OC Vision Blog » sailing http://blog.ocvision.com This is where the OC Vision staff post important updates, researches, new features, and all kinds of other stuff wacky and airy. Thu, 12 Nov 2009 11:03:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 Here comes the winter madness… http://blog.ocvision.com/2008/10/01/here-comes-the-winter-madness/ http://blog.ocvision.com/2008/10/01/here-comes-the-winter-madness/#comments Wed, 01 Oct 2008 12:05:26 +0000 Dan Griffey http://blog.ocvision.com/?p=108 If you are in any way interested in Sailing / Adventure, then welcome to silly season. A bumper winter of crazy boats, teams and solo adventurers about to take to the seas and head off around the world.

Here at OC Vision we have a legacy of excellent sailing websites, working with Ellen MacArthur, Team ABN AMRO and other solo and crewed adventures.

This winter the two big ones, The Vendée Globe (Solo, non-stop) and the Volvo Ocean Race (crewed, with stops) set off from European ports on their world tours.
And for us that means a bumper set of site launches and new projects.

First to depart, and the focus of this post, is the Volvo Ocean Race, and that means this month we have been launching new sites for the three teams we are proud to be working for.

Our full website launches are www.teamrussia.org and www.greendragonracing.com. Both sites are designed and built by OC Vision, using Expression Engine as their fully featured Content Management / Member Management Systems.

Building on the experience of working with TEAM ABN AMRO in the last race assisting in their media management and distribution, our new site launch for PUMA OCEAN RACING is a custom coded (check back to this blog for the ‘How web built’ article coming soon!) site that manages Video and Image content, allowing hi res media to be downloaded by press and employees.

The VOLVO OCEAN RACE kicks off in Alicante, Spain this weekend.

We’ll be posting about our Vendée Globe team sites in the coming weeeks….

]]> http://blog.ocvision.com/2008/10/01/here-comes-the-winter-madness/feed/ 0 The team advance on their Vision and head off-shore http://blog.ocvision.com/2008/08/01/the-team-advance-on-their-vision-and-head-offshore/ http://blog.ocvision.com/2008/08/01/the-team-advance-on-their-vision-and-head-offshore/#comments Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:49:26 +0000 admin http://blog.ocvision.com/?p=94 It’s close to that time of year again where the world’s best yacht racing teams gather their sails and flock to a small spot at the very south of the UK, the Isle of Wight. Cowes to be more exact which is also where we reside, all to partake in various races and celebrate a yearly week event called Cowes Week. OC Vision took advantage of this mass event and was taken out to sea on an Open 60 skippered by Seb Josse.

Each member of the team got to experience what it’s like to be out on the water on board these competitive boats. Of course, it wasn’t all just sit back, relax, drink champagne and watch the birds fly past, we all took part of steering and grinding and trying to not fall in the water en-route.

All in all we thorougly enjoyed the adventure, especially for those whose experience was a first.

For your enjoyment, we have included a few photos from our time out on the water. All images courtsey of our very own Graham.

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