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Cowes, 10th August: Five Volvo Ocean 65s go head to head in Round Britain and Ireland Race. Video powered by http://www.yachtfernsehen.com. Five Volvo Ocean Race 2014-15 will line up against each other in a dress rehearsal of the event proper when they compete in the Sevenstar Round Britain and Ireland Race on Sunday. The race, course distance 1802 nm, is expect to take at least five days to complete depending on conditions and will give a form guide for Team SCA, Dongfeng Racing Team, Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing, Team Alvimedica and Iker Martínez’s Spanish crew ahead of the Volvo Ocean Race start on October 4 in Alicante, Spain. Knut Frostad, CEO, Volvo Ocean Race: “This is the first time we will see a larger fleet together that we can really track and follow. We will see a result now over the next days around Britain, and then all of them will go back to their team bases and they will work very hard on learning from those days, and then we will  …...more
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Video: Volvo Ocean 65s at Round Britain and Ireland Race - by Yachtfernsehen.com
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Cowes, 10th August: Five Volvo Ocean 65s go head to head in Round Britain and Ireland Race. Video powered by http://www.yachtfernsehen.com. Five Volvo Ocean Race 2014-15 will line up against each other in a dress rehearsal of the event proper when they compete in the Sevenstar Round Britain and Ireland Race on Sunday. The race, course distance 1802 nm, is expect to take at least five days to complete depending on conditions and will give a form guide for Team SCA, Dongfeng Racing Team, Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing, Team Alvimedica and Iker Martínez’s Spanish crew ahead of the Volvo Ocean Race start on October 4 in Alicante, Spain. Knut Frostad, CEO, Volvo Ocean Race: “This is the first time we will see a larger fleet together that we can really track and follow. We will see a result now over the next days around Britain, and then all of them will go back to their team bases and they will work very hard on learning from those days, and then we will see how they twist that into their advantage when they come back in October, in Alicante.” The Sevenstar Round Britain and Ireland Race has a rich history, starting in 1976. The 2014 race will be the 8th edition. While other ocean races are longer, racing 1,800 miles around a coastline notorious for highly changeable weather and wicked tides and currents make the race incredibly challenging. That makes it the ideal preparation for the Volvo Ocean Race teams. The 2014 entries include a wide variety of yachts and sailors of different classes and levels, all competing against the Volvo Ocean Race crews in their one-design Volvo Ocean 65s. The fleet will set off down the Solent to the east and turn west around the south side of the Isle of Wight. After that the course is simple: leave Ireland and Great Britain to starboard all the way to the northern tip of the Shetland Isles, a point known as Outer Stack just north of Muckle Flugga, then return down the eastern side of the UK back to where the race started in Cowes, a non-stop 1800 mile race. The fastest yachts may complete the course in under a week. For the slower yachts, nearly two weeks is more likely. Knut Frostad, CEO, Volvo Ocean Race: “This is the promo, this is the test of our real race, because this is the first time we will see a larger fleet together that we can really track and follow. So we had one small race in the Canaries with three boats. Now we have 5 boats participating in the Round Britain race, and I think we have to go back to the 80s to find an event before the start of this race where that many boats actually met on the same start line. We will see a result now over the next days around Britain, and then all of them will go back to their team bases and they will work very hard on learning from those days, and then we will see how they twist that into their advantage when they come back in October, in Alicante.” The next edition of the Volvo Ocean Race will start on October 4, 2014, day of the first In-Port Race in Alicante, Spain, and finish with one last In-Port Race on June 27, 2015 in Gothenburg, the Swedish home of Volvo.

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