Offshore
Rambler 88 to head for St Barths
Following the recent launch of Rambler 88, owner George David is lining up to kick off the race program for his new maxi with Les Voiles de St.
Indian Ocean salvage operation
Team Vestas Wind skipper Chris Nicholson is to return to the Cargados Carajos Shoals to attempt to recover his VO65 after it ran on to a reef there during the second leg of the Volvo Ocean Race nea
MACIF IMOCA 60 sold
A new IMOCA campaign, to run from 2015 until 2018, but with the 2016 Vendée Globe as the main objective has been announced.
Merron and Mabire win Class40 Championship
Miranda Merron and Halvard Mabire's Pogo 2 Campagne de France has won the 2014 Class 40 Championship, helded by Miranda's 6th place in the recent Route du Rhum.
Stéphane Guilbaud jumps ship
Spindrift racing is restructuring and will now operate as two units: one focussing on sports performance, the other on company development.
MACIF maxi-tri centre hull transported
An important step has taken place in the construction of Francois Gabart's new maxi-trimaran MACIF: The 30m long central hull has been transferred from Chantier Multiplast in Vannes to CDK
Tight finish into Abu Dhabi
16 minutes 20 seconds apart after 5200 miles of racing
The trans-oceanic match race between Team Brunel and Dongfeng Race Team that has gone on relentlessly for the last 16 days finally reached its conclusion this morning upon their a
Strait of Hormuz
This morning the Volvo Ocean Race leaders entered the Strait of Hormuz between Oman and Iran, the mouth to the Persian/Arabian Gulf.
