Volvo Ocean Race / Vestas will participate in next Southern Ocean leg

Team Vestas will participate in next Southern Ocean leg around Cape Horn and onwards to Brazil. The team hasn’t raced since the collision in the latter stages of Leg 4, during the final approach to Hong Kong. The team hopes to relaunch their VO65 in the coming days.

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Volvo Ocean Race / Vestas arrived in New Zealand : "The crew is looking forward to re-joining the race shortly”

On February 12th, the Vestas 11th Hour Racing yacht was offloaded from the transport ship in Tauranga, New Zealand. The boat was then transported on Monday evening by truck 200 kilometers to a shipyard in Auckland where repairs will now begin.

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Volvo Ocean Race / Vestas 11th Hour Racing have set off on a transatlantic training leg from Lisbon to Newport

They may be the most recent team to announce, but Vestas 11th Hour Racing, led by Charlie Enright and Mark Towill, are wasting no time at all when it comes to on-the-water training.

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VO65 / Vestas 11th Hour Racing launch Volvo Ocean Race campaign with sustainability message

Vestas are returning to the Volvo Ocean Race for a second consecutive edition, after launching their 2017-18 campaign in partnership with 11th Hour Racing at simultaneous events in Newport, Rhode Island and Aarhus – where it was also announced that the fleet will make a ‘fly by’ of the Danish city on the final leg.

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Volvo Ocean Race / Vestas Wind shore chief Cox : '70 per cent rebuild'

Most of Team Vestas Wind crew members have been reunited in Bergamo, Italy, at the Persico shipyard where the rebuilt process progresses swiftly and on a very tight schedule to make it possible for the boat to be in Lisbon, ready to join in for the last legs of the Volvo Ocean Race. 

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Video / Vestas Wind' VO65, all hands on deck

Exclusive footage from Italy of the joining of the deck to the hull and the removal of Team Vestas' VO65 from its mould.

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#VolvoOceanRace / Team Vestas Wind to change navigator, Wouter Verbraak is no longer a member of the crew

Team Vestas Wind today announced that navigator Wouter Verbraak is no longer a member of the crew for the Volvo Ocean Race. The Dutchman was on board when the team was run aground on November 29 during Leg 2 on a reef in the middle of the Indian Ocean, causing major damage.

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#VolvoOceanRace / Team Vestas Wind will be rejoining the race by repairing the boat, "large portions of the deck can be reused"

Just over one month after the Vestas Wind ran aground in the Cargados Carajos Shoals in the Indian Ocean, Vestas Wind Systems A/S together with sub-sponsor Powerhouse are proud to announce the return of their boat and nine-man crew to the 2014-2015 Race.

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#VolvoOceanRace / The Team Vestas Wind boat is off the rocks (ITW)

“Nico's out over the other side of the reef now, giving it the once over, making sure there's nothing left behind.” The Aussie voice crackling through the Inmarsat iSat phone is that of Team Vestas Wind shore manager, Neil ‘Coxy’ Cox.

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#VolvoOceanRace / 'It’s Vestas’ clear mission to get Team Vestas Wind back into the Volvo Ocean Race."

On 8th December 2014, Team Vestas Wind commercial and sailing teams, together with Vestas CMO Morten Albæk and CEO of Volvo Ocean Race, Knut Frostad, hosted a joint press conference in Abu Dhabi to discuss the implications of the grounding of the Vestas Wind on a reef in the Indian Ocean on 29th November past.

#VolvoOceanRace / Chris Nicholson after grounding : "We made mistakes which led to last night" ITW

Grounded on a Mauritius reef and now rescued, Chris Nicholson, the skipper of Team Vestas Wind, talks about the accident in a long ITW.

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#VolvoOceanrace / VO65' Vestas Wind is grounded ! The crew is safe and plans to abandon the boat

At 1510 UTC, Saturday, November 29, Team Vestas Wind informed Race Control that their boat was grounded on the Cargados Carajos Shoals, Mauritius, in the Indian Ocean. Fortunately, no one has been injured.

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Images / Chris Nicholson with Vestas Wind around the World #VolvoOceanRace

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#VolvoOceanRace / Pressure? At least, Mars Bars don’t cost $100 any more

The days of hungry Volvo Ocean Race sailors trading chocolate snack bars at $100 a time are over thanks to the new one-design Volvo Ocean 65 boat.

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While some focused on their watch tactics or other strategies on the eve of the opening Alicante in-port race, skipper Bouwe Bekking (NED/Team Brunel), told a news conference today that he’s looking forward to at least eating properly on the nine-month offshore marathon which kicks off on October 11.

#VolvoOceanRace / Chris Nicholson and Vestas won Leg 0 (images)

They entered the race last, but they are ready. Chris Nicholson’s men proved it at dawn this Sunday, winning Leg 0 in Alicante. Sure, it’s only a practice race, and Brunel wasn’t far behind – just 10 seconds and 100 metres in fact. But hats off to Team Vestas Wind - they started their campaign two months ago, and today they took the honours. 

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#VolvoOceanRace / Seven VO65 set off together : "Leg Zero is a really important exercise"

Seven Volvo Ocean Race boats set off together for the two-day Leg Zero on Friday knowing that a series of “crises” loom for all of them – and they have all been planned by the organisers. The fleet will be sailing to Majorca and back from Race headquarters in Alicante and failure to complete the trip will mean they will have to return to do it again or at least complete any unfinished mileage.

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#VolvoOceanRace / Vestas announced as the seventh boat, skippered by Chris Nicholson

Vestas, the world’s leading wind energy company, was today announced as the seventh and final boat for the Volvo Ocean Race 2014-15. Six-time world champion Chris Nicholson, who will be contesting his fifth race, will skipper the boat and work is already well underway to ready the Danish company’s team for the race start in October.

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