The Ocean Race features two fleets of high-performance racing yachts, both capable of speeds high enough to travel 600 nautical miles or more in 24 hours under the right conditions. For the first time ...

Guillaume Verdier is working on plans for the next generation Volvo Ocean Race One Design – and the final decision on monohull vs. multihull is now just weeks away… The Volvo Ocean Race sat down with ...

Just over three months ago, on 18 May 2017, Volvo Ocean Race CEO Mark Turner stood on a stage in the Volvo Museum in Gothenburg and announced that the question of whether the future of the race was ...

NEWPORT, R.I. (WJAR) — It’s the season for sailing in Newport, and it kicks off in a big way with the world famous Ocean Race. Teams of the most experienced sailors in the most advanced vessels are ...

Two sailing teams competing in a round-the-world race had a scary encounter with a pod of orcas on Thursday afternoon, race officials said. The two teams are part of The Ocean Race, an international ...

The Newport-based 11th Hour Racing Team skippered by Charlie Enright discovered the damage when the boat was lifted from the water after arriving in Cape Town for the completion of the second leg. The ...

Presented as a demonstration of responsible ocean sailing, the Greenscow project aims to prove that a racing boat can be both ...

NEWPORT, R.I. (AP) — Rhode Island native Charlie Enright sailed the 11th Hour Racing team to victory in Leg 4 of the around-the-world Ocean Race, arriving in his home port of Newport on Wednesday ...

TAMPA, Fla., Nov. 16, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- How does an ocean racing sailboat – which was built in a chicken coop by a young yacht designer with novel ideas and little money – end up changing the world ...

The U.S.-based 11th Hour Racing Team won the around-the-world Ocean Race on Thursday, thanks to a jury that awarded the hobbled sloop the equivalent of a second-place finish in a leg it couldn’t ...

Park City-area resident Francesca Clapcich is thousands of miles from home this week, racing through the Atlantic Ocean in one of the world’s toughest offshore competitions.

Just over a week ago, one of the world's most grueling races got underway from Spain. Eleven teams, including five International Monohull Open Class Association (IMOCA)-class racing yachts, departed ...