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Volvo Ocean Race: Puma heads for New Zealand at 20kts plus By Richard Gladwell, 9:01 PM Sat 25 Feb 2012
Puma Ocean Racing, the US flagged entry in the Volvo Ocean Race, is blitzing the fleet, sailing at speeds of around 19kts, while her competitors are sailing at 10-12kts. Worst affected is the leg leader, Camper crewed by Enirates Team NZ, who has been forced to sail the most northerly course of the group, reducing her lead under the on the water snap shot of the boat positions used by VOR ...[more]

Volvo Ocean Race: Camper lead, but is Puma about to pounce? By Sail-World, 2:47 PM Sat 25 Feb 2012
Camper and Groupama extended their lead on the Volvo Ocean Race fleet pushing east as Puma gambled their chips on the arrival of a northerly breeze forecast to fill in in the next 48 hours. At 2200 UTC on 24 February Ken Read's men on Puma Ocean Racing had slipped to 273 nauctical miles behind leg leaders Camper with Emirates Team New Zealand but were banking on better winds coming their way. ...[more]

Volvo Ocean Race: Will the East come through with a dividend? By Richard Gladwell, 10:20 PM Fri 24 Feb 2012
East continues to be best in the Volvo Ocean Race, as the fleet tries to get south to the next stop over in Auckland. As she has done for the past couple of days, Camper continues to lead - using the course routing feature of PredictWind - however Groupama is just seven miles astern. ...[more]

Gladwell's Line: Who is really leading the Volvo Ocean Race? By Richard Gladwell, 9:03 PM Thu 23 Feb 2012
The fortunes of the six competitors in the Volvo Ocean Race have been waxing and waning - if you believe the official results which show regular lead changes occurring even over just the space of a couple of hours. Using the Predictwind.com routing system, we get quite a different picture from the 'who's closest to Auckland approach' adopted by the Volvo OR reporting and tracking system. ...[more]

Volvo Ocean Race: Lead changes as fleet make big move north By Richard Gladwell, 5:25 AM Tue 21 Feb 2012
A move to the north of the direct line for the first waypoint at the Philipines, by the whole Volvo Ocean Race fleet, has seen Groupama (Franck Cammas) take a narrow lead from Telefonica (Iker Martinez). The move is a result of recommendations from the on board weather routing systems, as the fleet try to find the fastest way through a period of light winds that will prevail for the next 12 hours ...[more]

Volvo Ocean Race: Light winds set to deal another hand By Richard Gladwell, 8:58 PM Mon 20 Feb 2012
While official reports have it that Groupama is leading the fourth leg of the Volvo Ocean Race - using the snap-shot placing system, the weather routing projections tell a different story. As the fleet splits following the Mark Foy start, it would seem that the margins have been largely erased that were injected into the starting order, after yesterday's coastal race. ...[more]

Predictwind announces iPhone and Android app - Wind in your pocket! By Sail-World and PredictWind, 9:23 PM Wed 15 Feb 2012
PredictWind have announced an iPhone and Android app which takes the use possibilities to a new level and you can now literally have a weather forecast in your pocket. Sail-World has been using this app for some months and Predictwind is probably the most used app on our iPhone. You can check the weather anywhere in the world and get a five day forecast, plus a variety of other features ...[more]

Volvo Ocean Race: Windshift stalls Puma's hopes of a win By Volvo Ocean Race and Sail-World, 9:21 AM Fri 3 Feb 2012
An unexpected change in wind direction today dealt a cruel blow to Puma Ocean Racing’s plans to rocket to the head of the fleet on the home strait to Sanya. While the leg leaders shot towards the shore of Vietnam yesterday to escape strong currents that sweep south along its coastline, Puma surrendered third place in the rankings to stay offshore in the hope of better wind, calmer seas, a favourab ...[more]

Volvo Ocean Race: Telefonica expected to lead at Mallaca waypoint By Richard Gladwell, 9:11 AM Fri 27 Jan 2012
The current overall leader in the Volvo Ocean Race, Telefonica (ESP) is expected to be in the lead at the first waypoint in the Mallaca Straits. They are expected to arrive at the point in the next two and a half days and are approximately 630nm away. ...[more]

Etchells Worlds 2012 wide open for top players By Tracey Johnstone, Event Media , 9:20 AM Wed 25 Jan 2012
It’s the main game for the Etchells class in 2012; the Etchells World Championship, to be held offshore of Sydney from the 16th to 25th February and and that game is wide open with defending world champion, Bill Hardesty, confirming last week that he will not be in Sydney to defend his title. This is good news for Noel Drennan who finished second to Hardesty in last year’s World Championship. ...[more]

Napier gears up for the Opti Worlds 2011 with PredictWind By Nathalie van Dort, 8:37 AM Sat 3 Dec 2011
Napier is getting ready for the World Championship Optimist Sailing at the end of this month. Next week the Team New Zealand sailors: Leonard Takahashi-Fry, Markus Somerville and William McKenzie (all from Auckland) Isaac McHardie from Hamilton and Nathaniel Deverell from the Bay of Islands will arrive and start training in the Napier waters. ...[more]

Volvo Ocean Race: Self reliance a necessary option for Puma Racing By Richard Gladwell, 9:56 PM Tue 22 Nov 2011
The stricken Puma Racing, which dismasted around 2100nm from Cape Town, will emulate to some extent the same moves and route that the New Zealand crew did aboard Ceramco in the 1981-82 Whitbread Race. In a later report a complex plan has been put in place to send a ship the 1800nm from South Africa and extract Puma from the ocean and return with her to Cape Town. ...[more]

Volvo Ocean Race: Camper's Doldrums opportunity + Latest positions By Volvo Ocean Race Media, 5:55 AM Mon 14 Nov 2011
CAMPER with Emirates Team New Zealand are eying an upcoming opportunity to finally close the gap on their three rivals as the fleet approaches the windless Doldrums zone. Roughly five degrees of Latitude either side of the Equator, the heating effect of the sun, combined with the convergence of the northern and southern hemisphere trade winds. Includes latest position graphics ...[more]

Volvo Ocean Race: The Riddle of the Routes + Video By Richard Gladwell, 12:52 AM Sat 12 Nov 2011
Less than a week into the Volvo Ocean Race, the classic is proving to be what everyone expected and more. Yes, there was the first night shenanigans, which have too often marred the start of Round the World races of various types out of the Med and Europe. While those incidents took some of the edge off the competition, the race on the water is proving to be what many expected. ...[more]

Volvo Ocean Race: Only 24 hours to Gibraltar.. By Richard Gladwell, 7:09 PM Sat 5 Nov 2011
The six strong Volvo Ocean race fleet should get away to a slingshot start, with favourable winds promising a fast ride to the first milestone in the race - the Straits of Gibraltar. The America's Cup based software Predictwind says that winds are expected to be about 15-17kts average for most of the 300nm stage, and using a standard Volvo 70 set of polars, (which show an ex ...[more]

Battle to get oil off stricken ship appears lost before it starts By Richard Gladwell, 3:35 PM Sun 9 Oct 2011
At the media conference on mid-Sunday afternoon, those involved with the yet to start oil pumping exercise off the Rena, said the exercise would take 40 hours. That would seem to be too late by at least hours to beat the rising winds and seas expected to hit the stricken ship from midnight. ...[more]

Predicted heavy winds could trigger container ship breakup By Richard Gladwell, 8:08 PM Sat 8 Oct 2011
Strong onshore winds are expected on Tuesday and Wednesday on the Bay of Plenty coast where the container ship Rena lies stuck on Astrolabe Reef. At today's media conference several speakers alluded stronger winds being expected on Monday, but did not elaborate, instead pushing the line that oil recovery could start late Sunday (NZT) and could be completed before winds increase. ...[more]

Time running out fast for oil recovery from stricken ship on NZ reef By Richard Gladwell, 12:02 PM Fri 7 Oct 2011
The spell of fortuitous weather that has blessed salvage recovery operations at the Astrolabe Reef are expected to end around midday Sunday, when the offshore wind swings to the east. According to a wind prognosis from America's Cup winning software from Predictwind.com, the winds will change around noon on Sunday and will swing east. The wind change will produce much bigger waves ...[more]

Global Ocean Race: Three leaders in three days + Start Video By Richard Gladwell, 7:15 PM Wed 28 Sep 2011
The Global Ocean Race has its third leader in three days as the six boat fleet head for Capetown, South Africa on the first leg of the round the world race. Current race leader is Campagne de France (Halvard Mabire and Miranda Merron) who at the 0600 UTC sked were 1.7nm ahead of Buckley Systems (Ross and Campbell Field) ...[more]

Global Ocean Race: Lead change already in the match race for Gibraltar By Richard Gladwell, 5:02 PM Tue 27 Sep 2011
The early leader in the Global Ocean Race, Buckley Systems (Campbell and Ross Field) have lost their 10 nm lead in the round the world race. After looking set to ease away from the rest of the six boat fleet, Buckley Systems was the first to make the break north to stay in favourable winds and enjoyed a lead of almost 8nm over Campagne de France ...[more]

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