Securing the safety for all concerned: When the teams competing in the Volvo Ocean Race approach the finish of each leg, their diligence is imperative to ensure safe passage through the coastal traffic, but this was still not enough to keep Vestas 11th Hour Racing from a collision with a fishing boat when just 30 nm from the finish in Hong …: Google Alert – “volvo ocean race”
Food rationing prospect as round the world fleet struggles towards Auckland: The Volvo Ocean Race fleet of six boats has passed to the east of Vanuatu and is dawdling towards New Caledonia, desperate to find breeze to get them to Auckland on this sixth leg from Hong Kong. The boats have only been doing between one and seven knots of speed in the vacuum over the Pacific …: Google Alert – “volvo ocean race”
The Volvo Ocean Race returns to Cape Town in 2017 and will be in the City from 24 November to 10 December. The first of Leg 2 yachts are expected to arrive on 27 November with the start of Leg 3 to Melbourne on 10 December 2017:
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Cape Town Image: Leyland Badger TA4 flatbed (1932)