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Mini 650
Simon Koster : « I chose Olivier Mousselon from Mer Forte»
Swiss skipper Simon Koster who finished the Mini-Transat Mini-Transat #MiniTransat 2013 at the 3rd place in the serie division will be back in the solo transatlantic in 2015. He has chosen a new yacht designer and is beginning the building of a new proto 650. He explains his (...) -
Volvo Ocean Race
Michel Desjoyeaux joins Team España crew as watch captain
Michel Desjoyeaux is France’s best-known sailor and has won many of the sport’s biggest prizes but the lure of joining Team España in the Volvo Ocean Race 2014-15 has brought him back to compete for a fourth time aged 49. -
Video
Frenchman François Gandolfi will direct the Volvo Ocean Race 2014-15 half-hour weekly show
A film-maker with a background of making hit documentaries and dramas, but zero experience in sports programmes, is the surprise choice of the Volvo Ocean Race 2014-15 to direct their flagship half-hour weekly show. -
Route du Rhum
Yann Guichard : "you get used to the size of the boat"
« Solo sailing a trimaran the size of Spindrift 2 requires complete physical commitment, » says Yann Guichard, who recently sailed from the Azores to La Trinité-sur-Mer, alone at the helm of the world¹s largest racing multihull. With two months to go before the start of the Route du Rhum Route du Rhum #RouteDuRhum -Destination Guadeloupe, (...) -
Volvo Ocean Race 2014-15
Chris Nicholson : "It’s an honour to be skipper of Team Vestas Wind"
Vestas, the world’s leading wind energy company, was today announced as the seventh and final boat for the Volvo Ocean Race 2014-15. Six-time world champion Chris Nicholson, who will be contesting his fifth race, will skipper the boat and work is already well underway to ready the Danish company’s team for the race start in (...) -
Isle of Wight
Prince de Bretagne take the eighth Artemis Challenge win in a time of four hours, 16 minutes and 35 seconds
Some of the hottest professional names in sailing and the sport’s rising stars jostled for position alongside royalty, rugby and rock ‘n’ roll stars in the Artemis Challenge – the 50-mile race around the Isle of Wight (Thursday, 7th August). -
Ultimes
Francis Joyon : "I’m hopeful that I can win"
It’s now official: in just under three months from now, on 2nd November, Francis Joyon will be setting off on his fifth Route du Rhum Route du Rhum #RouteDuRhum between St-Malo and Pointe-à-Pitre (Guadeloupe). Currently preparing for this race, the skipper of the IDEC SPORT maxi-trimaran is not leaving anything to chance, which is (...) -
Volvo Ocean Race 2014-15
Spanish skipper Martínez relishes second bid to lift Volvo Ocean Race trophy
Iker Martínez will again be leading the Spanish challenge for the Volvo Ocean Race in 2014-15, his team confirmed today. The 37-year-old Basque sailor, who has just been crowned European champion in the Nacra 17 multihull class, is looking forward to his second campaign as a skipper following the Team Telefónica entry in (...) -
Round the world race
Clipper Race fleet have returned to a heroes’ welcome in London
Winning boat Henri Lloyd and the Clipper Race fleet have returned to a heroes’ welcome in London eleven months after setting off. Having conquered Mother Nature’s toughest conditions during the 40,000 mile ocean odyssey, the team was victorious in the overall Clipper 2013-14 Race, claiming a total of eleven podiums and five overall (...) -
Volvo Ocean Race 2014-15
French sailor Laurent Pagès has been chosen by Team Brunel skipper Bouwe Bekking
Pagès brings a winning pedigree to the Dutch challengers after he helped guide Groupama to victory in the last edition in 2011-12. Additionally, he was watch captain in the Spanish team Telefónica Blue in 2008-09 where he sailed with Bekking.
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