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Buoyed up ... Tiare Tomaszewski, Ian Kiernan and Richard Hammond at the launch of this year's Rolex Sydney to Hobart yacht race yesterday.

Let’s see if I can sum up our day in the 5 minutes I have while waiting for our weather download from our satellite communication connection: this could be a difficult blog for me to write…to tap into the ...

Ericsson 4 continues to lead the fleet on Leg 2 of the Volvo Ocean Race through the tepid conditions that are the Indian Ocean Doldrums. At the 2200 GMT report, Torben Grael’s International crew was 764 nautical miles from ...

Beijing Gold medal-winning British sailor Paul Goodison and guests will mark the completion of enhanced sailing facilities for the London 2012 Games with a media photocall at the Weymouth & Portland National Sailing Academy. The completion of enhanced sailing ...

I promised to not use the tag line "Life at the Extreme" because it belongs to Volvo and if we all start using it too much it will get abused and not have the same impact. Forget that. We ...

Torben Grael's Ericsson 4 is beginning to tear itself away from the rest of the fleet. In leg one, the team did this by setting a new 24-hour record in gale force winds. Here, the team is showing they ...

Science fiction writers have long envisioned sailing a spacecraft by the optical force of the sun's light.

A judge charged the suspected leader of the Basque separatist group ETA on Wednesday with plotting an attack on the America's Cup sailing race last year in Valencia, Spain.

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A tough 24 hours starting last night with two major black clouds in the path to the south. These are very localized conditions and can be disruptive for many hours as you get through them. Especially after dark, it ...