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Nov 25, 2011 09:00 AM
to Dec 11, 2011 09:00 PM |
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Volvo Ocean Race
The 2011-12 Volvo Ocean Race will start with the In-Port Race on 29 October in Alicante, Spain and the route will go to Cape Town, Abu Dhabi, Sanya, Auckland and on to Itajaí. Next stop is Miami and then across the Atlantic to Lisbon followed by Lorient and Galway.
Event Program:
Friday, 25 November 2011
Keep the Ocean's Clean
Marmo's Storytime
Race Village Opens
Yacht ETA
18:15 - 21:00 PUMA Spinnaker Sessions
Saturday, 26 November 2011
Marmo's Story Time
Yacht ETA
16:30 - 18:00 V&A Waterfront Concert
18:15 - 21:00 PUMA Spinnaker Sessions
27 November 2011
Yacht ETA
16:00 - 20:00 Official Volvo Ocean Race Village Opening Concert
28 November 2011
Marmo's Storytime
Yacht ETA
09:00 - 13:00 School Environmental Programme
29 November 2011
09:00 - 13:00 School Environmental Program
10:00 - 13:00 Try Sailing
30 November 2011
Marmo's Storytime
09:00 - 13:00 School Environmental Programme
18:15 - 20:00 Twilight Sailing with PUMA and RCYC
01 December 2011
09:00 - 13:00 School Environmental Program
18:15 - 21:00 PUMA Spinnaker Sessions
02 December 2011
Marmo's Storytime
09:00 - 13:00 School Environmental Programme
10:00 - 14:00 Volvo Acadeny Clinic and Team Racing
18:00 - 21:00 PUMA Spinnaker Sessions
03 December 2011
Marmo's Storytime
09:00 - 11:00 Dragon Boat Long Haul
09:00 - 16:00 Sea Scouts Rowing Regatta
10:00 - 14:00 Volvo Academy Clinic and Team Racing
17:00 - 18:00 V&A Waterfront Concert
18:15 - 21:00 PUMA Spinnaker Sessions
04 December 2011
10:00 - 14:00 Volvo Academy Clinic and Team Racing
10:00 - 15:00 Sea Scouts Sailing Regatta
17:00 - 18:00 V&A Waterfront Concert
Marmo's Storytime
09:00 - 13:00 School Environmental Programme
14:00 - 18:00 Try Sailing
06 December 2011
09:00 - 13:00 School Environmental Programme
14:00 - 18:00 Try Sailing
07 December 2011
Marmo's Storytime
Volvo Ocean Race Practice Day
10:00 - 13:00 School's Environmental Programme
18:15 - 20:00 Twilight Sailing with PUMA and RCYC
08 December 2011
Volvo Ocean Race Practice Day
10:00 - 13:00 School's Environmental Programme
17:00 - 18:00 Public Leg Prize Giving
09 December 2011
Marmo's Storytime
12:00 - 15:00 Pro Am Race
16:00 Puma Social Club presents all All Hands on Deck Party
- The Official Afterparty of the Cape Town Stopover
10 December 2011
Marmo's Storytime
15:00 - 17:00 In Port Races
18:00 - 19:00 In-Port Prize Giving
18:00 - 19:00 V&A Waterfront Concert
19:15 - 21:00 PUMA Spinnaker Sessions
11 December 2011
12:00 - 15:00 Departure Ceremonies and Race re-start
17:00 - 19:00 V&A Waterfront Concert
19:15 - 21:00 PUMA Spinnaker Sessions
The Volvo Ocean Race is an exceptional test of sailing prowess and human endeavour which has been built on the spirit of great seafarers - fearless men who sailed the world’s oceans aboard square rigged clipper ships more than a century ago.
Their challenge back then was not a race as such, but recording the fastest time between ports. This meant new levels of pride for themselves and great recognition for their vessel.
The spirit that drove those commercial sailors along the web of trade routes, deep into the bleak latitudes of the Southern Ocean and around the world’s most dangerous capes, emerges today in the form of the Volvo Ocean Race, a contest now seen as the pinnacle of achievement in the sport.
The first edition of this sporting adventure came in the wake of two remarkable sailors of the last century, Sir Francis Chichester and Sir Robin Knox-Johnston, men who drew worldwide acclaim for amazing solo voyages around the planet. Inevitably their success led to talk in international sailing circles of a race around the world for fully crewed yachts. It became a reality in 1973 with The Whitbread round the World Race, the longest, most demanding and perilous sporting contest the world had known.
Dangerous it was. In that very first race three competing sailors were lost after being washed overboard during storms. This led to the inevitable call for that inaugural contest to be the last, but the desire for unbridled adventure and great competition led to the race being staged every four years.
The re-badged Volvo Ocean Race was run for the first time in 2001-02. Today it is, quite simply, the ‘Everest of Sailing’.
During the nine months of the Volvo Ocean Race, which starts in Alicante, Spain in October 2011 and concludes in Galway, Ireland, during early July 2012, the teams will sail over 39,000 nautical miles of the world’s most treacherous seas via Cape Town, Abu Dhabi, Sanya, Auckland, around Cape Horn to Itajaí, Miami, Lisbon, and Lorient.
Each of the entries has a sailing team of 11 professional crew and the race requires their utmost skills, physical endurance and competitive spirit as they race day and night for more than 20 days at a time on some of the legs. They will each take on different jobs onboard the boat and on top of these sailing roles, there will be two sailors that have had medical training, as well as a sailmaker, an engineer and a dedicated media crew member.
During the race the crews will experience life at the extreme: no fresh food is taken onboard so they live off freeze dried fare, they will experience temperature variations from -5 to +40 degrees Celsius and will only take one change of clothes. They will trust their lives to the boat and the skipper and experience hunger and sleep deprivation.
The race is the ultimate mix of world class sporting competition and on the edge adventure, a unique blend of onshore glamour with offshore drama and endurance.
It is undeniably the world’s premier global race and one of the most demanding team sporting events in the world.
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