Teekay Shipping Corporation (Teekay) (NYSE: TK) today announced that its Board of Directors has approved a plan to create a new publicly-traded master limited partnership called Teekay Offshore Partners L.P. that will focus on providing marine solutions to the growing offshore energy sector. Teekay
THE French registered fishing vessel ‘Mariette Le Roch’ contacted Clyde Coastguard yesterday afternoon reporting loss of power. The ‘Mariette Le Roch’ was drifting two and a half miles off the Isle of Arran. Clyde Coastguard tasked the Arran Coastguard Rescue Team to the scene, they were on site wit
Rescue crews searched the Chesapeake Bay on Sunday for a prominent publisher and former diplomat whose sailboat was found empty and drifting in shallow water. Philip Merrill, 72, an experienced sailor, had taken his sailboat out alone Saturday, and he typically followed an 18-mile round trip without
Fifteen hundred long and painstaking miles around Britain and Ireland turns out to be nothing more than a useful indication that Brunel can be competitive in light winds. Their fifth place on Leg 8 has been annulled due to a navigational oversight on the approach to Rotterdam. Thirty miles from the
Something goes on between the port and starboard earlobes of the ABN AMRO ONE think tank which simply doesn
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0940GMT Start. All the boats close together towards the committee boat end. ABN AMRO ONE come sto the line first but has to bear off, making for the in end. Brunel at te Committee boat gets a great start over Pirates. Ericsson at the pin end has to gybe off – over early as they […]
Liverpool 08 and Cardiff arrived in Panama City on Sunday afternoon, joining New York, Victoria, Uniquely Singapore and Durban. Glasgow is expected at around 5pm local time and westernaustralia.com, Qingdao and Jersey are epected later today. The prizegiving party for Race 8 from Victoria starts at
To see Torben Grael beaming a contented smile, let alone one from the winning boat, was a surprise in itself, but this light wind leg was one of surprises for each of the three podium dwellers, who finished within 26 minutes of each other in the early hours of this morning. For Brasil 1, a […
The weather has thrown challenge after challenge at the race navigators. The results of the last leg showed how variable wind conditions can work in mysterious ways to effect ones finishing position. Now, as the crews change hats from ocean to inshore racer, the weather looks to be no less challengi
Finishing at 13:04.47 local time, fourth place for Paul Cayard and the Pirates of the Caribbean crew breaks their consistent run of offshore podiums which began with their third place into Wellington and leaves them with just four and a half points in hand over Brasil 1. While Cayard and his crew ma
The first three of the Clipper fleet arrived in Panama City on a very wet Saturday morning, 24 days after departing on Race 8 from Victoria. The Canadian entry was the first to pull into Flamenco Marina at the Pacific end of the Panama Canal at 0900 local time. After winning into their home port [&h
The fourth and fifth units of the Wally 80 design combining the lines of Farr Yacht Design and the interiors of Lazzarini Pickering Architects, are sailing in the South of France and getting ready for the Mediterranean summer cruise. Shaka is the flush deck, canting keel, three-cabin version of this
The inexorable progress of what has become the Gold Fleet continues. Ericsson, Brasil 1 and ABN AMRO ONE are heading towards the finish at nine knots, with the prospect of the wind freeing them and increasing to astronomical proportions
