OceanPlanet News Archives - Relaunch to Les Sables

11/5/2004 - Down to the wire...

don't know if you've been following the great Vendée Globe website (www.vendeeglobe.fr/uk/), but we have been really going at it to get ready...

10/28/2004 - Ocean Planet in the news...

Just a quick update today, as I'm trying to actually get some work done in between interviews, TV filming, and autographs...

10/27/2004 - Late night in Les Sables...

It's late at night here in Les Sables d'Olonne, which at the moment is the Mecca of solo ocean racing...

10/22/2004 - Preparing for an Adventure...

Here is the first special journal for our Ocean Sciences website with Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences...(more)

10/18/2004 - Out of the Water in France!

Busy day as we lifted our trusty steed up onto European soil for the first time...

10/15/2004 - Waiting and rushing in Les Sables.

As I sit at our team's favorite new headquarters, the cozy

10/8/2004 - Friday News from Ocean Planet!

Well folks, it looks like we might pull this off after all. I dove under the boat yesterday with some help from the local diving club (including the Vice Mayor of Les Sables!), and what I discovered that the damage from our collisions is not severe...

10/5/2004 - Arrival in Les Sables d'Olonne.

Well, here we are. The last time I was in Les Sables was for the start of the last Vendee in 2000, which seems like yesterday and a hundred years ago, at the same time...

10/1/2004 - Rough stuff

The past couple of days have been quite busy for our delivery team. We experienced a rather intense trough/front the night before last that produced some amazingly large and confused seas...

9/29/2004 - 45 49N, 39 57W

I am dry here at the nav station, but there is a lot of water crashing on the deck over my head...

9/28/2004 - Catching the bus.

We have jibed onto starboard early this morning as anticipated. As the center of a ridge of high pressure has slowly rolled by, the wind is changing to the SW from yesterday's light NW'rlys...

9/27/2004 - Hard to describe.

After a long winter, spring, and summer in Maine, Ocean Planet departed Portland Yacht Services on the afternoon of Thursday, September 23...

9/20/2004 - Better safe than sorry...

We are ready to go: But I have no desire to sail through hurricanes on the way to the Vendee Globe start in Les Sables d'Olonne...

9/17/2004 - The Last Minute.

I am very happy to announce that Iridium Satellite Solutions, the world-wide satellite phone network, has come aboard Ocean Planet as an Official Supplier Sponsor!...

9/15/2004 - Out of the frying pan...

After more than a year of hard work at Portland Yacht Services, Ocean Planet, myself, and a devoted crew are leaving for France this Saturday...

9/14/2004 - Media Advisory – Event Notification

VENDEE GLOBE RACER OCEAN PLANET AND SKIPPER BRUCE SCHWAB TO DEPART FOR FRANCE ON SATURDAY...

9/7/2004 - Shipping Sponsors!

Like Calvary riding to the rescue, MOT INTERMODAL shipping and SHIPCO TRANSPORT have come aboard Ocean Planet as Supplier Sponsors in the nick of time...

9/3/2004 - Relentless

That's right, I said I was scared. But if someone ISN'T a little scared of the challenges faced before and during the Vendee Globe, then they are REALLY nuts...

8/30/2004 - Dream!

I'm scared! Together we have built a dream from scratch and have already been around the world once in preparation for the Vendee Globe...

8/2/2004 - Kids aboard Ocean Planet!

What a great time last thursday. I was honored to have the chance to share Ocean Planet with a great group of young adventurers and sailors...

7/27/2004 - Big Week!

Shipyard Brewery and Capt'n Eli's Root Beer have been great supporters all winter and spring, and have been the driving force behind this Thursday's Youth Adventure Cruise...