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The five Global Ocean Race Class40s face a 6,200-mile course through the Pacific Ocean, around Cape Horn and through the South Atlantic for leg 3 to Punta del Este, Uruguay.
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Volvo Ocean Race - Amory Ross, MCM for Puma Ocean Racing powered by Berg, reports on the crew's progress: Today could be the make or break day of this leg. Several major weather features have helped in splitting the fleet, and we find ourselves in a position that could see us go either way.
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This week's Episode 23 This week's show heads to Auckland to check in with Luna Rossa Challenge. The Italian team has just launched their new AC45 and we hear what skipper Max Sirena has planned for training with Emirates Team NZ. While in New Zealand we stop by the factory to uncover the new wing extensions
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At the head of the field and in the centre lane of the Malacca Strait, Telefónica (Iker Martínez/ESP) is in a closely fought battle with Groupama 4 (Franck Cammas/FRA) and Puma’s Mar Mostro (Ken Read/USA). It’s almost too close to call with barely a mile between the top trio.
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The Rolex Miami OCR was the same size fleet that will be at the Olympics this coming August, so it was good small fleet practice for many.
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Overall race leaders Team Telefónica were this morning back in charge of the second stage of Leg 3 as the teams lined up for a 'make or break' day’s racing through the Malacca Strait.
Nick Dana/Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing Amory Ross/Puma Ocean… Yann Riou/Groupama Sailing Team/
Telefónica had a tiny buffer of 0.6 nautical miles over second-placed Groupama sailing team at the 0700 UTC position re
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With more than 6,000 miles of the planet’s most hostile ocean ahead of them, the Global Ocean Racing fleet left Wellington in unusually benign conditions today.
Despite its daunting reputation for storm force winds and massive waves, overall race leaders Ross and Campbell Field of Team Buckley Systems were looking forward to the Southern Ocean blast to Cape Horn.
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The Rolex Miami OCR was capped off with the final medal race, a double-points race to determine overall medalists. USSTAG won four of the medal races.
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ken Read, Puma's skipper - 'Heat below and above decks has left us all pretty manky. Ok, that is the understatement of the century. We stink. '
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Ten Olympic classes competed in their final medal races to determine gold, silver and bronze winners at the Rolex Miami OCR for 2012.
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The overall race leader, Spain's Telefonica has made a split with the rest of the fleet in the Volvo Ocean Race, and at the latest position report has given up the lead to the US entry Puma Ocean Racing. On the water using a snap-shot distance from the race finish in Sanya, China, Race organisers are showing the Iker Martinex skippered entry as being just 1nm closer to China than Puma
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Volvo Ocean Race - Amory Ross, MCM for Puma Ocean Racing powered by Berg, reports on the crew's progress: Phase One, complete. We’ve made it across the Indian Ocean and the Sea of Bengal, still in one piece and very much in the hunt. Telefónica converted on their northerly position and were first to make landfall and lead into the Strait, Camper close behind.
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Team Telefónica have extended their Leg 3 lead as the fleet funnels into the worst of the Strait of Malacca where wind shifts, fishing nets and strong tidal surges create a roll of the dice every minute.
At the halfway point of the 3,051 nautical mile race to Sanya, China the fleet has expanded across 105 nm and slowed to average speeds around 10 knots in fickle winds that are causing plenty of
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Clipper Round the World Yacht Race - A light beacon rising up from the ground, dancers, pyrotechnics and senior dignitaries, including Singapore’s Deputy Prime Minister, welcomed the fleet to Marina at Keppel Bay, Singapore, this morning.
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US Sailing’s Rolex Miami OCR 2012 - In a thrilling conclusion to the Paralympic racing, US Sailing Team AlphaGraphics’ Jen French and JP Creignou earned a bronze medal in the SKUD-18 class. In the Olympic classes, which concluded their series with 10 races, USSTAG advances to the final medal race, Jan. 28, in the 49er, 470 Men, 470 Women, Laser Radial, Finn, Star, RS:X Men, RS:X Women.
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The Paralympic sailors were topping off five days of racing on Biscayne Bay at the Rolex Miami OCR. In ten Olympic classes sailors were fighting to make the top-ten cut for a single medal race which is scheduled for tomorrow.
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Festival of Sails 2012 -There are a couple of big America’s Cup names in town for their maiden Festival of Sails, and these ‘rock stars’, as they are known in the sport, are loving the stage and the crowd.
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In the Volvo Ocean Race this evening, the entire six strong fleet are racing in Leg 3 and negotiating the Malacca Strait with their eyes wide open. At 1900, Chris Nicholson (AUS) and the Camper crew took over the lead and Sanya moved into fifth but, by 2200 UTC, that all changed.
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The Rolex Miami OCR welcomed over 500 of the world's top Olympic and Paralympic sailors representing 41 countries to Conconut Grove, Miami Bay. Some video highlights of the action that took place on days 3 and 4.
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The 104th Chicago Yacht Club (CYC) Race to Mackinac Notice and Conditions of Race (NOR) and Mackinac Safety Regulations (MSR) have now been released. These documents reflect a series of changes implemented by the committee to enhance the safety of the Race for all participants.
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470 Junior World Championship - Teams from 13 nations and four continents have gathered in New Zealand ready to do battle for the 470 Junior Men/Mixed and Junior Women World Championship titles. The Pre-Worlds Regatta has been an initial indicator of form and included New Zealand’s 470 Olympic representatives who were impressively beaten by the junior team of Matthew and Robert Crawford (AUS).
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The two America's Cup teams based in Auckland are expected to do some training on the Hauraki Gulf, this week, and will race against each next weekend.
The two teams Emirates Team New Zealand and Luna Rossa, will be competing in their AC45's.
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Volvo Ocean Race - The trickiest and most uncertain passage of this leg began at noon this Friday, as the leaders entered the Straits of Malacca. Still bunched together within a six-mile zone, the top four boats are battling into an easterly breeze amidst a series of tack changes. Seemingly Groupama 4 is keen to shake off her markers by positioning herself to windward of the fleet.
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Volvo Ocean Race - Amory Ross, MCM for Puma Ocean Racing powered by Berg, reports on the crew's progress: The Malacca Strait adventures began last night and we’re still a day out. Notoriously touted as one of the busiest and most congested shipping lanes in the world, we found our fare share of exiting and entering ships to contend (and communicate) with in the dark.
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RORC Caribbean 600 - With less than one month to go the Royal Ocean Racing Club's 2012 programme kicks off with a sensational cast in Antigua.
The RORC Caribbean 600 is a truly international affair, with well over 500 hundred competitors from at least 24 different nations taking part.
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PWA World Tour has a new addition the PWA proudly announced today. For the first time in 10 years, Italy will play host to the finest windsurfers in the world as they battle it out for PWA World Championship points at the Reggio Calabria PWA Slalom World Cup.
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ORCi World Championship - With over six months to go before the start of racing the event has already attracted 42 entries from six countries. Based on the historic fortress island of Särkkä in Helsinki harbor, this 14th annual ISAF-sanctioned event is expected to attract an additional 30-40 teams from another four countries in boats ranging from 33 to 60 feet in length
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US Sailing’s Rolex Miami OCR 2012 fourth day of racing saw consolidation in all of the classes, and for US Sailing Team AlphaGraphics athletes it was a day of solid performance in SKUD-18, Finn, Laser Radial, 49er, and Women’s RS:X. In Women’s Match Racing, Sally Barkow’s Team 7 Match Race of Alana O’Reilly (Charleston, S.C.) and Elizabeth Kratzig (Miami, Fla.) defeated Tamara Echegoyen (ESP)
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For the Paralympic sailors tomorrow will be the final day of racing at the Rolex Miami OCR, with two races each scheduled for Skud-18, Sonar and 2.4mR classes.
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Remember the old childhood game of leapfrog? The six-strong fleet that’s contesting this year’s Volvo Ocean Race (VOR) is getting a great refresher in this timeless playground diversion as the leader board seems to swing with each passing cloud.
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Spectacular aerial video of a mark rounding incident from the Rolex Miami Olympic Classes Regatta, which sees a 49er skipper flicked off the back of his boat, by an incoming competitor's bowsprit - all at full pace.
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Antigua Sailing Week has adopted The National Sailing Academy as its official charity and though the strapline ‘Where Sailing Comes First’ may appear to some to be stating the obvious, for Antigua Sailing Week 2012’s organisers, it’s an essential part of the strategy.
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The current overall leader in the Volvo Ocean Race, Telefonica (ESP) is expected to be in the lead at the first waypoint in the Mallaca Straits.
They are expected to arrive at the point in the next two and a half days and are approximately 630nm away.
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