Just another day at the office | Volvo Ocean Race 2014-15 | video above
Volvo Ocean Race: A $20 Million Test Of Sailing Endurance: " .... On October 11, the fleet of identical 65-foot ocean racers will set off from Alicante, Spain on the first leg of the 40,000-mile race, which has been held every three years since 1973. For Enright and his young crew, it’s a chance to prove themselves in one of the toughest endurance contests in sailing... The boats will race from Alicante to Cape Town and from there to Abu Dhabi; Sanya, China; Aukland, New Zealand and around Cape Horn to Brazil and Newport before finishing in Gothenburg, Sweden. The race is expected to take 10 months and will cost the average team about $20 million, including the cost of shore crews who will move a pair of shipping containers full of supplies in leapfrog fashion in front of the boats... To drive down costs from previous years, the 65-foot, carbon-fiber boats are all the same... Volvo 65s have canting keels, hinged arms with a lead bulb that can be swung 40 degrees from side to side to provide more stability at the cost of a complex system of hydraulic rams to move the keel. After years of tinkering, the hydraulic rams and swing joints appear to be durable enough to survive a circumnavigation of the globe...."
Plymouth Herald
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Plymouth Herald
CADETS from Saltash Sailing Club raced from the club start line down the Tamar and then up the Lynher to a finish at Forder. Jack Wickham, Tom ...
Hoofer Sailing Club Celebrates 75 years
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MADISON (WKOW)--The Hoofer Sailing Club is celebrating 75 years this weekend. The group, which meets down at U.W. Madison's Memorial Union, ...
World ARC cruises into Mackay after Pacific crossing
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Mackay became the latest focus of interest for sailors from around the world as the first of 23 cruising boats arrived in Mackay Marina marking the ...
Italy-Tunisia sailing race Carthago Dilecta Est returns
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The sailing competition will be followed by Tunisia Sailing Week, August 7-11, an event enriched with a series of races in the Gulf of Hammamet and ...
My Sailing
Which Aussie would qualify for ISAF sailor of the year for 2014?
My Sailing
Nominations are invited for the 2014 ISAF Rolex World Sailor of the Year Awards, the most prestigious award of recognition in the sport of sailing.
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