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While the IMOCA fleet is making progress towards the Leg 4 finish line at Newport, Rhode Island on Saturday (6 May), it hasn’t all been smooth sailing in The Ocean Race this weekend. 11th Hour Racing Team has now grabbed…

Team Malizia and 11th Hour Racing Team remain locked in a battle that appears destined to last until The Ocean Race Leg 4 finish line off Newport, Rhode Island is in sight. On Friday morning UTC (5 May), first Malizia…

The German-flagged Team Malizia has moved into the lead in Leg 4 of The Ocean Race 2022-23 on Thursday 4 May as skipper Will Harris and his crew charge north, marching nearly in lockstep with the previous leader 11th Hour…

As the current edition of The Ocean Race returns to the northern hemisphere, race organisers are already looking ahead to the next major event in the 10-year planning cycle — The Ocean Race Europe 2025. Following the success of the…

On the Leg 4 race course on Wednesday (3 May), the top three teams are clustered together within some 50 miles on the leaderboard, with 11th Hour Racing Team now leading Team Malizia and Biotherm. GUYOT environnement - Team Europe…

On Monday evening UTC (1 May), Team Malizia led 11th Hour Racing Team across the equator, as The Ocean Race returned to the northern hemisphere. But the margin was slim — just over two minutes separated the leading pair. “Hopefully…

11th Hour Racing has announced the first public screening of its new film, Shaped by Water, followed by a live concert with American multi-genre singer-songwriter and musician Caroline Jones. The free outdoor event will take place, rain or shine, on…

The USA lies to the north and Brazil is now in the wake of the four IMOCA teams racing towards Newport, Rhode Island in Leg 4 of The Ocean Race 2022-23 as the fleet has rounded the northeastern corner of…

Moderate easterly trade winds have provided a speedy 24 hours of racing for the four IMOCAs charging north towards the doldrums in Leg 4 of The Ocean Race. Twenty-four-hour distance runs have nearly doubled — although are still far off…

Skipper Kevin Escoffier stepped off his jury-rigged boat in Rio de Janeiro on Saturday afternoon (29 April) local time and announced Team Holcim-PRB would abandon Leg 4 of The Ocean Race 2022-23 to focus on being able to rejoin the…

The four boats racing north in Leg 4 of The Ocean Race 2022-23 are in a challenging position on Saturday (29 April). The wind is very light and unstable. The result? 24-hour runs of less than 180 nautical miles. That…

It’s been a long speed contest for the four IMOCAs racing to the northeast, away from the Brazilian coast, on Leg 4 of The Ocean Race 2022-23. For over 24 hours they had been racing close to the wind on…

Near 0500 UTC, while the boat was racing east in moderate northerly winds and sea state, the mast on Team Holcim-PRB came crashing down. Skipper Kevin Escoffier had a message sent to Race Control that the crew was safe and…

The five IMOCAs in The Ocean Race fleet were short tacking up the coast of Brazil on Wednesday (26 April), squeezed between the land to the west and an exclusion zone to the east. With the wind coming from the…

It hasn’t been a straightforward start to Leg 4 of The Ocean Race 2022-23 as the IMOCA teams zig-zag away from the coast of Brazil, seeking favourable conditions to the east, while keeping an eye on the overall goal of…

It was GUYOT environnement - Team Europe sailor Annie Lush who said the opening days of Leg 4 of The Ocean Race 2022-23 would be a “trim off” and this is how it has come to pass. She was referring…