11/2009 – VPLP are celebrating a victorious Transat Jacques Vabre this year, with Franck Yves Escoffier driving their Formula 50′ trimaran Crêpes Wahou! to cross the finish line first after 15 days, 15 hours, 31 minutes and 50 seconds. He was followed soon after by the first of the monohull fleet: theVPLP / Verdier IMOCA […]
Continue Reading ...11/2009 – The Offshore Racing Congress (ORC) has accepted and approved all changes made by the International Technical Committee (ITC) to next year’s VPP to be used in ORC International and ORC Club rating systems. This is the first year the ITC had met to finalize their changes and ratify them through the ORC test […]
Continue Reading ...11/2009 – BMW Oracle Racing, the challenger of the 33rd America’s cup installed an almost 190-foot airplane-like hard wing sail and completed the first short test sail (on november the 10th) of the team’s latest technology on San Diego Bay. A wing of this scale has never been built for a boat. In terms of […]
Continue Reading ...09/2009 – After being put back a few days due to bad weather over the Western tip of Brittany, the skies seem to be clearing to enable the launch of the new maxi-trimaran Gitana 11. Next Monday 7th September, Yann Guichard and the Gitana Team’s shore crew will make the most of the evening’s rising […]
Continue Reading ...11/2008 – Ericsson 4 has once again won a fight. Passing the 58th meridian ahead of Ericsson 3, the boat skipped by Torben Grael confirms its leadership at the intermediate classment of the 2008 Volvo Ocean Race. It is 4 points ahead of Green Dragon and Puma which faced important damages in the roaring 40s. […]
Continue Reading ...11/2008 – 30 adventurers around the world On November the 9th at 13:02, 30 sailors are leaving Les Sables d’Olonne for a crazy adventure. The 6th edition of the Vendée Globe will lead them to inhospitable seas, for a non stop circumnavigation. 24 000 milles along, in their 60′ monohulls, the 30 sailors will be […]
Continue Reading ...13/11/2009 At approximately 10:20hrs GMT today, BT crew Sébastien Josse and Jean-François Cuzon who are racing in the IMOCA Open 60 class in the Transat Jacques Vabre two handed race from Le Havre to Costa Rica, activated their EPIRB distress beacon after having suffered major damage following a night battling it out in fierce seas […]
Continue Reading ...09/2009 – Tim Jeffery joins BMW ORACLE Racing as Director, Communications. The 33rd America’s Cup will be his ninth. He has reported on the America’s Cup, as well as five Olympics and many of the world’s major sailing events as The Daily Telegraph’s (London) longstanding sailing correspondent. His work has been appeared in many of […]
Continue Reading ...11/2008 – Russell Coutts, CEO and Skipper of BMW ORACLE Racing, today announced that BOR 90, the syndicate’s state-of-the-art trimaran, has successfully completed Phase I of its sea trials in San Diego. The 90 foot high-tech trimaran now will undergo further modifications to improve performance based on the team’s experiences with the trimaran on the […]
Continue Reading ...11/2008 – DOGZILLA ATTACKS. The BMW Oracle Team goes on testing their new trimaran in California. At sea since August 25th, 2008, the BOR 90 is now berthed in her new base, after having sailed in Anacortes (North East of the USA). Symbolically, the team has settled down where Dennis Conner and his team Stars […]
Continue Reading ...Monday 31st May 2021, the launch ceremony of the new RSY 38m EXP took place in the presence of the owners and their family, in full compliance with the COVID measures, which did not hinder the important operations of launching a new boat.
