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The Oceans = Great Video
Sometimes the best way to understand the incredible wealth of experience offered by the watery realms is to watch....some great video.Here are five good ones that I threw into the vault over the past...
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Don't Forget The Vendee Globe
With all the America's Cup, Volvo and Extreme Sailing action it's easy to let slip the key sailing fact of the year: in November another edition of the Vendee Globe will send a pack of semi-insane,...
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Vendee Globe: Powered By Open 60
Sure, our fickle attentions are distracted by those cool looking boats that have been racing, and flipping, out in San Francisco, and their larger cousins.But the Vendee Globe is just one month away,...
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Are You Ready For The Vendee Globe?
Political junkies may be focused on that other four year thing. But sailing junkies are justifiably focused on the Vendee Globe, which sets off Nov. 10 (four days after that other competition...
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Vendee Globe!
Well, the greatest sailing competition on the face of the Earth is now at sea. Website is here. Tracker is here. YouTube is here. Twitter is here. Facebook is here.Phew, that's sailing in the social...
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The Real Vendee Globe
To get to the start line of the Vendee Globe you have to be a great sailor. But the real secret of the race is that to get to the finish line you have to be a great MacGyver. Because stuff breaks. A...
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The Vendee Globe is putting out a ton of video. But I find it oddly incoherent, especially in contrast to the video output of the Volvo Ocean Race. I mean, you get a bunch of boats setting a new...
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545! Macif's Massive Number
That's the distance in nautical miles that Francois Gabart on Macif sailed in 24 hours--solo!--in the Vendee Globe earlier this week. It represents an average speed of 21.1 knots, an awesome,...
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The Next American Vendee Competitor?
With the current Vendee Globe fleet circling the bottom of the planet at record speeds, you will note that there are no Stars & Stripes flying from any of the boats.Ronnie Simpson--Singlehanded...
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Keel-less
Apart from the reefed down main, JP Dick's Virbac Paprec looks pretty normal as it approaches the finish line of the Vendee Globe.But it is in far from normal sailing configuration. Because it is...
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Keel-less 2
The Vendee Globe is always a lottery. Example: JP Dick lost his keel and somehow sailed home. Javier Sanso on Acciona wasn't so lucky. His Open 60 lost its keel and rolled over. Sanso took to his life...
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