Thursday 7 May, 2009 – The Volvo Ocean Race is to move its headquarters from the South Coast of England to Alicante, Spain. The Mediterranean city will become both the starting port and the home of the race for the next three editions.
Leg 1: Day 1: 1330 GMT– The long-awaited start day of leg one of the 10th running of the Volvo Ocean race dawned grey and very windy in Alicante, just as the forecasters had predicted, but it did not dampen the spirits of the 88 sailors who have been anxious to get this 6,500 nautical mile to Cape Town underway.
Alicante (Spain) – 10 October 2008 – The waiting is nearly over and the 10th running of the Volvo Ocean Race starts the first of its 10 offshore legs at 1400 CET tomorrow from Alicante in Spain. But for some, it has been a wait too long and the 88 sailors taking part in this ocean epic are impatient to cross the start line and do what they do best: go sailing.
Portsmouth (England) – 9 October 2008 – After years, or in some cases weeks, of planning, the day of reckoning has almost arrived for the eight 11-man crews who will be racing their record-breaking Volvo Open 70s in the Volvo Ocean Race 6,500 nautical mile leg one to Cape Town which starts at 1200 GMT (1400 CET) this Saturday, 11 October.
Portsmouth (England) – 08 October 2008 – With points already on the leaderboard, and Spain’s Telefónica Blue (Bouwe Bekking/NED) in pole position with four points, the next opportunity to accumulate points will be as the fleet rounds Fernando de Noronha, an island off the coast of Brazil during leg one, which starts this Saturday at 1400 local time in Alicante (Spain) and finishes after 6,500 nautical miles of racing in Cape Town, South Africa.
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Portsmouth (England) – 4 October 2008 – Telefónica Blue (Bouwe Bekking/Iker Martinez) made it a win-win situation in today’s in-port races held in Alicante, Spain, and now head the leaderboard of the Volvo Ocean Race.
Alicante (England) – 3 October 2008
Ger O’Rourke, skipper, Delta Lloyd, on how he feels sitting on stage with his fellow Volvo Ocean Race skippers:
“It’s a deeply humbling experience…This is a chance to do the race of your dreams.”
Alicante (Spain) – 18 September 2008 – Team Delta Lloyd (Ger O’Rourke IRL) has arrived safely in Alicante with a day and a half in hand before the official opening of the Race Village tomorrow night, 19 September. The team, which used the six-day crossing from Cork as its 2,000-mile qualifier, is the last team to reach the start port joins the other seven boats completing the fleet of eight.
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