About the Volvo Ocean Race

Volvo Ocean Race is the most prestigious and spectacular round the world marathon ocean yacht racing competition, seen as the ultimate in extreme adventure sporting. 

The toughest of extreme adventure sporting: The Race will commence its round-the-world marathon sailing in October 2008 and cover more than 39,000 nautical miles, visiting 11 ports across the world. Starting from Alicante in Spain, it would stopover at Cape Town, Cochin, Qingdao, Rio de Janeiro, Boston, Galway, Goteborg and Stockholm, before reaching the finishing line at St.Petersburg.  

The teams consist of professional sports men drawn from different countries. The participants require physical endurance and sheer grit of the highest order to deal with life at the extreme, as they race day and night for more than 30 days at a stretch in some of the legs, facing potential dangers such as gales and storms, ice bergs, ocean debris and the whales! The Race is thus, the ultimate in world class water-sporting competition on the extreme edge of adventure, drama and endurance. 
Eight teams drawn from different countries of the world like USA, Netherlands, Ireland, China, Sweden and Spain are  participating in the Race this year. The Race represents the ultimate in world class extreme adventure sporting competition – a unique mix of onshore glamour and offshore drama and endurance.

 

 

 

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The route of the Volvo Ocean Race (animated)

 

1 Comment(s)

  1. Hallo Gerd-Jan,
    Leuk weer eens over je te lezen. Ik heb je steeds in de race gevolgd. Dat is niet zo vreemd, ik woon in Babylonienbroek, en ben ook voordekker. (winterwedstrijden Drimmelen) Als andere hobby ben ik werkzaam op een evenementenschip, De Tourmalijn. Het is goed te weten wat je activiteieten nu zijn. Misschien kunnen we ooit iets organiseren met een opdrachtgeven die aan boord iets met teanbuilding oid wil doen.
    Suk6 met je bezigheden en misschien een keer “tot ziens”
    Aat de Man


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