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IMOCA 60 Work Speeding Up
The winter refits are coming to an end for the majority of the thirty IMOCA monohulls taking part in the forthcoming Vendee Globe. In particular, the English Transat is coming up for those, who have decided to take part.

With a little over seven months to go to the start, preparations are speeding up for the thirty sailors registered for the Vendee Globe. Between those busy recovering from damage suffered in the Barcelona World Race, like Vincent Riou’s PRB, Jeremie Beyou’s Delta Dore and Roland Jourdain’s Veolia Environnement, those preparing for The Artemis Transat, which starts on 11th May and then the few, who are still in the construction phase in the yard, like Marc Thiercelin’s DCNS, they are busy at work in the sheds, in the harbours and on the pontoons.

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Eight Teams Signed-Up for 2008 Ishares Cup
At right: The iShares Extreme Bridge-to-Bridge Challenge” from the Golden Gate Bridge to the Bay Bridge in San Francisco. The iShares Extreme 40 skipped by Nick Maloney is in San Francisco before heading to Europe for the iShares series.
Photo by Jan Pehrson

With the Extreme 40 catamaran fleet now numbering 14 boats, there is potential that even more will make the start line of the five iShares Cup events, which begin in Lugano, Switzerland, on May 30.

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Sam Davies Gearing Up For Solo Transatlantic Race

After a three month winter refit in Lorient, France, Sam Davies’ Open 60 boat ‘Roxy’ is now finally back in the water. After a busy year of racing in 2007, ‘Roxy’ went into the shed in January in France in preparation for ‘The Artemis Transat’ and looking ahead to Sam’s Vendee Globe challenge at the end of the year.

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