#VOR - Scuttlebutt Sailing News reports on the American-led Team Alvimedica, the latest - and youngest - team to hit the water running in their preparations for this year's Volvo Ocean Race start.
Spearheaded by young guns Mark Towill and Charlie Enright - Brown University alumni who first met on the set of a Disney sailing movie seven years ago - the team is essentially a metamorphosis of the company sailing squad formed two years ago by the title sponsor, a Turkish medical device firm.
Team Alvimedica launched its yacht out of Green Marine in Southampton earlier this week, and is now actively recruiting sailors to join its crew with six months to go till the first in-port race in Alicante.
Towill and Enright join Dutch prospects Team Brunel, China's Dongfeng Race Team, the all-women Team SCA and the returning Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing - featuring Irishman and past race winner Justin Slattery among its crew - in the line-up for the 2014/15 round-the-word yachting challenge.
Scuttlebutt Sailing News has more on the story HERE.
