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Global Ocean Race 2014-15 Leg 1 sponsors announced By Oliver Dewar, , 5:32 AM Fri 18 Jan 2013
The 30,000-mile round-the-world Global Ocean Race 2014-15 is for Class40 boats with single-handed, double-handed and fully-crewed (4 crew) teams competing and will start in September 2014 ...[more]

London Boat Show - Global Ocean Race announcements at the ExCeL London By GOR Media, , 7:13 AM Tue 15 Jan 2013
Southampton and the Solent, on England's South Coast, famous as the start for some of the greatest ocean races of the past 50 years, has been chosen to host the start of the revamped Global Ocean Race 2014-2015. ...[more]

Global Ocean Race - Major expansion and rescheduled start announced By Oliver Dewar, 6:09 AM Tue 6 Nov 2012
The Global Ocean Race (GOR), one of sailing’s greatest challenges, is set to receive a major lift for its third round-the-world event for Class40 yachts, now scheduled to start in September 2014. ...[more]

Global Ocean Race - Third Class40 division announced for 2013-14 By Oliver Dewar, 1:40 AM Mon 16 Apr 2012
The double-handed Global Ocean Race 2011-12 Class40s are currently picking up speed off Brazil in the 5,700-mile Leg 4 from Punta del Este, Uruguay, to Charleston, USA, having completed around 23,000 miles of racing since the start in Palma, Mallorca, last September and have, so far, visited three stopovers in South Africa, New Zealand and South America. ...[more]

Global Ocean Race: Buckley Systems home tomorrow morning By Ross and Campbell Field, 10:24 PM Thu 9 Feb 2012
Buckley Systems (Ross and Campbell Field) pulled out of the Global Ocean Race, about a week ago after a sequence of crash tacks and gybes while sailing in heavy seas. They are due to arrive back in Auckland at 0900hrs tomorrow, Friday 10 February. Ross Fields is off the boat already, in Tauranga, to see a medical specialist. ...[more]

Bodacious Dream undergoes sea trials in Wellington + Video By Oliver Dewar, 7:21 AM Wed 18 Jan 2012
Bodacious Dream is the third BT Boats Kiwi40FC that was recently launched in Wellington, New Zealand at Hakes Marine. Before Bodacious Dream exits on her way to the United States, her American skipper Dave Rearick, is taking the boat test sailing in Wellington Harbour. ...[more]

Global Ocean Race 2013-14 – Latest entry Bodacious Dream By Oliver Dewar, , 12:27 AM Tue 20 Dec 2011
Global Ocean Race 2013-14 – The latest Kiwi 40FC Class40 launched by BT Boats in New Zealand in early December has officially entered. The yacht’s American skipper, Dave Rearick, will enter his Class40, Bodacious Dream, in the single-handed division of the round-the-world, Class40 race. ...[more]

Global Ocean Race: Buckley Systems pushing hard By Ross and Campbell Field, Southern Ocean , 6:53 AM Sun 18 Dec 2011
Ross Field reports from aboard Buckley Systems deep in the Southern Ocean as they are pushed around by 40 knot winds in the race to Wellington: Some would question our sanity if they saw what went on these small 40 footers, deep in the southern ocean. It is freezing cold and all those things we have talked about, but the motion is unbelievable ...[more]

NZ Spars and Rigging instrumental to BSL's Global Ocean Race success By Sail-World, 10:12 AM Tue 1 Nov 2011
Ross and Campbell Field victory on Leg 1 of the Global Ocean Race has been attributed in part to spars and systems from New Zealand Spars and Rigging. Ross Field wanted to work with new companies when he embarked on his campaign to race two handed around the world in a 40ft boat, and he elected to team up with New Zealand Spars and Rigging, when it came to readying BSL for the mammoth voyage. ...[more]

Global Ocean Race: Under way but not under command - Field's Sunday By Ross and Campbell Field, Off the African coast , 8:15 PM Mon 3 Oct 2011
Ross and Campbell Field report from abroad Buckley Systems in the Global Ocean Race: If a ship goes by with the ‘Not Under Command’ label transmitted on its AIS then who is in charge. Is it because everyone gets a day off on Sunday, including the Captain? And, Ross has a sniffle. Who the hell did he catch that from? ...[more]

Global Ocean Race 2013-2014 opens to solo and double-handed Class40s By Oliver Dewar, 4:16 AM Tue 19 Jul 2011
The Global Ocean Race 2013-2014 will now have a division for double-handed Class40s. When the Global Solo Race 2013-14 format was announced in February this year, the decision for a single-handed race was driven by offshore yachtsmen and Class40 sailors. ...[more]

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