Ocean Race News
#VOR - One of the title sponsors of the Volvo Ocean Race has reaffirmed its commitment to the gruelling round-the-world yachting challenge. As Scuttlebutt Sailing News reports, the Chinese-owned Volvo Cars - which is joint owner of the event with…
#vor – Team Vestas Wind skipper Chris Nicholson (AUS) has flown back to a remote Indian Ocean reef to help oversee a complicated operation to retrieve his stranded boat after it was grounded there during Leg 2 of the Volvo…
#vor – There is to be an independent report into the grounding of Team Vestas Wind's boat on a reef in the Indian Ocean has been set up by the Volvo Ocean Race. A panel, to be chaired by Rear…
#vor – The final pages of the Leg 2 epic to Abu Dhabi will be played out in the next 24 hours. The leading trio of Team Brunel, Dongfeng and Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing have been close sparring partners since crossing…
#VOR - Disaster-struck Team Vestas Wind is "exploring the opportunity" of re-joining the Volvo Ocean Race a week after coming a cropper on an Indian Ocean reef, as Jonno Turner reports on the official race website. The news comes days…
#vestas – County Kerry's Brian Carlin, the Team Vestas Wind onboard reporter, recounts the moments Vestas hit the bricks last week in the Volvo Ocean Race. Charging through the Indian Ocean at high speed and in total darkness, nothingness ahead, nothingness…
#vestas – Volvo Ocean Race's ship-wrecked nine-man Team Vestas Wind crew finally made it back to civilisation today, telling of their amazing escape from a collision with an Indian Ocean reef which grounded their boat. The unshaven, exhausted team in…
#volvooceanrace – This graphic picture (above) shows the stricken Team Vestas Wind from the Volvo Ocean Race lying in a reef in a remote Mauritius archipelago of St Brandon after being grounded there at the weekend. The team and race organisers…
'Shipwrecked' Team Vestas Skipper Chris Nicholson Interview With Race Control
1st December 2014 Ocean Race
#vor – Volvo Ocean Race control have been in touch with the shipwrecked Team Vestas skipper Chris Nicholson. The transcript of the above audio interview is below: Hey Chris, Mark Covell here calling from Race Control.Hey Mark, how are ya?Yeah…
#vor – Team Vestas Wind crew were rescued in the small hours of Sunday morning after the Danish team's Volvo Ocean Race boat was grounded on a reef in the Indian Ocean, forcing them to abandon it. All nine members…
#volvooceanrace – In a dramatic developement in the Volvo Ocean Race tonight, Team Alvimedica looks set to rescue crew from Team Vestas after its grouding in shoals in the Indian Ocean with Irish team member Brian Carlin onboard. No one is…
#VOR - The Daily Sail has a comprehensive update on the Volvo Ocean Race fleet as Leg 2 from Cape Town to Abu Dhabi gets underway, with the emphasis over the first few days firmly on getting the furthest east…
#dubarry – During their gruelling experiences throughout the Volvo Ocean Race 2008/9, the crew of the Irish entry, Green Dragon, had modified a 'workshop enhanced' version of Dubarry's existing performance sailing boot 'Fastnet' by adding a fairly crude, improvised integral…
#vor – The Volvo Ocean Race marathon front-runners sure can sprint as well. Ian Walker's offshore leaders – with Ireland's Justin Slattery onboard – proved to the rest of the seven-strong fleet that they are currently masters closer to land too,…
#VOR - Congratulations to Team Vestas Wind's Brian Carlin, who last night picked up the inaugural Inmarsat Onboard Reporter Award at the Volvo Ocean Race's first awards night in Cape Town. The experienced Irish sailing photographer and filmmaker – and…
#VOR - Change is afoot within the MAPFRE camp at the Spanish entry in the latest Volvo Ocean Race takes stock after their last-place finish in the first leg from Alicante to Cape Town. As the official VOR website reports,…
