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With the start of the Volvo Ocean Race only weeks away, I stopped by the Groupama base in Lorient, France.
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With the start of the Volvo Ocean Race only weeks away, I stopped by the Groupama base in Lorient, France.
What’s with the business of keeping our America’s Cup and Volvo boats under wraps until game time? It’s all about the head games, and as silly as they are, I can’t stop playing. _Gaining Bearing _from our September 2011 issue.
Marmo and Laird Hamilton join PUMA Ocean Racing to promote an ocean preservation campaign and provide accessibility to the water.
It’s not the sleep deprivation or the relentless pace that makes the Volvo Ocean Race so tough. It’s leaving the dock, and your family behind–again and again. Gaining Bearing from our June 2011 issue.
Whether crushing speed records, nailing ocean races, or pioneering new technology, Stan Honey knows his position precisely. (Parts of this interview appear in our May 2011 issue.)
The first team to unveil its Open 70 for the 2011-’12 Volvo Ocean Race, CAMPER, with skipper Chris Nicholson, went for a maiden voyage on New Zealand’s Hauraki Gulf. Photos by Chris Cameron. Access SW‘s coverage of the previous Volvo Ocean Race.
Dave Reed tries to make sense of the VOR technical committee’s “Shed Measurement Guidelinees,” which explain how measurers will go about measuring hulls for the 2010-’11 Volvo Ocean Race.
Softspoken Kiwi Ray Davies, a veteran of two Volvo Ocean Races and three America’s Cups, will lead Peter de Ridder’s 2009 VOR campaign. “For the Record” from our November/December 2006 issue
With the start of the Volvo Ocean Race only weeks away, I stopped by the Groupama base in Lorient, France.
What’s with the business of keeping our America’s Cup and Volvo boats under wraps until game time? It’s all about the head games, and as silly as they are, I can’t stop playing. _Gaining Bearing _from our September 2011 issue.
Marmo and Laird Hamilton join PUMA Ocean Racing to promote an ocean preservation campaign and provide accessibility to the water.
It’s not the sleep deprivation or the relentless pace that makes the Volvo Ocean Race so tough. It’s leaving the dock, and your family behind–again and again. Gaining Bearing from our June 2011 issue.
Whether crushing speed records, nailing ocean races, or pioneering new technology, Stan Honey knows his position precisely. (Parts of this interview appear in our May 2011 issue.)
The first team to unveil its Open 70 for the 2011-’12 Volvo Ocean Race, CAMPER, with skipper Chris Nicholson, went for a maiden voyage on New Zealand’s Hauraki Gulf. Photos by Chris Cameron. Access SW‘s coverage of the previous Volvo Ocean Race.
Dave Reed tries to make sense of the VOR technical committee’s “Shed Measurement Guidelinees,” which explain how measurers will go about measuring hulls for the 2010-’11 Volvo Ocean Race.
Softspoken Kiwi Ray Davies, a veteran of two Volvo Ocean Races and three America’s Cups, will lead Peter de Ridder’s 2009 VOR campaign. “For the Record” from our November/December 2006 issue
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