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.
Première édition de la "Mini-Transat" inventée par l’Anglais Bob Salmon. Elle part de Penzance en Cornouaille pour rejoindre Antigua. C’est un Français qui l’emporte à bord d’un Serpentaire : Daniel Gilard.