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Volvo Ocean Race: Team Brunel Win Lisbon In-Port Race
3rd November 2017
#VOR - Bouwe Bekking’s Team Brunel fended off a late charge by MAPFRE to win the Mirpuri Foundation In-Port Race Lisbon this afternoon (Friday 3 November). Conditions were challenging to say the least for the Volvo Ocean Race fleet, with…
Ballyholme's Bill O'Hara Expected To Lay Short Course for Volvo Ocean Race In–Port Duel
3rd November 2017
Principal Race Officer of the Volvo Ocean Race, Bill O'Hara from Ballyholme Yacht Club in Northern Ireland, is anticipating the course will be short, with at least three, and possibly up to four, laps. The second in-port race will be…
Dubarry of Ireland is the official supplier to Team Brunel and Team Scallywag in the 2017–18 edition of the Volvo Ocean Race, providing high performance offshore footwear to the crews. The Irish sailing boots have been developed over a number…
Volvo Ocean Race: Annalise Murphy’s Team Settles For Last As Lack Of Wind Makes For Tight Leg 1 Finish
29th October 2017
#VOR - Leg 1 winners Vestas 11th Hour Racing weren’t the only Volvo Ocean Race team to have an excruciating finish experience en route to Lisbon yesterday (Saturday 28 October). When MAPFRE was within 1.5 miles of the line, they…
Vestas 11th Hour Racing Wins First Volvo Ocean Race Leg In Lisbon
28th October 2017
#VOR - Vestas 11th Hour Racing have won Leg 1 of the Volvo Ocean Race, crossing the finish line in the River Tagus in Lisbon this afternoon (Saturday 28 October) a few hours later than expected. While the team powered…
Damian Foxall & Vestas Show the Way in Volvo Ocean Race
28th October 2017
If winning sailing races is ultimately a matter of making less mistakes than anyone else, then Charlie Enright, skipper of the Volvo Ocean Race 65 Vesta 11th Hour Racing, must have registered an almost-clean sheet since starting Leg 1 from…
Damian Foxall & Team Lead Volvo Ocean Race Fleet Around Porto Santo
26th October 2017
#VOR - Vestas 11th Hour Racing were the first team of the Volvo Ocean Race fleet to round Porto Santo in the early hours of this morning (Thursday 26 October), beginning the home stretch of Leg 1 to Lisbon. But…
Ireland’s Damian Foxall & Crewmates Find Tricky Conditions in Leading Volvo Ocean Race
25th October 2017
The favourable east to southeast winds which carried the seven Volvo Ocean Race 2017-2018 contenders so positively through the Straits of Gibralter and into the Atlantic are already a fading memory writes W M Nixon. The leaders – with Vestas…
Watch As Annalise Murphy’s Volvo Ocean Race Boat Narrowly Avoids Disaster At The Start
24th October 2017
#VOR - Yesterday’s snug racing out of the gate in Alicante made for the most exciting Volvo Ocean Race start in recent memory. But the near-misses weren’t only between the fleet as the jockeyed for position out of port, as…
Damian Foxall Continues to Lead in Volvo Ocean Race
24th October 2017
The Charlie Enright-skippered Vestas 11th Hour Racing, with Ireland’s Damian Foxall in a senior crew role, continues to lead the Volvo Ocean Race as the fleet runs into the Atlantic towards the turn at Porto Santo off Madeira in the…
Ireland’s Damian Foxall Leads in Volvo Ocean Race
23rd October 2017
After their first night at sea, the seven boats in the Volvo Ocean Race are approaching the Straits of Gibraltar with Vestas 11th Hour Racing narrowly in the lead writes W M Nixon. As a senior member of her crew…
#VOR - It’s been a dramatic first 22-plus hours at sea for the Volvo Ocean Race fleet, both on and off the water. Hotly tipped contenders MAPFRE, who were the first to score points in last week’s in-port race, and…
It’s The Final Countdown As The 2017-18 Volvo Ocean Race Starts Today
22nd October 2017
#VOR - It’s less than 90 minutes till the start of the 2017-18 Volvo Ocean Race with a week-long sprint (of sorts) from Alicante to Lisbon for Leg 1. It’s going to be 1,450nm of flat-out action around the Iberian…
#VOR - Three-time Volvo Ocean Race winner Brad Jackson has been announced as skipper of Team AkzoNobel after the surprise dismissal of Simeon Tienpont at the weekend. Jackson, who coached the Swedish all-women entry Team SCA in the 2014-15 edition,…
Team AkzoNobel Gives Statement On Ousting Of Skipper Simeon Tienpont
16th October 2017
#VOR - Team AkzoNobel has released a statement after the sudden ousting of skipper Simeon Tienpont over the weekend, just days before the first leg of the 2017-18 Volvo Ocean Race. The Dutch campaign cited “breach of contract” in their…
MAPFRE Draw First Blood In 2017-18 Volvo Ocean Race
16th October 2017
#VOR - The local heroes on Xabi Fernández's MAPFRE were popular winners in the first in-port race — and first point-scoring race — of the 2017-18 Volvo Ocean Race in Alicante on Saturday (14 October). Fernández and his team made…
