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Kiwi sailors Dave Swete and Ryan Houston have been selected to join the crew of Team Alvimedica for the 12th edition of the Volvo Ocean Race.
Team Alvimedica is a combined US and Turkish-sponsored boat with a young crew (sailors in their 20’s and early 30’s) from the USA, Italy, and New Zealand, with veteran Australian Will Oxley as navigator. There is one more gap to fill in the crew prior to the opening event of the Volvo Ocean Race: the In-Port race in Alicante on 4 October.
Swete and Houston have sailed in the Volvo Ocean Race before, both in the 2011-12 event, and Houston also involved in the 2008-09 race.
Auckland will put on a true Kiwi welcome for Swete, Houston and Team Alvimedica in February 2015.
Keep abreast of what’s going on from our website here: http://www.volvooceanraceauckland.com/hospitality.php
The Volvo Ocean Race 2014-15
The Race features nine Legs starting in Alicante (Spain) in October 2014 with Stopovers in Cape Town (South Africa), Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates), Sanya (China), Auckland (New Zealand), Itajai (Brazil), Newport (USA), Lisbon (Portugal) and Lorient (France) with a brief pitstop in The Hague (Netherlands) before the finish in Gothenburg (Sweden) on 27 June 2015.
It requires the teams to cover 38,739 nautical miles - equivalent to 44,580 miles or 71,745 kms.
Teams
The following teams have been announced as at 20 June:
- Team Alvimedica
- Team Brunel
- Dongfeng Race Team
- Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing
- Team SCA
- A sixth team representing Spain was announced on 19 June. A name for this team is to be advised.
Follow the Race
The organisers of the Volvo Ocean Race 2014-15 have made it easy to follow the build-up to the Start and then all the live action from the Race every minute of the day. There's live video streaming, a Race Tracker, blogs, daily updates on Facebook, YouTube and Twitter in addition to global media coverage. Find all the links at www.volvooceanrace.com
