Ocean Race News
#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,…
#VOR - Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing's VOR 65 Azzam was the first yacht across the finish line in Cape Town this afternoon (Wednesday 5 November), taking Leg 1 of the 12th edition of the Volvo Ocean Race. The win marks…
#vor – After 19 days & 3,000 miles sailed in the first leg of the Volvo Ocean Race, the top three teams can still see each other as they approach Cape Town, south Africa and the end of leg one.…
#VOR - All seven teams in the Volvo Ocean Race have crossed the Doldrums into the Southern Hemisphere as they make tracks towards Cape Town on the first leg of the 12 edition. And for Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing's onboard…
#justinslattery – Born in Cork, grew up in Ireland, Justin Slattery learnt to sail in Cork Harbour with Eddie English writes Marcus Hutchinson. By signing up to sail on board Abu Dhabi in this year's Volvo Ocean Race and sail…