Leg 8, Itajai Stopover. Race Village opening. Mr. Evandro Neiva. - Stopover President and Tourism Secretary of the Itajaà Municipality, Mr .Elcio Rogerio Kuhnen, President of AMFRI - Associação dos MunicÃpios da Foz do Rio Itajai, Mr. Richard Brisius, President of the Volvo Ocean Race, Mr. Volnei Morastoni - Itajaà Mayor, Mr. Eduardo Pinho Moreira - Governor of the Santa Catarina State, Mr. Leonel Arcangelo Pavan. - State Secretary, Mr. Thiago Morastoni - Secretary of Institutional Relations of the Itajaà Municipality, Mr. Paulo Manoel Vicente - Itajaà City Councilor, Mr. Emerson Gaio Roberto - Captain of the Ports of Santa Catarina -& Captain of the Sea and War, Torben Grael, Volvo Ocean Race Legend. 05 April, 2018.
May 04,2015. Leg 6 to Newport onboard Team Alvimedica. Day 15. Through the cold front,it's back upwind in 15-20 knots north towards Newport and colder water,750 miles away. 1 DAY until the Newport Volvo Ocean Race Village officially opens,according to skipper Charlie Enright,a big fan of Chili Con Carne.
May 03,2015. Leg 6 to Newport onboard Team Alvimedica. Day 14. Nick Dana enjoying a rare Caribbean fresh-water shower on deck,a chance to momentarily shake off the salt and grime from two weeks at sea. The fleet sticks together on the track northwest towards the next cold front,a day or two away,before beginning the final sprint north to Newport,just over 1,000 miles away.
May 03,2015. Leg 6 to Newport onboard Team Alvimedica. Day 14. 2 DAYS until the Newport Volvo Ocean Race Village officially opens,according to a busy Will Oxley. The fleet sticks together on the track northwest towards the next cold front,a day or two away,before beginning the final sprint north to Newport,just over 1,000 miles away.
May 02,2015. Leg 6 to Newport onboard Team Alvimedica. Day 13. A delightful serving of Beef Stroganoff for dinner. The fleet approaches an occluded front and a gybe to the east,the first manoeuvre since leaving the coast of South America.
April 25,2015. Leg 6 to Newport onboard Team Brunel. Day 6. Rokas Milevicius and Javier de la Plaza spend their off-watch resting in the bunks the best they can in the heat of the Tropics.
April 19,2015. Leg 6 to Newport onboard Team Alvimedica. Day 0. Light air and overcast skies for the start of Leg 6 to the USA. Seb Marsset catches a few winks on the bow after a long Leg Start day. Alvimedica leads the fleet into open water but things are soon mixed up with light and variable winds into the night.
April 1,2015. Leg 5 to Itajai onboard Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing. Day 16. Justin Slattery lies in his bunk exhausted and covered in dried salt from the spray after another sail change on deck where he didn't have time to suit up.
March 31,2015. Leg 5 to Itajai onboard Team Brunel. Day 13. OBR Stefan Coppers in a brave moment following the traditions and welcoming the Horn naked on deck.
March 25,2015. Leg 5 to Itajai onboard Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing. Day 07. Roberto Bermudez 'Chuny' lathers on the sunscreen and checks his sore eyes in a pair of Oakley sunglasses before watch.
March 25,2015. Leg 5 to Itajai onboard Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing. Day 07. Louis Sinclair uses the camera to check the progress of his neck seal rash he's developed from spending too much time in the wet weather gear.
February,2015. Leg 4 to Auckland onboard Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing. Day 13. A little surprise (some kind of laxative) for Alex Higby from Phil Harmer on his first Equator crossing.
February,2015. Leg 4 onboard Dongfeng Race Team. Jin Hao Chen,aka Horace,calls his family at midnight on Chinese New Year's Eve. Happy year of the Sheep
February,2015. Leg 4 to Auckland onboard Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing. Day 08. Daryl Wislang hands Roberto Bermudez de Castro,aka Chuny,a broken strop from jib failure en route to the Solomon Islands.
February,2015. Leg 4 to Auckland onboard Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing. Day 08. An exhausted Simon \"SiFi\" Fisher climbs through the hatchway after the jib halyard failure to check the team's position after the breakage.
February 11,2015. Leg 4 to Auckland onboard Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing. Day 3. Simon \\"SiFi\\" Fisher picks through the leftovers of pasta in the pot after eating next to nothing for the first 3 days of the leg.
January 20,2015. Day 17 of Leg 3 to Sanya,onboard Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing. An exhausted Roberto Bermudez 'Chuny' finds a place to crash in the light winds at dusk.
January,2015. Leg 3 to Sanya onboard Team Brunel. Day 15. Tired after dozen of tacks Laurent Pages waits patiently on the next tack which brings team Brunel in to the Malacca straight
December 6,2014. Leg 2 onboard Team Alvimedica. DAY 17. The first set of doldrums now behind Alvimedica,attention turns to the second,and the 300 miles of light air until the Arabian Sea. What do you do when it's too hot to sleep and there's too little wind to be in your bunk? Nick Dana (L),Charlie Enright (M),and Alberto Bolzan (R) listen to music and stay in touch with the world in the bow.
November 4,2014. Leg 1 onboard Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing. Ian Walker finally spends a few minutes resting after days of being awake and pushing hard for a Leg 1 win; The pressure isn't off yet but they have the advantage over the other boats.
Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing during leg 5 of the Volvo Ocean Race 2011-12,from Auckland,New Zealand to Itajai,Brazil. (Credit: Nick Dana/Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing/Volvo Ocean Race)
Jean-Luc Nelias onboard Groupama Sailing Team during leg 1 of the Volvo Ocean Race 2011-12,from Alicante,Spain to Cape Town,South Africa. (Credit: Yann Riou/Groupama Sailing Team/Volvo Ocean Race)
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