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SkySails Yacht GmbH
Race for Water: the 35m 100 tons yacht registered speed up to 10 knots using a 40 m2 kite
The zero-emission catamaran “Race for Water” has reached Madeira finishing the first leg on its journey across the Atlantic. The first of its kind yacht has been utilizing the innovative kite propulsion system developed by SkySails Yacht GmbH of Hamburg/Germany throughout the (...) -
America’s Cup
Oracle Team USA secret weapon for the Cup: a kite developed by Airbus and Kai Lenny
For the 35th edition of the America’s Cup America's Cup #AmericasCup which starts on May 26 with the Louis Vuitton Cup, Oracle Team USA as developed a secret weapon: a kite-wing conceived by their technological partner from Europe and the paddler – kitesurfer star Kai (...) -
#VolvoOceanRace
Volvo Ocean Race : Dongfeng Race Team breaks mast
Volvo Ocean Race can confirm that Dongfeng Race Team broke its mast early on Monday (GMT, March 30) but fortunately nobody has been injured and there is no immediate danger to the crew. -
#BWR2014
Barcelona World Race : Alex Thomson & Pepe Ribes have broken their mast
Alex Thomson and Pepe Ribes, skippers of the IMOCA Imoca #IMOCA 60 HUGO BOSS, which was leading the Barcelona World Race Barcelona World Race #barcelonaworldrace , this evening lost their mast overboard at 21.02 GMT. The yacht was reaching in moderate conditions when there is reported to have been a rigging failure and the mast fell (...) -
America’s Cup
AIRBUS and ORACLE TEAM USA forge technology partnership
As Official Innovation Partner of ORACLE TEAM USA for the 35th America’s Cup America's Cup #AmericasCup , AIRBUS will share the know-how of its engineers and experts in fields such as aerodynamics, instrumentation and simulation, composites, structures, hydraulics and data analysis to work with the ORACLE TEAM USA design (...) -
Imoca Class
The 2013 IMOCA rule was confirmed to run until the end of the Vendée Globe event 2016
It was a studious General Assembly meeting that took place in the Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Nantes this Wednesday 15th October. On the agenda was the event programme for the class for the coming years, the partnership with OSM (Open Sports Management) and the re-writing of the design rules Rules #irc #ims with the addition of some (...) -
35th America’s Cup
The AC62 yacht has been released
Fast, foiling, wing-sailed catamarans will race in the next America’s Cup America's Cup #AmericasCup as the new class rule for the AC62 AC62 #AC62 yacht has been released. The AC62 AC62 #AC62 is 10 feet shorter than its predecessor, but is expected to be just as fast and challenging to race for the crews, and will produce the (...) -
Spindrift Racing
Dona Bertarelli : "After the changes we made, Spindrift 2 is behaving as expected"
Spindrift 2 has had its first sail after the winter optimisation, spending a night at sea criss-crossing the Bay of Biscay. The control was there straight away and the boat ran like clockwork. The 2014 season has begun and it has started well for Dona Bertarelli and Yann Guichard’s (...) -
Stuntman
Alex Thomson : "I can honestly say that it was the most stupid thing I’ve ever done in my whole life!"
The British yachtsman Alex Thomson performs an amazingly daring feat on board his high-speed Speed #speedsailing yacht, the HUGO BOSS: He climbs up the 30-meter high mast of the moving vessel and dives into the ocean from the very top. -
IMOCA
Keel and masts standardised in the new IMOCA rules
"IMOCA Imoca #IMOCA is moving forward, respecting its history, and preparing for its future." The class of monohulls entering the Vendée Globe and Barcelona World race Barcelona World Race #barcelonaworldrace a published the changes skippers and yacht designers were working for a long months. the main conclusion is that "the keel and the (...)
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