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TELEFONICA BLUE SUSPEND RACING
Telefonica Blue officially suspended racing having reached landfall near Gibraltar last night to undertake repairs to the steering gear they damaged soon after the race start in Alicante. Bouwe Bekking and his crew notified race HQ at 18:53:26 GMT that they had stopped at the port of Algeciras in...
Virtual Volvo Race - First night and first nightmare!
The Mediterranean lived up to its reputation for the first 24hours of the 18 000+ skippers participating in the first leg of the Virtual Volvo Ocean Race. ...
TELEFONICA BLUE SLOWED BY DAMAGE
Telefonica Blue is hugging the coast of Spain after being slowed by steering damage on their Volvo Open 70 soon after the start of the 2008-09 race. Skipper Bouwe Bekking had been jostling for the lead with PUMA and the Ericsson duo as the eight boats left the start line in Alicante Bay in 20-25 ...
Ericsson 4 leads Volvo fleet ...
... IN TOUGH CONDITIONS FOR START The long-awaited start day of leg one of the 10th running of the Volvo Ocean race dawned grey and very windy in Alicante, just as the forecasters had predicted, but it did not dampen the spirits of the 88 sailors who have been anxious to get this 6,500 nautical...
GO GO GO
Leg 1 of the Volvo Ocean Race 2008-09 from Alicante to Cape Town has started. In gusting windspeeds over 30 knots the boats have engaged their nautical journey at 14.00 local time. Godspeed to all ! ...
Virtual Volvo hits 10 000 players
What would you say if you had the opportunity to win a new Volvo C30 and participate in the famous Race Around the World, The Volvo Ocean Race? A global event which is the biggest and most difficult race to sail ever....
Volvo Ocean Race Leg One Preview
After years, or in some cases weeks, of planning, the day of reckoning has almost arrived for the eight 11-man crews who will be racing their record-breaking Volvo Open 70s in the Volvo Ocean Race 6,500 nautical mile leg one to Cape Town which starts at 1200 GMT (1400 CET) this Saturday, 11 October....
Follow the race: what when and how?
With points already on the leaderboard, and Spain’s Telefónica Blue (Bouwe Bekking/NED) in pole position with four points, the next opportunity to accumulate points will be as the fleet rounds Fernando de Noronha, an island off the coast of Brazil during leg one, which starts this Saturday at 1400 l...
Delta Lloyd repaired
Team Delta Lloyd are back on the water and sailing four days after their yacht’s hull was damaged during the in-port race on Saturday. Ger O’Rourke’s preparations for Saturday’s first leg start were dealt an untimely blow on Alicante Bay when Team Russia speared bow-first into Delta Lloyd during the...
Virtual Volvo Ocean Race 2008-2009
Armchair experts now have the chance to test their skills against the best offshore sailors in the world with the launch of Virtual Volvo Ocean Race 2008-09 – the race's official game....
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