When Farr Yacht Design drafted the Volvo Ocean Race’s new one-design, the mandate was simple: make it fast, make it powerful, and make it last. To live up to the race’s extreme status, the ...

In a nod to both economics and the public's insatiable demand to be entertained, the new carbon-fibre Volvo Ocean 65 class yachts, built for the 12th edition of the race starting in October, are ...

Volvo 65: Identical and optimal composite spars and rigging “One design” concept takes the boat out of the yacht-racing equation, pitting teams against the wind, sea … and each other.

In its live demo, Volvo showed off how a 68-foot yacht, outfitted with the autonomous technology, was able to maneuver itself into a tight space between two Volvo Ocean Race 65 racing yachts.

When the 24-hour speed record presented itself in the coveted Volvo Ocean Race crown, the sailors of Akzonobel took advantage of two magical days of yachting.

As he guided his high-tech 65-foot racing yacht over the equator in late October, charting a course for the tip of South Africa, Charlie Enright endured some good-natured ribbing from his veteran ...

This is the first time it will be a “one-design” race: All entrants must use a specially designed boat—the $6 million Volvo 65—with the same exact specifications.

Leg 3 of the Volvo Ocean Race was gnarly as hell – big waves, cold water and too many wipeouts to remember them all. Fortunately, we've found the best of them.

If you're into the adventure, excitement, the sheer toughness of racing around the world on state-of-the-art sailboats, there's nothing quite like the Volvo Ocean Race.

Now Volvo Penta’s latest project is to develop a self-docking yacht. Not the boat itself, we should point out, but the system that completes the docking procedure for the skipper.