We are very happy bunch, passed both Puma and our teammates. I think Puma simply just forgot about the scoring gate, why would you otherwise give these points away? But we sailed well, we took over 30 miles out of our sistership in the last 24 hours, who we know have the same sails, and [...]

Ericsson Racing Team made it a one/two this morning when Torben Grael/BRA and his team racing Ericsson 4 cruised through the scoring gate on leg two of the Volvo Ocean Race at 0340 GMT, adding another four points to their tally, bringing their total to 18.  On their heels was Anders Lewander/SWE and his Nordic [...]

Very happy with the 2.5 points we just picked up at the scoring longitude of 58E and boat, sails and crew in one piece. We had lots of discussion during the preparation period about the concept of the boat and, to be honest, it feels very good to sit on a solid boat in the [...]

We are thrilled to get 3rd place and 3 points at the Mauritius scoring gate. This has been our sole focus since breaking the boom 2 days ago. We seem to be able to sail downwind with spinnakers quite well, and even now reaching with one reef seems OK. It’s upwind sailing that we must [...]