Volvo Ocean Race 2014- 2015

Volvo Ocean Race ( formerly Whitbread Round the World Race)  is a yacht race around the world. Headquarter is in Alicante and owner is a company Volvo from Netherlands. This race takes place every three years. Next competition will be from October 2014 till June 2015.

  

They will start from Alicante and the finish will be in Gothenburg. It will be the longest route- 39,895 nautical miles. Yachts will pass ports in  Dubai, Auckland, Lisbon and many others.

Crews can not take fresh food on the board and have only one change of clothes. Temperature is from -5 to +40 degrees Celsius.

From 2001 the stopovers are in Germany, France and Sweden because of Volvo company.





  Only for brave people

There is Museo Volvo Ocean Race in Alicante. Next time I will write something about this.