The one overriding theme is to increase race participation, and in order to do that we need to allow a program to enter the race relatively late without a competitive disadvantage. We also need to ...

There are grueling sports and then there’s the Volvo Ocean Race. The “Everest of sailing” is a triennial sporting event that sees seven teams battle it out on the world’s oceans. For nine months, the ...

Each Volvo Ocean Race entry in the 2017-18 race, in addition to their Volvo Ocean 65 monohull racing around the globe, will also have an M32 catamaran shipped from port to port as part of their ...

SAN DIEGO (AP) Dirk de Ridder will sail the fifth leg of the Volvo Ocean Race with Team Brunel, his first major competition since serving an 18-month suspension stemming from one of the biggest ...

LONDON, March 27 (Reuters) - A British Volvo Ocean Race crew member who fell overboard in the Southern Ocean is presumed lost at sea, organisers said on Tuesday. John Fisher, 47, had been competing ...

The Volvo Ocean Race, one of the toughest sailing races on the planet, has come to a thrilling conclusion. The DongFeng Race Team sailed to victory on Sunday evening, finishing the around-the-world ...

Dee Caffari has sailed around the world five times. The British skipper is the only woman to have circled the globe, nonstop, three times, and, in 2014, she set a new speed record for a female crew ...

This fragmented satellite e-mail came from navigator Ross Field on the Team News Corp. racing sailboat 10 days out of Auckland, tearing along at up to 30 knots in front of howling storms, deep in the ...

Mid-way through the eight-month long Volvo Ocean Race (VOR), seven contesting sailboats continue to scream around the planet, matching gumption and endurance against plucky oceans. This week, leg six ...