July 1, 2023 - 4PM CET
Genoa In-Port race starts in
As the crew races from Itajaí, Brazil to our home port of Newport, Rhode Island USA, we’re onboard with Amory Ross, our Media Crew Member, with live updates from the boat! Don’t forget you can track the fleet here. 📅 MONDAY May 8, 2023 🕒 1800 UTC 🌍 DISTANCE TO FINISH: 534 NM 💨 SPEED: 18.8 … Continue reading LEG 4: ONBOARD UPDATES
In brief: 11th Hour Racing Team continues to fight for the lead on Leg 4 of The Ocean Race to Newport, RI, U.S. Skipper Charlie Enright relieved to escape the Doldrums unscathed Sargassum weed is the current challenge as the team duels with Malizia in close proximity Final week into Newport is fraught with navigational … Continue reading THE BATTLE TO CONQUER THE NORTH
The early stages of Leg 4 have seen 11th Hour Racing Team battling its way past a number of exclusion zones. These zones have been a defining part of the tactics and the strategy as the boats seek to make the shortest and most efficient progress towards the finish in Newport, Rhode Island, without falling … Continue reading THE EXCLUSION ZONE CHALLENGE
11th Hour Racing Team holds a slender and fragile lead after the first five days at sea in The Ocean Race, since the fleet was sent on its way by the exuberant and passionate people of Itajaí in the south of Brazil. As of Friday April 28, at 1300 UTC, the team is in first … Continue reading IN THE LEAD, BUT TAKING NOTHING FOR GRANTED
Leg 3 of The Ocean Race might have been the longest and toughest in the race’s history, but it’s Leg 4 into Newport that matters the most to 11th Hour Racing Team. Home to Skipper Charlie Enright and home to 11th Hour Racing, Newport, Rhode Island is the next stop on The Ocean Race calendar. … Continue reading NEWPORT, WE’RE COMING FOR YOU
As the crew from 11th Hour Racing Team races from Cape Town, South Africa to Itajaí, Brazil, we’re onboard with Amory Ross, our Media Crew Member, with live updates from the boat! Don’t forget you can track the fleet here. 📅 WEDNESDAY APRIL 5, 2023 🕒 FINISHING TIME: 08:20:23 UTC 🌎 LOCATION: ITAJAÍ, BRAZIL 🥇 POSITION: … Continue reading LEG 3: ONBOARD UPDATES
Rounding Cape Horn is one of the great moments of any sailor’s career, although the enjoyment tends to come later, a few weeks, months or even years later, according to skipper Charlie Enright (USA). Mālama passed the most iconic landmark of The Ocean Race at 1255 UTC on Tuesday March 28 after almost exactly 30 … Continue reading CAPE HORN IS BEHIND THEM, AND THE RACE NORTH BEGINS
Just when they were beginning to wonder if this was going to be a relatively benign second half of the voyage around the bottom of the world, the Southern Ocean still has a sting in its tail. Now 26 days since they departed Cape Town, and for the past week 11th Hour Racing Team has … Continue reading STORMING TOWARDS CAPE HORN
As Mālama was passing through one of the most remote parts of the most remote ocean in the world, the team deployed a surface drifter buoy off the back of the boat. It’s another milestone passed in the other race that 11th Hour Racing Team is participating in, the race to protect the world’s ocean. … Continue reading VITAL BUOY DEPLOYED IN THE REMOTE SOUTHERN OCEAN
In brief: 11th Hour Racing Team almost halfway through the mammoth 12,750nm Leg 3, the passage through the inhospitable, remote Southern Ocean The fleet remains tight, just over 100 nm from front to back The USA team smashes its own 24-hour record with a 586 nautical mile run Team waiting for calmer breeze to repair … Continue reading ANOTHER SHOT OF RESILIENCE
