While it won’t get them on the water any sooner, Shannon Falcone’s Oracle Team USA-sponsored entry into the Red Bull Flugtag, using recycled parts of the team’s demolished AC72 wing, helped lift morale and point the team toward brighter days.
What the sailing world can assimilate from the sport’s greatest laboratory, the Vendée Globe, is revealed in the successes and shortcomings of a diverse fleet. From our July 1993 issue.
Oracle Racing’s longtime bowman, Brad Webb, checks in on what the team has learned about the capsize of its AC72 and how the team members are keeping busy until the boat is ready to fly again.
It’s been a busy month thus far for the America’s Cup teams. Catch up on their sailing, training, and flugtag (yes, flugtag) here.
Two skippers are forced to abandon their dreams of winning the Vendée Globe less than 48 hours after the start. Bruce Gain reflects on the drama of the race and the emotional cord it strikes with the French public.
Nineteen of the 20 skippers sailing the Vendée Globe solo race around the world started the 24,048-mile, three-month circumnavigation off Les Sables d’Olonne, France, on Nov. 10. Bertrand de Broc returned to port before the start to make a repair to a small puncture in his hull. Photos: Jean Marie Liot/DPPI/Vendee Globe Click here to meet the skippers.
[Click here to read more about the race.](http://www.sailingworld.
Bruce Gain checks in with the Vendée Globe skippers to see how they’re sizing up their competition for the solo, around-the-world race.
Don’t let some slightly off-key sailing descriptions get in the way of this engaging debut novel.
Georgetown maintains the lead atop the coed college rankings in the fifth poll of the season. Yale, Dartmouth, and Boston College make up a close top three in the women’s rankings.
The “Everest of the Seas” kicks off on Nov. 10 from Les Sables d’Olonne, France. Here’s what you need to know about this grueling ocean race.
These 20 sailors will set off on Nov. 10 to sail around the world alone in the grueling Vendée Globe.
Ben Ainslie (GBR) and Lijia Xu (CHN) were named ISAF Rolex World Sailors of the Year for 2012.
While it won’t get them on the water any sooner, Shannon Falcone’s Oracle Team USA-sponsored entry into the Red Bull Flugtag, using recycled parts of the team’s demolished AC72 wing, helped lift morale and point the team toward brighter days.
What the sailing world can assimilate from the sport’s greatest laboratory, the Vendée Globe, is revealed in the successes and shortcomings of a diverse fleet. From our July 1993 issue.
Oracle Racing’s longtime bowman, Brad Webb, checks in on what the team has learned about the capsize of its AC72 and how the team members are keeping busy until the boat is ready to fly again.
It’s been a busy month thus far for the America’s Cup teams. Catch up on their sailing, training, and flugtag (yes, flugtag) here.
Two skippers are forced to abandon their dreams of winning the Vendée Globe less than 48 hours after the start. Bruce Gain reflects on the drama of the race and the emotional cord it strikes with the French public.
Nineteen of the 20 skippers sailing the Vendée Globe solo race around the world started the 24,048-mile, three-month circumnavigation off Les Sables d’Olonne, France, on Nov. 10. Bertrand de Broc returned to port before the start to make a repair to a small puncture in his hull. Photos: Jean Marie Liot/DPPI/Vendee Globe Click here to meet the skippers.
[Click here to read more about the race.](http://www.sailingworld.
Bruce Gain checks in with the Vendée Globe skippers to see how they’re sizing up their competition for the solo, around-the-world race.
Don’t let some slightly off-key sailing descriptions get in the way of this engaging debut novel.
Georgetown maintains the lead atop the coed college rankings in the fifth poll of the season. Yale, Dartmouth, and Boston College make up a close top three in the women’s rankings.
The “Everest of the Seas” kicks off on Nov. 10 from Les Sables d’Olonne, France. Here’s what you need to know about this grueling ocean race.
These 20 sailors will set off on Nov. 10 to sail around the world alone in the grueling Vendée Globe.
Ben Ainslie (GBR) and Lijia Xu (CHN) were named ISAF Rolex World Sailors of the Year for 2012.
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