The inaugural edition of The Ocean Race Europe starts on May 29, 2021 from Lorient, France and finishes in Genova, Italy on June 19th, with stops in Cascais, Portugal, and Alicante, Spain along the way. Twelve boats start with the ocean racing one-design VO65s and foiling IMOCA 60 just taken a br...

Interviews with many of the sailors who will be traversing around Europe with possibly Beethoven ringing in their ears.. The ocean one-design VO65 and foiling IMOCA 60 yachts are capable of 24-distance runs over 600nm in the right conditions out in the open ocean. During The Ocean Race Europe the...

The inaugural edition of The Ocean Race Europe got underway with the race’s fleet of 12 high-performance ocean-going yachts setting off from Lorient, France on the opening leg to Cascais in Portugal. This new three-stage European race has been created to showcase professional fully-crewed offshor...

The 12 international teams competing in the opening leg of The Ocean Race Europe have made steady progress across the Bay of Biscay in their first 24 hours since leaving Lorient, France yesterday afternoon, bound for Cascais in Portugal. LinkedOut is currently leading the fleet and the IMOCA 60s ...

Here comes the girls! Great to see so many top female sailors helming or out on the rail - Mirpuri leading the VO65s and 11th Hour and LinkedOut battling into the finish of Leg 1 with their IMOCA 60s. Freshening winds off the northwest tip of Spain have meant significantly faster sailing for the ...

Racing neck and neck to the finish of Leg 1 - The Ocean Race Europe. The northerly winds strengthened as the fleet rounded the virtual Atlantic turning mark early this morning and that meant some exhilarating high-speed sailing for the crews in both the one-design VO65s and the development rule I...

What a finish! The opening leg of The Ocean Race Europe came to a nail-biting finish in Cascais with the winners in both the VO65 and IMOCA 60 classes decided only in the last few moments of the four-day passage from Lorient, France. A thrilling conclusion in the one design VO65 class saw The Aus...

Crunch.. After more than 1,300 nautical miles, four days of racing and a wide range of weather conditions and tactical decisions, the results for Leg 1 went all the way down to the wire. Just six hours before the finish the weather front that had swept in from the west forced the fleet to re-grou...

No rest for the VO65s and IMOCA60s in Cascais. Stunning conditions for the Mirpuri Foundation Sailing Trophy with the four hour coastal race allowing teams to get ready for the next leg to Alicante. Racing was tight but Offshore Germany Team and Mirpuri took the IMOCA 60 and VO65 trophy respectiv...

Start of Leg Two for the crews on the VO65s and IMOCA 60s starting in Cascais and finishing in Alicante. The 11th Hour Racing Team, the phrase meaning at the last moment, managed to alter course at the last second to avoid the anchored fishing boat - everyone safe thankfully. They returned to por...

The five IMOCA 60 and seven VO65 crews had made short work of the opening stage of Leg 2. They enjoyed mostly fast downwind conditions on their way south along the Portuguese coast to Cape St. Vincent, before they turned southeast overnight and began to feel the effects of easterly headwinds flow...

Plenty of action for all of the twelve crews passing through the Gibraltar Strait into the Med racing into Alicante for the finish of Leg Two. VO65s over took the IMOCA 60s and most of the fleet have finished with Mirpuri Foundation taking line honours. LinkedOut, IMOCA 60, with a comfortable lea...

Three days of tight racing between the 12 international crews since they left Cascais, Portugal on Sunday afternoon. The second leg of the inaugural edition of the three stage European event, which will finish in Genova, Italy on June 19, proved to be a challenging affair with the professional oc...

The third and final offshore leg of The Ocean Race Europe got underway in Alicante, Spain where the 12-boat international fleet of yachts representing nine countries and crewed by sailors from around the world set off into the Mediterranean bound for Genova, Italy. In contrast to the predominantl...

Despite the slow pace of the action, two teams have made breakaway moves that have split from their respective fleets as they pass the Balearics. In the IMOCA 60s the crew of Robert Stanjek’s non-foiling Offshore Team Germany (GER) made an early commitment to taking a northern route by tacking aw...

Since leaving Alicante both classes have made stop/start progress due to patchy winds and large glassy areas of total flat calm littering the route to Genova. There's some benefits like Corum being serenaded by a trio of whales. The VO65 class has made the best collective progress so far, having ...

Leg Three of the 2021 Ocean Race Europe was a monster - light winds prevailed across the Mediterranean and tactics was everything. Big leads were diminished and surprises at the finish - it had everything for the twelve international crews on board their VO65 and IMOCA 60's. Interviews with many ...

The Ocean Race Europe 2021 came to a close with the Genova Coastal Race. It proved to be a nail-biter for many supporters and crews with everything to claim on the finshing line for both the VO65 and IMOCA 60 classes. There is a new nation to watch in offshore racing.. © The Ocean Race 1973 SL

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