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  2. Flyer: The inside story of this Whitbread winner’s amazing restoration

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  3. Winning whitbread sailing race hi-res stock photography and images

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  4. Whitbread world sailboat race project plan ~ Plans for boat

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  5. Steinlager 2: On board Sir Peter Blake’s refitted Whitbread champion

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  6. Whitbread fleet start hi-res stock photography and images

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  1. The Ocean Race

    The Ocean Race. The Ocean Race is a yacht race around the world, held every three or four years since 1973. Originally named the Whitbread Round the World Race after its initiating sponsor, British brewing company Whitbread, [ 1] in 2001 it became the Volvo Ocean Race after Swedish automobile manufacturer Volvo took up the sponsorship, [ 1] and ...

  2. Ocean Globe Race

    The Race. The Ocean Globe Race (OGR) is a fully crewed retro race in the spirit of the 1973 Whitbread Round the World Race. It marks the 50th anniversary of the original event. It's an eight-month adventure around the world for ordinary sailors on normal yachts. Racing ocean-going GRP production yachts designed before 1988, there will be no ...

  3. 2023 Ocean Globe Race: The Whitbread Race is back!

    The spirit of the Whitbread Round the World Race is back with the announcement of the 2023 Ocean Globe Race, a retro event starting from a European port on September 10th 2023 celebrating the 50th anniversary of this major milestone in adventure sailing. In a world now dominated by professional sailors, foiling yachts and eye-watering budgets.

  4. Golden Globe Race

    The spirit of the Whitbread Round the World Race is back with the announcement of the 2023 OCEAN GLOBE RACE, a retro event starting from a European port on September 10th 2023, celebrating the 50th anniversary of this major milestone in adventure sailing. In a world now dominated by professional sailors, foiling yachts and eye-watering budgets.

  5. Ocean Globe Race

    Ocean Village Southampton, home of several Whitbread races, is now home to the Ocean Globe Race! Credit: Ocean Village Southampton . UK start for the 50th anniversary celebration of the first 1973 Whitbread Race saved by anonymous corporate partner and MDL Marinas bringing this iconic sailing race home to Southampton; Tracy Edwards and her Maiden team, the only UK entrant in the OGR, are ...

  6. Ocean Globe Race

    The Yacht Club Punta del Este is thrilled to welcome the Ocean Globe Race. We look forward to working with OGR's fantastic team and receiving the intrepid sailors whose courage and determination keep the spirit of the Whitbread alive. Juan Etcheverrito, Commodore of Yacht Club Punta del Este. Yacht Club Punta del Este

  7. The Whitbread round the world race

    The Whitbread round the World race. Sailing pioneers Francis Chichester, Alec Rose and Robin Knox-Johnston had already done it single-handedly, but a race round the world for fully crewed yachts ...

  8. The 2023-24 Ocean Globe Race

    The 2023-24 Ocean Globe Race. In the spirit of the Whitbread, 14 yachts from 23 different countries set off from Cowes to compete in The Ocean Globe Race 2023-24. Hundreds of spectator boats cheered the start of the Ocean Globe Race on Sunday 10 September, as 14 iconic yachts raced through the line off Cowes, at the start of a 27,000-mile ...

  9. Maiden wins Ocean Globe Race >> Scuttlebutt Sailing News: Providing

    The 2023-24 Ocean Globe Race (OGR) is a fully crewed, retro race, in the spirit of the 1973 Whitbread Round the World Race, marking the 50th Anniversary of the original event.

  10. The Ocean Race

    The Ocean Race is a fully crewed round the world race originally known as the Whitbread Round the World Race, then the Volvo Ocean Race. The crewed around the world race with stopovers has always ...

  11. Whitbread history strong in Ocean Globe Race 50th celebration

    The legendary Whitbread Round The World Race will forever be linked to Great Britain with those iconic images of 17 classic yachts sailing down the Solent into the unknown. It was the start of the first ever fully crewed yacht race around the world on September 8th, 1973. No one knew what would happen.

  12. 2023 Ocean Globe Race set to be the World's biggest ever

    Tapio has been testing 60 young Finnish sailors over the past year and now has 18 in the running to be part of his Final race crew. "Since sailing the 1981-82 Whitbread Race as a 23-year-old university student, I have woken up countless times during the following decades, having dreamed of doing the Whitbread again." Said Tapio Lehtinen.

  13. From the Whitbread to The Ocean Race: When Olympic and America's Cup

    The Ocean Race is the toughest test of a team in sport - and sailing's greatest round-the-world challenge. Since 1973, winning the Race has been an obsession for the world's best sailors - Olympic champions, record breakers and pioneers. With teams racing through the most extreme spots on the planet - closer to the astronauts in the Space Station than anyone else on land - and calling ...

  14. Legendary yachts set off on 'retro' round the world race as Ocean Globe

    The fifth boat to make up the Flyer class is another Whitbread class winner, the Briand-designed L'Esprit d'Équipe, which won class in the 1985/86 edition of the race.

  15. 'Maiden': Groundbreaking 1989 Sailing Race For All-Female Crew

    A new documentary tells the story of the first all-female crew to enter the Whitbread Round the World sailing race in 1989. The crew was led by a 24-year-old and the boat was called Maiden.

  16. Ocean Globe Race

    This retro Ocean Globe Race (OGR) takes to the high seas with 14 teams on September 10th from Ocean Village, following the same route as the clipper ships and the inaugural 1973 Whitbread Race in similar, affordable yachts. The Ocean Globe Race is the future of accessible around the world ocean yacht racing for any sailor and has a huge future ...

  17. From the Whitbread to The Ocean Race

    The Ocean Race is the toughest test of a team in sport - and sailing's greatest round-the-world challenge. Since 1973, winning the Race has been an obsession for the world's best sailors - Olympic champions, record breakers and pioneers. With teams racing through the most extreme spots on the planet - closer to the astronauts in the Space Station than anyone else on land - and calling ...

  18. Golden Globe and Whitbread races to return

    The yacht Hanley Energy Endurance operated by Irishman Gregor McGuckin is still afloat in the Indian Ocean and still transmitting signals. McGuckin retired after being dismasted. ... The organizer of the Golden Globe Race is also resurrecting the Whitbread Race, another classic around-the-world contest. Don McIntyre announced that the renamed ...

  19. Butch Dalrymple-Smith: First Whitbread & Best Years to be Alive

    Start of the first Whitbread round-the-world race in 1973. Butch was crew on the winning yacht, Sayula II. Credit: PPL Media The best years to be alive in human history: Butch Dalrymple-Smith on a life lived on a planet of infinite resources, when the Solent was the test tank and the stars were your ...

  20. 1989-1990 Whitbread Round the World Race

    The 1989-90 Whitbread Round the World Race was run from Southampton to Southampton in 1989-90. It was run with several classes of yacht. Steinlager 2 skippered by Peter Blake won the race easily. For the first time since 1981-82 (when the race comprised just four legs), the victor won every leg in their division (albeit closely chased by both Grant Dalton's Fisher & Paykel NZ and Pierre ...

  21. Maiden (yacht)

    Maiden is a 58 foot (18 m) aluminium ocean racing yacht built in 1979, designed by Bruce Farr and raced by Pierre Fehlmann, Bertie Reed, Tracy Edwards and John Bankart. Edwards bought the yacht in 1987 to compete in the 1989-90 Whitbread Round the World Race with an all-female crew. The yacht achieved good results and broke records, leading to Edwards becoming the first female winner of the ...

  22. Ocean Globe Race

    In 1989, Tracy Edwards skippered the first all-female crew in the Whitbread Round the World Yacht Race, becoming the first woman to receive the Yachtsman of the Year Trophy. At 11am on September 2, 1989, Maiden approached the start line for the Whitbread Round the World Race. They set off among the 22-strong fleet to begin the first leg to ...

  23. Hamilton Island Race Week 2024 Winners & Images

    Hamilton Island Race Week 2024 is well and truly underway, with the excitement palpable and the competition fierce! This year's event has been a highlight for sailors and spectators alike, with thrilling races and stellar weather. ... Join the sailing festivities at Hamilton Island Race Week 2024, where the thrill of the races meets the ...

  24. List of fatal accidents in sailboat racing

    Race Name Date Name Place Boat Description Whitbread / Volvo Ocean Race: 1973: Paul Waterhouse, Dominique Guillet and Bernie Hosking Southern Ocean: Tauranga, 33 Export, Great Britain II (respectively) Each swept overboard (Hosking twice) [2] [3] Whitbread / Volvo Ocean Race: 1989: Tony Phillips Southern Ocean Creighton Naturally

  25. PDF In the Spirit of the original 1973 Whitbread Race" Celebrating its 50th

    1.1 Ocean Globe Race. The Ocean Globe Race 2023-24 is a fully crewed race round the world in the "Spirit of the original 1973 Whitbread Race" and celebrating its 50th Anniversary. The Ocean Globe Race 2023-24 may also be named the " Ocean Globe " and/or "the Race" or "OGR" in the various documents.