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Sail Tactics provides ultra-high resolution wind and tide forecasts for the San Francisco Bay that help sailors win races or...

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Mark takes us through the technical explanation of why the C&C 30 Hull is so high performing and forward-thinking, as well as the objectives behind the One Design...

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Pressure-drop.us welcomes North Sails to our list of growing supporters!


About North Sails Group
North Sails, the largest...

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Sailing Scuttlebutt reveal this morning that former Team Oracle Racing USA employee has filed suit revolving around King-post...

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It’s only the beginning of the leg and already big decisions are needed. For the teams picking the right moment to gybe north into the Indian Ocean is...

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November 28, 2014

We are bearing north on starboard tack, and our next goal is sailing to windward of Reunion Island and...

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Bino’s and Undies

We find ourselves glued to “Bino duty” as the Australians put it – for the rest of us normal people that’s a...

The Indian Ocean spares nobody. The wind bashes 28 knots and 24 knots speed on the counter. Every ten seconds, Team Brunel drills into a tower high wave.
Masses of water flowing over the deck. The...

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Ainhoa Sanchez/Volvo Ocean Race


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AP Source: Bermuda to Host 2017 America's Cup
SAN DIEGO — Nov 20, 2014, 6:26 PM ET
By BERNIE WILSON AP Sports Writer

Associated Press

The tax haven of Bermuda has been picked over San Diego...

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Kissing with Capey
Can you remember one of your first dates? At the end of your date you managed to grab a kiss.

But the...

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Big winds with 20 knot plus sustained and larger gusts mixed with massive, fleet swallowing holes to make the start of leg 2 of...

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Early this afternoon (Thursday) about thirty miles off La Coruña, Bob Escoffier, the 65 year-old skipper from Saint Malo, was...

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Nice compilation video!

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Leaving the safer Mediterranean sea behind, the teams are sailing along the African coast discovering the perils of a not so off-shore racing.
It’s...

The best of the OBR's blogs

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NOVEMBER 3, 2014
It’s a quarter to eight, somewhere in the Southern Ocean. A little over a...

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It’s quarter to eight somewhere in the Southern Ocean, slightly more than 1,000 nautical miles from Cape Town. In a quarter of...

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NOVEMBER 1, 2014



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OCTOBER 30, 2014

The front-runners and ourselves all patiently or not so patiently wait for this shift in the breeze to the...

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08/28
A world of digital age, everything is on Google,...

Sitting in the Nav Station on-board Azzam, SiFi again surveys what looks like colored spaghetti; this time thrown on a map of the South Atlantic Ocean. Each colored line marks a different routing to...

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Always keeping an eye out for the changing conditions. Brian Carlin/Team Vestas Wind/Volvo Ocean Race


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OCTOBER 21, 2014


Even though I’m tempting fate writing this, the headline of the day so far would be “Doldrums? What Doldrums?” Certainly, based on weather models we should have already seen...

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The only thing we see is the other boats in the far distance,...

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Jamie Boag - ADOR TEAM DIRECTOR

Well, we can’t complain...