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Green Dragon arrives in Alicante (ESP)
The Green Dragon Volvo Open 70 has completed her passage from Dublin to the start port of the 2008-09 race in Alicante. Skipper Ian Walker reflected on the 1,500-mile delivery – an easier task than the wet and wild 2,000-mile race qualifier the boat covered earlier this month. ...
PUMA Ocean Racing Sets Sail For Spain
PUMA Ocean Racing left Newport, Rhode Island today for their final warm-up before the start of the Volvo Ocean Race. This transatlantic crossing from Newport to Alicante, Spain is no simple feat and will be the final test of the PUMA Ocean Racing Team and the boat before the race begins. ...
Record run for Team Russia
Team Russia claimed an unofficial Round Britain and Ireland monohull record in completing an eventful qualifying run for the 2008-09 race....
Team Russia Announce Four More Crew For Volvo Ocean Race
Jochen Wolfram (GER), Jeremy Elliott (IRE), Andy Meiklejohn (NZL) and Nick Bubb (UK) have taken their places onboard Kosatka, Team Russia's VO70 competing in the Volvo Ocean Race 2008-09. ...
It's never quick enough
We soon found the south easterlies that accelerated Kosatka towards the north. While it was still Code 0 as they were very light, we were soon going through Code 3 and A2. For a night and half a day the huge 500sqm sail pulled us towards the Shetlands, the halfway and rounding mark for our qualifier...
Green Dragon complete tough race qualifier
The Green Dragon Volvo Open 70 has completed its qualification passage without any alarms and with a sense of satisfaction for skipper Ian Walker after a tough workout for boat and crew. ...
Adventurous First Day on Team Russia Qualifier
Kosatka is making great progress on its quest to unofficially beat the Round Britain and Ireland record for a monohull during its Volvo Race Qualifier....
Marcus Hutchinson is new race Communications Director
The Volvo Ocean Race has announced the appointment of a new Communications Director, Marcus Hutchinson, who will be replacing Reg Gratton from the beginning of September....
The Volvo goes Green
The Volvo Ocean Race is taking part in a pioneering project aimed at finding out how the oceans have been affected by ships’ exchanging of billions of tonnes of ballast water....
Ericsson Racing Team confirms their "Media Guy"
Ericsson Racing Team have confirmed that Britain's Guy Salter will be the media crew member on their international boat in the 2008-09 race. Salter, 36, will team up with 39-year-old brother Jules, the navigator aboard skipper Torben Grael's Ericsson 4. This will be the younger Salter's seco...
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