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 ...

The Volvo Ocean Race today unveiled a series of radical initiatives that will create the toughest all-round test in professional sailing and strengthen the appeal of the 44-year-old round-the-world ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A pod of killer whales bumped one of the boats in an endurance sailing race as it approached the Strait of Gibraltar, the latest encounter in what researchers say is a growing trend of ...

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On Thursday, a pod of orcas approached the Team JAJO boat during The Ocean Race VO65 Sprint in the Atlantic Ocean to the west of Gibraltar. The orcas can be seen pushing up against the sailboat and ...

(WJAR) — A collision early in the final leg of the Ocean Race in the Netherlands left the 11th Hour Racing team's boat with extensive damage. The 11th Hour Racing Team's 60-foot race boat was hit by ...

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 ...

Orcas rammed into two boats competing in The Ocean Race on Thursday. Video of one of the orca encounters shows two of them intentionally bumping into the sailboat. "This was a scary moment," Team JAJO ...

Two teams participating in the six-month-long Ocean Race have reported run-ins with killer whales, including one encounter that saw orcas accelerate toward a racing yacht, ram into it and bite the ...