The Volvo Ocean Race today unveiled a series of radical initiatives that will create the toughest all-round test in professional sailing and strengthen the appeal of the 44-year-old round-the-world ...

NEWPORT, R.I. (WPRI) – Dongfeng Race Team has won the 6th leg of the Volvo Ocean Race. The team crossed the finish line just before 10 p.m. Wednesday in Newport. Coming in second place was Abu Dhabi ...

Since 1973, the Volvo Ocean Race has provided the ultimate test of a team and a human adventure like no other. Over four decades it has kept an almost mythical hold over some of the greatest ever ...

SAN DIEGO (AP) Vestas 11th Hour Racing won't compete in Leg 6 of the Volvo Ocean Race and its 65-foot sloop is being shipped from Hong Kong to Auckland, New Zealand, to repair damage sustained in a ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) – The first all-female team in the Volvo Ocean Race in over a decade, Team SCA is determined to break barriers in a male-dominated sport – and in what is widely considered the ...

An extraordinary challenge needs a trophy to match... Volvo, the Swedish carmaker which for quite some time has gotten us used to what they call the Volvo Ocean Race presented today in Alicante, Spain ...

Volvo will unveil the third in its series of new concepts to the 2014 Geneva Motor Show, but it will also bring a flotilla of special editions to the Swiss show. The V70 and XC70 are getting ...

That’s it. The seven teams are leaving Alicante, Spain for the first leg of their round the world race. And first, they have to go through the capricious Mediterranean sea with its thunderstorms and ...

ALICANTE, Spain (AP) Volvo Ocean Race officials say Ramon Carlin, the ''weekend sailor'' who overcame long odds to win the first Whitbread Round the World Race in 1973-74, has died in Mexico City. He ...

Seven of the world's biggest and fastest sailboats are making pit stops on the East Coast of the United States. They're midway through the globe-circling "Volvo Ocean Race." The boats are big, nimble, ...

Ship design and engineering company C-Job Naval Architects on Thursday announced changes to its executive team. Job Volwater will move from his position as Chief Commercial Officer and take on the ...

June 1 (Reuters) - The Volvo Ocean race will be under new ownership when the next edition of the round the world event starts in 2021 and could also have another class of boat competing, organisers ...