Volvo Ocean Race - Cape Town Stopover
| Alicante a taste of things ahead for Cape Town |
| Tuesday, 18 October 2011 09:04 |
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The Volvo Ocean Race officially opened their doors to the public last Friday, and the thousands of visitors that flooded into the race village over the weekend were clearly loving the experience. For Cape Town, it was a sign of things to come, as plans continue to go ahead at full steam for the opening of the V & A Waterfront race village in late November. Proving exceptionally popular with younger visitors are the Air Balls, which has been inundated with children keen to do battle on the pool inside huge clear-plastic globes decorated with the route of the forthcoming race around the world. Out on the water, race village visitors can have the opportunity to sail in the Volvo Ocean Race Academy 'Try Sailing' initiative. For the 'wannabe' ocean racers, the simulator will give a sensory experience of life at full speed aboard an Open 70, complete with noise, rock n roll and water, and then off course, you may just want to stand and gaze in awe at the boats themselves. The 6 Open 70's will be on display to show the fans what a state-of-the-art racing monohull looks like 'in the flesh'. |
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Volvo Ocean Race Podcast
Jeff Ayliffe had an exclusive chat to PUMA Ocean Racing's skipper Ken Read today. When they last chatted, Ken was hoping to be back for the Volvo Ocean race 2011, but they had not confirmed. The team are are not only back, but have experienced a transatlantic victory aboard the new boat 'Mar Mostro', and Read told Jeff he was delighted to preparing for Alicante and the start of Volvo Ocean race action
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Team Camper’s South African crewman is Michael Pammenter, who sailed with Telefonica Black in 2008. Michael caught up with Jeff Ayliffe just after the boat Was being transported to New Zealand.
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Puma Ocean Racing’s Jono Swain is the 2nd of 3 South Africans in this years Volvo Ocean race. He chatted to Jeff Ayliffe about sleeping patterns and life aboard a Volvo open 70
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Capetonian Paul Wilcox is part of Abu Dhabi Racing in the Volvo Ocean Race, and he was chatting to Jeff Ayliffe shortly after the team pulled off a win in the Transnet after a close battle with Groupama.
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