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Volvo Ocean Race
Next edition in 2008-09
Organisers of the Volvo Ocean Race today announced a raft of ground-breaking changes to the event format with the most significant being an alteration to the four-year cycle with the next race taking place in 2008-2009. The race route has also changed with port stopovers in Asia, the Middle East and the west coast of the United States under (...) -
Volvo Ocean Race
Sanderson wins Rotterdam inshore
New Zealander Mike Sanderson skippered ABN AMRO ONE to victory in the Volvo Ocean Race 2005-06 in-port race in their home port of Rotterdam. ABN AMRO ONE, which is registered and christened in Rotterdam, worked her way into the lead in the early stages and did not look back. In front of a huge spectator crowd they crossed the finish line 3 (...) -
Volvo Ocean Race
Torben Grael wins leg 8 in Rotterdam
Brasil 1 (Torben Grael) has won leg eight of the Volvo Ocean Race from Portsmouth, UK, to Rotterdam, Holland, posting the best result so far for Brasil 1, the first Brazilian team ever to enter the Volvo Ocean Race. -
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First home Sanders’One
Today at 1857 GMT, 1457 local, after 15 days, 2 hours, 47 minutes and 52 seconds, skipper Mike Sanderson steered ABN AMRO ONE, the Dutch yacht affectionately known as ‘Black Betty’, under the Annapolis Bridge and across the finish line south east of Sandy Point, 18 nautical miles from Baltimore’s Inner Harbor, to add another (...) -
Volvo Ocean Race
Faultless race out on Guanabara Bay for Sanderson
ABN AMRO ONE sailed a faultless race out on Guanabara Bay to win the fourth in-port race of the Volvo Ocean Race 2005-06 in front of a fleet of 1100 spectator boats. Skipper Mike Sanderson and his crew took an early lead in the race and crossed the finish line just under two and half hours later to beat second placed movistar by a little over (...) -
Volvo Ocean Race • Leg 4
Sanders’One again in Rio
The team of professionals sailing ABN Amro One, with Mike Sanderson (NZL) in charge, remained focussed and foot perfect throughout the whole of this, the longest leg of the Volvo Ocean Race at 6,700 nautical miles. -
Volvo Ocean Race • Leg 4
Pirates leads the charge to Horn Cape
Wellington provided a spectacular backdrop as leg four of the Volvo Ocean Race got underway bound for Rio de Janeiro via the Southern Ocean. In perfect conditions, with blue skies and gentle 12 knots breezes, the fleet jostled for the best position on the start line, just a stone’s throw away from the shore and in full view of the (...) -
Volvo Ocean Race • Leg 3
Bouwe Bekking wins in Wellington for 9 seconds
In the battle for first place, the Spanish entry, movistar, skippered by Dutchman Bouwe Bekking, finally broke the offshore domination of the Dutch yacht ABN AMRO ONE in the Volvo Ocean Race, by crossing the finish line in Wellington today, nine seconds ahead of the black boat, skippered by Kiwi Mike Sanderson from (...) -
Volvo Ocean Race • Leg 3
Six V70s en route to Rio with a pit-stop in Wellington
Thousands of Melburnians lined the dockside at Waterfront City, Docklands, this morning to wave goodbye to the Volvo Ocean Race fleet as they head off on Leg Three to Wellington, before heading on to Rio de Janeiro. The six boats in the Volvo Ocean Race headed out one by one to blaring team music as they ducked under the Bolte Bridge for the (...) -
Volvo Ocean Race • Melbourne
Victory for Mike Sanderson’s team on Port Phillip Bay
Port Phillip Bay played host to the most dramatic in-port race the Volvo Ocean Race 2005-06 has staged to date. In the end it was New Zealander Mike Sanderson’s ABN AMRO ONE who took victory in front of a spectator fleet of almost 1,000 spectator boats.
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