THE HAGUE, NETHERLANDS (WLNE) -- The Ocean Race has said that the 11th Hour Racing of Newport won the race's sixth leg. The penultimate, and shortest, leg of the race set sail Thursday and ran from Aarhus, Denmark to The…
KINGSTON, R.I. (WLNE) -- A University of Rhode Island doctoral student is working in a lab in the United Kingdom analyzing samples collected by two Ocean Race vessels to research microplastics in ocean waters. Victoria Fulfer is a visiting scientist…
NEWPORT, R.I (WLNE) -- Newport's economy was left booming after The Ocean Race made a pit stop in the City by the Sea before sailing away to its next destination. "[The Ocean Race] generat[ed] tens of millions of dollars for…
NEWPORT, R.I. (WLNE) -- The Rhode Island-based team competing in The Ocean Race had to stop after they hit what they believe was a marine mammal. The incident happened in the mid-North…
NEWPORT, R.I. (WLNE) -- Newport kicked-off its celebration of the Ocean Race coming to its shores with the first day of Ocean Live Park Saturday. The nine day festival at Fort Adams State Park includes a parade, interactive exhibits, and…
NEWPORT, R.I. (WLNE) -- Tens of thousands of visitors will descend on Newport in the next two weeks while the ocean race is in town. Providence Now Digital Reporter TJ Albin was…
NEWPORT, R.I. (WLNE) -- Newport is buzzing as we approach next week's world famous Ocean Race. Courtney Kingsley, an education programs manager at Sail Newport, has been speaking at local schools getting children…
NEWPORT, R.I. (WLNE) - Sail Newport and The Ocean Race have announced that The Ocean Race will make its only North American stopover in Newport, R.I., in the spring of 2022. Newport, is set to be one of only ten…
By Rebecca Turco rturco@abc6.com Thousands of people from all over the world have descended on Newport this weekend for the Volvo Ocean Race. They're here for the excitement surrounding the race, a...
NEWPORT, R.I. (WLNE) -- The Newport-based 11th Hour Racing team celebrated their victory in this year's Ocean Race Friday night. The event featured food, live music and the Ocean Race trophy on full display for fans to take pictures with.…
NEWPORT, R.I. (WLNE) -- Newport's 11th Hour Racing Team claimed a double victory in both the The Ocean Race and the In Port Race Series on Saturday. The team, the only one representing the United States this year, sailed easily…
NEWPORT, R.I. (WLNE) -- The 11th Hour Racing Team has won this year's Ocean Race. The team, based out of Newport, was the only one in this year's Ocean Race representing the United States. They earned their victory with 37…
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WLNE) -- Shortly after the Rhode Island-based Eleventh Hour racing team bowed out of the seventh leg of the Ocean Race, two other teams had a chance encounter with…
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (WLNE) -- The Newport-based team 11th Hour Racing has decided to bow out of the seventh leg of the Ocean Race after colliding with another team yesterday. The 11th hour collided with the French/German team’s ship GUYOT environnement-Team…
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (WLNE) -- The Newport-based team 11th Hour Racing has suffered "catastrophic damage" according to Ocean Race officials. The ship collided with the French/German team's ship GUYOT environnement-Team Europe during the opening minutes of the race's final leg.…
NEWPORT, R.I. (WLNE) -- Fresh off a victory in the fourth leg of The Ocean Race, 11th Hour skipper and Rhode Island native Charlie Enright is…
NEWPORT, R.I. (WLNE) -- Sailing is a huge part of many Rhode Island Communities, whether you compete or sail just for fun. For high school students Jake Demos and Aurora Meunier Mott,…
11th Hour Racing Press Release In brief: Newport-based 11th Hour Racing Team takes the top spot on the Leg 4 podium It…
NEWPORT, R.I. (WLNE) -- As the Ocean Race comes to the shores of Rhode Island, the city of Newport expects a major economic boom before weeks before the anticipated summer season. Discover Newport's CEO…
EAST GREENWICH, R.I. (WLNE) -- With the Ocean Race in Newport, sailing in Rhode Island is being put at the forefront. One of them, in East Greenwich, is a group of high schoolers competing at a high level on the…
NEWPORT, R.I. (WLNE) -- Sailors are racing to the finish line of the fourth leg of seven, ending a 17-day stretch of around-the-clock racing in the Ocean Race. The sailors will…
NEWPORT, R.I. (WLNE) -- Newport is one of the nine stop-overs around the world for the Ocean Race of North America. Sailors and viewers from all over the world will be…
Thousands of spectators lined the shore at Fort Adams in Newport to watch the final in-port race before heading to the high seas on Sunday. Brunel led wire-to-wire in rainy conditions to claim the ...
Only a few boat-lengths separated the first place finishers, Team Mapfre, from the second place team, Team Brunel, in the 8th leg of the 2017-2018 Volvo Ocean Race. Not far behind them in third pl...
