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.
Two years after his first attempt, Yannick Bestaven has made an exploit by winning the Transat 650 Charente Maritime Bahia by finishing first in both legs.
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Deux ans après sa première expérience, Yannick Bestaven a réussi l’exploit inégalé de remporte la Transat 650 Charente Maritime Bahia en s’imposant sur les deux étapes.
Le lundi 5 novembre, au chantier Multiplast de Vannes, débutera la construction d’un nouveau Class America français. Après un an et demi de travail réalisé par un Design Team regroupant douze experts du meilleur niveau mondial, le Défi pour l’America’s Cup 2003 se félicite de remplir à l’heure le planning fixé.
Olivier Desport a franchi la ligne à 13h13 TU (14h13 heure française) en tête des Séries. Coup double pour cet amateur très éclairé qui gagne, comme Bestaven chez les Protos, l’étape et la course. (Olivier n’a cependant pas remporté la première étape en Série qui a été gagnée par Michel Mirabel sur Discount Marine).
Nouvelle surprise au classement cumulé des deux étapes. S’il est déjà étonnant qu’un solitaire s’impose en remportant les deux manches de la Transat 650, un non Français vient de réaliser une excellente performance en s’adjugeant la deuxième place du podium.
“Dans le temps, au Québec, on avait la possibilité de donner à ses enfant un nom de famille différent. Ma mère, Dominique Manny, née en France, et mon père Carl Mailhot, on donc choisi de me donner le nom d’une rivière du grand Nord du Québec. Ils étaient partis là bas en 1968 pour faire une excursion en canot...”