Spain’s Olympic gold medallist #xabifernandez will return to skipper MAPFRE in the Volvo Ocean Race in 2017-18, the Spanish campaign announced on Friday, 17 February. The 40-year-old Xabi, who has tak...
he Volvo Ocean Race will celebrate 45 years of history with a Legends Race on the final leg of the 2017-18 edition from Gothenburg to The Hague (full story below).GOTHENBURG, Sweden – The Volvo Ocean ...
Once again, GAC Pindar and GAC companies around the world will be put to the test by the Volvo Ocean Race. The 2017-18 edition will be the second consecutive time that GAC serves as the official logis...
ALICANTE, Spain – MAPFRE will be back on the start line for the Volvo Ocean Race in 2017-18, the Spanish team announced on Tuesday. MAPFRE, backed by the Madrid-based global insurance company, are the...
Press release available only in original language. There are 268 days until the #volvooceanrace fleet departs Alicante ahead of a 45,000 nautical mile marathon through the most challenging oceans on t...
MELBOURNE, Jan 27 – The #volvooceanrace will give sports fans an extra Christmas present in 2017 after adding #melbourne to the route for the forthcoming edition starting in October. The change to the...
Partnership creates the world’s most digitally connected competitive sailing #event for the fifth consecutive time (see full story below)Alicante, SPAIN – Inmarsat, the world’s leading provider of glo...
The Volvo Ocean Race will work more closely than ever with the marine industry’s biggest innovators after agreeing Official Supplier status with a host of major companies for the 2017-18 edition (full...
Powerful images, strong personalities and gripping tales of human endeavour, perseverance and achievement, sailing has it all when it comes to recounting dramatic and engaging stories.Yet covering the...
World Sailing, the world governing body of sailing, and #gacpindar, the leading international marine #sport, leisure and #event logistics provider, have today announced that they have signed a memoran...
The #volvooceanrace 2017-18 will begin on Sunday, October 22 – in almost exactly one year’s time – when the starting gun is fired in #alicante and the teams set out to complete a total of 45,000 nauti...
The eighth in our series of 10 announcements in 10 days reveals that a new hydro-generator will act as a back-up power source to the Volvo Penta engine on each of the Volvo Ocean 65 racing yachts.ALIC...
The seventh in a series of 10 announcements from the Race in 10 days is designed to open up the #competition in an era of incredibly close One Design racing and give an incentive for teams to gamble m...
In the sixth of a series of 10 major announcements in 10 days, Race Management outlined a number of mandatory qualifiers before the start in #alicante, #spain, in October 2017 – including provisionall...
The Volvo Ocean Race will be introducing innovative new team bases at all the Host Cities in 2017-18 to form the ultimate 'pit lane' where the public will be able to see what before has gone on 'behin...
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