Roberto Bermudez de Castro/ESP brought the crippled Delta Lloyd across the finish to complete leg three of the Volvo Ocean Race from Cochin in India, at 2007 GMT tonight, after 10 days, 10 hours, 7minutes and five seconds (elapsed time 10:10:7:5), more than 24 hours after Bouwe Bekking and Telefónica Blue scored their first leg [...]

Green Dragon (Ian Walker/GBR) and Kosatka Team Russia (Andreas Hanakamp/AUT) have been fighting their own private battle for the minor placings.  As the Malacca Straights narrowed, Green Dragon was becalmed with a strong tide against her.  As the team struggled to turn the corner, Kosatka reached up from 24-miles behind with good wind, closing to within [...]

We are limping home.  We are about 20 hours from the finish line with an expected eta in the dawn hours on the 24th.  The wind looks to be cooperating today.  Right now, we have eight knots of wind pushing us along on a nice beam reach angle. Our biggest excitement is to find out what [...]

We saw this leg as a good opportunity to get a podium place as we did not expect any hard running conditions, our known ‘Achilles heel’.  We had ‘no excuse to lose’ as Dennis Conner used to say. In front of us we had a long upwind struggle in NE trade winds, which should do [...]