May 8th, 2008
Boston, USA - 8 May 2008 – Ken Read, skipper of PUMA Ocean Racing, officially announced his crew and management for the upcoming Volvo Ocean Race 2008-2009, as the team gathered for official training in Newport, Rhode Island and prepared for the christening of its new boat on May 12 in Boston Harbor. Among the crew, PUMA Ocean Racing represents six countries and has 21 past Volvo Ocean Race participations to its credit.
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Posted in Crew Lists, Media, Puma Ocean Racing
April 22nd, 2008
Welcome to the April edition of the Volvo Ocean Race newsletter. The focus this month is on people. Our new CEO, Knut Frostad, has been busy interviewing applicants for the post of new Race Director, to replace Andy Hindley who left us in early March. We are pleased to welcome, all the way from New Zealand, Jack Lloyd.
Knut has also been travelling to some of the ports and negotiations are progressing well.
As the race organising team begins to expand in the lead-up to the race start in October, now less than six months away, some familiar faces have returned to the fold, and some new faces have been drafted in.
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Posted in Newsletter
April 21st, 2008
Portsmouth (England) – 21 April 2008 – New Zealander Jack Lloyd, a well known figure in international yacht racing, has joined the Volvo Ocean Race as its new Race Director. Lloyd, 54, was Chairman of the International Jury for the 2005-06 race after serving as a member of the jury for two previous races.
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Posted in Media
April 17th, 2008
Portsmouth (England) – 17 April 2008 – Leading marine photographer, Rick Tomlinson has been appointed as official photographer to the Volvo Ocean Race 2008-09. All images from the event starting on 4 October 2008 in Alicante, will be distributed by London’s onEdition and the whole collection will be stored on a state-of-the art system designed and built especially for the job by Brighton-based company, Bright Interactive.
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Posted in Media, Race Information
April 10th, 2008
MOSCOW, Russia–10 April 2008 – today at a press conference held at Moscow International Boat Show, skipper Andreas Hanakamp and syndicate president Oleg Zherebstov announced five key crew members that will join Team Russia to sail in the Volvo Ocean Race 2008-09.
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Posted in Crew Lists, Russian Team, Media
April 10th, 2008
Moscow, Russia -10 April, 2008 – today at a press conference held at Moscow International Boat Show, skipper Andreas Hanakamp and syndicate president Oleg Zherebstov announced five key crew members that will join Team Russia to sail in the Volvo Ocean Race 2008-09.
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Posted in Crew Lists, Russian Team
March 26th, 2008
Portsmouth (England) – 26 March, 2008 – Sports Marketing Surveys has been appointed to provide a comprehensive media monitoring service. The UK-based Sports Marketing Surveys will monitor a full range of broadcast and print media, including new media, as well as carrying out a number of international race and brand awareness studies.
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Posted in Media, Commercial
March 17th, 2008
About the race:
The Volvo Ocean Race was originally known as The Whitbread Round the World Race and was conceived over a pint of beer more than 30 years ago
The first race left England in September 1973 and it has run every four years since. The next Volvo Ocean Race will be the tenth edition of the event and for the first time will be held three years after the previous event.
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Posted in Race Information
March 14th, 2008
Welcome to the March edition of the Volvo Ocean Race newsletter. We have two pieces of major news for you this month. We now have a new CEO, and Ericsson Racing Team has launched their brand new Volvo Open 70 in Barcelona.
Norway’s Knut Frostad has joined us as CEO and is now at the helm of the Volvo Ocean Race, instead of a Volvo Open 70.
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