The result was in doubt until the final moments of leg 6, with 11th Hour Racing Team along with Team Holcim-PRB and Team Malizia racing within shouting distance of each other during most of Sunday morning. The final approach to The Hague required one short upwind section where the boats were criss-crossing within metres with each […]
The Ocean Race
About The Ocean Race
Since 1973, The Ocean Race has provided the ultimate test of a team and a human adventure like no other. For nearly 50 years, it has kept an almost mythical hold over some of the greatest sailors and been the proving ground for the legends of our sport.
The 14th edition of The Ocean Race will start from Alicante, Spain on 15 January 2023, and will finish in Genova, Italy early in the summer of 2023. The race will visit nine iconic cities around the globe over a six-month period (Alicante, Spain - Cabo Verde - Cape Town, South Africa - Itajaí, Brazil - Newport, RI, USA - Aarhus, Denmark - Kiel Fly-By, Germany - The Hague, the Netherlands - Genova, Italy) and will feature a leg with the longest racing distance in the 50-year history of the event - a 12,750 nautical mile, one-month marathon from Cape Town, South Africa to Itajaí, Brazil. The fleet of mixed crews will pass all three great southern Capes - Cape of Good Hope, Cape Leeuwin, Cape Horn - non-stop, for the first time.
Along with five confirmed foiling IMOCA teams racing around the world, six one-design VO65 boats will race on three legs with an option to compete for a new trophy within The Ocean Race called The Ocean Race VO65 Sprint Cup.
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The Ocean Race: Coming together in the North Sea
The flying, foiling IMOCA fleet racing in The Ocean Race and the one-design VO65s competing in the VO65 Sprint both left Aarhus on Thursday, their race starts separated by two hours. And while the IMOCAs turned south to race into the Kiel Fjord in front of tens of thousands of fans on Friday, the VO65s […]
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The Ocean Race: Friday fly by in Kiel attracts enormous crowd to cheer on IMOCA fleet
The last time The Ocean Race was in Kiel, was on 9 June, 2002, and the German team, illbruck, was being celebrated for winning the Volvo Ocean Race. In the crowd was a young German sailor beginning his career – Boris Herrmann – and the event made a lasting impressions. “I used to live in Kiel, I […]
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10 boats race out of Aarhus towards The Hague in The Ocean Race
The Ocean Race returned to full strength in Aarhus, Denmark as the VO65 fleet rejoined the race for the European legs. On a beautiful Thursday afternoon – sunny skies, warm temperatures, light sea breeze – racing started with the stakes high for both fleets. First off were the five VO65s returning to race in the second stage of the […]
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The Ocean Race: Aarhus Leg start preview – the most complex leg yet
At 800 nautical miles, Leg 6 may be the shortest of the race but it is also one of the most complex. From the start in Aarhus the fleet will head south for a fly-by in Kiel before turning north to head back up the eastern side of Denmark. Once around the top of the […]
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Biotherm and WindWhisper are the winners on a day of comebacks in Aarhus
The sun was shining on Sunday, as it has been throughout the entire Aarhus stopover, and that meant a building sea breeze would be the order of the day for the In Port Racing programme. This marked the return of the VO65 class to The Ocean Race, as the fleet comes back to continue racing […]
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The Ocean Race: Aarhus In-Port Race set for Sunday showdown
Conditions in Aarhus have been incredible so far during the stopover and the sunny skies are forecast to continue into Sunday’s In-Port Race. Crowds have been enjoying the warmth and the city of smiles has been living up to its name. Sunday’s In-Port Race marks the return of the VO65 fleet as they resume the VO65 […]
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The Ocean Race: Fighting for a comeback in Aarhus
This story is published on behalf of GUYOT environnement – Team Europe The emotional rollercoaster ride for GUYOT environnement – Team Europe is over. After the dismasting near the American coast, the arrival at the port in Halifax, Canada and the shipping of the yacht to Europe, the team’s further participation in The Ocean Race […]
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The Ocean Race: Ocean microplastics found to be rife by teams sailing around the world
Preliminary results from the initial legs of the current edition of The Ocean Race show microplastics in each one of the 40 samples analysed so far, with as many as 1,884 microplastics per cubic metre (pm3)* of water in some locations. Samples analysed from leg two of the round-the-world sailing Race, from Mindelo, Cabo Verde […]
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The Ocean Race: Biotherm finish leg 5 on shortened course
In accordance with the Sailing Instructions, which allow the Race Committee to shorten the course for boats still racing, the finish line for Biotherm has been moved to longitude 0-degrees. The team then finished leg 5 at 10:37:50 UTC on Wednesday 31 May in fourth place, scoring 4 points for the leg. Their elapsed time for the […]
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11th Hour Racing Team win Leg 5, grab overall lead in The Ocean Race
Skipper Charlie Enright’s smile was as bright as the early morning sun in Aarhus, Denmark on Monday morning as he led his 11th Hour Racing Team to a first place finish in leg 5 of The Ocean Race. The win was doubly important; the transatlantic race is a double-points scoring leg and with the win, 11th […]
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The Ocean Race: Pressure on as leaders duel into Aarhus
Change may be coming to The Ocean Race. Since the opening leg from Alicante, Spain to Cabo Verde, skipper Kevin Escoffier and his rotating cast of characters on Team Holcim-PRB have been firmly positioned at the top of the overall race leaderboard. Now, with just over 250 miles left to the finish line in Aarhus, Denmark, […]
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The Ocean Race: Record-breaking pace towards Aarhus
Records are being set and then broken again on leg 5 of The Ocean Race. First it was 11th Hour Racing Team, powering to a new standard, only to be eclipsed a short time later by Team Holcim-PRB, who appeared to have secured not only a new race record, but the outright monohull record for […]
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VO65 fleet returns to race in The Ocean Race VO65 Sprint
The last time we saw the VO65 fleet in The Ocean Race was in January and the teams had just completed the opening stage of the VO65 Sprint, from Alicante, Spain to Cabo Verde. The Polish-flagged WindWhisper Racing Team won the race south from the Mediterranean out to the Atlantic, with Team JAJO and Austrian Ocean […]
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The Ocean Race: Team Holcim-PRB blows past distance records
This story has been updated at 1000 UTC Friday morning Skipper Kevin Escoffier and his Team Holcim-PRB have shattered the existing 24-hour distance records in the monohull class. First to fall was The Ocean Race 24-hour Speed Record Challenge sponsored by Ulysse Nardin, previously set at 602 nautical miles by Simeon Tienpont’s Team AkzoNobel in the […]
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The Ocean Race: Incident onboard 11th Hour Racing Team
By 11th Hour Racing Team At 1541 UTC on Thursday, May 25, while racing in Leg 5 of The Ocean Race, 11th Hour Racing Team activated its Hazard Button to alert Race Control and the wider fleet they had hit something, suspected to be a marine mammal or megafauna. The Team was in the mid-North […]
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The Ocean Race: Pushing towards a record
It’s going to be an interesting 24-hours in The Ocean Race as the leading trio find themselves in strong downwind reaching conditions and ‘relatively’ flat water – a combination that could produce a new 24-hour distance record. There are some great ‘go fast’ videos and photos in the content from the boats today 11th Hour Racing […]
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The Ocean Race: Dancing around the low
It’s been a bumpy ride for the past two days of The Ocean Race as winds in the 25-30 knot range interact with the currents of the gulf stream to make an uncomfortable and unpredictable sea state. Check out the latest content from the boats here Despite that, the leading trio have been racing north at […]
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The Ocean Race: Speeding towards the target
It’s been a fast 24 hours in The Ocean Race, with teams making around 500 miles towards the target of the finish line – Aarhus, Denmark in northern Europe. Check the content from the boats here The conditions are mostly favourable for making miles – reaching conditions in a north wind that is in the […]
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11th Hour Racing Team leads into the Atlantic
It’s 11th Hour Racing Team at the head of the fleet on Monday as the four racing IMOCAs push east into the Atlantic Ocean. After being squeezed between two Marine Mammal Exclusion Zones for much of Sunday night, the race course is beginning to open up now. Check out the latest content from the boats For […]
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Team Malizia wins Newport In Port Race and leads fleet towards the open Atlantic
Newport, Rhode Island earned its title as one of the great homes of sailing on Sunday providing beautiful conditions for the start of leg 5 of The Ocean Race. The sunshine returned with light southwesterlies and the crowds were out in force, both on land at Fort Adams State Park and at sea, pushing in on the margins […]
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The Ocean Race: Newport In-Port Race postponed
Due to deteriorating weather, Saturday’s In-Port Race in Newport has been postponed and will now be incorporated into the start of Leg 5. Safety is a top priority for The Ocean Race. With a forecast for increasing winds, deteriorating visibility and rain squalls with very strong gusts, it has been decided to postpone the In […]
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The Ocean Race: The fight for first starts in Newport
Four IMOCA teams will compete in the Newport In-Port Race on Saturday before heading off across the Atlantic as The Ocean Race leaves the Americas and returns to Europe. With just over one month before the Grand Finale finish in Genova, Italy, there is still no certainty at the top of the leaderboard, with three […]
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The Ocean Race: Biotherm complete the Leg 4 podium
Skipper Paul Meilhat and his Biotherm team had a long wait to get to the finish on Thursday morning in Newport, Rhode Island. With an initial ETA of 0530 local time, the light overnight winds nearly died completely with the sunrise, leaving the team to battle adverse conditions for a few more hours before they finally glided across […]
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The Ocean Race: 11th Hour Racing Team wins in hometown, with Malizia second, closing up the leaderboard
11th Hour Racing Team won Leg 4 of The Ocean Race, leading the fleet into their hometown of Newport, Rhode Island on a spectacular spring afternoon in New England. Skipper Charlie Enright was beaming as he stepped ashore, moments after his team held off Team Malizia to cross the finishing line for their first leg […]