux sont encore plissés de lumière et des embruns qu’ils ont reçus, mais c’est surtout à l’intérieur que la course a laissé ses traces.