Extreme Sailing Series: Warming up in Muscat
— 25 January 2012Eight pro teams, meeting the objective of organisers OC ThirdPole for 2012, will be on the starting grid in Muscat on 28 February 2012.
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Jules Verne Trophy: the long story of Banque Populaire V
— 10 January 2012The genius of Maxi Banque Populaire is rooted in twenty years of reflection starting as far back as Lyonnaise des Eaux Dumez which VPLP designed for Olivier de Kersauson in 1993…
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AC World Series: another podium place for Energy Team
— 21 November 2011Energy Team took third place on Sunday evening in the major fleet race, which closed this America’s Cup World Series in San Diego.
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Barcelona World Race: and the winner is…
— 4 April 2011Highlights of winners’ press conference Virbac-Paprec 3 (Jean-Pierre Dick and Loick Peyron)…
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Barcelona World Race: Sting at the tip of the south’s tail
— 24 March 2011Huddled in thermals, blearily rubbing his eyes with tiredness, Ludovic Aglaor, the co-skipper of Forum Maritim Catala today illustrated how rounding Cape Horn does not necessarily equate to hitting the home stretch in the Barcelona World Race…
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Barcelona World Race: does the Pacific highway takes an exit toll?
— 9 March 2011It is hard to judge whether the Pacific is extracting a particular toll from the peloton of the Barcelona World Race fleet, a tax at the gateway to deliverance into Atlantic, whether it is simply the accumulation of hard miles since the start, or recent problems among them are all purely circumstantial.
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The Maxi Banque Populaire V trimaran takes possession of the Jules Verne Trophy
— 7 January 2012The fourteen sailors aboard the Maxi trimaran Banque Populaire V just entered history of offshore racing by becoming the fastest men around the globe with crew, after 45 days 13 hours 42 minutes 53 seconds of sailing*. Loïck Peyron and his crew improved the reference time of the Jules Verne Trophy held by Groupama 3 since March 2010 by 2 days 18 hours 1 minute and 59 seconds.
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America’s Cup World Series: nine team at the ready
— 4 August 2011Nine of the best sailing teams in the world are making their final preparations in Cascais, Portugal ahead of the opening weekend of the 34th America’s Cup.
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Barcelona World Race: At the gates of enlightenment
— 31 March 2011Across his two combined Barcelona World Races French skipper Jean Pierre Dick has only ever passed the magnificent Pillars of Hercules…
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The Nespresso Cup returns to Portofino to renew the ultimate combination of performance and design
— 9 March 2011Nespresso and Wally have announced the second edition of the Nespresso Cup, international sailing
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event that will gather the Wally Class in Portofino in May 2011.
