Sailing in idyllic sunny conditions, with the breeze building to 11 knots from the morning
With half of the food onboard already consumed and not even a third of the way into leg eight of the Volvo Ocean Race, it will be a slimmer set of sailors who eventually arrive in Rotterdam after their scenic tour of Ireland. Mark “Crusty” Christensen is already planning for adjusting the food quota
In a separate development, the Israel Navy is finalizing details of a contract with a German shipyard for two more submarines, which will reinforce Israel’s strategic deterrence capability, or launch a retaliatory strike against Iran from the sea in the event of a missile attack. Defense News says t
We have been working closely with Vinashin for several years now, and several major Danish companies have become involved as investors as well as suppliers. Only a few weeks ago Aalborg Industries and Vinashin opened a new factory in Hai Phong to produce marine boilers here. Earlier this year MAN B&
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The latest launch from Dutch superyacht builder Bloemsma & van Breemen, has completed sea trials and begun its shake down cruise. The 27.31 metre motoryacht, called Griffioen, has been built to the plans of De Vries Lentsch Design, which was also responsible for the naval architecture; premium Dutch
The government has lost Rs 12.596 million because of a delay in the construction and delivery of a
The first four boats (Singapore, Durban, Victoria and New York) have refuelled and are sailing south again. The process has taken less than three hours from tying up to casting off so far, and the local agent, Martin Peraza, is doing a good job there. They have also taken the opportunity to take on
Plans to build three new J Class yachts have been revealed by the J Class Association which has also announced changes to the J Class Rule to introduce a maximum rating and do away with the current waterline length limitation. The American J Yankee, the British yacht Endeavour II and a Thor Holm des
South Korea’s per-capita steel consumption was the highest in the world last year as the country’s shipbuilding, automobile and electronics industries expanded steadily. According to a report by the Korea Iron and Steel Association, Korea’s per-capita steel consumption was at 969 kg in 2005, while T
All is set in the idyllic setting of Porto Cervo, Sardinia, for the start of the 2006 Sardinia Rolex Cup, which this year has attracted seven teams: Alpe Adria, Germany, Italy, Monaco, Sardinia, Spain and USA. The Sardinia Rolex Cup has always been a team event where sailing nations send their fines
The Sharjah container terminal recently received its largest container ship when the 299-metre APL Chiwan called at the port. According to a Gulf News report, the Chiwan is capable of carrying around 4,700 TEUs (20-foot equivalent units), and was operating on APL’s Far East-Gulf ‘WAX’ service.
It has been a slow Leg 8 so far. The wind might have jumped to the giddy heights of 15 knots for a brief period at the start on Friday, but since than has stayed pegged well below ten knots. The fleet are in two minds as how best to proceed. At daybreak the three […]
Almost three days out and the fleet has covered only a little more than 200 nautical miles under light fluky winds. Looking ahead, conditions are not expected to change much as the fleet heads northwest past Fastnet Rock under the influence of a large area of high pressure. So far this leg, the cond
