Roger Hickman’s 29 year old Farr 43 Wild Rose is the overall IRC winner for the Rolex Sydney Hobart 2014. Crossing the finish line on Monday 29 Dec, 08:04:43 PM.…
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Rolex Sydney Hobart Race 2014: Wild Oats XI takes 8th line honours victory but not before the battle with Comanche had closed up once again
As Bob Oatley’s Wild Oats XI crossed the finishing line to take the overall win in the Rolex Sydney Hobart Race 2014, she made yet another entry in the famous…
Rolex Sydney Hobart: Perpetual Loyal suffers bow delamination as Wild Oats takes the overall lead from Comanche – was this the race defining moment?
Twenty four hours after the start of the Rolex Sydney Hobart, Wild Oats IX took the overall lead from Comanche.
Rolex Sydney Hobart: Smoking start for Comanche and one of the fastest exits of the fleet from Sydney
Perfect conditions, flat water and 15-20 knots of breeze saw a blistering start for all of the 117 boat fleet in the Rolex Sydney Hobart race
Rolex Sydney Hobart: Christmas Eve fleet briefing points to 20-30 knots against the tide on Friday for the dead beat south
A punchy upwind start followed by lighter conditions for the big boats crossing the Bass Strait, before the breeze swings to the north and slingshots the smaller boats back into…
Volvo Ocean Race: Why Leg 2 has placed three boats at the top and in a different league to the rest
With the change to a strict one design came the promise of close racing for the 2014/14 Volvo Ocean Race, but no one expected it to be so close as…
ARC 2014: A new course record and an impressive repeat performance, Matthew Sheahan reports from the finish in St Lucia
There are easier ways to cross the Atlantic than peeling kites on an hourly basis, gybing on every lift and sitting on the weather rail whenever it might make a…
Video: Full footage as Volvo Ocean Race Team Vestas strikes the reef and the crew prepare to abandon ship
the boat was doing 19 knots. The noise and the violence of the collision on the opening section of this video leaves you on no doubt about that.
Tax, TV and timings – why the Americas Cup 2017 is to take place in Bermuda
The Americas Cup 2017 will take place in Bermuda. The confirmation of the venue for the 35th Americas Cup in June 2017 was announced by the America’s Cup commercial commissioner,…
New Pogo 3 is an even more powerful machine and a dangerously addictive pocket rocket
More power and less weight Matthew Sheahan discovers that Pogo Structure’s third generation mini transat boat is a dangerously addictive machine
First aerial shot of broken VOR 65 Team Vestas Wind on the Cargados Carajos Shoals, Mauritius
A picture posted on the Volvo Ocean Race website shows the sad wreckage of Chris Nicholson’s Volvo 65 Team Vestas Wind that ran aground. The nine-strong crew abandoned ship in…
Volvo Ocean Race skipper Chris Nicholson describes how his crew came to abandon their Volvo 65 and what happens next
– The damage is massive in the boat – We had to just hang with the boat breaking up around us – I can’t begin to describe how hard it…
Team Vestas crew abandon boat as they hit reef on the Cargados Carajos Shoals, Mauritius in Volvo Ocean Race
At 1510 UTC, Team Vestas Wind informed Race Control that their boat was grounded on the Cargados Carajos Shoals, 200nm north east of Mauritius, in the Indian Ocean. All nine…
ARC 2014 – One week in and the crews are settling in but the weather has been a surprise – selection of logs
One week in and the ARC fleet is settling into the routine of their 2,700nm crossing although not in the kind of conditions that many had expected. Squalls, rain showers…
Will they hold the next America’s Cup in Bermuda? Ben Ainslie on why it would be ‘a great challenge’
One question that needed to be answered following the apparent leak last week – ‘Was the next America’s Cup really going to be in Bermuda rather than the other option,…
ARC rally start delayed because of local strong winds. ‘Safety is our priority’ say organisers
Strong winds blowing through the harbour of Las Palmas have caused ARC organisers World Cruising Club to announce a delay to the start of ARC 2014
Matthew Sheahan looks at why Volvo Ocean Race teams were taking seriously a race that counted for no points
Put bluntly, there was nothing to win and everything to lose for the teams competing in the in port race at Cape Town today. At least that’s how things looked…
Volvo Ocean Race – Vestas 4th & Smiling
Chris Nicholson and crew finished leg 1 fourth but had plenty to smile about on reaching Cape Town
Volvo Ocean Race – Podium Places
The first three VO65s have arrived in Cape Town at the end of Leg 1, Matthew Sheahan talks to their skippers
VOR Leg 1 Needle Match Finish
Abu Dhabi and Dongfeng have been locked in a match race across the South Atlantic. Matthew Sheahan reports from Cape Town on one of the closest finishes in the history…