Volvo ocean race

The Ocean Race is the toughest test of a team in sport – and sailing's greatest round-the-world challenge. Since 1973, winning the Race has been an obsession for the world's best sailors – Olympic champions, record breakers and pioneers. With teams racing through the most extreme spots on the planet – closer to the astronauts in the Space Station than anyone else on land – and calling at iconic cities on 6 continents, The Ocean Race is a truly global sporting competition with adventure and…

The Volvo Ocean Race will give sports fans an extra Christmas present in 2017 after adding Melbourne to the route for the next edition starting in October.

The first of the new one-design Volvo Ocean 65 racing boats has made it safely through a rigorous round of testing – including a heart-stopping pull-down test putting the boat at an angle of 50 degrees – and is on track to be declared 'ready to sail' by the end of the week.

Carolijn Brouwer is a top talent, having been to the Olympic Games in three different classes (470, Europe and Tornado catamaran), and more recently raced extensively offshore, there are few people better placed to offer their advice on sailing downwind fast. As a proven talent, Brouwer was an obvious pick for the all-female crew on Amer Sports Too for the 2001/02 edition of the Volvo Ocean Race. The Volvo 60 was a responsive planing boat that rewarded good instincts at the helm. Brouwer…

The best pictures of the fifth stage of the 2014-15 Volvo Ocean Race, taking in Auckland to Itajai in Brazil, via the notorious Cape Horn. The race covers 39,379 nautical miles and will visit 11 ports in 11 countries over nine months. Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing took the lead in stage one with Team Brunel taking stage two, stage three was won by Dongfeng Race, Mapfre took the honours on stage four. Stage five saw another retirement as Dongfeng Race Team’s mast broke, the stage was won by Abu…

Watch Volvo Ocean Race Livestream's Leg 6 ItajaÍ to Miami on Livestream.com.

Yesterday's front four on Leg 6 of the Volvo Ocean Race have been badly caught out by an area of light winds on Day 5 of Leg 6 of the Volvo Ocean Race from Hong Kong to Auckland.

YACHTING-VOLVO-TEAMS -Yacht team designs and details for the 2014 Volvo Ocean Race. #Yachting #Volvo Ocean Race #sailing #infographic #graphic . 15cm wide Static vector EPS.

Skipper, Bowman, Trimmer - Get your bearings right about the various positions onboard a Volvo Ocean 65!