Adrian Flanagan, the sailing adventurer who’s making his way slowly, in a westabout direction around the world aboard Barrabas – an 11m stainless steel sloop – is now over five months into his voyage.
Bouwe Bekking’s Spanish movistar team have retained the lead of Leg 5 of the Volvo Ocean Race and are now in a good, consistent breeze that’s allowing them to monopolise on their position.
movistar stays out there in front, serenely ticking off the miles to the scoring gate at Fernando de Noronha, giving nothing away to the boats behind them.
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Perini Navi and Perini Istanbul
We have grown accustomed to Volvo Open 70s sailing faster than the wind. 30 knots in 28, 41 in 38, 20 in 18, these are, after all, the laser honed, cutting edge of offshore racing.
Boat speeds are down to six to seven knots in winds that don
SEATTLE — Interpreters are helping Customs agents question 21 people who were caught leaving a cargo container early Wednesday on the Seattle waterfront.
The Viet Nam Shipbuilding Industry Corporation (Vinashin) in the first quarter of 2006 signed 14 contracts worth more than 400 million USD with partners from Japan, Denmark, China and the Netherlands.
U.S. light sweet crude oil futures for May delivery fell by a penny to $66.22 a barrel as an extended bout of profit-taking knocked prices further below the two-month high of nearly $68 a barrel struck on Monday.
DOHA: Qatar
South Korea –South Korea said Wednesday it has set up a task force to seek the release of a South Korean fishing vessel that was captured by pirates off the coast of Somalia.
Statoil has signed participation agreements for exploration drilling on three prospects in the Gulf of Mexico. Statoil has entered into an agreement with BP regarding participation in the drilling of an exploration well in Walker Ridge block 544 on the Tucker prospect.
