A specially designed “Destination Village” is being built on the Abu Dhabi Corniche breakwater to host the Volvo Ocean Race fleet and its fans this New Year. Infrastructure […]
Emirates Team New Zealand has decided on the South Island in the winter rather than tropical Fiji for the next phase of testing sails, systems and […]
On Saturday 14 May, sailing yacht Groupama 4, the first Volvo 70 built in France, was launched at 1400 GMT, opposite Groupama Sailing Team’s base in Lorient. Groupama’s representatives, the sailors, the members of the shore team and an enthusiastic crowd attended this important stage of the project led by skipper Franck Cammas.
The dates for the 4th High Performance Yacht Design conference have been confirmed and will run from the 12-14 March 2012. This will take place in Auckland, New Zealand during the Volvo Ocean Race stopover. The boats arrive on 8 March and depart on 18 March. The conference venue will be in the heart of the Viaduct Basin in the purpose built Marine Events centre.
On February 12th 2011 sailors from Europe and from overseas will fill the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce. With 12 speakers from the countries of Australia, Germany, England, Ireland and the United States the 2nd International Yacht Forum in Hamburg look set to become an exciting and – especially for racing yacht owners – an extremely useful program.
The World Yacht Racing Forum began today in front of 300 delegates and media from all over the world. Marketing experts discussed the growth of the sport and agreed that the lack of continuity is its main issue.
Volvo Ocean Race will be Platinum Partner of the 2010 edition of the World Yacht Racing Forum from 14-15 December in Estoril, Portugal. The Volvo Ocean Race have supported the Forum since the first edition in 2008.
Iñigo Aznar has been recruited as Head of Commercial Partnership for the Volvo Ocean Race 2011-12.
Volvo Ocean Race has opened its new Race Control, a high-tech hub inspired by the NASA control centre, which will be the nerve-centre of the Volvo Ocean Race next year. It is the most advanced race control room ever built for a yacht race and is located in Alicante, Spain.
Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing Team appoints Farr Yacht Design to design the Volvo Open 70 yacht for the Volvo Ocean Race. The second announcement is that Jason Carrington has been hired as the team’s Technical Manager.
New England Boatworks Inc. has been contracted to build PUMA’s new Volvo 70 for the upcoming VOLVO OCEAN RACE 2011-2012. Design for this latest generation round the world race yacht will be provided by Valencia based Naval Architecture firm Juan Yacht Design.
Ian Walker has been appointed by ADTA as the skipper for the Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing’s 2011-2012 Volvo Race title pursuit.