SailXperience

11/09/2015

Unbelievable! Sailing fast ou flying low?

Mono60 Edmond de Rothschild, des premiers bords spectaculaires Mis à l’eau le 7 août dernier à Vannes, après onze mois de construction au sein du chantier Mu...

26/06/2015

Amazing mix of sailing and kite!

Danish kitesurfing sensation Nick Jacobsen teamed up with Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing to perform a world first - an incredible leap from Azzam's 30 metre mast. ...

05/05/2015

Unbelievable sailing speed of the AC45 in Bermuda! ;-)

13/04/2015

So you think you sail hard? Check the real stuff!

26/03/2015

VOR ADOR reached 37.5 knots??!!!
Are they foiling?

20/03/2015

VOR - Sick Sailing! ;-)

01/02/2015

Hard core sailing in New Caledonia!

Crusaders record breaking run in the 650nm Groupama race around New Caledonia.

17/12/2014

Can´t wait to see this baby in the Sydney->Hobart!

Jim Clark's 100 ft carbon Hodgdon built machine Comanche took off (literally) for Charleston, SC last week and I grabbed a couple of video clips and still photos…

04/12/2014

Sometimes, things don't go as planned!

First looks at the dramatic footage of Team Vestas Wind's crash. Then a dash through the fleet, as they keep up with their schooling. http://www.outsidetelev...

25/11/2014

What were you doing when you were 21y old? ;-)

Chinese sailor Liu Xue on Dongfeng Race Team, nickname 'Black', is only 21 years old, and experiencing what most others his age would not even think of...

04/11/2014

Why safety matters?? take a look!

31/10/2014

From VOR 2014-2015:

OCTOBER 31, 2014
Like flipping a light switch. Off to on in so much as an instant, the anticipated westerlies of the South Atlantic have finally arrived—28 knots now—and it never ceases to amaze me how quickly life onboard can change. One minute you’re enjoying a nice casual sleep, twelve knots of wind and comfortable in your sleeping bag. Things are pretty mellow, tranquillo as Charlie says. Your iPod probably ran out of battery while you were dreaming, dreaming about home, maybe a steak in Cape Town. It really doesn’t matter—you are dreaming.
Something wakes you and you open your eyes and ears to a very different, very alarming setting. It’s pretty chaotic, actually. Your eyes adjust to the darkness, slowly, with the only light coming from red headlamps of the guys doing very much the same all around you. As the boat careens through the night like an out of control freight train, carving a trench through the ocean while obliterating every bit of water in its way, it is loud—constant loud like the rumble of distant thunder. You can actually hear the speed, feel the speed. Like accelerating in a sports car with your eyes closed, off-road, in the rain.
People on deck are yelling, bags down below are flying, waves are shooting through the hatch, and all you and everyone else just rising from their bunks are trying to do is wake up, simply get to your feet. And the kettle’s just tumbled to leeward because the boat is on its side. You hear it clank loudly, twice, on the way down and it lands in the [rapidly filling] bilge with an audible splash—a noise so annoying, so bothersome in principle--that you know it will someday occupy your nightmares. Gonna have to go get that. Like, right now.
Amory Ross, OBR
Team Alvimedica

The temperatures may be cooling off since the team has been heading south, but things are heating up in terms of speed. They may have been out out at sea for...