Ocean Race News
#vor – Damian Foxall's Groupama took a dream home victory in the Bretagne In-Port Race this afternoon to take a big step closer to an overall race victory which to be played out in Irish waters over the next week.…
#VOR – Up to 200 sailing boats – including many traditional sailing craft – will take part in the dramatic "Parade of Sail" which is being staged in conjunction with the Volvo Ocean Race. The fleet of 6 Volvo ocean…
#VOLVO OCEAN RACE - Local businesses in Galway have committed to Fáilte Ireland's Quality, Value and Service charter for the Volvo Ocean Race festival that kicks off this weekend. According to the Galway Advertiser, shops, eateries and accommodation throughout Galway…
#VOLVO OCEAN RACE - Damian Foxall hopes it will be fourth time lucky in his quest to clinch a Volvo Ocean Race victory - but as he tells the official VOR website, he won't be resting on his laurels. Despite…
#VOR – The Volvo Ocean Race will have eight boats next time round and in a major departure from the current race a new design has been revealed. The idea is to reduce the cost of mounting a competitive campaign…
#VOLVO OCEAN RACE - Miriam Lord's "sniping" on the Volvo Ocean Race and Global Village festivities in Galway was "unfair, unwarranted and misunderstood", according to the chair of the event organisers. In a letter to the editor of The Irish Times,…
#VOLVO OCEAN RACE - The Volvo Ocean Race finale in Galway will be a homecoming of sorts for specialist nautical map designer Bobby Nash, as the Irish Examiner reports. The designer, who works at home in Kinsale, enhances classic charts…
#VOLVO OCEAN RACE - Silicon Republic reports that researchers at NUI Galway have created a free mobile app for visitors to the city during the Volvo Ocean Race festivities starting this weekend. Graduate students at the university's Digital Enterprise Research…
#VOR – Six of the world's fastest sailing boats will race from Lorient to Galway next week to compete the final dramatic leg of the 39,000 nautical mile round the world Volvo Ocean Race; the trophy they have battled across…
#VOLVO OCEAN RACE - A Fine Gael senator last week called on the people of Galway to raise €100,000 for arts and culture events during the Volvo Ocean Race finale, The Irish Times reports. Senator Fidelma Healy-Eames said the funding…
#VOLVO OCEAN RACE - A new accessible pontoon and ramp in Galway Harbour will enable disabled sailors to get fully involved in events to celebrate the Volvo Ocean Race finale next weekend, the Galway City Tribune reports. The permanent pontoon…
#VOR – Craft on the water in the Galway bay area may be inspected by the Garda Water Unit according to a marine notice issued tonight by Galway Harbour Company setting out how pleasure craft are to behave during the…
#VOR – Galway Harbour Master Brian Sheridan has issued a marine notice about a temporary pedestrian walkway to be placed over the River Corrib as part of the preparations for Galway's finale of the Volvo Ocean Race 2012. The pedestrian…
#vor – 40 catamarans will be raced by two handed teams in front of the promenade in Salthill, Galway on Saturday, June 30th and Sunday July 1st as they compete in the Irish Multihull Association (IMA) National regatta sponsored by…
Irish Olympic Sailor Turned Race Officer Set for Galway's Photo Finish in the Volvo Ocean Race
20th June 2012 Ocean Race
#vor – By the time the fleet of six boats reaches Galway at the start of July, they will have travelled 39,000 nautical miles, the equivalent of travelling from Ireland to Australia four times, yet it looks like the race…
#VOR – Thousands will be given an opportunity to learn to sail during the spectacular finale of the Volvo Ocean Race on Galway Bay next month say Galway organisers who have lined up 42 separate on-water events which will take…
